Metronome: Tempo Lite

To be able to set up practice lists for rudiment exercises is one of the best things for me. I have various playlists set up that will take me either through a variety of beats per minute or for a set time. I also use it as a click during rehearsals. I have tried many free and a few paid apps. Tempo is the only one left on my phone. 😎

I’ve been using the app for a month now. I picked it because of the integration with the Apple Watch and now I’m going to try the paid version mainly because of the playlist mode for I gig I have. Its quite reliable, but sometimes phone and watch don’t synchronize well. It would be an outstanding app if that sync was fixed; and also if you sync the headphone’s play and pause buttons! Playing the drums doesn’t give you much personal space to hang the cellphone and coming back to it every single time is very tiring. Those details are the reason the user decides to stick to apps at the end.

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I realize there is a paid upgrade available, but it’s really annoying that I cannot open the app without going through their ads for their own upgrade. I’m a pro musician so I use my metronome app frequently but there are several with the features I need and I’m approaching the frustration level where I may make a switch. If they were less aggressive about the upgrade, I would look into it on my own time and consider it, but when it greets me multiple times throughout my practice day and gets in the way of my work it comes off the wrong way.

My students and I have been using this app for years. It is versatile, easy to use, and reliable, especially now in it recent stages of development. I am grateful to the developers for this app and hope that they have gotten something substantial out of its development: certainly, my musician students and I have. Greenville, South Carolina.

Middle school band teacher - I love this app and use it every day with my students. My greatest frustration is when you hold the “+” or “-“ to advance the tempo by 10’s, it rapidly goes through all of the tempos either up to 400 or down to 10, only stopping if you hit the button again. This makes it tough to get to your desired tempo quickly. I’m hesitant to pay for the full version for fear that it will have this same bug.