THE TUNER HAS BEEN REBUILT The pitch-detection engine has been rebuilt for accuracy, particularly on low strings. It holds within about a cent on a usable signal, and when it isn't sure it shows nothing rather than a number it can't stand behind. • A proper analog needle dial. The scale is drawn as an arc, so the needle actually points at the value it reads — including at the extremes, where a straight scale would lie. • Placement guidance in the tab. A phone microphone hears the octave above a low string more strongly than the string itself, so where you put the phone matters more than people expect. Near the 12th fret, not across the bench. • A cleaner display: the note, the verdict, and the needle. DATA CORRECTIONS • 13 tonewood hardness and density figures corrected against published reference data. Indian rosewood, laurel and ebony were the significant ones — Indian rosewood had been listed as harder than Brazilian, which is the wrong way round. • Every one of the 623 model spec sources now cites the manufacturer. FIXES • Prefilled customer-spec fields no longer truncate at an inch mark. • Instrument Profiles now read measurement ranges correctly. CLEARER ON SCREEN • Disclaimers consolidated into one wording — short where it is guidance, full where it carries weight. • More room for content: smaller header, less dead space above it. • The string tension explanation is broken into blocks you can actually scan. • Cross-links between tools that were isolated from each other. SMALLER • Dead code and unused fonts removed. The app is lighter, and so is every print job.

Version 12.78 (9): We made a new logo. It says the same thing the old logo said, but in gold. It was already in gold. It's a better gold now. The app icon used to be hard to read. It said "Fretsmith" but you had to trust us. Now it says it bigger. When you open the app, the logo dissolves in, sits there for two seconds, and leaves. We timed it. Two seconds is the right amount of time to look at a logo. The tuner used to have a label above it that said "Tuner." You were already looking at a tuner. We took it down. Also, in case you missed it: spec sheets and checklists print. They come out clean, with the date on them. Paper doesn't need a battery. We checked.

Version 12.75 A lot happened since 11.5. The Tuner got rebuilt. It used to crash. Now it locks onto the note, holds still, and keeps reading as the string fades out — the way a tuner is supposed to. There's an A=440 reference tone in there too, for when you'd rather hear the note than stare at it. Brand Specs went from 39 brands to 47, and from 280-something models to 623. More than double the models. I didn't plan it, it just kept happening. Every number is still checked against the manufacturer. We don't guess. Guessing is just being confidently wrong. Old guitars are in here too. They didn't stop existing when they stopped selling. New: punch in your measured relief, action, and nut-slot depths, and it tells you how far off you are from the maker's spec. It doesn't sugarcoat. It's a number. First time you open it, there's a quick tour. It shows you around, then it leaves. It's not clingy. There's a new splash screen too. That's the part before the app. Now it looks like it meant to do that. Still works offline. No account, no ads, no subscription. You pay once, like a normal object.