Montal Tuner vs DTX Touch
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.
DTX Touch
This app provides intuitive control for tuning, muting, EQ, and effects on compatible electronic drum kits. It allows users to create custom drum kits with extensive mixing and layering options, offering a PA engineer-like experience.
- Intuitive tap and swipe tuning
- Graph-based sound adjustment
- Seamless kit selection and editing
- Extensive mixing and effect functions
- Layering up to 10 tones simultaneously
- Flexible routing options
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*To use the application, you will need to connect your smart device to DTX using a USB cable and adapter. Please refer to our connection manual for details. *DTX Touch is compatible with firmware version 2 of DTX-PRO / DTX-PROX or later. 1. Tune it up like an acoustic kit Tap and swipe operations allow intuitive tuning, mute, EQ and effect adjustments. The graph allows customization to adjust the sound output in relation to the strength of the pad hit. 2. Simple and clear operation The UI features a flat design and ample use of photos and graphs, allowing users to edit items without hesitation. The normal flow of kit adjustment tasks, such as selecting a kit, editing the kit, adding effects, and mixing, can be performed seamlessly. 3. Let's create your own special kit! The DTX-PRO/PROX, comes enabled with a wide variety of mixing and effect functions, that allow the user to operate like a PA engineer. The DTX-PRO/PROX also offer a wealth of customizable materials, such as a layer function that allows up to 10 different tones to be pronounced simultaneously with highly flexible routing. Please try these functions with the DTX Touch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DTX Touch at Free against Montal Tuner's $159.99. Montal Tuner's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
DTX Touch is free to download; Montal Tuner costs $159.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Montal Tuner against 5.0 for DTX Touch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Montal Tuner ships an update every 15 months, DTX Touch every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Montal Tuner | DTX Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $159.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 12 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Real-Time Specialties | Yamaha Corporation |
Customer experience
Montal Tuner
DTX Touch
In-app purchases
Montal Tuner
No in-app purchases
DTX Touch
No in-app purchases









