kanōn is a polyphonic tuner (meaning it can be used to detect two notes at once and can be used to adjust microtonality) designed for violin use, but should work with any instrument!
To use kanōn, simply open up https://kanon-phi.vercel.app/ and allow microphone access! Then, you can switch between single-stop (similar to Tunable) and double-stop (Pythagorean tuning) modes for your respective instrument! Also, you can adjust noise sensitivity, intonation strictness (only affects visuals), and A-centric tuning (440 by default)!
You're probably asking, "why did you build kanōn?!"
There are very very few open-source tuners, even fewer that care about proper intonation handling, and even fewer that actually work without taking up 500 megabytes on your phone for useless reasons you won't use.
In the string community, Tunable is the most widely-used tuner, but it has many downsides:
- It costs money!
- It's not open-source!
- The app is huge (500MB!)
- You can only tune one note at once!
- Their website is vibecoded!
- and many more!
For that reason, I designed kanōn. kanōn supports Pythagorean tuning, meaning you can tune intervals without just taking the pure notes into effect.
I made kanōn with the goal of spreading it to more musicians and actually using it in my daily practice, so please feel free to share this app if you liked it!
NOTE: If you don't have an instrument (or don't play a tuning-based instrument), a demo video of kanōn featuring me playing my violin can be found here!
kanōn: the first open-source polyphonic tuner!
Made by zsharpminor, Submitted to Hack Club: The Game, and tracked via Hackatime.
