Tunepal App Reviews

I would give this app 5+ stars for its sheer brilliance. It is a great tool for the session musician and a bargain at twice the price. But I knocked the total down to 4 stars for some bugs and annoyances: - If you swipe across a tune name in My Tunes in order to delete it, the delete button appears on the tune *above* the one you swiped. - For some tunes in the My Tunes list, the key and rhythm are not displayed, even though the abc code dilplays seemingly correct headers for these values. - If the display is in landscape mode, the countdown digits dont appear when you start a recording. - There does not appear to be any way to sort the My Tunes list. Tunes simply appear in reverse chronological order, based on when you added them. Ideally, one could sort by title, rhythm, and/or key. Drag-and-drop reordering would also be nice. Im running TunePal under iOS 4.2.1 on a 4g iPod Touch. For what irs worth, I previously tried an earlier version of TunePal on a 2g iPod Touch with an external "Thumbtacks" microphone, and I got poor results with tune identification. With my current setup, tune identification is excellent.

The accuracy of identifying tunes poorly played is fairly amazing. I love being able to pull up sheet music and You Tube videos after identifying the tunes, as well as to be able to share through facebook. It would be interesting to be able to put in what you already know about a tune ( example, Ed Reavy tune) to help in identification. A great party game by the way.

Really works. Correctly identifies tune most of the time. Also provides a great way to keep track of tunes Im learning. It even lets me email tunes to other people....although I wish I could mail the sheet music instead of only the text notation. A must for any session musician.

Cant stop raving about this app. Though its dear compared to the price of free apps, this app comes in extremely handy. Sometimes the search for titles returns poor results cut the recording and labelling feature is really incredible. It also lets you add tunes to your collection and search discography of anyone whos recorded the tunes. A must have app for Irish trad musicians.

Tunepal always comes through! I like how it links you to the sheet music as well.

Cant even get the thing to load... Wasted 5 bucks. Should have bought a latte.

If you play Irish music, then this app is the best thing ever! Recognizes tunes, gives you sheet music, and can play the tunes back to you at whatever speed you want and with many different instruments. This app even lets you keep a list of tunes you know! Best $5 I ever spent!!

Ive enjoyed this app for some time but it is now buggy. I play a tune into it and after " listening" it closes out. Or I look at sheetmusic in landscape mode and scroll down to find the bottom half missing. Restarting the phone doesnt help.

Great app! However, room for improvement. PLEASE add more sophisticated library functionality for tunes. Like the ability to create "playlists". Also, I want to tag tunes with genre or whatever other whim. Or be able to sort and group ad hocly by any parameter (style, key, jig/reel/etc). Thanks!!!

Too many tool bars in new update, not enough room for the music. Needs way to create medleys on the fly. Otherwise great app.

This app has been a tremendous help in expanding my repertoire of tunes. And... If you have a wireless printer you can make hard copies if the music. Wants? Some ambiguity in tune titles as is common in Irish Trad. And just music .. No Tabs. Maybe a fix in future versions? Extra 1/2 star for the rating...

I cant open the program, and have lost ALL of my saved tunes when trying to reinstall.

The Tunepal app is not working on either my iPhone 4S or iPhone 5S under iOS7. An error message pops up on the record option each time it is activated saying "Tunepal couldnt hear enough notes." Reboots and resets will not clear this error. The App is not able to access microphone! Other issue is that developer only communicates through Facebook, so purchasers who do not use Facebook can not get support! This app used to be great, but as Apple users transition to iOS7, this app becomes useless and this is a terrible shame! Ross Schlabach

Ive used TunePal in various forms for several years; started with it back when it was running on "Palm" and "PocketPC" devices. Ive never had a problem with it on my iPhone or iPad and it is currently installed on my iPhone 5s running iOS 7.1.1. I see it used often at Irish music sessions when an unfamiliar tune is played by someone present. It almost always identifies the tune in question and the sheet music reference it provides allows confirmation. Well worth the money in my opinion.

This app is amazing at ceili sessions when you dont know the tune

Great app, use it often, but why no family sharing? I have to buy it for each of my Irish musician kids. Five stars minus the two extra times I have to pay for it.

I have tried playing dozens of traditional irish tunes on my penny whistle, and have yet it have it successfully identify a tune. I try playing with no ornamentations, and with a robotic tempo, and still no success. Ive tried humming and whistling too, with still no success. Not sure how others are getting good results. Im using an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.

I love this app but whenever I try to press the play button to hear the tune the app crashes!!

Smart app, intuitive design. Wants to crash on uploading if "glass of beer" but other 200 or so tunes I found and uploaded without a hitch! Would like it if there was an alphabetical option to organize the order of the tunes but other than that it is perfect! Best $6 I ever spent! Thanks to the team who put this together for the love of the tunes!! Best, Jack