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DaTuner: Tuner & Metronome
Prometheus Interactive LLC · 451,616 ratings · ★ 4.2
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Top complaints - extracted from 39 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"tuner"
14 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "takes a long time to load and get through ads before you can get to the tuner." - Read Fenton
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"subscription"
7 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "greedy.. give option for small fee purchase.... the subscription thing is garbage." - Blaak Lung
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All Ads. This App use to be Ad free and now they're trying to charge $15 a week for Ad free. Way too much. If you don't pay, too many Ads pop up. Cash grab, just buy an actual tuner. Cheaper than an App subscription." - Garrett Cordova
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"actual"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All Ads. This App use to be Ad free and now they're trying to charge $15 a week for Ad free. Way too much. If you don't pay, too many Ads pop up. Cash grab, just buy an actual tuner. Cheaper than an App subscription." - Garrett Cordova
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"actual tuner"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All Ads. This App use to be Ad free and now they're trying to charge $15 a week for Ad free. Way too much. If you don't pay, too many Ads pop up. Cash grab, just buy an actual tuner. Cheaper than an App subscription." - Garrett Cordova
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"horrible"
4 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "horrible ad experience" - Eric Nguyen Chuong
📋 All 39 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
unable to close/skip ads
takes a long time to load and get through ads before you can get to the tuner.
Too many ads. I don't want to wait on an Uber Eats ad while I'm turning at practice
greedy.. give option for small fee purchase.... the subscription thing is garbage.
All Ads. This App use to be Ad free and now they're trying to charge $15 a week for Ad free. Way too much. If you don't pay, too many Ads pop up. Cash grab, just buy an actual tuner. Cheaper than an App subscription.
way too many adds. never even made it to the app itself. absolutely do not recommend!!!!!! zero stars
This app went down the drain. I remember using this app in high school a little over 10 years ago and it worked perfectly. No pushy ads or promos. Tired of this corporate bull ruining everything.
Why do I need to buy this app if I can buy actual tuner?
so just to open an app I now need to wait for it to download all available ads.
worked okay for a little bit and then it trapped me in an Advertisement that was impossible to bypass. Shoddy programming. Probably cheap overseas labor.
couldnt use the app, stuck on ads
horrible ad experience
It's an unusable app with the ads, not sure how the reviews are so high. 80 trillion tuner apps and not a single one has nearly this many ads
doesn't work efficiently
garbage ads, unusable as free app
HORRIBLE ADS that cant be closed. Will never use this app again!
Sad that what used to be a quick easy well designed free app has been turned into freemium garbage with unstoppable ads. edit: also looks like they have an unhelpful AI bot to reply to negative reviews too lol
When you want to tune a guitar, but before that you have to open play store because of a mobile game ad and after that you are given the option to close and continue with your task. How about No.
Ads have gotten out of control. Had to kill and restart a number of times to get to the actual tuner. They used to be much less invasive. I see the devs are replying to everything warning about their ad problem with "buy Pro!" and I'd like to point out that I just spent a few hours with Claude Code and now have my own personal tuner app with no ads.
it used to be a great app, why are there uncloseable unskippable ads now? I keep having to close and reopen the app but I don't think it will ever let me use it, this stupid ad just keeps hijacking the whole app each time and won't let me use it
this app is a joke of its former self. opened it up after a while and it was full of ads and pop ups asking me to rate it. Here's my new rating.
Stole my money
so many ads, its almost impossible to use daily
I previously paid for pro, they deliberately broke the pro version to push their ad filled subscription BS. DO NOT BUY
The ads have completely rendered it useless. It wouldn't even be an issue if I just had to wait out the ad, I get the app needs to make money but the ads won't go away at all. I cant exit them, there's no timer to indicate how long it'll be in my way. This with the exorbitant subscription cost to remove ads is going to kill your app.
$25.99/week or $1,350/year for a tuner app is insane. How do the developers justify this?
Far too expensive ! Nearly $30 a week ! I can buy a clip tuner for less than that !
Rip off alert. bills me for $60 every year. I bought it as a one time purchase and they keep billing me yearly.
used to be good. now there are ads just to tune your guitar. the developer response is to just pay. 🤷
not work
Was a very good app until all the ads. It now feels like a horrible experience to use, as every button triggers an ad, many of which give only a button to redirect to Play Store in order to trigger the next sequence in the ad, which leads to closing, eventually (three total closes and a redirect.) And a subscription? Seriously? I'm not subscribing to an instrument tuner. I'd pay outright for ad removal, happily. But now, I think I'll just go purchase a real, physical tuner. Ridiculous.
best tuner that is totally ruined by ads, and you can't even remove them permanently, IT'S A SUBSCRIPTION. it wasn't like this in the past
had full functionality 5 years ago and successive updates have added nothing of substance and is just bloatware. you can no longer tune without being shown an ad and the company should be ashamed. the fact that they are advertising a "pro tuner" that is more accurate and faster is very stupid
worst tuner
worst app can't even tune my kalimba from automatic chromatic tuner. Whatever key I press it frequency doesn't change
Bought the Pro key for this years ago and had been using the app ad-free. Just tried installing the app on my new phone and the Pro key app is no longer available. I bought the right to use this app, and now that is not being honoured by whoever holds the rights to it. Rip-off, especially when you compare the exorbitant subscription cost to that of a good traditional tuner. I'm going back to my physical Korg tuner.
Used to be good. Now plagued with long loading screens and instrusive fullscreen unskippable game ads. Uninstalled.
horrible. doesn't pick up the pitch half the time and the amount of ads is horrendous
Meh, too many ads - This app used to be really good but then Ads started happening all over the place, I'm better off with an actual tuner rather than this
Sentiment summary
79%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)