PanStrobe
Harmonic strobe handpan tuner
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
See the fundamental and its partials as live strobe motion. Built for handpan makers and tuners — real strobe physics, no smoothing, fully offline.
PanStrobe is a harmonic strobe tuner built for handpan makers, tuners and players.
A handpan note is not one frequency — it is a fundamental with an octave and a compound fifth tuned above it. PanStrobe shows all of them at once as true strobe motion: each ring is one partial, position is phase, and drift speed is exactly how far off you are. When a ring stands still, that partial is in tune.
TUNE BY SIGHT
• Half-circle strobe disc or horizontal strobe rows — one band per partial
• True strobe physics: left = flat, right = sharp, stillness = in tune
• Live cents readouts with glitch rejection — and no averaging: the wobble you see is real signal
• Strobe divisors (÷2, ÷3, ÷5) slow the pattern for far-off notes
HEAR THE WHOLE NOTE
• Real-time spectrum with a piano-key axis and labelled peaks
• Waterfall view: watch each strike's harmonics evolve over time
• Automatic note detection, or lock to the note you are working on
BUILT FOR THE WORKSHOP
• Chromatic notes with octave control, adjustable A4 reference, global cents offset
• Band editor with multi-partial templates (1:2:3 and more)
• Pitch pipe on every band — double-tap a strobe for a reference tone
• Dark, glare-free UI designed for metal shops
• Works fully offline — audio never leaves your device, no account, no tracking
FREE TRIAL, FAIR PRICING
Every install starts with a full-featured 8-day trial. After that, the free tier stays a single-band chromatic strobe tuner. PanStrobe Pro adds what the app is really for — every partial of a note at once, the spectrum analyser, the band editor and the pitch pipe — monthly, or yearly at about 20% less.
Made by Panlab — we build and tune handpans in Hong Kong. This is the tuner we use ourselves.
Privacy Policy: https://panstrobe.app/privacy.html
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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PanStrobe now makes full use of a big screen.
• Landscape on iPad and Mac: the strobe sits beside the spectrum on one screen with nothing to scroll, and it grows to fill the window — including while you resize it on a Mac.
• Mac: steadier microphone capture, the active input picked on multi-channel audio interfaces, high sample rates handled, and the display stays awake while you tune.
• Clearer help when no microphone is connected or access is off, pointing to exactly where to fix it.
The developer, Panlab Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Panlab Limited
- Size
- 7.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PanStrobe Pro Yearly $76.99
- PanStrobe Pro $7.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Panlab Limited
