Tine: Tuner & Metronome
Joseph Ting Music iPhoneiPadiPod touchMacApple Watch
Tine: Tuner & Metronome is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Joseph Ting. Requires iOS 26.1. Updated October 16, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 40 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 16
- 2026 · v1.3.4
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About Tine: Tuner & Metronome
Tine is a precision tuner, metronome and drone made to feel like the best hardware you've owned. It opens straight into tuning, reads cleanly from across a room, and keeps perfect time. TUNE ANYTHING • Chromatic tuner with a spring-damped needle, or a true strobe accurate to a tenth of a cent • 40+ instruments and tunings: guitar (6, 7, 8, 12-string), bass (4, 5, 6), ukulele, banjo, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, double bass, winds and brass in written pitch, voice, oud, Highland pipes • Strum check: strum all six strings and see which ones are off • Reliable low notes, down to the 31 Hz low B on a 5-string bass • Octave guard warns before you over-tighten a string • Any reference from 380 to 500 Hz, including 415 Baroque, 442 orchestral and 480 pipes • Historical temperaments: just intonation, Pythagorean, meantone, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III, Vallotti, Bach/Lehman • "Adopt this pitch": play the piano's A and Tine matches it KEEP TIME • Sample-accurate click that never drifts, even in the background • A pendulum that swings in sync with what you hear • Any meter, per-beat accents, subdivisions, swing and cross-rhythms • Rotary tempo dial with a detent for every BPM, tap tempo, Italian markings • Setlists that load each song's tempo, meter and tuning • Haptic pulse and screen flash • Bluetooth latency calibration for AirPods PRACTICE INTONATION • Drone in any key, with pure (just) or tempered intervals • Tine scores your notes against the drone in just intonation, the way string teachers teach it • Strings Practice for violin, viola and cello: scales, arpeggios and long tones on a staff with fingerings and bowings, every note judged as you play EVERYWHERE YOU PLAY • Live Activity and Dynamic Island for the metronome • Control Center and Action button controls • Apple Watch: haptic metronome on the Digital Crown, and a wrist tuner • iPad and Mac: tuner and metronome side by side • Mac menu bar tuner ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN • Full VoiceOver support with spoken tuning • Sonar tuning: hear how far off you are • Color-blind-safe palette • Haptic lock and haptic metronome TINE PRO · ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Tempo trainer: speeds up a few BPM every few bars until you reach your goal tempo • Gap trainer: the click drops out for a few bars so you keep time on your own • Full practice history with monthly and yearly charts, and CSV export • Premium skins: Vector, Heritage, Strobe Lab, Stage, Bench, Terrarium and Songbook, in the app and on your widgets • Strings Practice in full: every exercise, a daily practice plan, and your intonation note by note (the D major scale is free) One purchase, no subscription, Family Sharing included. OUR PLEDGE No ads. No account. No data collected. Tuning and timekeeping are free forever, and a free feature will never move behind a paywall.
What’s new
Version 1.3.4 · Updated October 16, 2026
A steadier tuner. • The needle now locks only on a settled note, so far fewer false locks. • Reads better through background noise, room hum and other instruments playing nearby.
App privacy
The developer, Joseph Ting, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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