Field. vs PulseKey Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Field.
Record, identify, and transcribe sounds with advanced AI. Automatically tag audio with environmental data and create searchable text from speech. Explore your sound library with unique acoustic fingerprints and route maps.
- On-device AI sound identification
- Live speech transcription
- Acoustic fingerprint analysis
- Route mapping with event markers
- High-resolution audio recording
- Location and weather tagging
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Field is a field recording app for the people who listen to places. It records in high resolution, then tells you what it heard: the birds, the weather, the character of the sound, and which recordings stand out from the rest. Open it, press record. Included free. No account, no subscription: Soundmark Field finds the recordings that stand out from the others at a place. Mark your own, or let Field suggest them. Similar Recordings Open any recording and find others that share its character. Sound ID On-device AI identifies sounds as you record: birdsong, wind, rain, traffic, voices, all tagged and timestamped. Auto-bookmarks Field marks high-confidence detections as you record, so you can find events in long captures without scrubbing. True Stereo Real stereo from the built-in mics, not dual mono. Field uses the rear array iOS reserves for video, which gives you a wider image. High-Resolution Audio Up to 96kHz, 32-bit in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, or AAC. You choose the resolution. Acoustic Fingerprint Loudness, dynamic range, spectral character, and spaciousness, written as a plain phrase ("warm and expansive") or as BWF metadata. Import Bring in audio from Voice Memos, Files, or any share menu. Imports are tagged, fingerprinted, and transcribed like your own captures. Export to Freesound Send any recording to Freesound ready to upload, with tags, license, geotag, and description in the format Freesound expects. Live Transcription On-device speech recognition turns your words into searchable text as you speak. English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, depending on your device. Location & Weather Every recording is geo-tagged with place, map, and the weather at the moment of capture. Route Maps Record while you walk, ride, or drive. Field draws your path full screen and marks the standout moments along it. Library Playback Play, scrub, and auto-play from the library. Sort by date, duration, size, or location. Live Monitoring Hear what the mic hears through your headphones while recording. Home & Lock Screen Widget Start recording with one tap from your Home or Lock Screen, without opening the app. Action Button Assign Toggle Recording and start a capture with one press. (iPhone 15 Pro and later.) Apple Watch Add a Field complication to any watch face. See whether a recording is running, and start one without taking out your phone. Control Center Start or stop a recording from anywhere in iOS. Live Activity A recording in progress shows elapsed time on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Time-of-Day Colors Recording cards reflect when they were captured: dawn, midday, golden hour, dusk, night. Field Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription. It unlocks: Pre-roll Capture the moment before you tap record. Field keeps the last few seconds in memory so you never miss the start. Off, 3, 5, or 10 seconds. In memory only, never uploaded. Bird Species Identification Field names the birds it hears, species by species, entirely on-device with nothing uploaded. Available for recordings made in the San Francisco Bay Area. Smart Playlists Rules-based collections that update themselves. Filter by tag, place, soundmark, duration, or any combination. Reaper Project Export Share any recording as a Reaper .zip. Bookmarks become project markers and tags become regions, laid out ready to edit. Per-tag thresholds Tune how confident Field must be before adding each tag. Folders Organize recordings by project, trip, or session. iCloud Sync Your recordings, photos, and metadata sync across devices through your own iCloud. Audio downloads on demand. Trim & Crop Set in/out points, preview, save as new or replace. Bookmarks Drop timestamped markers during playback. Add labels, tap to jump. Video Export Share recordings as waveform videos in 16:9, 1:1, or 9:16, with an optional overlay. Field has no servers. Your data never leaves your device unless you turn on iCloud Sync, which uses your iCloud account.
PulseKey Tuner
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Get in tune. Find the key. Keep making music. PulseKey puts an always-listening instrument tuner and a song key finder on your iPhone. Open Tuner and play a note, or tap Listen in Key finder to estimate the musical key of the sound around you. Audio analysis happens on your device. START FREE - Chromatic tuner for single notes. - Standard guitar and ukulele presets. - Live note, frequency and cents readings. - Automatic string targeting or manual note lock. - Keep the screen awake while you play. - Five successful microphone analyses in Key finder, with an estimated key, harmonic profile, relative key and Camelot notation. Failed or canceled key measurements do not use your five included analyses. The allowance is five successful analyses in total, not five per day. PULSEKEY PRO: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Unlock Pro once for lifetime access to: - Unlimited Key finder analyses. - Alternate guitar tunings, four- and five-string bass, low-G ukulele, violin and mandolin presets. - Custom tunings for your own instruments. - Pitch trace, adjustable A4 reference and a reference tone. - Audio-file import, selected-region analysis and loop playback. - Estimated keys across sections of an imported recording. - Saved measurements with titles and notes. - Scale notes, diatonic chords, Open Key notation and compatible mixing keys. - Experimental drum resonance and lug-comparison tools. ALREADY BOUGHT PULSEKEY? If you purchased the paid app before this free-with-Pro update, lifetime Pro is included at no extra charge. Use the same Apple Account, and choose Restore Purchases in Settings if needed. MADE FOR YOUR NEXT SESSION Move quickly between Key finder and Tuner. PulseKey remembers your last mode, so you can pick up where you left off. No account, advertising or developer analytics. Microphone audio and imported files are not uploaded by PulseKey. A NOTE ABOUT MEASUREMENTS Key and pitch readings are estimates and depend on the instrument, room noise and microphone. For tuning, play one clear note at a time. Complex music can have more than one plausible key. Experimental drum readings may follow an overtone rather than the fundamental. Pro is an optional one-time in-app purchase. Restore Purchases is available in Settings and on the Pro screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PulseKey Tuner at none against Field.'s 1. PulseKey Tuner also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Field.'s advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Field. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PulseKey Tuner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Field. ships an update every 8 days, PulseKey Tuner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Field. | PulseKey Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Consumer Therapy | Erkan Erdogan |
In-app purchases
Field.
- Field. Pro$5.99
PulseKey Tuner
No in-app purchases









