Yes, I've noticed that apps like Guitartuna only offer standard tuning for free and you have to pay for 'Chromatic Tuning' - BUT, you can tune a guitar with a capo on it. So if I've lost my tuner, then a free phone app with a capo on the 2nd fret for tuning strings 6, 2 and 1 (while tuning strings 5, 4, and 3 without the capo) will do the trick.
I'm sorry to hear that, was it your first try at TTT? Yeah, I'm quite new to HIVE, but in the 4 or so months I've been on it, it always seems that the price slowly drops. I think it is a limited resource and more and more people will keep joining. If I think about it, in the future we might get less for our authored posts, but if we're already strong in staked HP we might still do well with curation... unless everything crashes of course!
What is frustrating you? I'm still so new that I treat it like a bit of a game... I haven't invested anything but some free time into it.