You may already use Google’s search engine to play Pac-Man, translate people’s handwriting, and do a barrel roll. Now, it appears like you need to use it to tune your devices, too. Android Police was first to spot the brand new guitar-tuning performance constructed into Google Search, which lets customers pull up the software simply by typing “google tuner” into the search bar.

This isn’t the primary time that the corporate’s tried to assist people out with tuning—actually, Google Assistant’s supplied an analogous function since 2017. But contemplating how ubiquitous Google Search has turn out to be, and the way simple it’s to simply, properly, search a phrase, that is going to open up the function to just about anybody with a browser on any system and a working microphone.

This can be fairly fortuitous timing on Google’s half, contemplating how guitar-playing turned a preferred pastime throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a survey revealed earlier this week co-authored by the parents at Fender, roughly 16 million individuals have taken up the instrument over the previous yr.

And whereas I’m not one in every of them, I did give Google’s new software a whirl by, uh, buzzing into my laptop computer’s microphone. And yep, it truly is that simple: all it’s worthwhile to do is flip in your mic, and the search engine will helpfully inform you whether or not you ought to be tuning your instrument (or voice) up or down. So, hey, perhaps it’s helpful for vocal warmups, too!

Of course, how properly this software works for you is determined by the microphone you’re utilizing. Android Police reported utilizing some units just like the Galaxy Z Fold 3 that wouldn’t decide up sounds until they have been loud, and performed immediately into the cellphone. Personally although, by myself system (a MacBook Air), I discovered that I used to be capable of get good mileage out of the software even after I was sitting an excellent foot away from the mic. Either manner, this can be a nifty software that’s certain to make individuals’s fretting a bit simpler.