Tuner - gStrings Free

- April 12, 2016

Everyone

Tools

Contains ads

Offers in-app purchases

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Description

gStrings is a chromatic tuner application measuring sound pitch and intensity.

It will let you tune any musical instrument (violin, viola, violoncello, bass, guitar, piano, wind instruments, your own voice/singing).

Features include:
1. multiple built-in instruments and tunings,
2. support for user-defined custom tunings,
3. a long list of built-in temperaments (just, pythagorean, meantone, comma, etc.),
4. support for user-defined custom temperaments,
5. orchestra tuning (shifting/redefining tone frequencies),
6. pitch pipe,
and many more.

If you were looking for a guitar tuner, try it!

(*) the INTERNET permission is used for ads only.

(**) most of the historic temperaments were included courtesy of NetCat AG.

Reviews

4.5

208,199 total

5 152,865

4 29,700

3 9,974

2 4,874

1 10,786

Samuel Allen

Old version excellent this sucks The previous version was so awesome! Beautiful high precision interface that wasn't "flighty" . It could tell when a string hit it's pitch and stayed there. It did a great job tuning my 12 string. Beautiful. This version looks like playschool took over. Needle won't stick, tone recognition is just wrong interface blows now. Please bring back previous version. I'll gladly pay!

Sumter Graham

This app is absolutely awesome I have been using this app for years. It works very well and is completely accurate. I have tried others but this one is the one I always go back to. I can tune up even with general back ground noise. With this app it's no longer necessary to own a stand alone guitar Tuner for those who just play around the house.

Sonny Hammond

Now enlightened, great app. Would like the 'auto tune' feature the previous version had Kindly it was explained to me that the corresponding guitar string on top will centre when the right note is selected underneath. Back to 4 stars. Fantastic again, thanks for the email and tutorial. Having read many negative reviews, I must say I agree that I did prefer the previous version. All round it was just a better app.

Tobias Kaye

Flexible, speedy and easy. Accuracy comes easy with the colour-change frequency read out. Adjusting out to non-standard pitch settings is easy. Responsiveness is good and I particularly like that the readout gives notes in Hertz as well as note-name (A - G) readings. En and Bb would be nice to have but I do like this app and it's update

Jack Pepper

Flawed. Well, I don't know if it's my new phone or the app but it just outright doesn't work anymore. Set it to auto, pluck a string, nothing happens. Pluck repeatedly and more aggressively and it wiggles minutely but still ultimately does nothing. Same thing on manual. I used to use this a lot but I guess I'll just use this as an opportunity for some ear training.

Colin Baciocco

Great App, Great Developer Easy, accurate, fast, and looks awesome. With no ads and a great developer (They gave away their new tuner app for free to paid users of their old one!), what's stopping you from buying this already? If you need a tuner, stop looking. Get this one.

User reviews

Samuel Allen April 27, 2016

Sumter Graham December 9, 2016

Sonny Hammond May 3, 2016

cohortor.org April 14, 2016

Sonny, the strings shown on the top are there exactly for those who don't know if they need E4 or E5: whenever the main selection is a string that is on the guitar, the corresponding tone on top is centered. So if you have E5 selected, all the guitar tones on the top list will be on the left, since they are all below E5.

Tobias Kaye June 3, 2016

Jack Pepper December 29, 2016

cohortor.org January 2, 2017

Jack, if you could, please make a recording of the string/tone that the app fails to identify correctly (any 3rd party audio recording app on your phone will do) and send it to gstrings@cohortor.org. This will give me a chance to improve the app for you and others as well. Thank you for your help.

Colin Baciocco August 28, 2016

christopher scott January 8, 2017

Great tuner, tiny ads For a free tuner it does everything you need and it's ads are never in the way. No pop ups yay! I've been using it for years and finally want to say thanks to its creators, it's saved me more than a few times

Innate Ant October 8, 2016

Was good. Still too slow to use After an update it became so slow it didn't work. You'd overshoot the note before the tuner caught up. Even after being patient, one chord strum shows something's terribly wrong

Alistair Roberts May 20, 2016

If it ain't broke... I've used this app for years and loved it. The new update is, in my mind, unnecessary. The app won't recognise the strings I'm playing and you have to hold down the sound button to tune by ear. It all just seems like a counter-intuitive, unhelpful mess.

Art M January 9, 2017

It simply works great There are different ways to use this. I just turn it on and play any string. It shows the frequency and closest note. Very quick. No need to set which string you're playing as long as you know which note it should be. This is by far the best tuner I've tried and I've tried many including the Martin app and guitar tuna. Many have a skittish meter. This one dampens making it easy to see how out of tune the string is. Some of them have all kinds of add ons that I don't really care about. This is light weight.

A Google User December 13, 2016

Honestly the best tuner app out there. Perfect. I use it for both my guitar and cello (not a humble brag, I'm equally bad at both). The app does a really solid job knowing which note I'm aiming for, and I've checked it against two tuners my instructor uses, and this app is on point. Look no further. You've found that for what you were looking.

Matt Trapnell July 20, 2016

I am far from an accurately acclaimed savant for my ability to recognize pitch (those perfect bitches). So how precise the frequency recognition algorithm is beyond me. However my old tuner broke so this is free and cant be worse than tuning by ear right!

c Cha September 18, 2016

Love it but... Can we please add a chromatic concert tuning? I don't know how difficult that would be to add. Four star for awesomeness but a chromatic concert pitch option would be EVEN MORE AWESOME!! I'd five star after that given there were no glitches. Even if there were if it didn't hinder much I'd still five star.

Pedro Ramirez August 18, 2016

Issue solved For the app to properly detect the notes make sure the "auto" mode is set. It's the little lock tab icon below the 1/8 note icon. Once you set to auto the tuning note will disappear and your app will properly detect the notes automatically. It even worked with my voice.

Adamn Rey September 10, 2016

Works VERY well. It is exactly what it says: a tuner. The auto detect works great! Starts right up, I've never had any issues with this app. Period. Tunes my bass, my guitars, and my mandolins. Never has a problem picking up the sound, even in somewhat noisy rooms. Of all the tuners I have downloaded, this is possibly the best. No extra crap, no gimmicks. Just a nice, very functional tuner that you will not regret downloading. Good job, Dev.

Rodger Stephenson April 18, 2016

ruined a good thing before this update this was a more than adequate tuner (considering its a phone/tablet app). you could adjust the mic sensitivity and (imo) the accuracy was much higher. now the adds are bigger and they made it TOO universal and TOO complicated. doesnt need to be. i can even tolerate the adds if the product is worth it. sadly I'll be uninstalling this app after years of use. who knows many of you might like/love it but its time for me to move on.

Van French May 16, 2016

The previous version was good, but this is great. It's a twelve note tuning that doesn't make me choose an instrument, and I think it's more accurate than tuners that I've purchased... and constantly had to change the batteries on! FWIW I use it to tune a ukulele, and I repeat, I think it has the best tuning finesse I've come across yet.

Primoz Strajnar April 26, 2016

I hate myself for giving this a bad review, but you ruined the best guitar tuner app out there. I've been using it for 6 years on 4 different devices. Now the core of it - the actual tuner - sucks. Too slow, picks up more background noise than it used to. Sure, the UI changes are great, but nobody really cares if you can't tune a guitar. Revert to the old tuner engine. You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.

Nick G May 12, 2016

Awful New version is f **king awful, and the old version will not successfully re download as promised. You have to keep holding the button down for it to ring out a tuning tone? Are you kidding? You need BOTH HANDS to time a guitar.

Matt White September 2, 2016

Good for guitar, nothing else The only thing this updated pos can do is guitar, it doesn't recognize any of my 5 bass guitars, 4,5,6 strings nothing worked, I guess I have to lug my own tuner around again... it works fine for standard 6 string cheese guitars, not bass.

Le Hak April 13, 2016

New Version Is Awesome Hey I like this new version. This version minimizes the detection of surroundings' noise, therefore becomes easy to use. Plus you don't have to click anything just open the app and pluck the string to tune. I don't get those saying this new version is crap. Maybe they're having hard time using it. They don't know they don't have to click anything, just open the app and it is automatic.

A Google User July 16, 2016

Used to love this app but not now... Total redo of app makes it unusable. The needle just swings back and forth wildly. Not sure if it is lagging and then catching up, but I can't quickly tune my guitar anymore with this.

A Google User August 31, 2016

... Used to be amazing, now it's crap! It can barely detect the bottom e-string on a guitar. There is no way to change the sensitivity like before. So... The needle sits still for all my strings. Another example of fixing things that aren't broken and making them worse. Outdated code... For a tuner. What a load of bull.

K French June 15, 2016

New version is Terrible!! This was always my favourite app. Used it all the time to tune my guitar. I even found it more accurate than my actual tuner. But since the new version came out, it never works properly. If I try and tune the guitar, it always recognises every string as a G note. Absolutely terrible! You all have ruined a perfectly good app!! Congratulations!!

David Rosa January 28, 2017

Super convenient, really accurate. A little finicky with low frequencies, but that might say more about my phone's input than the app. If you're tuning a low string and it gets weird, use a harmonic. Good work, devs, thanks. I've never felt the need to try another tuner app.

Philipp Thiebes January 9, 2017

New layout is terrible. What happened to the use of colour? Why ruin a good thing? I will look for another app because I can't easily tune my guitar anymore. ( had this app for 5 years now, very sad). I am uninstalling after this comment.

Chali B October 9, 2016

It was already perfect.👌👈 YOUR UPDATES!!! No one needs to choose the instrument they're tuning; just fix the auto-tune so if I play a string it will tell me the note. You've ruined your creation. Please simplify it because none of the changes are necessary. And I can see a lot of people agree with me. Please fix it; I don't want to find a new tuning app.

Brandon Goulet December 16, 2016

Terrible This app used to be great. Now all it does is show A#, and if it does actually decide to show the right note, it is so unresponsive that it justice jumps back and forth between flat and sharp. This app sucks now. I had it for forever, but now I'm going to use something different.

Wes Baldwin April 16, 2017

The new version stinks because it does not detect the pitch and the meter varies wildly if it does. The old version worked perfectly on my phone. Never had that problem with old version. After fighting with this tuner longer than necessary I am going to pick a new app for my tuning.

Reviewer UK01 January 15, 2017

New version rubbish If I ain't broke, don't fix it. New version is horrible, won't play the notes I request I get A 880 whatever I ask for. Readout in hz but nothing to show nearest note. Really awful. Looking for replacement.

Dolan Wolfe-Callanta July 14, 2016

No longer perfect. Frustratingly slow. Can I roll back to the older version?? The needle lags now, it takes so long to read the pitch it's nearly useless to tune my guitar anymore. I was 100% happy with the old version, I used it every day, now it's all but useless. I'm use my old physical tuner again.

Kellymarie McColl-Beggs June 27, 2016

Update has ruined tuning ability. Worked perfectly before update, but now failing to correctly identify tuning tones. I have a stand alone tuner as well as doing it by ear, but liked this app as I always have my phone with me. Now, I'm going to uninstall. :-(

James P November 12, 2016

Pretty great I've tried several free tuner apps. This one is very easy to use and is very accurate. I had a slight problem with an older version with some kind of hardware conflict where it couldn't use the mic on my phone. I don't have the issue anymore. But if it ever does happen to you, resetting the phone usually works.

Matthew Spero June 10, 2016

Great job! The push to listen tuning option is unnecessary and confusing. Otherwise I think you're safe ignoring all of the silly 1 star reviews. This is, in my opinion, cleaner and more accurate than the original Gstring

Anukul Thakur October 16, 2016

Best UI The old app did the job perfectly, this new app however looks way better. Has clear demarcation for manual and automatic mode and the ad placement isn't intrusive at all. The only drawback is that it gets a little difficult to tune the guitar unless you shove the phone inside thee guitar. Hope you could fix that. Thanks a lot.

Lellah Johanna Thuresson July 11, 2016

Used to love this I don't understand why you'd completely change an app that already worked. Now it doesn't pick up my electric guitar OR my acoustic. It used to be great, now I'll have to look for a different one.

Optioneel Optioneel November 28, 2016

1 star I am using gstrings like 4 years now and recently i am not really able to tune my guitar, because it's not listening! I see the Hz goes up, but it does not show anything.. it's really fustrating.. I just think I have to say goodbye to Gstrings after using it for many years.. I really loved it.. but its not really working anymore. Goodbye i am gunna search for new tuners

Jessica Warnock July 1, 2016

What happened? This app used to be amazing. So simple to use and accurate and now it's all gone wrong. I just don't understand why they had to go and mess with a great, uncomplicated little app. So disappointed :(

Ian Habeck May 27, 2017

I'm rarely inspired to rate an application, but upon starting the new version for the first time---it's so much smoother than before. The previous version was good as a tuner, with a little babysitting (e.g. choose intended note for stability). Immediately on startup, it defaults to display standard tuning (if I was still learning, great). Functionally, the display is simplified and made clear enough for glancing use. Also, no more jumping octaves. Thank you for saving a fortune in strings, from someone who never developed "the ear" properly. 9/10, just because I haven't tested bass, violin, and electric. Yet.

Aaron Kop April 28, 2016

Updated UI, not so intuitive How disappointing, this used to be the go to for tuning anything and everything. Even the forks in my kitchen. Food never tasted so bright. Now I need a college degree just to get this to do anything resembling functional. While I appreciate the updated 'material design' so much of the simplicity of the old app has all but disappeared.

What's New

What's new? Everything! v2.0 is a complete rewrite of the successful, but aging tuner released 7 years ago. It has an updated fundamental detection engine, fancy material design and a few new tricks up its sleeve. Hope you like it.

v2.1.0:

1. improved fundamental frequency detection,

2. fixed tinting of appcompat radio button selectors.