Piano Tuner: Stretch & Unison

Right after installing, Piano Tuner now prepares its opening-screen ad from settings that ship inside the app instead of waiting for them to download, so the Tune screen comes up with less waiting on that first launch. The downloaded settings still arrive in the background. Measuring keys, unison beats, the stretch curve and your saved pianos are unchanged.

On the “Tune” tab with “Auto key” off: while the app is listening (after “Listen”) and the selected key has no reading yet, a chip “Nearest key heard” plus a key name now appears in place of the reading row when the same other key is detected in 3 analysis frames in a row. Tap it to select that key. It names the nearest key the app detected, a suggestion rather than a confirmed identification. It

Between unisons, a tuner may stop to answer the piano owner's message or pull up a temperament chart, then reopen Piano Tuner: Stretch & Unison. Fewer of the app's internal steps are now wasted and repeated out of view whenever you leave and come back, so alternating between apps is a shade lighter, with small refinements as well.