Comparison

TunerBox vs Fork the Tuning Fork

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

Head to head
About

TunerBox

This app provides a straightforward and efficient way to tune stringed instruments like guitars, basses, and ukuleles. It offers automatic detection of common tunings and a manual mode for precise adjustments, loading instantly for immediate use.

Highlights
  • Instant loading tuner
  • Supports common guitar tunings
  • Manual tuning mode
  • Works with bass and ukulele
  • Simple and effective interface
Features
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Simple, effective guitar tuner app for iPhone and iPad. Quick and easy - loads right into a tuner ready to go! Supports all common guitar tunings automatically and a manual mode! Also works with bass and ukulele!

About

Fork the Tuning Fork

Features
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Fork is a tuning fork that listens. Strike it — tap the fork, shake your phone, or knock on the body — and it rings with the long, pure decay of real brass, a haptic pulse in your hand. Then let it listen: Fork hears your instrument and shows the note, with cents deviation on an engraved scale whose brass needle settles like a balance beam. Fork knows what pitch has meant across five centuries. Tune to modern concert pitch, or to A=415 as baroque players do, 432, 442 for orchestras, 444. Choose equal temperament — or just intonation and Pythagorean tuning, with every interval derived from the historical ratios. Strike the fork in any temperament and hear the difference, or tune by the beats between the ringing fork and your instrument: the method musicians used for three hundred years. No accounts. No ads. No noise. A tuning fork, a sheet of paper, and everything a fork should know. — Strike by tap, shake, or knock; haptic feedback; natural brass decay — Listen mode: live note and cents readout from your instrument — Any chromatic note, octaves 2–6 — Reference pitches: A = 415, 432, 440, 442, 444 — Temperaments: equal, just intonation, Pythagorean — with selectable tonic — Designed for iPhone and iPad Fecit Audio — small instruments, made properly.

Screenshots

TunerBox2 screens
Fork the Tuning Fork3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fork the Tuning Fork at 16.4 against TunerBox's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
TunerBox versus Fork the Tuning Fork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunerBoxFork the Tuning Fork
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard StokesIlan Small

In-app purchases

None

TunerBox

No in-app purchases

None

Fork the Tuning Fork

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TunerBox free?
TunerBox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fork the Tuning Fork free?
Fork the Tuning Fork is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TunerBox or Fork the Tuning Fork have ads?
Neither TunerBox nor Fork the Tuning Fork shows ads.

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