Fender Tune vs insTuner

Fender Tune is a mobile tuner for guitar, bass, and ukulele, available on Android and iOS. Its free tuner provides Auto-Tune, Manual Tune, and Chromatic modes, plus 26 alternate tuning presets. Users can create custom tunings and save them to a Fender Connect profile, and offline mode is listed. Tune Plus adds an interactive guitar chord library with more than 5,000 shapes and variations, as well as a dynamic scale library for six-string guitar. Practice tools include 60 drum rhythms across six genres, tempo controls, a practice timer, time-signature customization, and a metronome. Tune Plus also provides real-time visual tuning feedback and 65 non-standard tuning references from A=420Hz to A=460Hz. Access to Tune Plus requires signing in or creating a Fender account. Fender describes the app as suitable for musicians from beginners to professionals. The listed Fender Tune plan is free; Tune Plus requires a Fender account.

insTuner is a chromatic tuner for instruments including guitar, bass, piano, bowed strings, brass, woodwinds and drums. It offers five modes: Instant Tuning, Fine-Tuning, Strobe Tuning, Spectrum (FFT) and Spectrogram. The note wheel identifies the note being heard and shows its octave beneath the dial. Fine-Tuning displays the note, cent deviation and frequency; Spectrum analyzes frequencies and allows a logarithmic or linear X-axis. A built-in tone generator produces four waveforms for tuning by ear. The free edition includes Instant-Tuning Mode and the tone generator. The paid plan is listed at $3.99 as a one-time purchase and includes the Mac app, fine-tuning, historical curve tuning, tone generation and tuning settings. Those settings include Concert A frequency, musical temperament and input source. The Mac listing requires macOS 10.9 or later. The maker says the paid app can be bought once for use on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. EUMLab says it was founded in 2012 and is based in Hangzhou, China and Berlin, Germany.