InTune – Tuning Practice Reviews

Overall I think this is a great app and I love using it. The addition of the new timbre choices at a rather reasonable $0.99 is a nice touch. However, the oboe option is broken, and the flat oboe sound is qualitatively different from the sharp oboe sound which makes practicing on that choice trivially easy. The English horn option somehow doesn’t have this issue; if I memorize exactly how the vibrato behaves in the flat vs sharp versions i could use that to hack the game but it’s something I can choose to ignore. I haven’t tried any of the other options but I recommend looking into them to make sure that the only thing differing is the pitch and not the tone quality/behavior; even if those differences are subtle people are bound to pick up on them.

As a middle school band director, teaching students to have an ear for intonation and tuning is important. My students love to use InTune as a game - the contest is to see which class can score the highest. I love to see them have fun while learning to develop an ear for intonation. Their only concern, so also mine, is the tone generation can be somewhat uncomfortable when the whole class is listening. The team that has created InTune should be commended for bringing such a great app to the public, and should make more!

As a middle school band director I use InTune to help my students start listening more carefully to fine differences in pitch. It’s very easy to understand and I like the binary choice between higher and lower. Since it resets each time to easier levels, the kids who got lost when we made it to the really fine distinctions are able to rejoin us. this app really helps them start paying closer attention to pitch.

I enjoy InTune and find it helps develop pitch sensitivity. Recent updates have made it more enjoyable because there is less chance of missing due to impulsively hitting the wrong button, and you can also tell how many times you have missed (the previous version required you to track misses in your head).

My one complaint is that you can't save your personal best for improvement purposes.

All in all it is a great app, and fun to challenge friends with.

InTune really does help develop ones ability to recognize a percentage of a difference between two notes. It is quite useful.
It would be nice to see something get added to show the user where their individual score rates among the average person's percentage score, but besides that InTune does exactly what it's designed to do.
Thanks!

I have had fun exposing InTune to my students, and trying it for myself! I use it for private or group string lessons, and I have noticed that the students are really paying more attention to pitch as a result. The only thing that I would like to see is an option to replay the two tones. I would highly recommend to all music teachers who are trying to help their kids develop discriminating ears, and for all music students who are trying to improve on intonation!

I recently switched back to Trumpet from French Horn, and I have a very good ear when it comes to tone. I think this is a great app for improving your tone, but I solely feel the sound of the tone is a bit annoying and if possible an option for the instrument making the tone could be implemented. I don't know if I think this because I'm a trumpet player or if I'm selfish but this is my opinion. I hope you take my suggestions into consideration, thank you.

Overall a good app but could be much better if it allowed you to start from your personal skill level, rather than having to start from the very beginning. Better yet, have the 3-strike game as an option instead and allow for an option to continue practicing. Another great addition would be including real instruments sounds instead of the rather annoying electronic pitch.

Enjoyed InTune and the challenges it offers. A good way to brush up on your musical listening skills which can improve musicianship. However, a chart or some type of "key" needs to be added to app that will better explain how to interpret the results & also save these results so the user can track their progress & see how well or if they are showing improvement.

I have discovered that some of my prior issues with InTune have already been resolved, they are simply hard to find.
A more noticeable options menu should be created and the option to play the notes at the same time should also be added.

I am a high school choir director. I've shared InTune with students to help develop and improve thier listening precision. They enjoy challenging themselves to improve and competing with others to see who can get the best score. It's a fun and fast way to see immediate results in your student's aural ability in rehearsal and performance.

Great app! I agree with other reviewers that three things that would improve InTune : 1) ability to replay tones. (Especially after you got it wrong) 2) ability to practice without going back to 100% difference after missing three and 3) ability to choose the starting level.

This game appears to improve pitch sensitivity and does so more quickly than expected. Having an option for changing base pitches, which one is assessed (i.e. swipe on first or second pitch), replaying the tones and factoring speed into scoring would make this even more powerful. Worth the price as it stands though. Thanks for a solid implementation of a great idea.

This is a very useful app, but I find that I have more difficulty when I am comparing pitches sounded by two different instruments. For example, I am learning to play the violin. When I attempt to tune to the piano, my accuracy goes down. Comparing the piano to the bowed violin string adds some complexity.
Please add a variety of timbres so that users can compare pitches between instruments.

This game, based on ability to hear pitch and intonation, is surprisingly fun to play. It would be a great measure of basic musical aptitude - as far as hearing pitch, at least. Game advertisements say that use of this game may improve people's sense of pitch. Hmmm... Regardless, it is a fun way to test your sense of pitch. I encourage you to check it out. 👍

InTune is plenty helpful as is, but u agree with some other reviewers' suggestions about replaying the two pitches and taking out the three strikes. I also would like the option of seeing a measurement in cents instead of percentage of a half step.

InTune is one of the finest of its kind. I’ve had this for about 4 years now and I can safely say I feel a lot more secure in my ability to distinguish intonation differences; there is always room to constantly improve and that is what I love about InTune!

Great app, works just fine. I would love for there to be a harder level with a third option of the second pitch being the same as the first pitch…this would really make things interesting as we get to smaller fractions of a half step!

InTune has aided my ear so much. What I appreciate about it is, compared to so many others with busy interfaces and hundreds of options, it’s limited it to one thing. But it’s a VERY crucial thing!
The support is really quick and professional, as well.

Terrific app for when I want a quick distraction and a bit of practice. Beautiful interface, quick and fun, and I’m getting steadily better! The Cello add-on was well worth the buck-really enjoy hearing the instrument. Think I’ll buy oboe next.