A vocal pitch monitor that is yours for good.
Sing or play a note and it names it, then tells you how many cents sharp or flat you are. It works in this tab. The full thing is one HTML file that runs with the internet switched off, and nothing you sing ever leaves your machine.
It starts right here on this page. No account, no email, no install, and the audio never leaves your machine. The light goes out when you stop or close the tab.
sing or play a note
Two sweeps, about two minutes. It names both ends of your range, the width in octaves and the voice type it sits closest to, and it draws the pitch curve it actually heard so you can check it.
The monitor above tells you where you are. The trainer asks for a note and grades the one you held, in cents. Level 1, five exercises, free.
If you already have a type in mind, each one has its own page with the same test and the reference range to measure yourself against. Am I a bass, a baritone, a tenor, an alto, a mezzo-soprano, a soprano. Each page also says what the measurement cannot settle, which on this question is most of it.
If what you actually want to know is whether you sing in tune at all, the tone deaf test plays a note, listens to you sing it back, and tells you how many cents off you were. Most tests with that name play two notes and ask whether they differ, which measures your hearing rather than your singing.
If a tuner has ever named a note you know you did not sing, that has a page of its own, why your tuner says you are singing the wrong note. It is nearly always the octave, and it is nearly always the tuner rather than you.
Once you know your two notes, the question that follows is what you can actually sing with them. Songs that sit inside your vocal range takes the two notes and gives you the songs whose melody stays in that band, 319 of them, read out of MIDI transcriptions and filtered down to the ones two separate transcribers agreed on. It is free and it says on the page which of its numbers you should not trust.
If you would rather start from a voice type than from your own two notes, there is a list per type, bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano and soprano. The bass one is short, twenty two songs, and that is not an oversight. Very little popular music stays inside E2 to E4 for a whole song.
If you need something a whole group can sing at once, that question is harsher than it looks and it has its own page. Put everyone's range in and it shows the band they actually share. A room containing all six voice types shares four semitones in unison, C4 to E4, which is why choirs sing in parts.
If you run a choir or teach a class, there is a separate write up on running range checks on a whole choir, how to get twenty singers measured in one rehearsal and what the twenty pairs of numbers tell you about the key you should be singing in.
For general music class there are printables on the same vocabulary, music word searches with a free sample and a paper music escape room with one puzzle you can try on the page.
Or start from the vocal range chart, which draws all six on a single axis from a low bass E2 to a soprano C6. It reads as a chart on its own, and the test underneath adds your own range to it.
Why this one is different
- One price, once. There is nothing to buy inside, no subscription, and no second till waiting after the first. No adverts either, so nothing competes for your attention while you are listening to your own voice.
- It is a file, not a service. Save it, copy it, open it in three years. There is no server that can go away and no login that can lock you out of something you already have.
- It fits your voice. Bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo, soprano or child, and every exercise transposes with you. Seven ranges, not three broad boxes. Set your concert pitch too, because a trainer locked to 440 calls a 442 ensemble sharp forever and blames them for it.
And it actually hears you
That is the part I would rather you check than believe, which is why level 1 is free and not a teaser. The voice carries strong harmonics that fool simple detectors into hearing the wrong octave, and singers slide into a note before they settle. This one throws away the slide, grades the part you held, and knows which note it asked for, so it cannot report you an octave away.
That last line is on purpose. I would rather it tell you it is out of its depth than hand you a confident wrong answer.
Usable without looking at the screen
Every verdict is spoken in plain words, with no symbols a screen reader would mangle. The guidance is audio and haptic, and it goes quiet when you are in tune, so silence means you are right. Six languages, and four ways of naming notes, including movable do and the German H.
If you want the rest. The full file opens the other five levels, thirty exercises in all, in the order voices actually learn. Two notes at level 1, the five note scale by level 4, half steps only at level 5 once you can hold a note, leaps and the octave at level 6.
One price, once, 9.99 USD. Get the full file. There is nothing else to buy after it.
What it needs
A microphone, and a browser from the last few years. It asks for the microphone once, when you start, and the light goes out when you leave.
How it works, and where it was wrong
Every note it read used to come out sharp, by 2.6 cents at a concert A and by nearly 30 at the bottom of a bass range. The cause turned out to be arithmetic rather than audio, and the whole thing is written up with the measurements before and after, in my pitch detector read every note sharp. If you are going to trust a tuner with your ear, you may as well see where it failed.