Fender Tune: Guitar Tuner App

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.8 150331 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5It’s fender quality for fender guitars

   It does what it should do and more to help beginning guitar players get a feel for their new guitar. I’m assuming the reviewers finding problems with the auto tuner have bad mic quality in their phones, or are plucking the strings sloppily, coupled that with the finicky auto tuner feature with the app itself. A good tip for those using the auto tuner to save time: if the tuner is giving you weird and mixed responses, don’t continue to tighten or loosen up the strings or else you’ll accidentally break your string because the auto tuner is stuck on telling you your string is too flat. Check instead with the manual tuner to see where you’re at with tuning your guitar and then go back to the auto tuner. Hopefully this helps you keep your guitar in proper condition and save you the hassle of buying more strings. Waste more time being careful with the tuner instead of wasting money buying new strings.

   Neekolul · 30 Aug 2026

2. 1/5The worst tuner I have ever used

   I would rate this negative five stars if I could. I’ve spent the last two hours trying to tune my guitar and have not been successful. Every time it said it was in tune so would go to play something and then I could clearly hear it was wrong. I would try again and app would tell me it was out of tune but after tuning it it would I would play something and it would still be out of tune. Additionally the app has many bugs that make it hard to read. The app frequently changes it’s mind as two weather your to sharp to flat if In tune. I’ll pluck a struck it will say also three very quickly. Secondly it can get stuck on a string. It can just decide that your trying to tune the b string, and no matter what you play it will try to tune it it to that note. The only way to fix this is to reboot the app. There’s also massive bank in the interface. When two notes are equivalent it always displays the one different from what your trying to use. If your tuning lists the 5th string as g flat that it will show F# on the screen. If your tuning lists F# it will display g flat on the screen. This isn’t technically incorrect but why not display the note in the list of strings and the note on the tuner as the same. The only way to do this is on purpose. To be clear it doesn’t prefer sharps or flats it shows whatever one would be confusing. Is thus done wired test meant to filter out people who don’t know the difference. This app is horrible do not get it. Fender is company large enough that this level of distinction is unacceptable.

   Cloudkitkyloren · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Quick and clean tune each time works for me!

   Out of tune never works. I've never developed an ear for tuning just right. I have an old dreadnaught with medium gauge "oh-maybe-nylon wrapped with metal" strings or something -- I threw the package away -- all from before the dawn of time. I get an excellent tune in about 2 minutes with Fender-tune. I've little experience with the broad range of options out there. I'm too busy playing my guitar to look far right now. I'm so ashamed -- but not really -- this product works very well for now. What I mostly need is perhaps the ability to quickly tune to a better frequency -- but later -- for now I play for pleasure, and this product gives me more pleasure than any electronic tuner I've used. When well tuned, my guitar nearly plays itself.

   MercyB4Sacrifice · 30 Aug 2026

4. 3/5Works mostly fine

   I use this app to tune my guitar occasionally, and usually it works fine, but only when I do it using the manual. The auto tuner which is the tuner that tells you when you have the right note does not work very well. For example, say I tune my guitar down a half step then I want to go back to standard tuning, so I use the tuner and it says that I have the right note for each one, then I go back through each note and it says “tune up” or “tune down”. That being said, the manual tuner is a great tool. With the manual tuner you just press the string on the screen and then it will play the sound so then you would try to match your string to that sound. It is good because it is reliable and you just have to listen to it and figure out if you have the right note, which helps train your brain so eventually you won’t need a tuner anymore. So the automatic tuner doesn’t work very well, but the manual tuner is a great tool. Overall it’s a fine app.

   Hermes228. · 30 Aug 2026

5. 3/5To be honest

   This app is pretty good, however it has it’s flaws. One of them is the auto tuner. It is good at giving you directions on what to do. However, it tries to figure the chord out itself. There is no option to pick a chord. Personally, I think it would be easier to have the player pick the chord they want to tune. It would be easier and more accurate that way. Why I add accurate, you may ask? Well, when it tried to figure the chord out itself, it figures out the wrong chord. For example, I played the D chord on my guitar. It went to A where it told me to tune up. I did that and it went to G, telling me to time down. It is a never ending cycle with no exact destination. It isn’t even on the correct chord. That is why it is more accurate if you could just pick the chord you want to tune. I don’t think it is that good, but I understand it is not the best. At least they tried.

   the person who has a guitar · 30 Aug 2026

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