Best smartphone tuner app for mandolin?

[mcgroup53]

Like most of us, I use a clip on tuner (the Planet Waves NS mini) on my instruments, and it works great in all environments. But at times, I still need to tune an instrument where I don't have a clip-on tuner and need to use my iPhone. Any experiences using an app, especially in noisy environments, that works well?

[Ben Milne]

Guitar toolkit has a nice accurate tuner as well as a metronome and a chord finder that can be set for mandolin. Handy to have in your pocket.

[Ivyguitar]

Petersons stobosoft is wonderful. I've used it side by side with a strobo clip and the flip and they are nearly identical. The ap is also a fraction of the price. It's a pro level tuner. Only difference being that the hardware devices have some extra calibration and preset features. Get this one.

[Larry S Sherman]

My favorite iPhone tuner is Cleartune.



Larry

[Nevin]

I have used insTuner in fairly loud places and it works well.

[William Smith]

I use a Peterson stroboclip on tuner, my cousin really didn't want to buy another tuner and he liked my stroboclip so he got one/found one for his phone. It works great.I really don't know what or how he found it, I'm cell phone dumb, I still don't even have one!

[Avi Ziv]

+1 for Cleartune. Love it

[Pete Martin]

Peterson Strobe Tuner is great.

[herbsandspices]

I really like Tunable.

[Matt Spencer]

Cleartune for Mandolin Ukulele and Guitar works great for all of them.

[terzinator]

I'm a sucker for these apps... I use the Guitar Toolkit one, as well as Strobosoft. But I like the look of that Cleartune app.

For those using Cleartune, what do you set the temperament and temperament key at? Leave as default (equal), or one of the string-family presets?

[Pete Jenner]

I've just downloaded Strobe Tuner v1.4 for Android.
It seems great so far.

[clobflute]

Pitchlab is my favourite

It's superb and very flexible - gives many screen read outs. I tried various tuners, none of which dealt well with rich overtones. Gstrings was terrible - Pitchlab is very responsive and deals well with flute, harp, mandolin for me. I love the A=415Hz and the standard A=440Hz and move easily between these for wind instruments. Mandolin I've found much simpler to tune with Pitchlab than my Seiko tuner (hardware).

[Larry S Sherman]

For those using Cleartune, what do you set the temperament and temperament key at? Leave as default (equal), or one of the string-family presets?

I didn't realize you could change that, but I see now that you can. I just leave it at "Equal Temperament."

Larry

[Chris Rogers]

Two more votes for Cleartune and Peterson iStroboSoft. The Peterson has a noise filter that helps in noisy jam situations. Otherwise the Cleartune is my favorite by far. I use the violin family temperament, and no one has complained. I did notice there is no B**jo family temperament among the many options.

[padawan]

Pitchlab is my favourite

It's superb and very flexible - gives many screen read outs. I tried various tuners, none of which dealt well with rich overtones. Gstrings was terrible - Pitchlab is very responsive and deals well with flute, harp, mandolin for me. I love the A=415Hz and the standard A=440Hz and move easily between these for wind instruments. Mandolin I've found much simpler to tune with Pitchlab than my Seiko tuner (hardware).

Agreed Pitchlab is pretty awesome (and FREE)! My favorite, bar none.

It has a lot of different functions that are easy to use and the assortment of different visuals is pretty cool too.

[John Flynn]

Another +1 for Cleartune!

[mandroid]

Going back to part of the Original Post..

Any experiences using an app, especially in noisy environments, that works well?

Wouldn't you have to retreat to the bathroom to use those?
since all you have is the Microphone in the Phone, to hear the pitch.

and in a room full of other players the isolating your sound
from theirs is another problem to solve .


Old and My Hearing is challenged to sort out voices

from background, as it is.



I have a clip piezo clamp and plug, for tuners , but it's 1/4" phone plug.

Suppose a person could cut it off and re-solder a smaller one on ..

[Jim Adwell]

Pitchlab is awesome. +1

[Kapu]

+1 for cleartune

[Earl Gamage]

OP asked for tuner apps for use in noisy environments. How do you use cleartune in a noisy environment? In my experience it does not work well in noise, although it's outstanding in a quiet room.

[Brad Sicotte]

Peterson Strobe +1 I use it for setting intonation as well.

Like most of us, I use a clip on tuner (the Planet Waves NS mini) on my instruments, and it works great in all environments. But at times, I still need to tune an instrument where I don't have a clip-on tuner and need to use my iPhone. Any experiences using an app, especially in noisy environments, that works well?

[Pete Jenner]

Unfortunately the Peterson Strobe is not available for Android.
I like GStrings.

[maysvilleboy]

i've tried everyone of these- tunable is my favorite for ease of sound detection in noisy environments and accuracy of reading - it is a superior app

[Perry]

Cleartune is nice...more accurate then many clip ons

I find that the needle damping set to "ll" works best; otherwise a bit too sensitive.

I use equal temperament; curious as to what the violin temperament actually does