Montal Tuner vs Skratch It
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Montal Tuner
This electronic tuning aid is designed for blind piano tuners, offering a unique feedback sound to indicate pitch. It customizes tunings based on a piano's inharmonicity and can store multiple tuning files. The app supports hands-free operation and covers the full piano range.
- Custom tuning based on inharmonicity
- Store and recall tuning files
- Pre-packed average tuning file
- Historical unequal temperaments
- Automatic note switching
- Pitch-raise mode
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Montal Tuner is 100% designed from the ground up for blind piano tuners to provide an electronic tuning aid similar to the professional visual piano tuning aids. It provides a unique feedback sound that conveys the same sense of movement that is provided by strobe-type displays to indicate sharp or flat. Samples of these sounds can be previewed on our support website, along with the complete user manual that is included in the app as help files. This app should be used with VoiceOver turned on and with headphones connected. Notable features of Montal Tuner: * Measures and uses inharmonicity of the piano to construct a custom tuning for each piano. * Can store and recall tuning files for individual pianos * Includes a pre-packed tuning file for an average piano if you don't want to create custom tunings. * Can be set up to use historical unequal temperaments. * Switches notes automatically when you play the next note. * Pitch-raise mode included. Montal Tuner lets you customize a tuning by sampling the inharmonicity for a few notes of the particular piano. You can choose the kind of tuning stretch you want, based on octaves, double-octaves, or other intervals. Then you start tuning. After a custom tuning has been created from inharmonicity measurements, you can store this tuning by name. The next time you need to tune that piano, or one very much like it, you simply load that same tuning file and start tuning. There essentially is no limit to the number of tuning files that you can save. Montal Tuner comes with an "average" tuning file so you can start tuning right away. Montal Tuner covers the normal piano range from A0 to C8 (88 notes). The automatic note-switching feature makes it possible to enjoy hands-free operation. Montal Tuner switches up to 3 notes up or down from the current note. In addition to automatic note-switching, there is also one-touch manual note switching. The sweeping tone tuning indicator used by Montal Tuner to simulate a strobe tuner is filtered white noise rather than a pure tone. This allows the user to hear the piano directly while the sweeping tone is sounding. The goal in tuning is to stop the sweeping of the tone - just like stopping the movement of a visual strobe. The pitch-raise function pre-measures the pitch of the piano before you tune it. Based on these measurements, tuning targets are established a calculated amount beyond the desired pitch for each note. After all the notes have been tuned in this way, the pitch of each note is closer to the desired pitch than if these exaggerated tuning targets had not been used.
Skratch It
This app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a portable DJ scratching tool. It offers a responsive virtual deck, a semi-automated mixer with customizable crossfader patterns, and various sound sets for creative scratching on the go.
- Portable DJ set on iPhone/iPad
- Responsive virtual deck
- Semi-automated mixer with crossfader patterns
- Import custom samples
- Live recording to WAV
- DSP effects
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・Transform your iPhone and iPad into a portable DJ set designed for the art of scratching・ We’re excited to bring you an app that redefines the possibilities of dj scratching with a single hand-held device, ready to be used on the go, anywhere you want. Skratch it! transforms your iOS device into mobile turntable / mixer / loop player combo, allowing you to instantly experience limitless possibilities right at your fingertips. ・Seamless scratch experience・ Thanks to the implementation of a highly responsive virtual deck and a semi-automated mixer’s crossfader, it is possible to achieve both precision and finesse of performance even for beginners. The mixer section offers eight, carefully selected, crossfader movement patterns that are automatically synced with the tempo of background music playback. These can be easily combined together by the swipe gestures, allowing to create endless combinations of the scratching sounds. The app comes with a selection of six different sound sets, containing most of the all-time classic samples together with some fresh beeps, squelches and rough noises! Eager to cut and bend your own sounds? Importing custom samples is also possible. ・Packed with useful features・ - Dope selection of background music tracks (80 - 140 bpm) - 6 pads for switching between different scratching sounds sets - Mixer unit with pattern-driven tempo-synced and manual modes of the crossfader - Responsive, large, virtual deck with triggers for performing “stab” and “faderless” tricks - Possibility to cue and trigger selected part of the record - 4 different DSP effects - Live recording to WAV (record your performance with or without the background music) - Importing of custom samples (44.1khz, stereo, 16-bit WAV files) - Tap tempo button for fast tweaking of the playback speed - Audio routing (audio output from the app can be routed to another app that supports IAA) - Built-in tutorial - Hours of fun and engaging experience!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Skratch It at $2.99 against Montal Tuner's $159.99. Skratch It also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (28 vs 1). Montal Tuner's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Montal Tuner costs $159.99 and Skratch It $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Montal Tuner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skratch It has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Montal Tuner's written reviews are positive against 91% of Skratch It's.
Montal Tuner ships an update every 15 months, Skratch It monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Montal Tuner | Skratch It |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $159.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Real-Time Specialties | Aleksandra Wienclawska |
Customer experience
Montal Tuner
Skratch It
In-app purchases
Montal Tuner
No in-app purchases
Skratch It
No in-app purchases









