Comparison

Snacks Tuner vs Guitar Strings Tuner

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

Head to head
About

Snacks Tuner

Features
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Snacks Tuner is a free tuner that opens straight to the needle. No ads, no account, no subscription, and nothing tracked. Play a note and it shows what it hears, how many cents off you are, and whether to go up or down. A strobe strip catches the smallest drift, and each string turns green when it lands. What's in it • Guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo and mandolin, plus violin, viola, cello and double bass • Resonator guitar, cavaquinho, mandola, octave mandolin, bouzouki and balalaika • Trumpet, clarinet, alto and tenor sax and French horn show the written note, the one you read. Trombone and flute show concert pitch. • A chromatic mode for anything else • Search every instrument and tuning, with the ones you've used lately on top • Alternate tunings: drop D, half and whole step down, drop C, DADGAD, open G, D and E, baritone, 7 and 8 string guitar, 5 and 6 string bass, double C and sawmill banjo, and fiddle cross tunings • Artist tunings, found by player or band: the setups 19 well-known guitarists actually use, plus C standard, open C and drop B • Sweetened tunings, including James Taylor's published offsets and "sweet thirds" • Reference pitch from 415 to 466 Hz, with sharps or flats • Tap a string to lock it, so a low string can't jump an octave • Reference tones, so you can hear the note you're aiming for • A little buzz when a string lands • Flip the display for a phone on a music stand. The screen stays awake while you tune. Intonate Intonate checks your guitar's setup. Play the open string, then the same string at the 12th fret. It tells you how far sharp or flat the 12th is, which way to move the saddle, and how far, in mm and the nearest 64th of an inch. Private by design The microphone is only on while the tuner is running. The sound is analysed on your phone and never recorded or sent anywhere. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or crash reports, and the app doesn't talk to a server at all. It works offline. Why it's free Snacks is a design studio. Snacks Labs is where our designers build real software and put it out in the open. Most free tuners are a sales funnel, with chromatic mode behind a subscription and an ad between strings. A tuner is a basic tool, so we built a good one and gave it away. It's also on the web at tuner.snacks.design.

About

Guitar Strings Tuner

Features
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Pluck a string and tune in seconds. Guitar Tuner listens through your microphone and shows exactly how far each string is from its note, in cents. • Auto mode: detects which string you are playing • Manual mode: pick a string and tune it, even in noisy rooms • Chromatic mode: any note from E1 to E6 • Guitar, bass, ukulele and violin • Alternate tunings: Drop D, Half-step Down, DADGAD, Open G, Open D, Drop C, plus your own custom tuning • Adjustable reference pitch (A4 from 415 to 466 Hz) No ads, no accounts, no tracking, no in-app purchases. Sound is analyzed on your device and never recorded or sent.

Screenshots

Snacks Tuner4 screens
Guitar Strings Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Guitar Strings Tuner at 13.0 against Snacks Tuner's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Snacks Tuner versus Guitar Strings Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnacks TunerGuitar Strings Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnacks DesignDigital Communications di Marra Felice

In-app purchases

None

Snacks Tuner

No in-app purchases

None

Guitar Strings Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snacks Tuner free?
Snacks Tuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Guitar Strings Tuner free?
Guitar Strings Tuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snacks Tuner or Guitar Strings Tuner have ads?
Neither Snacks Tuner nor Guitar Strings Tuner shows ads.

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