Drum Tuner - iDrumTune Pro App Reviews

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Thank you!. This is a godsend! Thank you for making a simple yet incredibly deep drum tuning app. Can’t say enough good things about this.

Great App - Great Support. What you can do with this app is amazing! I have been a drummer for 60 years and a professional for a good part of that, including doing some studio work. After working with this app and spending time tuning up both the top and bottom of my drum heads, being careful to put them within the proper frequency ranges, my drums have never sound so good! No matter how good a drummer you are, you will sound a whole lot better getting this app and properly tuning your drums. - Mike Gerdes Malvern, PA

Worthless. I’m not typically a “leave a review” guy but this was a waste of time and money. Using this on any drum is inconsistent and false. After getting wildly different results on the same drums, struck the same way the “tuning” would jump drastically. To further test it I used a digital sample and it never gave the same result for 2 consecutive hits. And I’m not talking by a small amount. The only way I can describe it is the result it gives you is completely random. This was all done in a quiet studio environment with little to no ambient noise.

Great value app. Best thing EVER for your non “ear” player! Seriously my drums have never sounded better, the app takes the guess work out of tuning, you guys and gals have made me my own best drum tech.

Good when your ears don’t work so well.. A little tricky to get the hang of, but so far so good.

Microphone stays on after app is closed.. Nice app and have used it for a few years. After the latest update I noticed the microphone stays on after closing this app and crashes another tuning app I have on my phone. When I shut this one down and open the other app that also uses the mic I have to go into settings and manually turn the access off in the Privacy settings. Other than that its a great app for tuning. The individual lug tuning is a little sensitive an can wind up chasing your tail but if you get it within a couple of hz your fine.

It’s aight. I’ve had this app for a while now, and I feel it wasn’t worth it, can someone explain to me what I may be dong wrong with this app. And when I use the app for tuning it feels like it’s not accurately running them. Idk

Good tool. Very easy to use and saves me a lot of time tuning.

Hands Down Indispensable!!. Be truthful to yourself… music is scientifically measurable. Why wouldn’t your drums? There is no better way to learn. I am slowly gong through this online tutorial… the revelations!!! “So THAT’s what’s going on!!!???” Ecstatic joy to finally dial-in a professional sound!!

Great Idea but not Perfected. I love the app but it is either not accurate eNough or too accurate. I measured and drew hit points right off each lug the same distance from tHe hoop and i c n hit those marks around 3 times and I get 3 different readings.

Frustrated. Went through the tutorials, then used app only to be denied because it freezes or ceases to function or drops off site completely. I know it’s better than this, have used it before, just not as intently as now. Did all the hoops trying to figure it out, maybe owner will see this and help? I’m disappointed since I know at least once it was the best one out there.

Doesn’t work and received no help from them. I bought this tuner about 5 months ago and have tried multiple times to get it to work and it doesn’t. After about a month of having the app I contacted them on Instagram and directly and got no response. Don’t buy this app.

Wow. I e been a drummer for 36 years where was this at back in the day GREAT tool thank you

A great tool!. Overall accurate and very easy to use. It can be used as your main reference when tuning or as a supplement to check when you're tuning by ear. Any drummer can get really good use out of this!

Very Helpful.... I found the lug tuning function of this app to be very helpful. I struggle to tune by ear, and the lug tuning function really assisted me in getting a nice sound out of my drums. I suspect the pitch tuning function will be handy moving forward. Well worth the purchase price.

Must Have!. I forget what I paid for this app. but whatever it was it was not enough! I love experiment with different resonant head frequencies and this app has done wonders in training my ear. Whatever you’re charging, Rob, raise the price for this amazing tool. Ben Harris Atlanta

Works great. I am a retired band teacher and a professional percussionist. I’ve been tuning drums by ear all of my life, and this app lets me dial in the lugs to a finer degree than my ear is able to accomplish. I still like to get my pitches dialed in by ear first, and then use the lug tuning function to fine tune the head to itself. This improves the resonance and centers the fundamental. Overall, I am very pleased.

Perfect. Im still learning all the features but its very nice and it really tunes very good, for who doesn’t know how, it feels like you are tuning a guitar but it’s just the drums, it just seems that you are tuning a guitar or something like it, hope you enjoy it 👌🏾

This is a Great App. I came back to drumming after a thirty year hiatus. Back then my Yamaha kit and I had severe disagreements over how it would sound. Before a gig I would struggle mightily with each drum trying to get the round, full sound I wanted. Eventually I would just throw in the towel—literally—and settle for a dull thud. Thirty years later I am old and fat and stuck at home with COVID on the loose and chemo therapy dogging my steps. My answer was to find myself a nice little Sonor kit and some cheap cymbals. After a few days of fiddling, I downloaded this app. Sure, drum head technology has advanced light years and drum shell manufacturing methods are far better. (I can now afford solid maple shells and a friend lent me his Noble & Cooley snare.) But, with this app, I now LOVE the sound of this kit. It is EXACTLY how I always envisioned my kit sounding. Now, if they could make an app to help my cymbals...

Better than I could have imagined. Never written a review before, but this worked so well I had to give credit where it’s due. I was seconds away from buying a drum dial when I had a thought to check the App Store first. I am so glad I did because this app saved me $50+ and it actually tells you if your drum is in tune as apposed to the drum dial which only tells you the amount of tension on the drum head. Which can be two completely different things, depending on the shape of your kit. So stoked with the product and price! You guys knocked it outa the park!

Excellent developer!. I just wrote a review for this app, but I wanted to add a little to my review. This developer has also created metronome apps that I purchased in the bundle. I strongly encourage customers of this app (or not) to consider those apps as well. They are very good apps and are both thorough and straight forward. Check them out!!!

Very inconsistent when tuning. Poor directions.. I get very different readings on every lug every single time. have a brand new iPhone and I was hoping this app would be good to tune my drum. Can I get a refund?

Game Changer!. This app is absolute genius! I’ve tried so many of the other methods out there, but nothing has worked like this. I’ve been waiting my entire drumming career for something this precise to come along. In over 20 years I don’t feel I’ve been able to tune my drums exactly the way I want to until today. I can’t possibly recommend this app more!

Great tool!!. Love this app! Allows me to get the right sound every time.

Pretty upset. Pretty upset I bought the first version. Loved it, then iOS updated and the company didn’t update the app!!! Instead, they created a new app so you’d have to buy again. I bought it again. Not happy they made me buy it twice. Obviously this was done so old users would have to pay again. Not cool. I will not buy a third time.

Witchcraft. You can preset your kit size and it then helps you tune each head (both sides!) exactly to what it needs to be in the correct intervals. Witchcraft

Awesome tool for drummers. Being a novice drum tuner I found this app to be the most important discovery I’ve made. Although I’ve tuned drums to ear and didn’t sound bad, using simple “turn lugs till the wrinkles are out” method can’t compare to actually using the science to tune drums. My drums sing and sound like any pro drummer touring with major acts. This app gave my vintage drums that pro sound!

Pro Tip - Read the other negative reviews…. This app is completely unstable and crashes often. When it does work, it gets extremely inconsistent readings. I genuinely don’t understand how this app has any positive reviews and at this point I’m assuming the positive reviews are fake, as the other negative reviews have indicated. This app is a total waste of money and I wish I could get my money back. I will be deleting this poorly developed garbage off of my phone and avoiding this developer like the plague. 0 out of 5 stars.

Works great. Easy to use and easier to understand compared to Tunebot.

Excellent!!!. I’ve been drumming since 1987 when I purchased my first kit - a Premier APK power Tom 5 piece- if I had this app then, I could just imagine what those drums would or could have sounded like! I was only 17 and had no clue how to tune a drum ( let alone tuna fish…but I digress) . Through the years I’ve struggled to get a great tone from any of my drums but finally I can with this app!!! I’ve used it on my Pearl Export kit and even on an old CB kit and the results were astounding!!!! This is such a great tool as your ears will always fool you- so with the visuals of accurate frequencies and helpful tutorials and explanations I finally can hear what my drums are supposed to sound like !!!! Thank YOU!!! ******* one slight inconvenience is the app wants to crash every so often so I look forward to any updates that might be coming ****

Worth the money. Seems like a pretty good tool so far

Amazing. I could never get my toms to sound anything like what i thought they should. In short order they sound amazing. This app is worth every penny

Thumbs down.. Recently bought a new snare and I’ve had nothing but problems trying to tune it up. Changed out the heads for new heads and I still have a problem as it just isn’t consistent between each lug by large amounts. My ear tells me a different story in that things are quite close. It’s always off by 40 or 50 between lugs. And on my PDP drum kit I thought it worked better but on this Ludwig snare it’s a horrible nightmare. Don’t really don’t wanna have to buy $100 tunebot to try to compared to but something isn’t steady.

Very helpful. I’m using this app another one from the store a tune-bot and a drum dial and I have never heard my drumz sound so good . If only everyone enjoyed hearing them as much as me lol too bad mother cluckers

Overly complicated. I can’t figure this thing out. I’ve watched some tutorials and I need much less talk and more “how to” demonstrating how to use this thing. I wish it had presets for different famous drum sounds, such as John Bonham. Or at least give me the pitch readings for resonant and batter heads for his sound.

So grateful I found this!. I had no clue what I was doing, spent a couple hours reading the tutorials on their website and actually feel confident on tuning drums now. I know the adjustments that need to be made instead of just guessing. So glad I found this app! Thank you thank you!

Excellent App. So easy to use! Both narrative and video instructions for each step. Once I dialed in the resonant heads properly, I couldn’t believe the difference. Best App I’ve ever bought, and creator answers emails!

It could be so much better. I wish I hadn’t bought this app. I wanted to tune drums to notes, like every other type of instrument tuner makes easy. This app reports frequencies and leaves you to consult a static image page on a help screen to correlate the frequencies reported by the app to musical notes. The graphic representation of notes that is shown is very limited and only shows a single October, with the pointer maxing out at the edge of the graphic when frequencies get higher.

SO helpful!!!. This app literally changed my drum tuning world! I have some troublesome drums that I always hate tuning and “fighting” on a weekly basis. That all went away when I applied the theories and knowledge gained by reading the excellent tuning explanations included in the app, along with the simplicity of using the apps features. My drums have NEVER sounded this perfect. All I can say is, thank you!!!!!

Not user friendly. Can someone explain how I can tell what each lug is currently tuned to? It takes a reading once then it doesn’t change so I don’t know when it’s tuned correctly! This app is disappointing for the price. Not user friendly.

Been using for years. Once I settled on the frequency I wanted to use on my drums; I mostly stuck to the frequency analyzer for live gigs. This app has made the difference between ok sounding drums and great sounding drums.

AMAZING!!!. I’m always turning my set every time I play. I’ve been wanting something like this for years. I love the way my set sounds now. So much more fun to play a dialed set. Works perfect. Best musical tool app I’ve ever purchased.

Works pretty well for a phone tuner. Does the job, took a little getting use to it but it definitely works, drums sound much better

Pretty good app idea but needs a lot of work. Needs more coding

This is def what you are looking for. I would have paid $6 just for the tuning explanation alone. Works great. My three toms including floor do not have resonate heads. Tune different for non res TOMS ?

Amazing!. This app is truly amazing. Being relatively new to drumming, I was trying to learn everything about tuning and how drums actually work individually and in relation to one another. The tutorials are very well done and the explanations are easy to follow. Using this app takes all of the guess work out of tuning while still allowing you to use your ear. I get tons of compliments on how my drums sound. Get this app!!

Trying it for the first time today... love it!. I just got a Ludwig LM402 from Sweetwater and I am tuning it using the video instructions from the website super easy amazing sound I am very very happy and I would highly recommend this tool to anybody that wants to learn more about the science of tuning... I’ve been drumming for over 45 years I know a lot of different techniques and this is another great tool in my tool kit excited to try on other drums!

Disappointing, not useful for me. Three recommendations for future revisions: First, consider focusing more on pitches and less on frequencies. I’ve never met a drummer who tunes using frequencies. And while we can Google the conversions, it’s an extra step. Second, incorporate a pitch/tone generator (unless it’s there somewhere and I can’t find it). As it is, the app seems to be geared toward checking the existing pitch/tension of the head, but it would be more useful if it helped the user actually arrive at the desired pitch in the first place. Third, the lug tuning seems to check each lug clockwise, but many of us go from one lug to the one across from it. Maybe there’s an option in there that I can’t find to change the order of the lugs, but if not, there should be.

Excellent job!. Just wanted to say, thank you so much for making this app! Though my old iPhone 5s has its limitations, I was able to convert it into a powerful drum tuning tool using this application. It’s quite convenient, intuitive, easy to use, etc. The lug equalizer feature is excellent, and I also appreciate being able to save the tunings used before so I can get the exact same tuning another day. I have really learned a lot while using this app, training my ear to hear specific intervals, understanding tuning science, and much more. Before I got this app, I was lousy at tuning drums. They had many overtones, yet were also in a way completely dead as well. Since then, I’ve used iDrumTune quite a lot, and it has worked very well for me! I’ve learned a lot more about tuning drums, to the point that I can make a drum kit sound fairly decent without my phone. If you are still learning how to tune drums, or looking for a less expensive alternative to TuneBot, I can’t recommend iDrumTunePro enough. It was worth every cent of the money I paid. Thanks iDrumTune!!!

I tune drums. Man this is the best app for tuning your drums if you don’t have it I highly recommend it if your a drummer you will love it it’s awesome tool to have love it dude

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Fantastic. I have never been able to get my various kits over the years to sound right. I was just about to purchase the TuneBot product when I discovered this app. Apart from saving a significant amount of money, this app finally helped me tune up my kit properly. There is a truckload of information to read if you want to delve into the science of it all. The bottom line is you can tune up your drums properly, and significantly improve the sound. I have had a need to contact the author and the response has been fast and helpful. I thoroughly recommend this app.

No idea what’s going on.. Is there a number I can call for assistance?

Brilliant. As far as I can tell this app works as well or better than hardware tuners costing 10 or 15 times as much. I have had years of experience tuning drums and was pretty happy with the results, but this was before the Internet so I never looked into the theory of tuning. Now it’s everywhere- articles, videos..... and in this app! My pitch sense is pretty good but this takes it to the next level. I find I use the spectrum analyser a lot as it gives great visibility of what is happening. Highly recommended.

Great app. Definetly worth the money. I highly recommend it. Saves so much time for people like me that are not fluent in recognising pitch. If I had to nit pick, the app does randomly shut down for no reason after using it for a long period of time.

It worked for me, the first time I tried.. I’m a guitarist, who wouldn’t play any instrument, if I had to tune it by ear. I have used electronic guitar tuners since the early 80’s. I have a drum kit that I enjoy playing from time to time. Sometimes, I get serious about it, for a month or so. But, every instrument eventually goes enough out of tune, it isn’t pleasing to play. That’s what happened with my drum kit. This drum tuner helped me. I have all my toms and the snare tuned. The toms even play a melody! I’m very happy and the money I spent on this app., was a fraction of any other method I’m aware of. Worth the money. It took a little working out (just getting the concept in my head of what was happening ), but the tutorial videos were fairly easy to understand and there is an informative manual in the app. After one use, I understand it and I love it, because I’m enjoying playing my kit so much and recording it, instead of using drum machines.

Really useful but could do with a redesign. Everything works as advertised but you can see that app was designed a while ago.

Love it. Awesome

Fail. Doesn’t work no idea how to get my $10 back. Feels like I paid to know I have an app that doesn’t work.

DONT BUY THIS. I wouldn’t recommend buying this as I have just bought this and it doesn’t work it doesn’t measure the sound or the volume it just keeps on saying volume so if you don’t want to waste your money DONT BUY THIS

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Nice but not perfect!. This app can certainly help you tune your kit but after some use I noticed the following: App shuts down unexpectedly. It can give quite random readings. The lower frequencies are are an issue.

Amazing. Returned my drumdial day after buying this app.. I’ve tried a lot of methods and gadgets to tune drums. This was the best and the cheapest. I drove straight to L&M and returned my drum dial the day after buying this.

Worth the money. I’ve never had any tools to tune my drums and always just did it by ear. I finally broke down and got this app to try it out and it honestly it awesome. Worth the one time payment. Thanks devs for not making it a monthly payment !!

Pretty Good!. It’s pretty good, it’s not always accurate so multiple readings have to be made. It’s not a $100 Tune-Bot or Drum Dial, but for $3 this app is worth it. Plus there is a great tutorial included to get anyone started on the intricacies of tuning a drum kit, which I found very helpful for beginners and experts alike.

It’s a toy.. This is a toy based on a cellphone microphone. For entertainment only - do not waste your money.

Not for new drummer. If yup have no clue about drums other than a few beats don’t wares your money

The REAL deal. This app is the real one. Very intuitive, no nonsense, efficient, AND backed by scientific/acoustic research and a full video and web course by the dev ! Forget about others tuning apps or bots, this is the one. THANKS

Amazing App for all drummers!. My name is Jayda, you can find me on Instagram or YouTube under the name @drummerjayda. I have been using this App for a long while now and it has been a life saver for me. I have tried many other methods and tools to tune my drums but this app has been by far the very best, easiest and most inexpensive tool I’ve ever used. I’m so incredibly happy with this App! Please don’t hesitate to purchase it! It’s on par with some of the most expensive tuning equipment out there on the market at a fraction of the price. Highly recommended!!

Very help application. Try this application and Tune-bot for reach Each tom frequency is the best for fine tunning and sound like Rock My kit tom size 8-10-12-13-14-15-16-18 white emperor Snare 14 emperor X and 22 bass drum fiberskyne powerstroke 3 with black ambassador for ress.

Drum tune pro. Good to know, well spent every penny worth it to master tracks and finial lyrics.

Inconsistent waste of time/money. Purchased this app with high hopes. Quickly realized that the app is very inconsistent and will just throw random numbers at you. Was tuning my lugs on my floor Tom, was close to 111 hertz, made minor adjustments and my initial lug went to 200 hertz. Similar happened with all of my drums.

Miss. Never had an app that crashed as much. Unusable, and the reading aren’t consistant, even in a sound proof room. A shame to make people pay for that. I want a refund

iDrumtune Pro. A valuable tool to significantly reduce the 'guesswork' in tuning - for all levels - and particularly those with compromised hearing! The comprehensive literature in the app - and more so on the website - is worth the minimal price of admission. Customer service is equally impressive. Congratulations!

Help but crash every couple minutes…. Promax 13 iphone on latest ios🤷🏻‍♂️ Waste of my money paying for crashing app Waste of time

Good TOOL. Vraiment plus complet que je ne croyais !!!!!

Incredible tool. This app is amazing, Now I know exacly what to do.

Useful addition to my toolkit. As a new drummer, I found this app invaluable to get going. I tried working with my usual tuner (for wind instruments), but the app provides more than a useful interface and visual reference (I find the lug tuning is especially great). The tutorial section helped me understand the concept of drum tuning and getting a sense of the interaction between the batter and resonant heads. I still work slowly when tuning my drums, but with purpose and the results are significantly more pleasing.

The best app and customer service. Just bought the app yesterday and can’t believe how good it is. The app is intuitive and very sensitive to tuning. As an inexperienced drum tuner this app has been a God send. I have communicated with the developer and he responded quickly with multiple in depth answers. This app is highly recommended. If I could rate it a 6 stars I would.

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Room for improvements, but great app!. I’ve been tuning drums by ear since I started drumming; this app is a game changer. It made my new toms and snare sound so smooth and beautiful! I’ve learned more about tuning drums in 10 hours of using this app than I have in the last 20 years of drumming. Just don’t make the same mistake I did… Even though I watched all the tutorial videos before starting, I spent 2 hours trying to tune my bass drum with this thing and really struggled before I finally read this paragraph from section 14 of The Science of Tuning: “Kick drum tuning is often more about damping than pitch, because the vibration frequencies are so low. Unfortunately, the microphone on the iPhone is not good enough to analyze the fundamental frequency of most kick drums, though the methods described can still be used for tuning a kick drum from scratch and clearing the drumheads on a kick drum.” I really wish that information had been presented earlier, but all in all, this is a great tool for any drummer. 4 stars instead of 5 because of a major usability issue affecting my iPhone 7 Plus. When the app is minimized on my phone (when I take a call, open an email, or anything else that requires me to minimize the app), the microphone stops functioning even when I reopen iDrumTune. This results in me having to quit the app and reopen it which means I’m frequently reloading my preset kits. This app has so much potential! Please keep doing what you’re doing, and I thank you for your efforts.

Horrible app. This app is horrible so frustrating and not accurate at all

Pretty good app idea but needs a lot of work. Needs more coding

Notworking. This app isn’t working isn’t reading anything as if I didn’t have a microphone it, I checked my setting I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it isn’t working

Not working right at all. Tried everything and still no success with this app. Wish I can get back what I paid for

Brilliant and game-changing!!!. As a drummer, this is the most important app on my phone! Here’s an analogy for how profound this app is: Imagine being born colorblind, and having been handed corrective lenses to see color for the first time. Then you learn the names of the colors and color theory! Like me (prior to using this app), most drummers probably equated “tuning” to evenly tensioning the lugs and then playing around until the drum sounds “good enough”. This app reveals the basic physics behind the interaction of two vibrating membranes: notably how the Fundamental (F0) of the top and bottom heads will will ALWAYS be extremely close (+/- 1 Hz). So it’s not that either batter or reso are higher/lower than one another, it’s more about understanding overtones. This app teaches you to understand the truly important interplay between batter and resonant heads to control the First Overtone (F1). So the knowledge I gained about tuning is probably the most important part to me. It’s like an electrician using a multimeter for the first time: “Oh, wow, you can measure this stuff?!” Approaching drum tuning with this app will IMPROVE your ears and get you thinking more musically. For example, now my toms are now tuned in ascending fourths, matching most of the open strings of the guitars/bass in my band. Now all of that said, tuning is difficult. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube or tile game; you’ll be mostly there, and then you realize that one variable is off that causes you to temporarily give back some of your progress. With practice, you’ll quickly learning to anticipate these actions and reactions. I probably spent as much time tuning my first tom as the other four combined. Once I got the hang of it, I became a better informed drum tuner and used the app as a validation tool (again, like a multimeter to an electrician). What I like about this app over a similar stand-alone (and far more expensive product) is that iDrumTunePro gets you thinking in terms of F0 (Fundamental) and F1 (First Overtone). So both may get you there, but I feel this app empowers the user far more. Ultimately it’s F0 we’re after, but that interplay with overtones is critical to understand and, you can use it to shape your sound so much! This has seriously opened up my drumming world!

Every time I hit the drum it gives me a different frequency. Super inconsistent.

Not working at all. Spent money for nothing. The app isn’t doing anything at all. NOTHING

Great tool!!. Love this app! Allows me to get the right sound every time.

Don’t waste your money.. Does not work.

Very cool, But. The manual is a book. Little long winded

Love it!. This app is amazing, it blows away the original idrum tune app! I especially like the resonant head tuning feature. 😀 no flaws or inaccurate readings either.

SO. WORTH. IT.. The app is a little non-intuitive at first if you’ve never tuned drums before, like me. There are YouTube tutorials that are very helpful. Also, I had some feedback about the interface and got a helpful response in no time. The app is very well thought out and can get amazing results, if you have the patience to see it through. And for only a few dollars, it might save you from wanting to buy a new drum set.

Very inconsistent when tuning. Poor directions.. I get very different readings on every lug every single time. have a brand new iPhone and I was hoping this app would be good to tune my drum. Can I get a refund?

Tuning drums. Don’t waste your money in this app. I prefer by ear. I’m professional drummer for 42 years and always wants to try it a new stuff.

Don’t buy this. Hard to use and complicated

Very useful !. I’ve found it best for my kit !

Love. Love

Awesome app. Awesome app tuned up my drums fast and easy!

Readings. Readings are sporadic at best.

Finally!. Thank you so much - this app and the youTube tutorial has been so helpful. I've been playing a few years but tuning my whole set has been continuously frustrating to me. All other youTube videos and even so-called "tutorials" on drum sites (I don't actually have a "human" instructor) show how to tighten lugs evenly but then oversimplify the rest, and act like using a tuner is the most "uncool" thing a drummer could ever do. I understand that tuning is a bit of a personal preference, but this app has given me a better foundational starting point and has helped me get all of the drums sounding good in relation to each other. Finally!

App doesn’t work. The app does not work and when I asked for a refund it did not give me it

Watch videos on it. Hard at first, watch YouTube videos for help.

A very honest review. I recently transitioned from electronic kits to acoustic and this app has really helped me understand the science of tuning. You can really hear the difference when the lugs’ frequencies are consistent. There are times I am getting inconsistent readings like others have mentioned. But those instances seem to be one offs and maybe based on phone placement or inconsistent hits. If you gather a few readings, you can quickly see if there’s a random bad reading. It’s like a guitar tuner… if you strum the note differently or too hard or accidentally hit another string, you can sometimes get different results. So just be consistent in your placements and hits. I have been experiencing crashes like others. Also sometimes the app stops reading if I’m bouncing back and forth from other apps (like watching their tutorials on YouTube, which I need to do a lot), and will need to reboot the app. I don’t really appreciate the developer’s defensive responses claiming it’s super stable, it’s clearly not if there are this many users having issues. The UX needs a MAJOR update. The app isn’t very intuitive and is really working against the user and not with the user. Things are hidden or require very cumbersome interactions (like tapping a small right arrow instead of swiping). I understand not all developers are designers but its something that shouldn’t be overlooked. I’d suggest putting yourself in the mindset of users that have never used your app and maybe have a limited knowledge of tuning by frequency. It shouldn’t be required to email your team or search for videos on YouTube to learn how to use or navigate the app. I think with an $8 price tag, users expect a certain amount of polish, and this app is lacking that. All that said I think there’s a ton of potential here and it’s been genuinely fun using this app to tweak my heads in pursuit of the perfect frequency.

App review. Good app, but needs update to be able to tune 12 lug marching snare. The resonant tuning feature is helpful.

Great for beginners ... It is perfect for new drummers or guys that can’t tune or for techs that know guys that refuse to tune... tune your drums don’t be a noob

How I tune Congas, Bongos, & Djembe with this app.. First of all the developer responds to questions and is very supportive. I was told that this app was not designed with hand drums in mind, from the developer, but it is coming. I found that trying using the lug tuning mode on these drums but did not get uniform results. I did notice the in pitch tuning mode the tune, was very accurate. Here is the procedure that I use on Congas, Bongos, and Djembe’s. Loosen all lugs. Finger tightening all lugs in a star pattern to just the point that you fell a slight resistance. The Goal being to not allow the drum head to get lifted on the starting side. Once finger tight, use pitch tuning mode, and take a reading by hitting the drum head at each lug. I use a felt mallet, and hit the head about 1.5" from the bearing edge directly between the lug and the center of the drum head. Next tune all lugs to the closest frequency. Once you have all the lugs tuned at their lowest base frequency, you now have a equal tuning starting place. Next in a circular tuning pattern start tuning the drum up to the next frequency. This will be in small increments. I turn the wrench a 1/4 of it’s possible total movement. I keep tuning up in frequency until I reach the first whole major note. In the case of my Djembe this was a A @ 220 Hz. With all lugs tuned to 220 Hz at 1.5" from the bearing edge, hitting the drum at dead center yielded a frequency of 55 Hz which is an A note at a lower octave. I hope you find the useful.

Would like my money back. This app is pretty worthless. Can use my ear and get a better tune than this app helps deliver.

Terrible. Thought I was downloading Drum Tune Pro..Real nice making your app name almost identical to a far superior app. This is unintuitive inconsistent trash.If you have to go on an online tutorial hunt just to operate an app for a concept this straightforward, you have an abysmal development failure on your hands. This is app is trash and the name is deceitful and I’m going to guess, intentionally so.