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Guitar Tuner! app review: a super simple tuner for your beloved axe

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Introduction

No 'axeman' can get by for long without a decent chromatic tuner, and this iPhone and iPad app provides just that, an incredibly accurate tuner with a bank of alternative tunings that you can use to tune up your six-string by ear or visually.

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This is a fairly standard addition to the genre of guitar tuner apps but I think that the developer has done an almightily good job of providing not just the bare basics but a few additional extras such as automatic string detection and a very attractive interface design.

Whether you’re a complete newbie or a veteran, you’re sure to get some use out of this app, and for under a dollar I’d say you really can’t go wrong!

Guitar Tuner!

$2.99

Tune Your Guitar to 1 / 100th of a Semitone

Guitar Tuner! is a basic yet wonderfully accurate chromatic tuner that you can use to ensure your beloved axe is always perfectly in tune, whether for at home practice sessions or actual live performances. The tuner is accurate to within 1 cent or 1 / 100th of a semitone, and it also features sub-second response time for even greater accuracy.

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Guitar Tuner! screenshot 1
Guitar Tuner! screenshot 1

Tune Your Guitar to All Kinds of Alternative Tunings

You can choose from the regular old E – A – D – G – B – E tuning or from loads of alternative tunings, including regulars such as minor third, open tunings, drop tunings, and transposition for higher and lower tunings.

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If you do happen to be using this app for live performances then chances are you’re going to be in a busy venue, so you’ll be pleased to know that you can deactivate auto-string detect for noisy environments such as this.

 

Guitar Tuner! screenshot 2
Guitar Tuner! screenshot 2

Guitar Tuner!

$2.99

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Accurate to within 1 cent or 1 / 100th of a semitone
  • Features sub-second response time for even greater accuracy
  • Choose from standard E – A – D – G – B – E tuning or loads of alternative tunings
  • Includes regular tunings as well as drop tunings, open tunings, and transposition for higher and lower tunings
  • Adjust pitch incrementally from 400 to 480 Hz up / down a half / full step from A440
  • Tap to hear an accurate note if tuning by ear instead of using visual tuning
  • Disable auto-string detect for tuning in noisy environments
  • Developed in Austin, Texas, the “Live Music Capital of the World”

Cons

  • There is nothing negative to say about this app

 

Guitar Tuner! screenshot 3
Guitar Tuner! screenshot 3

Final Words

Guitar Tuner! is definitely a solid iPhone and iPad app that receives a very strong recommendation from this guitarist. Check it out today and I doubt very much that you’ll be disappointed!

 

Guitar Tuner!

$2.99
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MarkBangs

Mark is an opinionated writer who loves to review apps. In 2012, he started reviewing Apple apps on a regular basis and wonders how he survived up to that point without these apps.