Comparison

Tune My String vs Pruina

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tune My String

This chromatic tuner offers high accuracy for professionals and an intuitive wizard for beginners. It supports a wide range of stringed instruments and various temperaments, with multiple language options.

Highlights
  • Intuitive tuning wizard
  • High accuracy chromatic tuner
  • Supports 14 instruments and 55 tunings
  • Multiple temperament options
  • Configurable A4 frequency
  • Traditional accuracy meter
Features
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================ "A Killer Tuner with an adaptable UI for beginners and advanced musicians!" (Apps4iDevices) ================ Tune My String is a chromatic tuner for stringed instruments. Professional musicians will appreciate the high accuracy of the tuner, the quick tone identification and the configurations of A4 frequency and different temperaments. Beginners will appreciate the tuning wizard which helps you to tune your instrument without knowledge of tuning of the individual instruments. Tune My String includes: • an intuitive tuning wizard that helps you to tune your selected instrument without knowledge of tuning • a traditional accuracy meter (showing accuracy in cents) • presentation of exact frequency as well as target frequency for closest tone • configuration of A4-frequency • tuning definition of 14 instruments (Guitar, Bass guitar (4, 5 and 6-stringed), Violin, Viola, Cello, Contra bass/Double bass, Balalaika, Banjo (4, 5 and 6-stringed), Mandolin and Ukulele) with a total of 55 different tunings • different temperaments: Equal temperament, Pythagorean tuning, Quarter-comma meantone, 5-limit Symmetric N.1, 5-limit Symmetric N.2, 5-limit Asymmetric Std, 5-limit Asymmetric Ext, 7-limit tuning, 17-limit tuning App-languages: English, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish.

About

Pruina

This app captures and sustains audio, transforming it into evolving drones and textures. Explore modes like Freeze, Smear, and Shimmer to sculpt unique soundscapes with effects like reverb and modulation. It functions as both a standalone application and an AUv3 audio effect.

Highlights
  • Spectral audio capture and sustain
  • Freeze, Smear, and Shimmer modes
  • Sound sculpting with Blur, Sparkle, Warp
  • Modulated reverb and spatial effects
  • Layering for chord and pad creation
  • AUv3 plugin and standalone operation
Features
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Pruina freezes sound. Tap once and Pruina captures the spectrum of whatever is playing, a chord, a vocal, a whole mix, and holds it as an endless, gently evolving drone that never decays. Then shape it into rising shimmer clouds, breathy air, crystalline bells, or a huge reverberant wash. Under the hood it runs a real spectral analysis of your audio and, the instant you freeze, takes a snapshot and resynthesizes it with slowly drifting phase. Instead of fading away, the sound sustains forever and breathes, like a pad you never have to hold down. THREE MODES, ONE ENGINE Freeze: tap to capture and hold the spectrum indefinitely. Smear: continuously blur the spectrum into a soft, washing texture. Shimmer: pitched, regenerating layers that rise endlessly. SHIMMER THAT RISES Choose an interval (octave, fifth, octave plus fifth, or two octaves) and turn up Regen to feed the shimmer back on itself, building infinite cascading clouds. BUILD CHORDS BY EAR Turn on Layer and every freeze adds to what is already held. Stack captures into evolving chords and pads, live, one tap at a time. SCULPT THE SOUND Blur: smear the spectrum across frequency to morph a pitched freeze into breath and air. Sparkle: gate down to the spectral peaks for glassy, bell-like tones. Warp: stretch the timbre. Motion: slow drift and breathing that keep a frozen pad alive. Tone: low cut, high cut, and tilt. SPACE A lush, modulated reverb (Reverb, Size, Damp) wraps everything in a wide, dimensional tail, from an intimate room to a cathedral that rings for minutes. Stereo Spread and Width open it up. 16 READY-TO-PLAY PRESETS Infinite Cathedral, Rising Aurora, Supermassive, Glass Bells, Crystalline, Frozen Choir, Ghost Vox, Vapor Trails, Nebula, Granular Dust, Shimmer Wash, Dark Matter, Sub Bloom, Slow Tide, Chord Builder, and Default. Browse them with the header arrows, tweak anything, and save your own. PLUGIN AND STANDALONE Full AUv3 audio effect for GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and any AUv3 host, with host presets, parameter automation, and reported latency so your project stays in sync. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Standalone mode includes a built-in demo pad, live microphone input, and song import with export of the processed result.

Screenshots

Tune My String4 screens
Pruina2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pruina at 5.0 against Tune My String's 3.7. Tune My String's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tune My String costs $1.99 and Pruina $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pruina holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tune My String versus Pruina: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTune My StringPruina
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 24 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperILLOMKonstantin Torsten Schutz

Customer experience

Tune My String

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Pruina

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tune My String

No in-app purchases

None

Pruina

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tune My String free?
Tune My String costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pruina free?
Pruina costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tune My String or Pruina?
Pruina is rated higher. Tune My String averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pruina averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tune My String or Pruina have ads?
Neither Tune My String nor Pruina shows ads.

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