Tuner T1

I’ve used this tuner for years. I’m a music teacher. I tune hundreds of instruments, especially before concerts with this app. For those that don’t understand transposing instruments, you have to know the difference between concert pitch (piano) and your instrument, if it isn’t a C instrument. I didn’t give it 5stars because of the recent onslaught of ads, not just one but several in a row. Could I pay for it? Sure, but I could also find another free app and compare to see if I should just move on.

I was recently looking for an app I could use to tune my viola strings correctly and this app didn't work all too well with that. The only string that was properly in tune was my A string, all the other strings were way too low (according to this app). Once I got to my C string the app wasn't even correctly picking up on the tunes and was saying it was too low when the string was too high in tune, this is very bad because I do not have anymore spare C strings currently, and if I ended up breaking my C string I would have had to spend money for a new string just because the app for some reason could not pick up on the sound of the C string. I know the app heard me playing because I was playing loud enough for it to pick up. I will not be using this app again because of the risk of me almost snapping my C string. If anyone uses apps to try and tune their instruments, I recommend using tuner ninja, its a website on google I believe (and its free to use, no payments) and it tunes stringed instruments very well. Im not sure about other types of instruments since the only instrument I play is a viola, but I can say that it works very well for tuning strings.

The foundation of the app is great. Everything seems to be simple but when i tuned my Bb Clarinet none of the notes matched. I thought it was my jacky reed yall so i opened a new reed still the notes didnt match up. Finally it hit me to go to the piano and boom EVERY SINGLE NOTE WAS GREEN . When i played on my clarinet it was giving me notes that didnt even makes sense like for example i played a Eb and it told me it was a C 🤨 so i thought to myself maybe this is in the settings of an instrument not in my range then had the idea to look through settings . I changed some stuff and changed it back and changed it again nothing happened just same ole’ same ole’ so i gave up 🤣 . If ya really wanna use this app dont use it for other instruments use it for pianos 😂. Or maybe im doing something wrong 🤷🏾‍♀️ but man that whole thing makes me wanna skip my practice time for today LOL.