Listed in the top 500 apps of all times by the Sunday Times (6 February 2012)
Listed in the top twenty cultural apps for iPhone by the Sunday Times (28 March 2010).
Winner of the best overall invention 2010 in the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Tunepal was in the top 25 grossing apps on the app store (17-18 July 2010).
The essential tool for all musicians playing traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh and Breton music!
Ever sat in a trad session and wondered what was the name of that great tune someone just played? Well now you can search a database of over 22,000 tunes from your iPhone/iPod BY PLAYING!
Hold your device up to a melody instrument such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, uilleann pipes, accordion or banjo, hit record and the melody will be extracted and submitted to the tunepal.org search engine for matching.
Matching tunes are downloaded to your device, where you can view and edit the notation or the stave, email the tune, post it to facebook or play it back using the high quality playback engine based on ABC2MIDI and FMOD.
All the rave reviews are nice, but, loaded on my iPad, wouldn’t record without the website connection.Played the sample tunes, Added a few tunes, and today it won’t play any of them.Can’t make the connection to find any help... ahhhh, technology.Glad others are having better luck.
Developer Response
Fixed noW!
Great and very useful app. Needs reliable back-end
Baulas
This is such a useful app for finding Irish tune names in a session (or even out of your head, if you can play a snippet of the tune on an instrument but can’t recall the title). It does have frequent back-end outages, which prevents tune name lookups and is annoying. It will save them as “Unsubmitted tags” that you can upload later for ID. But by then the moment is usually gone. Hopefully the developer can remedy this issue. Would even be worth a small annual subscription ($5-10) if more money would buy a better backend service.
Great App!
Graeck
Useful app at sessions. It doesn’t always find the right tune, but I wouldn’t expect it to. The accuracy is pretty darn good though. Really happy the app was finally updated and now works offline! I also like that the app does not collect any personal data…all apps should be that way.
Please fix bugs!
dagoose1
It used to work but the last update was 5 years ago. It crashes when I try to record, when I press on the preferences, when I press on the map, when I try to save a tune to my list. Luckily, saving to my list works after I re-open the app, but it had to crash before I can do that. Maybe new iOS upgrades have rendered this app obsolete?
UI fixes for IOS 27
Version 3.6
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Information
Seller
Bryan Duggan
Size
61.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
Languages
English and 9 more
English, Danish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
