Comparison

TuneSlider vs Music Pulse

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TuneSlider

This music practice tool allows users to independently adjust a song's speed and pitch without affecting the other. It offers features for repeat practice, including per-song memory, playlists, and full transport controls. Visualizers provide a visual representation of the audio.

Highlights
  • Independent speed and pitch control
  • Per-song memory for settings
  • Favorites and custom playlists
  • Full transport and lock screen controls
  • Waveform, spectrum, and pulse visualizers
  • No account, analytics, or ads
Features
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TuneSlider changes a song's speed without changing its pitch, and its pitch without changing its speed — down to the cent. Built for practicing, transcribing, and slowing down the hard parts. No subscription, no account, no ads. THREE DIALS, ONE JOB EACH Speed, pitch, and fine tune are always independent, and always color-coded the same way everywhere in the app, so you never lose track of which one you're touching. • Speed — 25%–200% of the original tempo in 1% steps. Pure time-stretch: the pitch never drifts, even at half speed. • Pitch — ±6 semitones, a full octave of transposition, in whole-step jumps, without ever touching the tempo. • Fine tune — ±50 cents around whichever semitone you've picked, enough resolution to correct a recording that's just a hair off. BUILT FOR REPEAT PRACTICE Real library features, not just a single-file player. • Per-song memory — speed, pitch, and fine-tune are saved per song and restored automatically the next time you open it, across app relaunches. • Favorites & playlists — heart a song to favorite it, or build named playlists: reorder, rename, and organize the pieces you're actively working on. • Play All & full transport — queue an entire playlist and auto-advance through it, with back / rewind 15s / play-pause / forward 15s / next, on-screen and from the lock screen. • Keeps playing, locked or backgrounded — full lock-screen and Control Center transport controls, and playback survives the screen locking or another app opening. SEE THE MUSIC, NOT JUST HEAR IT Three full-screen visualizers, each driven by the actual live, post-speed/pitch audio, not a canned animation: • Waveform — raw time-domain trace • Spectrum — FFT frequency bars • Pulse — radial burst, by loudness NOTHING TO SIGN IN TO. NOTHING TO SEND ANYWHERE. TuneSlider has no account, no analytics, and no ads. Every song, setting, playlist, and favorite lives only in local storage on your device — the developer never sees any of it.

About

Music Pulse

Transform ambient sound into dynamic visual displays like VU meters and light shows. Customize themes, colors, and text for a personalized audio-visual experience. Audio is processed locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • VU meters and LED displays
  • Frequency spectra and light effects
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Adjustable sensitivity
  • Add custom text overlays
  • Offline audio processing
Features
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Give sound a visual form with Music Pulse. Place your phone or tablet near the music, enable the microphone, and explore VU meters, spectra and glowing scenes that react to sound. EXPLORE THREE COLLECTIONS Browse square previews in Initial, Halloween and Christmas packs. Discover 18 initial designs, five Halloween scenes and five Christmas visualizers with snow, glowing lights and warm fireplace effects. MAKE IT YOURS Adjust sensitivity, choose colors in supported themes, and add your own text. Double-tap to hide the controls and enjoy the visuals. ACCESS AND ADS Voluntarily watch a rewarded video to enter a pack. Use and switch its themes without another video until you leave the pack. Returning to the pack selector ends access; entering any pack again requires another rewarded video. Banners appear only in pack and theme selectors. No ads appear during visualization. No account or in-app purchases are required. AUDIO PROCESSED LOCALLY Microphone audio is processed on your device. It is not saved as a recording or uploaded to our servers. Advertising may process data as described in the privacy policy. Music Pulse uses the microphone. It is not a music player and does not directly capture internal audio from other apps. Its meters are visual effects, not calibrated measuring instruments. Some themes contain flashing lights and rapid changes in brightness.

Screenshots

TuneSlider4 screens
Music Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TuneSlider at none against Music Pulse's shown. TuneSlider also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Music Pulse's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TuneSlider against 5.0 for Music Pulse. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TuneSlider ships an update every 6 days, Music Pulse fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TuneSlider versus Music Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuneSliderMusic Pulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB118 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDamond ChoiAdrian Fernandez

Customer experience

TuneSlider

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Music Pulse

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TuneSlider

No in-app purchases

None

Music Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TuneSlider free?
TuneSlider is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Music Pulse free?
Music Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TuneSlider or Music Pulse?
TuneSlider and Music Pulse are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do TuneSlider or Music Pulse have ads?
Music Pulse shows ads; TuneSlider does not.
Which is updated more often, TuneSlider or Music Pulse?
TuneSlider ships an update every 6 days, and Music Pulse fortnightly. Most recently, TuneSlider was updated on October 31, 2026 and Music Pulse on October 31, 2026.

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