Stringz Tuner vs String Tuner

Stringz is a guitar tuner and metronome built for your wrist first. Most tuners treat the Apple Watch as an afterthought. Stringz works the other way round: everything happens on the watch, and the iPhone app mirrors it on a bigger screen. Settings follow you between the two. THE METRONOME • Spin the Digital Crown to set the tempo from 40 to 240 BPM. Tap anywhere to start and stop. • Feel every beat, hear it, or neither — the pulse on screen keeps time on its own, so you can practise silently. • Time signatures from 2/4 through 7/8, with an accented downbeat you can switch off. • Subdivisions: eighths, triplets and sixteenths. • Tap tempo, for matching a song by ear. • Keeps running when you lower your wrist. THE TUNER • Automatic mode: play a string and Stringz names it, shows how many cents off you are, and tells you which way to turn the peg. • Manual mode: tap a string to hear it, strum across all six, or hold one to sustain it for as long as you need. • Tune by ear against a real plucked string tone, not a flat electronic beep. • Adjustable reference pitch, 415 to 455 Hz. BUILT PROPERLY • A pitch detector that doesn't mistake a plucked low E for the octave above — the mistake most tuners make, because that string's fundamental is quieter than its harmonics. • Metronome timing computed from a fixed anchor rather than accumulated, so it cannot drift however long you practise. • Haptics tuned per beat, so the downbeat feels different from the rest of the bar. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No accounts, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics. • No network requests at all. The app has no networking code in it. • The microphone is used only to measure pitch, in real time, on your device. Audio is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere. FREE, PROPERLY FREE Every feature is free and always will be. There are no paywalls, no subscriptions and nothing held back. If Stringz becomes part of your practice, there is an optional tip jar in Settings — it unlocks nothing, because there is nothing left to unlock.

A tuner that stays calm on a bowed note. Violin, viola, cello and double bass — plus 43 more instruments, a drone, a metronome and an intonation trainer. Free, offline, no ads. BUILT FOR BOWED STRINGS • A detector made for arco tone: rich harmonics, vibrato and low strings included. The needle holds still and tells you exactly how many cents to go, instead of chasing your bow. • A reference tone on every string — hear it, match it, tune by ear the way you do in a lesson. • Reference pitch from 392 to 466 Hz, with one tap for baroque 415, orchestra 442 and 443. • Scordatura presets, Pythagorean fifths and just intonation for open strings that ring. • Fiddle cross-tunings: AEAE, ADAE and GDGD. 47 INSTRUMENTS, ONE TUNER • Bowed: violin, viola, cello, double bass, fiddle, carnatic violin, kemençe • Plucked: guitar, 12-string, bass guitar in 4 and 5 string, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, lyre • World: oud, bouzouki, balalaika, domra, bağlama, kalimba, erhu, guzheng, koto, shamisen, sanshin, charango, cavaquinho, viola caipira, bajo quinto, bajo sexto, bandurria • Wind: flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, alto and tenor sax, trombone, euphonium, tuba — reading written pitch, so a clarinet sees its own C • Voice, with a vocal range finder PRACTICE, NOT JUST TUNING • Drone in any key: unison, fifth, octave, major and minor, in cello, organ, reed, strings, sine, tuning fork and tanpura voices. • Tanpura and shruti box for Indian classical riyaz, with sargam notation and a Sa you choose. • Metronome with subdivisions, accents, tap tempo and a beat you can see. • Intonation trainer: the drone plays, you play a scale, and a heatmap shows which notes ran sharp or flat. • Tuning fork and pitch pipe across two octaves, at your own reference pitch. FOR THE MUSIC STAND AND THE CLASSROOM • Stand mode: huge colours you can read from across the room, screen kept awake and bright. • Teacher mode: lock the pitch, instrument and tuning, then hand the whole class the same setup as a QR code. • Apple Watch app and a home screen widget for a tune-up in one tap. • Three looks, including a playful one for young beginners. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The microphone is analysed live and never recorded. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no servers. The app does everything on your device and works in flight mode. Nothing is locked, nothing expires, and there is nothing to buy. Every instrument, every tuning, every tool.