wabetune

wabetune is built around a simple question: is your F♯ better than it was in March? Instead of giving a momentary reading like a standard tuner, it records how in tune you play and stores those measurements session after session. Over time the notes that consistently drift emerge as a pattern, turning intonation from a vague feeling into something you can actually track.

The core of the site is an intonation analyser that maps each note across the octaves your instrument reaches, colouring each cell by how far off you were in cents. You can judge the same recording against eight different tuning systems. A note that reads perfectly in tune under equal temperament may sit noticeably sharp as the third of a chord in D major, which is the kind of distinction a quartet actually tunes to.

It is aimed at players who control their own pitch: violinists, cellists, horn and flute players, and singers. Fixed-pitch instruments such as the piano are explicitly excluded, since the note is decided before the player arrives. Ensemble musicians and students preparing for chamber or orchestral work are the most natural users.

You can try fifteen sessions free, and no account is needed until you want to save your results. Audio is processed in the browser and never leaves it, which keeps practice recordings private. A sensible approach is to record a short session regularly and compare the same passage over weeks rather than chasing a single reading.

In short, wabetune treats intonation as