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GuitarTuna: Tune & Play Guitar
Yousician Ltd · 144,456 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 13 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.
1
"tune"
5 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Intrusive ads. It used to be great but now every time you open the app, you have to swipe through the ad and close it, and adds pop-up constantly. I’m just trying to tune my guitar, man, . . two stars. I only use it in a pinch cause it’s just annoying now…" - LukeL179
2
"guitar"
5 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Intrusive ads. It used to be great but now every time you open the app, you have to swipe through the ad and close it, and adds pop-up constantly. I’m just trying to tune my guitar, man, . . two stars. I only use it in a pinch cause it’s just annoying now…" - LukeL179
3
"string"
5 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The tuner caused my string to pop of absolute terrible experience. In addition they are also not letting me cancel my free trail" - Michael C Hall 
4
"broke"
5 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Broken=sad. Broke 2 of my strings pitching it up my 2 silver ones" - Soaking it
5
"sucks"
4 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Subscription. This app sucks now" - gxx9
6
"tuning"
4 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Popped. I was tuning my guitar with this app and then it told me to tune my string up to tune it and it told me to keep on tuning and then my string popped the guitar I’ve had for 5 years broke because of this app" - Ihavenonametoput
7
"every"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Intrusive ads. It used to be great but now every time you open the app, you have to swipe through the ad and close it, and adds pop-up constantly. I’m just trying to tune my guitar, man, . . two stars. I only use it in a pinch cause it’s just annoying now…" - LukeL179
8
"free"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It used to be free. There’s no reason for this to be paid" - BrutalbutHonest
9
"tuner"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The tuner caused my string to pop of absolute terrible experience. In addition they are also not letting me cancel my free trail" - Michael C Hall 
📋 All 13 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").
It used to be free
There’s no reason for this to be paid
Subscription
This app sucks now
The tuner caused my string to pop of absolute terrible experience
In addition they are also not letting me cancel my free trail
Broken=sad
Broke 2 of my strings pitching it up my 2 silver ones
Popped
I was tuning my guitar with this app and then it told me to tune my string up to tune it and it told me to keep on tuning and then my string popped the guitar I’ve had for 5 years broke because of this app
Tuner app
Well my tuner app sucks, my guitar string busted. Do not recommend this app
String broke
I was tuning D string and heard it cracking but the app said it was -50 twist after twist and I kept twisting it as I am a total beginner I trusted the app and could feel even though I was twisting it to the point that I was shaking it was stuck at -50 and just it was starting to move up closer to D my string broke! Every other string tuned fine I am really upset that my string broke it is not easy for me to leave my house and go buy a new string as I am housebound right now and live in a rural area. A lot of reviews are saying the same thing happened to them. I don’t know when or how I will get this guitar fixed now.
Scam
In website page it says free I’m trying to tuna to drop a and if you don’t know I’m not paying 7 dollars or smt a month and all positive reveiws are 101% bots
String broke.
While I was tuning my guitar, one string broke even tho I just brought the guitar.
Not worth it
It sucks it won’t tune my strings it tunes it all in a
Intrusive ads
It used to be great but now every time you open the app, you have to swipe through the ad and close it, and adds pop-up constantly. I’m just trying to tune my guitar, man, . . two stars. I only use it in a pinch cause it’s just annoying now.
Eh kinda sucks
It sucks because like I’m a bass player and it has no bass tabs and I kinda have to pay for almost everything. Other than that. It’s pretty good. I only use it to tune and I have another app to help me with my tabs for songs
Just Another Ad-Ridden app
I haven’t updated this app for a while until the new iOS update broke it. I was SHOCKED how they transformed a great app for quick tuning in a pinch, into ad-ridden bloatware. If you need a quick tuner, don’t bother - you gotta get through a subscription-begging splash screen every time you start the app now, and then - as if to rub salt in the wound - once the app thinks you’re finished tuning it pops up a random list of song suggestions to play OVER your tuning screen. If you just need to tune quickly, buy yourself a $15 headstock tuner instead of paying $30 per year for this mess.
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)