Tonic Downloads & RevenueTonic - Tuner and Music Theory · App Store
52 days old
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperLane Hartman
CategoryMusic
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (6)
Version1.53
Age rating4+
First seen by us
1 Oct 2026
1 Oct 2026Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory update history & changes
Last change · 8 events since 20 Sep 2026Full timeline ↓🆕Its developer released another app: Blackcap: Songwriting Studio📦Updated to version 1.53🆕First spotted by AppInsider📈Dropped out of every chart we track📦Version 1.41
Full timeline · 8 events
- 🆕Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory: its developer released another app: Blackcap: Songwriting Studio
- ✏️Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory added 1 language+ ES
- ✏️Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory: app got bigger48 MB → 58 MB (+22%)
- 📦Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory updated to version 1.53A steadier tuner
• The needle glides and settles on the note instead of jumping with every reading — on guitar and everything else
• Bright, quick-fading strings like a banjo's no longer swing between high and low
• "In tune" holds steady right at the edge instead of flickering
Banjo
• Drills show your picking-hand finger — T, I or M — the way banjo tab is written
• New: Clawhammer & Old-Time lessons — the bum-ditty, drop thumb, and Double C and Sawmill tunings — with a Clawhammer drill to practice them
Backing Band
• A much better electric guitar: played through real recorded speaker cabinets and double-tracked the way records are, for a fuller, warmer sound — and no two strums alike… more - 🆕Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory first spotted by AppInsider#33 in Top Paid · Music · United States
- 📈Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory dropped out of every chart we trackLast seen 30 Sep
- 📦Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory version 1.41NEW: Practice Drills and Lessons
• Guided courses for guitar, piano, bass, mandolin, banjo, violin, and ukulele, from your first notes to improvising in every key. Each lesson is a short read plus drills already set up for it
• 44 drills: scales, arpeggios and triads, chord changes, strumming and picking, licks and call-and-response, technique, and more, shown on your neck or keyboard as they play
• Triads Through the Changes: move through any progression with triads, smoothly, in one position, in one shape, or climbing the neck
• Rhythm & Time drills: a subdivision ladder, a gap click that tests your inner clock, and a click on 2 and 4
• A tempo ladder, keys that rotate around the circle, a daily routine, and a Listen mode that follows you through the mic
Backing Band grows into a full band:
• Rhythm guitar (acoustic, clean, crunch, or heavy), keys (piano, electric piano, organ, vibraphone, synth), pads, and pedal steel
• Punchier drums and a fuller bass, plus drum machines and synth basses, all mixed like a studio record
• New blues styles: Classic, Chicago, and Texas shuffles, Delta blues, and blues rock, each loading the 12-bar form
• New pop styles: pop rock, '80s synth pop, indie, tropical, and bedroom pop
• 20 named progressions, and any song section can have its own chords
Resources:
• Progression Voicings for guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo: see any progression as full chord shapes or as triads on any three strings, and how each chord moves to the next
• 60+ chord progressions, an explainer on how progressions work, and every mode shown as the progression that makes it sound like itself
• Sharper chord diagrams: the open and muted-string markers now line up with their strings on shapes higher up the neck… more - 🆕Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory on the App Store
App details
App ID
6810759042
Publisher
Lane Hartman
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
EN ES
Size
58 MB
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Ratings
6
Measured
About Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory
Tonic is an ad-free instrument tuner that is also a pretty darn good music practice companion. It is priced once and yours to keep. No subscriptions, no ads, no account, no data collection. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline. I think that's the way it should be.
So if you just want a good tuner, with all of the tunings, and a practice reference/chord finder/music theory companion without creating an account, paying for a subscription, paying for upgrades, trying to close out pesky ads, or connecting your social media, this is for you. I wanted it myself, so I built it for myself, and maybe you want it as well.
What's included:
TUNER
Chromatic tuner
Guitar (7 tunings, plus 7-, 8-, and 12-string), Bass (5 tunings), Ukulele, Mandolin, Violin, Banjo, and a dedicated Vocals mode. Every tuning unlocked, nothing gated behind a paywall
Create and save your own custom guitar tunings
All-strings view to check every string at a glance, or single-note focus
Reference tone (drone) to tune by ear
Adjustable reference pitch (A4, for orchestral players who tune away from 440Hz)
Adjustable mic sensitivity for noisy rooms or quiet instruments
Optional haptic feedback the moment you're in tune
METRONOME
Sample-accurate timing, scheduled through the audio engine.
KEY/CHORD FINDER (Beta)
Listens live and identifies the key and chord you're playing
Start/stop control with a scrollable chart of every chord played, so you can plot out a song and play along
Works best on clean, single-instrument audio, like any chroma-based chord recognizer
RECORDER/LOOPER
Record practice takes or song ideas, with a metronome guide click while you record
History with folders and search
Loop a specific section of a recording to drill a tricky passage
Run offline chord/key analysis on any saved recording
SONGS
Build a chord progression by key and tempo, then save it with lyrics or notes - a real sketchpad for songwriting, not just a scratch pad
EAR TRAINING
Interval and chord-quality recognition drills; a practice tool to help with learning music by ear.
RESOURCES a full music theory & reference library
Interactive scales, chords, and note maps for every instrument in the app, plus Piano
Guitar Triad Finder: every close-position triad inversion across any three adjacent strings, for any tuning
Open Chords and CAGED chart, Capo chart
Piano chord inversion finder
Position View: see a scale one hand-position at a time instead of the whole neck at once
Interval-label overlay: see scale degrees (R, b3, 5...) instead of note names
An interactive Circle of Fifths: tap any key to see its signature and diatonic chords
Diatonic chords, all-key chord tables, an interactive chord formula explorer, and common progressions that transpose live into any key, plus a progression builder
Reading sheet music: clefs, accidentals, note durations, intervals, time and key signatures, dynamics and articulation; all drawn accurately, not just described
PRIVACY
No accounts, no analytic
So if you just want a good tuner, with all of the tunings, and a practice reference/chord finder/music theory companion without creating an account, paying for a subscription, paying for upgrades, trying to close out pesky ads, or connecting your social media, this is for you. I wanted it myself, so I built it for myself, and maybe you want it as well.
What's included:
TUNER
Chromatic tuner
Guitar (7 tunings, plus 7-, 8-, and 12-string), Bass (5 tunings), Ukulele, Mandolin, Violin, Banjo, and a dedicated Vocals mode. Every tuning unlocked, nothing gated behind a paywall
Create and save your own custom guitar tunings
All-strings view to check every string at a glance, or single-note focus
Reference tone (drone) to tune by ear
Adjustable reference pitch (A4, for orchestral players who tune away from 440Hz)
Adjustable mic sensitivity for noisy rooms or quiet instruments
Optional haptic feedback the moment you're in tune
METRONOME
Sample-accurate timing, scheduled through the audio engine.
KEY/CHORD FINDER (Beta)
Listens live and identifies the key and chord you're playing
Start/stop control with a scrollable chart of every chord played, so you can plot out a song and play along
Works best on clean, single-instrument audio, like any chroma-based chord recognizer
RECORDER/LOOPER
Record practice takes or song ideas, with a metronome guide click while you record
History with folders and search
Loop a specific section of a recording to drill a tricky passage
Run offline chord/key analysis on any saved recording
SONGS
Build a chord progression by key and tempo, then save it with lyrics or notes - a real sketchpad for songwriting, not just a scratch pad
EAR TRAINING
Interval and chord-quality recognition drills; a practice tool to help with learning music by ear.
RESOURCES a full music theory & reference library
Interactive scales, chords, and note maps for every instrument in the app, plus Piano
Guitar Triad Finder: every close-position triad inversion across any three adjacent strings, for any tuning
Open Chords and CAGED chart, Capo chart
Piano chord inversion finder
Position View: see a scale one hand-position at a time instead of the whole neck at once
Interval-label overlay: see scale degrees (R, b3, 5...) instead of note names
An interactive Circle of Fifths: tap any key to see its signature and diatonic chords
Diatonic chords, all-key chord tables, an interactive chord formula explorer, and common progressions that transpose live into any key, plus a progression builder
Reading sheet music: clefs, accidentals, note durations, intervals, time and key signatures, dynamics and articulation; all drawn accurately, not just described
PRIVACY
No accounts, no analytic
Latest updates
1.53
A steadier tuner
• The needle glides and settles on the note instead of jumping with every reading — on guitar and everything else
• Bright, quick-fading strings like a banjo's no longer swing between high and low
• "In tune" holds steady right at the edge instead of flickering
Banjo
• Drills show your picking-hand finger — T, I or M — the way banjo tab is written
• New: Clawhammer & Old-Time lessons — the bum-ditty, drop thumb, and Double C and Sawmill tunings — with a Clawhammer drill to practice them
Backing Band
• A much better electric guitar: played through real recorded speaker cabinets and double-tracked the way records are, for a fuller, warmer sound — and no two strums alike
1.41
NEW: Practice Drills and Lessons
• Guided courses for guitar, piano, bass, mandolin, banjo, violin, and ukulele, from your first notes to improvising in every key. Each lesson is a short read plus drills already set up for it
• 44 drills: scales, arpeggios and triads, chord changes, strumming and picking, licks and call-and-response, technique, and more, shown on your neck or keyboard as they play
• Triads Through the Changes: move through any progression with triads, smoothly, in one position, in one shape, or climbing the neck
• Rhythm & Time drills: a subdivision ladder, a gap click that tests your inner clock, and a click on 2 and 4
• A tempo ladder, keys that rotate around the circle, a daily routine, and a Listen mode that follows you through the mic
Backing Band grows into a full band:
• Rhythm guitar (acoustic, clean, crunch, or heavy), keys (piano, electric piano, organ, vibraphone, synth), pads, and pedal steel
• Punchier drums and a fuller bass, plus drum machines and synth basses, all mixed like a studio record
• New blues styles: Classic, Chicago, and Texas shuffles, Delta blues, and blues rock, each loading the 12-bar form
• New pop styles: pop rock, '80s synth pop, indie, tropical, and bedroom pop
• 20 named progressions, and any song section can have its own chords
Resources:
• Progression Voicings for guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo: see any progression as full chord shapes or as triads on any three strings, and how each chord moves to the next
• 60+ chord progressions, an explainer on how progressions work, and every mode shown as the progression that makes it sound like itself
• Sharper chord diagrams: the open and muted-string markers now line up with their strings on shapes higher up the neck
Store changes
What Tonic - Tuner and Music Theory changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Added 1 language
+ ES
App got bigger
48 MB → 58 MB (+22%)
