Listed in the top 500 apps of all times by the Sunday Times (6 February 2012)
Listed in the top twenty cultural apps for iPhone by the Sunday Times (28 March 2010).
Winner of the best overall invention 2010 in the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Tunepal was in the top 25 grossing apps on the app store (17-18 July 2010).
The essential tool for all musicians playing traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh and Breton music!
Ever sat in a trad session and wondered what was the name of that great tune someone just played? Well now you can search a database of over 22,000 tunes from your iPhone/iPod BY PLAYING!
Hold your device up to a melody instrument such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, uilleann pipes, accordion or banjo, hit record and the melody will be extracted and submitted to the tunepal.org search engine for matching.
Matching tunes are downloaded to your device, where you can view and edit the notation or the stave, email the tune, post it to facebook or play it back using the high quality playback engine based on ABC2MIDI and FMOD.
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3.11 out of 5
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Love this app but won’t function for me
This is a great invaluable app. When it worked., but it stopped being able to record to my last iPhone several years ago. I tried u uninstalling but could never get it completely uninstalled. Asked for help several times and got none. On my new iPhone I have the same problem. Can’t seem to uninstall in order to try a fresh version. So sad.
Crashing on search
Have always loved using this app, but it now crashes on every search and is unusable.
Tunepal
Just purchased this app. Tried to submit two tunes. Message said NSXML error 65. What gives?
Please fix bugs!
It used to work but the last update was 5 years ago. It crashes when I try to record, when I press on the preferences, when I press on the map, when I try to save a tune to my list. Luckily, saving to my list works after I re-open the app, but it had to crash before I can do that. Maybe new iOS upgrades have rendered this app obsolete?
Great and very useful app. Needs reliable back-end
This is such a useful app for finding Irish tune names in a session (or even out of your head, if you can play a snippet of the tune on an instrument but can’t recall the title).
It does have frequent back-end outages, which prevents tune name lookups and is annoying. It will save them as “Unsubmitted tags” that you can upload later for ID. But by then the moment is usually gone. Hopefully the developer can remedy this issue. Would even be worth a small annual subscription ($5-10) if more money would buy a better backend service.
Just bought this, and it keeps crashing
Hi! I don’t want to leave a negative review but could you please fix this issue. When it finally records a tune it always comes up with a connection error….
Un-useable :(
It use to work…
Use to work great, but now it records and then crashes.
Won’t record on iPad
But then I bought the HD version for .99 cents and it works just fine. 😉 Definitely worth another buck. I’ve had this app for many years on many devices.
Doesn’t respond to taps - dead app.
As in the title. The problem is with my iPad mini 2 latest os. When surfing to Tunepal.org with browsers and tapping to record Tunepal displays error message, Microphone Not Working... No response to taps also with iPad mini4, OS 14.8.
Doesn’t record
Just purchased and downloaded the original version on my iPad, which told me it was compatible. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t record. I’m a decent fiddle player, it should recognize tunes. But the app is completely unresponsive. It doesn’t record. My iPad is the 2018 model, fairly current. Don’t buy the app, if you have an iPad it appears incompatible.