Comparison

Tunly vs Beat

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

Head to head
About

Tunly

Discover what your friends and others worldwide are listening to in real time. Connect with fellow music lovers, share your current songs, and explore new artists through an interactive map and social features.

Highlights
  • Real-time global music map
  • Connect with music enthusiasts
  • Share current songs
  • React to songs
  • Private chat
  • Customizable profile
Features
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Ever wondered what your friends or others in the world are listening to right now? With Tunly, you can see what's playing in real time, connect with fellow music enthusiasts, and expand your musical horizons. Connect your Spotify account and share your current jam, discover new artists, react to what others are listening to, connect with other people and create playlists inspired by friends around the world. Download Tunly today and tune into the world of music! Highlights: Map - Discover music around the world: Explore the interactive map to see what others are listening to worldwide. Reactions - React to other people's songs and get notified when someone reacts to your songs. Connect - Chat privately with fellow music enthusiasts, followers and friends. Get Notified on - Song reactions - Messages - New followers: Instantly see who's started following your music journey - Activity around you Hide from specific users: - Don't want specific users to see you on the map? Add them to your Hide me from list. Profile & Map Card Customization - Customize your profile with a colored map card theme, your display name, profile picture, bio and link. Terms of Use (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

About

Beat

Develop pitch sensitivity and harmonic awareness through interactive exercises focused on just intonation. Explore intervals and chords, tune by ear, and enhance your musical listening skills in a focused environment. Ideal for musicians seeking to refine their understanding of pure tuning relationships.

Highlights
  • Interactive interval training
  • Chord tuning and harmonic awareness
  • Progressive ear-training exercises
  • Customizable interval and chord building
  • Focus on just intonation
  • Designed for real musical environments
Features
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Core Features Interactive Interval Training Develop sensitivity to pitch relationships by exploring intervals tuned using just intonation. • Hear intervals begin perfectly aligned • Adjust pitch in real time to hear beats appear and disappear • Tune intervals by ear using guided listening exercises • Practice intervals across multiple keys and registers Chord Tuning and Harmonic Awareness Understand how scale degrees shape harmony by exploring chords built from pure tuning relationships. • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Seventh chords including dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished • Isolate chord tones to hear how each pitch affects resonance • Adjust individual notes to hear chords stabilize or destabilize Challenge Mode Strengthen listening accuracy through progressive ear-training exercises. • Tune intervals by ear with adjustable difficulty levels • Customize time limits and precision targets • Unlock intervals through guided progression • Track improvement and share results with teachers or directors Lab Mode Experiment freely with pitch relationships and harmonic structure. • Build custom intervals, chords, or harmonic textures • Assign independent tuning values to each pitch • Explore consonance, dissonance, and overtone interaction Designed for Real Musical Environments In rehearsals and performances, musicians rarely hear themselves in isolation. Beat-Less Tuning removes ensemble noise and allows you to focus on deliberate listening, helping you build reliable tuning instincts that translate directly into real musical situations. This app is ideal for: • Band and orchestra students • Choir and vocal ensemble singers (especially Straight-Tone singing) • Drum corps and marching musicians • Barbershop and a cappella performers • Music educators and ensemble directors Why Just Intonation? Most modern instruments use equal temperament, which balances pitch across all keys but slightly compromises many intervals. Beat-Less Tuning introduces just intonation, where intervals follow natural harmonic ratios that create clarity, depth, and resonance. The listening skills developed in this app strengthen tuning awareness in any musical tuning system. Built by Musicians and Educators Beat-Less Tuning was created by Grammy Finalist and Recording Academy Music Educator of the Year Jeremy Bradstreet, in collaboration with software developer Noirit Ghosh Choudhuri. Together they combined decades of teaching experience and advanced software design to create a powerful and intuitive listening tool for musicians at every level. Train your ears. Build your sound. Hear music more clearly.

Screenshots

Tunly4 screens
Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tunly at Free against Beat's $4.99. Beat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Tunly is free to download; Beat costs $4.99 up front. Tunly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tunly against 5.0 for Beat. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tunly versus Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunlyBeat
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB223 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperP4 Group, LLCJeremy Bradstreet

Customer experience

Tunly

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tunly

Subscriptions2
  • Tunly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Tunly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tunly free?
Tunly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beat free?
Beat costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tunly or Beat?
Tunly and Beat are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Tunly or Beat have ads?
Neither Tunly nor Beat shows ads.

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