Comparison

Pro Guitar Tuner vs UniTuner Pro

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

Head to head
About

Pro Guitar Tuner

This app provides precise, real-time tuning for a wide variety of stringed instruments. It offers numerous custom tunings, an intuitive interface with visual feedback, and high-quality audio samples for ear training. Users can save favorite tunings for quick access.

Highlights
  • Real-time chromatic tuning
  • Supports over 200 custom tunings
  • Vast library of stringed instruments
  • Intuitive interface with visual feedback
  • High-quality instrument samples
  • Save favorite tunings
Features
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The guitar tuner app used by professional guitar makers, guitar repair shops and musicians around the world. The app listen and analyze the sound in real time from the built-in mic, headset, guitar clip on or from any other external microphone. It is so accurate that it will be your best friend for guitar intonation! Because Pro Guitar Tuner is chromatic you can tune most types of stringed instruments. High-quality samples of real instruments are also accessible (i.e. tune by ear if preferred!). A massive library of different tunings for guitar, bass, balalaika, violin, ukulele and more makes it easy to find more qualities and characteristics from your instrument. The interface: To make it more intuitive, we give you information about the current pitch in many different ways: *Cents for the current pitch *A red/green light indicating the closest pitch *A note wheel corresponding to the chromatic scale *A fretboard with the current tuning setting displayed Standard guitar is set as default but the guitar tuner can be used to tune many different instruments, such as: *Guitars - Standard, 4-string, 5-string, 7-string, 8-string , 9-string, 10-string, 11-string, 12-string, and 13-string guitar *Bass guitars - Standard, 5-string bass and 6-string bass *Ukuleles - std (Soprano), Pocket, Concert, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, and Contrabass *Banjo - 4-string, 5-string, 6-string *Mandolin family - Mandolin (Soprano), Piccolo, Mandola (alto), Octave Mandolin (tenor), Mandocello (Baritone), Mandobass, Irish Bouzouki, Cittern, and Greek Bouzouki *Violin family - Violin, Viola, Cello (violoncello), Double bass and 5-string Double bass *Balalaika family - Prima, Piccolo, Secunda, Alto, Tenor, Bass and Contrabass After you have selected an instrument you choose a specific tuning. The app provides you with over 200 custom tunings. The tuning options are divided into groups to make them easier to find. For guitar, the categories are: *General tunings *Raised tunings *Lowered tunings *Dropped tunings *Double dropped tunings *Major open tunings *Minor open tunings (cross-note) *Modal tunings *Miscellaneous tunings If you have certain tunings that you often use, you can save them as favorites. This gives you easy access to them under favorite tunings. In the app, you can choose to subscribe to Pro Guitar Tuner Premium. It´s a monthly subscription that gives you the following features: *No Ads *All Tunings *All Instruments *Extra Settings Privacy Policy: https://www.proguitar.com/about/policies/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.proguitar.com/about/policies/terms

About

UniTuner Pro

This advanced chromatic tuner offers 1/10th cent accuracy with visual feedback and a tone generator. It supports over 200 string instrument tunings, custom tunings, and various tuning systems. Visualize pitch, harmonics, and overtones for precise instrument tuning.

Highlights
  • 1/10th cent accuracy
  • Tone generator with multiple waveforms
  • Over 200 instrument tunings
  • Custom tuning creation
  • Audio visualization (spectrogram)
  • Intonation diagram (tuning map)
Features
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Features: - Customizable User Interface: Pick your favorite readout method in landscape or portrait mode. - App supports dark and light mode. - Recognized note shown in classical notation - Accurate Cent Readout with Direct Feedback: No more guessing! Get precise 1/10th cent accuracy from bass to the highest note. - Tone Generator: Tune your drums or instrument by ear using the tone generator, which includes Sine-Wave, Triangle, and Square-Wave options. - Timeline: Visualize the pitch in cents of the detected note. - Audio Visualization (Spectrogram): View your instrument's harmonic spectrum for better understanding the overtones. Intonation Diagram (Tuning Map): Display of the note with all overtones! This unique feature visualizes a note’s pitch over time—from the initial attack to the final decay. Perfect for instruments with short sustain, such as percussion instruments. - Customizable Concert Pitch: Set your concert pitch from 220 Hz to 880 Hz. - Over 200 Tunings for String Instruments, including: Ahenk, Armonico, Arpeggione, Bağlama / Saz - long neck, Baglamas, Bajo Quinto, Bajo Sexto, Balalaika, Bandurria - Spanish, Banjo, Banjo - Bass, Banjo - Cello, Banjo - Contrabass, Banjo - Tenor, Banjolete, Bass (Doublebass), Bouzouki (trichordo), Bouzouki (tetrachordo), Cello, Cuban Laúd, Dotara, Dulcimer - 3 course, Dulcimer - 4 course, Fiddle, Gekkin, Guitalete, Guitar, Guitar - 12-String, Guitar - Baritone, Guitarrón, Halszither, Hurdy Gurdy, Irish Bouzouki, Jarana Huasteca, Kamancheh, Kithara Sarda, Kora, Koto, Laúd - Spanish, Laúd - Cuban, Laúd - Philippine, Mandobass - 4 String, Mandobass - 8 String, Mandocello, Mandola, Mandolin, Nevoud, Oud, Pedal Steel Guitar, Pipa, Portuguese Guitar, Qinqin, Requinto, Russian Guitar, Setar, Ukulele, Ukulele - Baritone, Ukulele - Bass, Ukulele - Soprano, Vihuela, Viol (Baritone, Bass, Contrabass, Soprano, Tenor, Treble), Viola, Violin, Violin - Tenor, Xiaoruan, Yueqin, Zheng - You can also create and store your own custom tunings and instruments. - "Perfect 5th" tuning for: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass. - Transpose: The output can be shifted by a specified number of semitones - Note names: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Bengali, Hindustani, Fixed & Movable Solfège - Choose from Various Tuning Systems for Open Tunings or Historical Instruments: Just Intonation, Pythagorean, Meantone, and many more. - You can also create and store your own custom temperaments. - Enhance your open tunings with Just Intonation: Experience the unique sound quality of pure tuning by setting the UniTuner to Just Intonation and the root note of your tuning

Screenshots

Pro Guitar Tuner4 screens
UniTuner Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pro Guitar Tuner at Free against UniTuner Pro's $7.99. Pro Guitar Tuner also leads on ratings volume (10K vs 1). UniTuner Pro's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Pro Guitar Tuner is free to download; UniTuner Pro costs $7.99 up front. Pro Guitar Tuner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. UniTuner Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

UniTuner Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pro Guitar Tuner has 10K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Pro Guitar Tuner's written reviews are positive against 100% of UniTuner Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pro Guitar Tuner ships an update monthly, UniTuner Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Pro Guitar Tuner versus UniTuner Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPro Guitar TunerUniTuner Pro
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating4.7 (10K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#161 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPro Guitar Sweden ABKlaus Fecker

Customer experience

Pro Guitar Tuner

All ratings10,321 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews481 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative32.4%

UniTuner Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pro Guitar Tuner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when changing tuning modes
  • Tuner not responding to some strings
  • Microphone not working on certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Custom tuning options
  • Support for more instrument types
  • Landscape mode support
  • Ability to save tuning profiles

UniTuner Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Pro Guitar Tuner

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Guitar Tuner Premium$2.991 Month
  • Premium Membership$24.991 Month
  • Pro Guitar Tuner Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • ProGuitar Academy7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Tuner$59.99
None

UniTuner Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pro Guitar Tuner free?
Pro Guitar Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UniTuner Pro free?
UniTuner Pro costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pro Guitar Tuner or UniTuner Pro?
UniTuner Pro is rated higher. Pro Guitar Tuner averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while UniTuner Pro averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pro Guitar Tuner or UniTuner Pro have ads?
Pro Guitar Tuner shows ads; UniTuner Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Pro Guitar Tuner or UniTuner Pro?
Pro Guitar Tuner ships an update monthly, and UniTuner Pro fortnightly. Most recently, Pro Guitar Tuner was updated on November 3, 2026 and UniTuner Pro on October 30, 2026.

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