MusicToolKit vs String Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MusicToolKit
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MusicToolKit is a simple, capable toolkit for practicing music. Five tools in one app: metronome, tuner, tuning fork, recorder and keyboard. Open it and start right away. METRONOME · Accurate clicks: no drift or lag, however long it runs · Accents, compound meters (6/8 etc.) and bar-by-bar meter changes (4/4 + 5/4 etc.) TUNER · A steady readout: the display doesn't jump around, so you can tune calmly · Piano-roll-style scrolling graph shows how your pitch moves TUNING FORK · Pick the note on a piano-style keyboard · Reference pitch can be set anywhere from 400 to 500 Hz and is shared with the tuner and keyboard. 415, 432 and 440–444 are one tap away RECORDER · Dual level graph (peak and average): clipping warnings make distortion obvious, so setting the level is easy · Lock button prevents accidental taps while recording. Levels are shown before you start · Saves as WAV / M4A. Open recordings directly in the Files app, or export via the share sheet KEYBOARD · A simple tap-to-play keyboard · Sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waveforms Tuning is equal temperament. For just intonation and other temperaments, see "MultiTuneKeys". Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
String Tuner
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: String Tuner at none against MusicToolKit's 1. String Tuner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price 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. MusicToolKit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. String Tuner asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MusicToolKit | String Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasuhiro Misawa | lapnito.cz s.r.o. |
In-app purchases
MusicToolKit
- Remove Ads$4.99
String Tuner
No in-app purchases
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