60 tunings · 16 reference pitches

A tuner that knows your instrument

Not just six strings and a shrug. Guitar in DADGAD, a five-string bass in drop A, a baritone ukulele, a viola, a mandola — pick the instrument and tuning, and the gnome listens for exactly those strings. A chromatic Any Note mode covers everything else.

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MetroGnome tuner in DADGAD guitar tuning showing an in-tune string with the center-line glow
The tuning library

Sixty tunings, five families

Every tuning below ships in the app. Pick one, pluck, and Auto snaps to the string you meant — land it dead-on and the trace and center line glow.

🎸 Guitar

  • Standard
  • Drop D
  • Drop C
  • Drop B
  • Drop A
  • DADGAD
  • All Fourths
  • Open G
  • Open D
  • F♯ Relative Lute
  • Requinto
  • Baroque
  • Romantic
  • 7-string
  • 8-string

🎷 Bass

  • 4-string
  • 5-string
  • 6-string
  • Drop & down-tuned variants
  • BEAD
  • Tenor
  • Piccolo
  • Fifths

🎵 Ukulele

  • High G
  • Low G
  • Baritone
  • Soprano in D
  • Guitalele

🎻 Bowed strings

  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Double Bass

🪕 Folk

  • Mandolin
  • Mandola
  • 5-string Banjo (Open G)

🎼 Everything else

  • Chromatic “Any Note” mode
MetroGnome reference pitch picker listing historical pitches like A=440, A=432, Baroque A=415 with their origins
16 reference pitches · By era & region

Tune to 440. Or to 1859.

The tuner and the pitch library are one instrument — pick a reference and all sixty tunings re-target their strings to match.

  • The modern standards — A=440 and the brighter 442–445 range the big European orchestras prefer.
  • The historical ones — Baroque A=415, Verdi's A=432, the French Diapason Normal of 1859. The library tells you who tuned that way, and when.
  • One tap away — the reference pitch lives right in the tuner, not three menus deep.

Browse the full pitch library →

Questions

Tuner FAQ

Does it tune violin, ukulele and bass — not just guitar?

Yes. Sixty tunings across guitar, bass, ukulele, the violin family and folk instruments, plus a chromatic Any Note mode for anything with a pitch.

Which alternate guitar tunings are included?

DADGAD, Drop D through Drop A, All Fourths, Open G, Open D, F♯ Relative Lute, requinto, baroque and romantic tunings, and 7- and 8-string layouts — fifteen guitar tunings in all.

Can I tune to something other than A=440?

Yes — besides standard A=440, sixteen historical and regional pitches are built in, each annotated with where it came from. See the historical reference pitches page.

Is my audio recorded or uploaded?

Never. Pitch detection runs entirely on your device; audio is analyzed in memory and immediately discarded. The microphone is only active while the tuner is open.

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In tune in seconds

Sixty tunings, any century's A, one gnome.

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