FretWise Tuner & Lessons
Gayan Diyunugala Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
FretWise Tuner & Lessons is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Gayan Diyunugala. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 2, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 32 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 2
- 2026 · v1.1.0
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About FretWise Tuner & Lessons
Tune anything with strings. Guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, cello, mandolin, banjo and more: 16 instruments and 29 tunings, from standard to DADGAD to drop C. Pick your string and the tuner listens for that note alone, which is what makes it accurate enough to trust. Hear what in tune sounds like. Every string has a reference tone modelled on a real plucked string, so you can tune by ear as well as by eye. Lessons that actually listen. Play a chord and the app tells you whether you played it. It hears the notes, shows you the twelve pitches it is picking up, and points at any string that is not sounding. Open strings, first chords, changes between shapes and barre chords, from easy to genuinely hard, all included free. A metronome that does not drift. The tempo is generated in the audio engine, not by a timer, so it stays exact however long you play. Free, and your microphone stays private. FretWise is free. It shows a small banner under the lesson list and the metronome and an occasional ad after you finish a lesson, never on the tuner and never while a lesson is listening. The microphone is analysed on your device; no audio is recorded, stored or sent anywhere. No account, no analytics.
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated October 2, 2026
Thirteen new lessons, with real material past the first barre: barre shapes that move, blues sevenths, suspended pairs and a jazz turnaround. A chord library. Every chord the app can hear, with its shape and its notes. Hear it played, then play it yourself and the app tells you whether you have it. Your practice, in detail. Streaks, a daily goal, and five weeks of history so you can see the days you played and the days you did not. Prefer no ads for a while? Settings now offers a short video that turns ads off for 24 hours.
App privacy
The developer, Gayan Diyunugala, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FretWise Tuner & Lessons | – | Free | October 2, 2026 | |
| Intonaire | – | Free | Jul 30, 2026 | Compare |
| Afinora: Tuner & Training | – | Free | Oct 1, 2026 | Compare |
| Tune Ukulele App | 4.5 / 5 (6) | Free | Apr 14, 2026 | Compare |
| SmartScales - Backing Tracks | 4.2 / 5 (38) | Free | May 19, 2026 | Compare |
| Unreal Guitar: Simulator | 3.5 / 5 (6) | Free | Feb 4, 2026 | Compare |
| Spotistats, Alarm Clock, Recs | 2.9 / 5 (42) | Free | Mar 1, 2024 | Compare |