This app turns your Apple Watch into a professional chromatic tuner for various string and wind instruments. It offers wrist-first design, chromatic precision, and standalone functionality, making tuning quick and convenient anywhere.
Top Picks for Tuner Pro For Watch
1.0(1 ratings)
$1.99
2.5😐(40 ratings)
$0.99
This application uses your device's microphone to help you tune instruments. It supports tuning to custom notes and is compatible with smartwatches.
What We Love
- 👍 Accurate tuning
- 👍 Convenient on wrist
- 👍 Useful for guitar
- 👍 Works well
- 👍 Elegant design
- 👍 Good value
- 👍 Great idea
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Screen turns off
- 🐛 Mic struggles with acoustic
- 🐛 App disappears
- 🐛 Won't install
- 🐛 Not picking up notes
- 🐛 Static screen
- 🐛 Incorrect notes shown
- 🐛 Slow to capture audio
- 🐛 Difficult to use
- 🐛 No support available
- 🐛 Doesn't work on new OS
- 🐛 Reference pitch issue
- 🐛 Useless for some
- 🐛 No A=442 mode
- 🐛 Screen goes to slow refresh
Watch Tuner Timegrapher by Bartlomiej Swiatek
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3.8😐(80 ratings)
$7.99




This application analyzes the performance of mechanical watches by using your device's microphone to record ticking sounds. It generates a frequency diagram and provides measurements for rate, beat error, amplitude, and beats per hour.
What We Love
- 💰 Affordable alternative to expensive professional timegraphers
- 📊 Accurate measurements when used correctly with proper microphone setup
- 🎯 Precise beat error and amplitude detection capabilities
- ⚙️ Highly adjustable settings for different watch movements
- 📈 Clear, easy-to-read graphical display of results
- 🔧 Effective tool for regulating and tuning mechanical watches
- 🎧 Works well with external microphones (Apple earbuds, Bose headsets)
- 🧠 Multiple detection algorithms to choose from
- 📱 Intuitive interface for hobbyist watch enthusiasts
- ✅ Reliable results when environmental conditions are optimal
Room to Improve
- 🎤 Highly dependent on microphone quality and placement
- 🔇 Requires completely silent environment to function properly
- ⚠️ Inconsistent readings across different devices and setups
- 😤 Steep learning curve with many trial-and-error adjustments needed
- 🚫 Fails to detect watch ticks in noisy environments
- ⏱️ Slow data collection process
- 🔄 Finicky and unreliable performance (works ~80% of the time)
- 📵 Doesn't work with case back on for many watches
- 🎙️ Built-in iPhone microphone often inadequate
- 🔌 Compatibility issues with certain iOS versions and devices
- ⚡ Can magnetize watches when using iPad microphone
- ❌ Poor results with quieter watch movements



















