iDrumTune App Reviews

First of all this is no replacement for a Tune-bot, its much slower to react and the results are not nearly as consistent or useful. If youre getting serious about drum tuning and dont want to spend very much this app might be helpful. I have four rack toms and two floor toms, I tune them in major thirds. I can get them to exact frequencies with Tune-bot but not using iTuneDrums which allows me to get in the ballpark but not right on the target note. I like that this drum tuning app lives on my iPhone so I have it with me all the time. iTuneDrums has an interesting readout of information about the sound drums make. It is unlike torque wrenches because it is based on sound not measurement of physical tension or pressure, it measures the sonic results of these physical measurments which is what your ears do to when listening to drums. At $5 its worth the investment to have another viewpoint of the sound and pitch your drums are actually making. If you tune your drums by ear iTuneDrums can tell you how well your ears guided you to the end result, like Q.C. for your ears and pitch. It is fascinating to see on the app how a harmonic can be louder than the fundamental tone of a drum and how the smallest turn of the drum key can change the overall timbre produced.

First off, I have never reviewed an app in my life, however I was compelled to review this one. I have been playing and tuning drums for the better part of 20 years. I have a good ear and usually dont have much trouble getting a great drum sound. However, after purchasing a new kit (my sixth) I could not get the floor tom to sound good. And for what I paid for the drums it should sound great. After messing with it for about an hour, I started googling solutions. Which brought me to the tune bot. Further googling lead me to iDrumTune. 10 minutes after using this App my floor tom SINGS. I used the multi lug tuning option and was able to quickly get all the lugs relative to the pitch of the head. I couldnt be happier and Im excited to try it on all my other drums!!! Buy this app if your a drummer!!!

For ipad and in french please :) (discover By batterie magazine)

Just dont buy it, im really surprised That Apple CAN support such kind of software! They probably never test it...

Fantastic app, it works very well, has a lot of great features and is regularly updated. Very usefull, I recommend it !

This is an awesome App. It really helps a lot with tuning the drums. And i think it is better than buying an expensive drum tuning robot or something. Really good and for 0,89 €cnt you should give it a try!

The best App I have ever seen, includes very detailed instructions about the App and tuning in general. An awesome "toy" for the experienced drum tuner like myself, an inevitable tool for the inexperienced drum tuner. Easy to use and it really works without any problems. BUY and you will not regret it!

Even if you already know how to tune drums, like myself, this app is amazing for fine tuning and speeding up the tuning process in a big way. Seriously, pay the price, try it and once you figure it out you will love it.

Im a relatively new drummer and tuning drums is a royal pain! This app gets you to where you need to be... Playing the drums. Great job! Forget the drum dial and save some money get this app!

Didnt work at all. Unresponsive.

Does exactly what it says it will. Im a total beginner at drum tuning and I was able to get my new heads tuned pretty darn close just using this app and the included science of tuning guides. Well worth the cost of purchase.

Works fine but it takes too long time to get to the end of calculation after reading the sound. Much of the times I got 10-15 secs delay on my iPhone 4. Everything time I care about having as much free memory as possibile on the device but nothing changes. Please improve it!!!!

I tried this just to see what .99 would get me. There is a major flaw here. I am able to tune by ear so its strange that this tuner shows the opposite Hz that it should for the drums. My small toms are in the 85.0 and 120 range and the larger toms have 163, and 223 for the floor tom. Go figure. Im not sure what this means but this tuner does not work or needs some major tweaking

In just a few days of using this app, on my iPod Touch, it has become an important tool. I use it to verify the tuning on my drums, so that the sound is consistent. Using iDrumTune is so much fun, I tune my drum kit daily!

You are at the mercy of the iphone mic. Mine apparently doesnt work well enough to use this app. I like the idea. Maybe if i used an external mic it may work. Couldnt get any consistent readings and it looked like it kept freezing. Had to back out and reopen several times. Hopefully an update would fix the issues.

Both iPhone and iPad seem to be inoperative on iOS 6.

It seems it needs an external mic to have accuracy. It jumps around and generally isnt extremely accurate. Could not handle tuning a snare or bass.

Tried tuning my toms. Readings were so inconsistent that it made using this app worthless.

This is one of the best apps Ive got lately. Lot of great info on here,you should read some of the stuff before using the tuner,it will help you do it right. I found out that my drums where in tune and was able to dial them in to the sound i wanted by putting them at certain hz levels. Worth the money

Readings can be a big inconsistent at times but overall this app has really eloped me out a lot and I have been using it as a nice reference for tuning all my drums ever since downloading it.