OverTune vs Resonote

Standard tuners detect one frequency. OverTune detects three. Most acoustic instruments — and handpans in particular — produce a fundamental pitch together with an octave and a compound fifth. Bringing all three into precise alignment is what defines a well-tuned instrument. OverTune gives each overtone its own dedicated panel, analyzing them independently and simultaneously in real time. THREE INDEPENDENT PANELS Select any note from C1 to B7. OverTune configures three panels automatically: • Panel 1 — Fundamental • Panel 2 — Octave (2× fundamental) • Panel 3 — Compound fifth (3× fundamental, one octave + a perfect fifth) Each panel runs its own FFT spectral analysis with an adjustable frequency range, so you can focus exactly where you need to. WHAT EACH PANEL CONTAINS • Needle gauge — ±50 cent scale, spring-animated, with an in-tune zone at ±5 cents • Stroboscope — an animated pattern behind the needle that scrolls with pitch deviation and freezes when perfectly in tune. Choose from chevron, sine wave, or square styles • Frequency spectrum — logarithmic display with draggable range bounds and adjustable amplitude threshold • Note history — a rolling time graph showing tuning stability. Horizontal mode covers ±2 semitones; Vertical mode covers ±6 semitones with time flowing top to bottom • Reference tone — press and hold the speaker icon to hear a pure sine wave at that panel's target frequency. Double-tap to lock continuous playback INSTRUMENT PRESETS Filter the note selector to the exact notes of your instrument: • 21 handpan scale layouts — Kurd, Integral, Hijaz, Celtic, Pygmy, Akebono, and more • 20 musical scales — Major, Minor, Pentatonic, Blues, Modes, and World scales • 13 string instrument tunings — Guitar, Bass, Violin, Cello, Ukulele, and more TUNING TEMPERAMENT With an instrument preset active, compare your pitch against historical tuning systems instead of standard 12-TET: • Just Intonation — pure integer ratios • Pythagorean — chain of pure 3:2 fifths • Meantone (¼-comma) — pure 5:4 major thirds • Custom — define your own cent offsets for all 12 scale degrees EVERYTHING ELSE • A4 reference pitch adjustable from 400 to 480 Hz • Sharp or flat accidental notation — your choice • Focus modes: Narrow (full range) or Tight (±2 semitones from target) • Microphone selection for external audio inputs • Keep screen on during tuning sessions • Dark, light, or system appearance BUILT FOR HANDPAN BUILDERS Tuning a handpan means bringing the Doum (fundamental), Tak (octave), and compound fifth into harmonic alignment — one note at a time, strike after strike. OverTune was designed specifically for this workflow. Select a note, watch all three overtones simultaneously, and track your corrections over time with the history graph. FREE TO TRY OverTune includes 30 minutes of free daily use. A subscription unlocks all three panels with unlimited daily tuning time.

Resonote is a sound analyser for musicians and acousticians. See the spectrum of anything the microphone hears, tune your instrument, measure sound levels and how long a room rings. Tap any peak to hear it. SPECTRUM AND SPECTROGRAM • Live spectrum from 20 Hz up, with the main peaks marked • Narrowband, or 1/1, 1/3, 1/6 and 1/12 octave bands (IEC 61260) • Tap a peak for its frequency, note, cents and harmonics • Hear any peak as a pure tone, made louder where the ear is less sensitive • Pinch to zoom: the zoomed chart resolves down to 0.7 Hz • Spectrogram with a log, linear or piano keyboard axis • A, C and Z weighting, Fast, Slow and Peak hold, FFT size 512 to 8192 • Keep a reference spectrum on screen to compare before and after TUNER • 35 instruments and a general mode: orchestral woodwinds, brass and strings, saxophones, acoustic guitar, piano, timpani, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel and bells • Each instrument has its own overtone pattern, so a piano string's stretched partials or a bell's partials read as one note instead of several • Show partials 2 to 4 beside the note, each tuned on its own lane, with five seconds of history • Note names with sharps or flats, German (B and H) or do re mi, set automatically by your phone's language • Transposes for B-flat, E-flat and F instruments • Concert pitch 440 or 442 Hz, or your own; green within ±3, ±5 or ±10 cents SOUND LEVEL METER • dB SPL with A, C or Z weighting, Fast or Slow, Leq, Lmax and L90 • NR and NC ratings of background noise, and prominent tones in third octaves (ISO 1996-2) • Calibrate with your measurement microphone's calibration file, its sensitivity in mV/Pa, or a sound calibrator • Uncalibrated, it shows an estimate and tells you how far off it may be REVERBERATION TIME • EDT, T20 and T30 per octave (ISO 3382) • Measured from a hand clap or a balloon pop, with a step-by-step guide: where to stand, when to clap • Average up to ten measurements and see the spread in each band RECORDING • Record the raw microphone signal as a lossless WAV file, at the device's own sample rate • Your recordings go to iCloud Drive and are in the Files app BUILT TO MEASURE On iPhone, Resonote switches off the voice processing iOS normally applies to the microphone, so the levels you see are what the microphone really picks up. It works with the built-in microphone and with wired or USB measurement microphones. With AirPods connected, it still measures with the iPhone's own microphone. No account, no ads, no tracking. All analysis happens on your phone.