Advanced Tuner vs Barebones Tuner

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.

You picked up your instrument to play, not to get past an ad. Open Barebones Tuner and play a note. See whether it is flat or sharp, adjust, and watch the meter turn green. Use automatic chromatic note detection or choose guitar, bass, ukulele, or violin. Set A4 from 430 to 450 Hz when you need a different reference. Your stats show tuning sessions, in-tune locks, average lock time, and the last seven days of locks. No account needed. Free. No ads. No purchases in this version. Play one note at a time. This is a tuner, not a chord detector. Microphone audio is processed on your device and is never recorded or uploaded. Optional usage analytics and app-screen recordings help us improve the app; you can turn sharing off in Tuning. App interface is currently in English.