It’s a guitar tuner app. You use it to tune your guitar. You’d think that would be enough as it is but no, they have to blow it up with frankly laughable amounts of bloatware, useless features, and paywalls. Like seriously, who’s the genius who thought it would be cool to lock tunings behind a subscription paywall? Not just a paywall - a subscription one. They literally want you to pay a recurring fee for the privilege of tuning your guitar to some tunings. Or to use the chromatic tuning mode like if you wanted to check your intonation for example. And the bloatware, holy smokes. Devs, it’s a tuning app. Leave it at that and just make a separate app for everything that’s not related to tuning my guitar. The sheer volume of bloatware in this app means it is slow to start up and then you have to X out of one or more popups trying to sell you on more features you never asked for in your tuning app. Also, why on earth does my tuner app need to track my location by across platforms? Someone please explain this to me. Oh yeah, the advertising. Why do we need to generate so much money from advertising? Because we sunk so much in development resources implementing all this bloatware and useless features and now we need to sell your data to make up for it. Never in my life did I think I would say the phrase “my guitar tuner sells my data to advertisers for profit” but here we are.

I’ve used this app for tuning all of my instruments for a very long time. It does what it says on the box, it has a large variety of instruments to choose from. It is precise. That should be enough. Unfortunately the developers have added “features” that I did not ask for when I originally paid for the app. Lessons, song tabs and chord charts are all great but I don’t use them or want them really. What has truly driven me to now using other apps instead of this one is that once the app considers your guitar “tuned” it randomly selects a song for you to begin playing whether you want it to or not, whether you are done tuning or not. This “benefit” is incredibly disruptive and very annoying, particularly when all I’m trying to do is use the tuner and move on to what *I* want to be playing, either from memory, paper or ultimateguitar. So far I haven’t discovered a clear way to turn this off while retaining all other features I enjoy and paid for. I check the app from time to time hoping the developers have added the option allowing me to turn this terrible feature off, but as of April 2024, I am still waiting.

I had this app downloaded a couple years ago for tuning and recently found my way back to using it again. It doesn’t seem to be reliable anymore as I would tune once to everything being “correct” but then if I tried to using it again right afterwards, the tuner would say my guitar is out of tune. It seems to especially struggle with my 6th (E) cord? When it comes to the learning features, the app doesn’t do a very good job with recognizing chords. When I held the strings I was told, the chord wouldn’t be marked correct. An example would be where I was told to press strings 5 and 4 down to play the “Em” chord the app wouldn’t recognize me playing the chord correctly unless I pressed 6 and 5 down. I even checked back on the videos showing the instructor pressing down on the same strings as I was. As a beginner this is very confusing; am I playing correctly or not? I understand the app won’t be 100% perfect but it should be somewhat better if you expect me to pay for continued access. I’d rather pay a personal instructor at that rate. The concept for this app is good but it doesn’t seem executed very well.