What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Fixed tune playback volume bug

App Description

Tunepal, the world's leading search engine for traditional music is now available in an iPad optimised version!

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 iPad BY PLAYING!

Just 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.

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • August 17, 2011 New version 1.9
  • October 04, 2011 New version 1.91
  • December 09, 2011 New version 2.0
  • February 16, 2013 New version 2.1
  • September 27, 2014 New version 2.2
  • August 21, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
  • July 25, 2016 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $1.99
  • June 14, 2019 New version 2.6
  • June 14, 2019 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • June 16, 2019 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99

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