Stringz Tuner

Stringz is a guitar tuner and metronome built for your wrist first. Most tuners treat the Apple Watch as an afterthought. Stringz works the other way round: everything happens on the watch, and the iPhone app mirrors it on a bigger screen. Settings follow you between the two. THE METRONOME • Spin the Digital Crown to set the tempo from 40 to 240 BPM. Tap anywhere to start and stop. • Feel every beat, hear it, or neither — the pulse on screen keeps time on its own, so you can practise silently. • Time signatures from 2/4 through 7/8, with an accented downbeat you can switch off. • Subdivisions: eighths, triplets and sixteenths. • Tap tempo, for matching a song by ear. • Keeps running when you lower your wrist. THE TUNER • Automatic mode: play a string and Stringz names it, shows how many cents off you are, and tells you which way to turn the peg. • Manual mode: tap a string to hear it,…