FretWizard vs Advanced Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FretWizard
Visualize scales and chords on a fretboard for any stringed instrument. Explore music theory with multiple view modes and flexible note labeling options. Supports custom instruments and tunings.
- Fretboard visualization for stringed instruments
- Supports custom instruments and tunings
- Extensive scale and chord library
- Multiple view modes (Chromatic, Scale, Chord)
- Flexible note labeling options
- Sharp/flat toggle and pinch-to-zoom
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FretWizard is the ultimate fretboard visualization tool for guitarists, bassists, and players of all stringed instruments. Whether you're a beginner learning your first scales or an experienced player deepening your music theory knowledge, FretWizard makes it easy to see exactly where every note lives on the neck. INSTRUMENTS Visualize scales and chords across 7 pre-defined instruments, or create your own custom instrument or tuning: • Guitar • Bass Guitar • Ukulele • Mandolin • 5-String Banjo (Open G) • 5-String Banjo (Double C) • Tenor Banjo • Custom — build any instrument with your own tuning (up to 12 strings) SCALES • Major & Minor • Pentatonic Major & Minor • Blues • Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian • Harmonic Minor • Chromatic CHORDS • Major, Minor • Dom 7, Maj 7, Min 7 • Augmented, Diminished • Aug 7, Dim 7 • 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th • Sus2, Sus4 POWERFUL VIEW MODES Switch between four views to explore music theory your way: • Chromatic — see all 12 notes across the entire neck • Scale — highlight every note in your chosen scale • Chord — see all chord tones up and down the fretboard • Scale + Chord — overlay both at once to understand how chords live inside scales FLEXIBLE NOTE LABELS Choose how notes are labeled on the fretboard: • Note Name (C, D, F#...) • Scale Degree (1, 2, 3, 4...) • Interval (R, M3, P5...) MORE FEATURES • Sharp/flat toggle for your preferred notation • Pinch-to-zoom for detailed fret inspection • Landscape mode for a wider fretboard view • Full tablet support • Clean dark interface designed for readability on stage or in the studio
Advanced Tuner
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Advanced Tuner is a free guitar tuner and chromatic tuner that also handles bass, violin, ukulele, mandolin, viola and cello. Play a string, read the needle, done: tuning to the cent, with no menus in the way. TEN TUNINGS, READY TO GO • Guitar: standard EADGBE, Eb (half step down) and D (full step down) • Bass, ukulele and mandolin • Violin, viola and cello • Chromatic mode for everything else: it finds the nearest note on its own AUTOMATIC OR STRING BY STRING Leave it in automatic and it follows whatever you play. Or pick a string and it holds it, so a fret buzz or a neighbouring string cannot steal the reading. YOUR OWN TUNINGS Drop D, open G, DADGAD, seven-string guitar, banjo, baritone ukulele. Name each string, set its frequency, save it. Up to 7 strings per tuning. TUNE BY EAR TOO Tap a string to hear it, recorded from the real instrument. Useful for a wind instrument, a voice, or anywhere a microphone struggles. BUILT TO BE READ AT A GLANCE • Neon needle with a green zone: inside it, you are in tune • Live pitch trace, so you can see whether the note is steady or drifting, the honest test for bowed strings and for singers • Frequency in Hz and deviation in cents, always on screen • Screen stays on while you tune Works offline. No sign-up, no account. Free, with an optional one-time purchase to remove ads. Microphone access is required: it is how the app hears your instrument. Nothing is recorded and nothing is sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FretWizard at none against Advanced Tuner's 1. FretWizard also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Advanced Tuner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FretWizard asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | FretWizard | Advanced Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Douglass | Batalsoft |
In-app purchases
FretWizard
No in-app purchases
Advanced Tuner
- Premium$3.99









