Metronome Beats

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183K reviews
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Rated for 3+
10M+
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Metronome Beats — a free, accurate metronome, drum machine, and speed trainer designed by musicians. With over 25 million downloads, it's used worldwide for solo and group practice, teaching, live performance, dance classes, running cadence, and golf putting drills.

Built for one-handed control: tap to nudge the tempo by 1 or 5 BPM, sweep the slider, or tap out a tempo with your finger. Visual beat indicators let you follow the bar at a glance — mute the sound and stay in time visually while you read music or talk to your students. Settings are saved automatically, so you pick up exactly where you left off.

Practise smarter:
- Speed Trainer — gradually increase or decrease tempo by bars or seconds to push your speed without losing time.
- Drum Machine — play along to real grooves with multiple drum kits, programmable patterns, and full mixer control.
- Polyrhythms, swing, and complex subdivisions — up to 16 clicks per beat, custom accent patterns, and unusual time signatures.
- Tap tempo — don't know the BPM? Tap it in.

Built-in features:
- Tempo from 1 to 900 BPM
- Italian tempo markings (Largo, Allegro, Vivace…)
- Custom presets — save and recall your go-to settings instantly
- Per beat mute and accent control
- Adjustable pitch and custom sounds so you can hear the click over your instrument
- Timer to stop the metronome after a set number of bars or seconds
- Bar and beat counter
- Plays in the background alongside sheet-music and tab apps
- Lock-screen and Bluetooth media controls
- Optimised tablet layout — every control on one screen
- Light and dark themes
- Export and import settings as .mbeats files to share between devices

Metronome Beats Pro unlocks tools for serious practice and live performance:
- Setlists — chain presets together for rehearsals and gigs
- Songs — build a song from sections (intro, verse, chorus…) each with its own tempo, time signature, and bar count
- Live mode — large, gig-friendly controls and quick switching between songs on stage
- No adverts

Whether you're learning your first scale, drilling tricky passages, or running a band rehearsal, Metronome Beats keeps you in time.
More downloads than any other metronome. Includes drum machine & tempo trainer.
Updated on
Sep 25, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

173K reviews
nilesh suchdev
April 22, 2025
This is undoubtedly the best, no bells and whistles metronome app, with required options, and simple user interface. Most importantly, the app has the option to keep it on in background, along with other audio sources, termed as audio focus. Kudos, team!
150 people found this review helpful
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Stonekick
April 1, 2025
Thanks for your feedback. We're pleased you like Metronome Beats.
Calvin Lim
March 1, 2025
I find the metronome beats app useful, as it can blend well with the Perfect Piano phone apps when played together. You can switched between apps to control the loudness played on the metronome beats while the other apps are playing. It is easy to use with the simple screen interface that allows you to change the tempo easily. The drum beats pattern played are shown clearly on each count. What a great apps for musicians learning to sing and play chords with accompaniment drum beats rhythm.
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Chris Goldthorpe
September 5, 2026
This app fits my needs for practicing jazz piano very well. It works like an old style drum machine but with an easier to use interface. You can edit the pattern of drum hits on a grid and you can start with a preset and save a variation of that pattern, I have patterns saved for most of my practice list. Drum Genius sounds more like a human drummer but you can't edit the presets. If you want the ability to edit patterns this app is the one to get.
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Stonekick
September 7, 2026
Thanks for your feedback. We're pleased you like the drum features in Metronome Beats.

What’s new

This release adds new Bodhran drum sounds. We have also optimised for Android 16.

We hope that you like these changes. If you have any questions or feature requests you can email us at support@stonekick.com.