Comparison

OpenString vs Gelato Tuner

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

Head to head
About

OpenString

This app provides essential tools for guitarists, including a tuner, metronome, chord handbook, and a personal songbook. It offers all features upfront with no subscriptions or in-app purchases, allowing users to manage their own song charts and practice effectively offline.

Highlights
  • Guitar tuner
  • Metronome with tempo and meter settings
  • Chord handbook with fingerings and voicings
  • Personal songbook for lyrics and chords
  • Key transposition and capo preference
  • Scale and shape finder
Features
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Every guitar practice tool is included: tuner, metronome, chord handbook, and a personal songbook. No subscription, no account, and no catalog paywall. OpenString is built for guitarists who want the tools on their phone, not a rented song library. Install it from the App Store. You get the tuner, metronome, chords, and songbook. There is nothing left to unlock later. WHAT YOU GET Guitar tuner Tune a standard six-string guitar with the microphone. Choose a preset, let the app pick the string or choose it yourself, and play a reference note when you want a target pitch. Audio is processed on your iPhone. It is never recorded or uploaded. Metronome Keep time from 40 to 240 BPM. Tap a tempo, set the meter, choose subdivisions and accents, run a practice timer, or mute the click and follow the beat visually. Chord handbook Look up common major, minor, and seventh fingerings in standard guitar tuning. Search the handbook, save favorites, hear a reference voicing, and jump to alternate positions on the neck. Personal songbook Keep your own lyrics and chords. Transpose the displayed key and save a capo preference without rewriting the source chart. Add song metadata, build named setlists, practice with autoscroll, jump to chords used in a song, and import ChordPro. Create and edit on your phone, then export a backup to a destination you choose and restore it later. Song to chords Pick a song and get its chords and words together in one tap, ready to play and sing. Scale and shape finder Type a scale like A minor pentatonic and see its box shapes on the neck, with the fret positions you actually play them in. HOW THIS IS DIFFERENT There are no in-app purchases and no subscription. Every current tool is included with the app. The tuner, metronome, chord handbook, and songbook are not split across plans. No commercial song catalog is included. Your songbook is filled by you, whether you type it or import ChordPro. That is the point: your charts, your lyrics, your practice. The app works offline and needs no account. No feed. No ads in the app. WHO IT IS FOR Players who want a tuner, metronome, chord diagrams, and their own charts in one place. People who write songs, type lyrics and chords they already play, or import ChordPro. WHO IT IS NOT FOR OpenString does not rent you a library of popular songs or official tabs. If you want a commercial catalog behind a monthly plan, this is not that app. OpenString is built for guitar practice on iPhone.

About

Gelato Tuner

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Free, with no ads, no account and no tracking. Gelato Tuner puts a chromatic tuner, a metronome and a tone generator in one simple app. Tuner • Hears any note from A0 to C8 and shows the note, how many cents sharp or flat it is, and its frequency. • A clear dial shows which way to tune, and a soft haptic confirms when a note is in tune. • Set the reference pitch A4 from 430 to 450 Hz, and show notes as sharps or flats. • The microphone is used only while the tuner is on screen. Audio is analyzed on your iPhone and is never recorded or sent anywhere. Metronome • 20 to 300 BPM. Set the tempo with the dial, the plus and minus buttons, tap tempo, or a marking such as Andante or Allegro. • Time signatures from 1/4 to 7/4 and 3/8 to 12/8. Make any beat accented, normal or silent. • Eighth-note, triplet and sixteenth-note subdivisions, and six click sounds. • 16 drum grooves, including Rock, Funk, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Shuffle, Swing, Bossa Nova, Samba and Jazz Waltz. • Timed by the audio clock, so the beat stays steady and the display matches what you hear. • Keeps playing with the screen locked or while you use another app. Tone • Plays a steady reference note from C0 to B5, in Pure, Warm or Bright. • Sub-bass notes down to 16 Hz for checking a subwoofer or a sound system. • Follows the tuner's reference pitch, so A4 plays at 440 Hz or wherever you set it. • Keeps playing while you tune by ear, switch tabs or lock the screen. Gelato Tuner collects no data. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or in-app purchases, and it works without an internet connection.

Screenshots

OpenString4 screens
Gelato Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gelato Tuner at none against OpenString's 1. OpenString's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. OpenString sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gelato Tuner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OpenString against 5.0 for Gelato Tuner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenString ships an update daily, Gelato Tuner weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
OpenString versus Gelato Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenStringGelato Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechguyver Labs, LLCCerrone LLC

Customer experience

OpenString

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gelato Tuner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenString

One-time1
  • OpenString Pro$9.99
None

Gelato Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenString free?
OpenString is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gelato Tuner free?
Gelato Tuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OpenString or Gelato Tuner?
OpenString and Gelato Tuner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do OpenString or Gelato Tuner have ads?
Neither OpenString nor Gelato Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenString or Gelato Tuner?
OpenString ships an update daily, and Gelato Tuner weekly. Most recently, OpenString was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gelato Tuner on October 24, 2026.

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