Fine Chromatic Tuner 4+

I was hoping to have something on my screen that would work well for a wind instrument. This app, however, is all over the place. When I say this, I mean that I compared it to a Korg CA Chromatic Tuner. The Korg has a display just like this one, but is smooth and accurately IDs the pitch and fixes on the predominant overtone, which is probably where this one is lacking. The needle was just waving around all over the place, compared to the Korg. There are some times that I’d rather have a tuner on my screen (always on top) than on my music stand or elsewhere, but this was just not working for me. I have a whole new appreciation for my free phone app and my $15 tuner!

It jumps too fast from pitch to pitch to be useable. It seems the programming needs to add a pitch average instead of detecting and reporting every pitch it detects every millisecond. It is probably giving true results, but so fast it is unusable. Perhaps programming a pitch report ginving an average pitch within a range of 0.5, 1, or 2 seconds would vastly improve this app.

No idea how this could average 3 stars even if it cost a buck or two, and especially since it's free. Only basic thing I can think of adding would be to enable hiding, to leave running and accessible without being distracting. But it's not a floating window so it disappears behind other selected apps, easy fix. I dig it.