# AudioKit Hey Metronome — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of AudioKit Hey Metronome by AudioKit Pro, rated 4.90/5 from 456 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiokit-hey-metronome/id1492023479/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiokit-hey-metronome/id1492023479.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 421 · 4★ 29 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of AudioKit Hey Metronome? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🎵 Variety of drum sounds and patterns - 🎤 Hands-free voice control functionality - 💡 Innovative metronome with customization options - 🔗 Ableton Link support for syncing - 🎨 Modern, sleek UI design - 💰 Excellent value for price - 🎯 Great for music practice and songwriting - 📱 Works offline without internet - ⚡ Responsive and quick to adjust tempo **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes on iOS 18 and newer versions - 🔊 No Bluetooth or AirPlay support - 🎤 Voice recognition triggers randomly on ambient noise - 📵 Metronome stops when app is backgrounded - 🔌 Not compatible with IAA or AUv3 plugins - 🎙️ Intrusive voice/text prompts interrupt playback - 📱 Conflicts with Siri voice activation - 🔐 Difficult to properly close/exit the app - 🔇 Screen lock causes audio degradation - 💾 Settings and tempo not remembered after closing **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes immediately on launch with iOS 18.1 - Metronome stops playing when app is brought to foreground - Voice recognition mistakes random noises for commands - Screen lock causes audio to become distorted/lo-fi - Microphone remains active after app closes - Conflicts with Siri voice activation - App doesn't properly close with standard swipe gesture - Audio degradation every few bars when screen is locked **Most requested features** - Remember tempo and settings between sessions - Simple backbeat or one-click metronome option - Tap tempo with voice command feedback - Mute/unmute touch gesture equivalent - Option to disable voice prompts - Bluetooth and AirPlay support - IAA and AUv3 plugin compatibility - Keep screen on while metronome is playing - Proper app exit/quit button - Counting off feature with voice commands ## Newest reviews (13 of 60) ### 5/5 — Top Rate Metronome - Best In Class *2024-04-27* A metronome you wish were human, that is how cool this software is. This little device is large and ongoing with inspiration, in time signatures, and divisions of the note, as well as wallpapers accompanied by inspired timeless sayings. What are you waiting for? Believe me; it will help get you past the procrastination into your flow - that is why it is crafted to be so fun. Hey Metronome! Buy it now! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-02-13* Brilliant !! Need it for music and speed reading and does a great job for me ### 5/5 — The best there is *2023-11-05* This is the best metronome app I tried including a few paid ones, well done! ### 5/5 — Great *2023-05-05* Great metronome, just want a config for keep the screen on while the app is running. Thank you ### 5/5 — Great app! *2022-12-21* I decided to try this app, even though there are other metronome apps that I’m satisfied with. I am really impressed! It’s easy to use, the voice control is very useful, plus there are lots of sounds that you can choose from, like drum beats, instead of being limited to a click-click sound. ### 5/5 — Best metronome ever *2022-11-23* Amazing metronome, use it all the time to keep my music in time ### 4/5 — Good drum sounds, hands free voice control *2022-03-17* I really like the variety of drum sounds with this app…much more fun to play to a drum pattern than the click click click of a metronome. Voice control takes a little getting used to, but lets you keep your hands on your instrument, without breaking the flow of practice. Nice app. ### 5/5 — Leegondese *2021-11-11, version 1.1* Great metronome. It definitely clicks on time.. I don’t know what else to say ### 5/5 — 🙄🤔 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 😉 *2021-07-24* Top Top…. ### 5/5 — Viele Möglichkeiten *2021-01-16* ... und damit weit mehr als ein Metronom ### 5/5 — Le meilleur tout simplement *2021-01-12* Ce métronome à l'avantage d'être complet (tap tempo, réglages etc...) mais aussi ultra simple à utiliser à la volée pour vérifier un tempo. Le coup du choix d'une photo de fond est un petit "+" sympa. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-12-26, version 1.1* A nice piece of kit. Well done, thank you! ### 5/5 — a convenient metronome *2020-12-24* I love this because it is so simple to get it to do what you want without stopping playing. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Rubbish on multiple counts *2024-06-09* 1. Randomly mistakes random noises for voice commands (despite training the voice recognition) and stops playing - just what you want in a metronome. 2. Does not work with IAA or as AUv3, so if you use either as part of your practice setup you can’t use this as a metronome. 3. Does not play through Bluetooth, so if you use a Katana GO or similar for practice, you can’t use this app as a metronome either. ### 1/5 — Can’t use with bluetooth. Actually breaks other apps as well *2022-05-29* It’s ridiculous that you can’t use this app with Bluetooth. It just won’t. Only on your phone or aux out. You can’t use bluetooth nor AirPlay. You can’t even play audio from another app via Bluetooth and use this at the same time. Really, really annoying and unhelpful. Ugh. ### 1/5 — Nicht zu gebrauchen *2022-03-21* Manchmal weniger ist mehr ….. ### 1/5 — Inutilisable *2020-06-17* When i teach with this app, sometime i speak to student advice. This app stop, launch because it’s recognize some word. It’s very annoying and unusable. ### 2/5 — Crashes! *2024-11-07* Crashes immediately on launch iOS 18.1 ### 2/5 — Less is more *2020-04-21* Too much useless screens before I can use the app.. too much animation that distracts ### 2/5 — Not for me *2020-01-03* I just hate these mechanical pseudo-drumming. I do prefer a simple basic click... or a real drummer ! **Developer response:** HI Lirea, we offer several types of basic clicks in the app as well. Under the sounds icon second from the right. We all love drummers most of all of course, but they're not always available! :) Thanks, Aure ### 3/5 — Ok, but… *2024-11-08* Is there no way to shut off those intrusive voice / txt prompts?? They interrupt the metronome at random times when the metronome is running, and that is disruptive ### 3/5 — Fummelig *2022-10-27* Zu kleine Bedienelemente und Anzeigen , nicht Bühnentauglich Sounds mittelmäßig Takt wir optisch nicht dargestellt ### 3/5 — Great concepts, some bugs *2021-08-02* Let me start by saying all the stuff I like about this app. 1. User Interface - sleek and modern 2. Ableton Link - this is a game changer 3. Banks of preset songs 4. Ability to create set lists 5. Voice commands - super unique and essential However, I am facing some issues with it and I am not sure if these are bugs that I am facing or somethings that have been deliberately left out. 1. Screen Locking while metronome is playing - If I am playing visually by referring to the pulse or the beat labels, the screen shut down renders the app quite useless. I think it should allow the screen to stay on while the app is running. 2. While waking the app back from background or after a screen unlock, the sound stops. The metronome stops every time it is resumed (this is of course with the 'Play in Background' setting on. So pair that with the previous issue, not only the screen goes dark while playing, the playing stops when I try to get back into the app. Quite detrimental. 3. All the voice commands have equivalent touch gestures except for mute and unmute. Please help me locate it if it's there somewhere. 4. This may be a bug? When the screen locks out while playing, the sound of the beat becomes dull for a bar or two and keeps happening every few bars. Like it becomes extremely lo-fi and comes back up. As you can see, I have done some thorough testing because I appreciate the app for what it is. But I will only continue to use it if these issues are addressed in some form or the other. Thanks! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A must sync device *2026-03-15* Love it easy to use this is for the remix producer’s ### 5/5 — Das gibt es doch gar nicht! *2026-03-11* Ich liebe AudioKit, weil alles von denen einfach gut ist und ich habe auch fast alles. Aber dieses Metronom – und ich habe viele Metronom Apps – ist phänomenal und umwerfend! Wann hat so viele Möglichkeiten, das allein schon dadurch alle anderen Metronome in die Ecke verbannt werden. Man muss einfach auf alles, was dort zu sehen ist, tippen. Dabei ist es egal ob es Zahlen oder Buchstaben ganze Worte oder Symbole sind einfach drauf tippen und schon eröffnet sich eine neue sehr einfach Einzustellende Möglichkeit. Klänge Taktarten Instrumente können gewählt werden und ganze Lieder abgespeichert. Wenn es in der Musik noch keinen Takt gäbe, müsste man selbigen für dieses Metronom erfinden, echt! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-01-08* Thank you for making such awesome audio and music tools!!! I will donate for sure. I’m a user of Synth one and J6, and now this. So awesome ### 5/5 — Very good, could use some improvements *2025-11-21* It is a good metronome, and I appreciate the simple transaction. As a pro musician using this for practice, my wishes are: 1) remember my tempo and settings when I close the app. 2) metronome stops playing whenever I foreground the app - whyyy? 3) give an option for a simple backbeat (snare only) or one-click metronome without all the fancy drum patterns. ### 5/5 — Love the app, but on IOS 18… *2024-12-06* Update (Dec.6) : silly me. Uninstalled, reinstalled fixed it. Still the best in the biz. Thanks Audiokit. This is my go to metronome. I use it with piano practice, but when I go to open the app after IOS 18, it opens then closes right away. Now I’m using the Ableton Note built in metronome as a back up. Please fix! (I’ll write to Apple too after I finish trying ALL my Auv3 and audio apps). Thanks for any support. ### 5/5 — Whoa. *2024-10-05* I feel awful having only spent $0.99 on this. The sheer amount of customization makes it really easy to get a cool rhythm going. The ideas can get out of my head way faster now! ### 5/5 — Love the app, but on IOS 18… *2024-10-02* This is my go to metronome. I use it with piano practice, but when I go to open the app after IOS 18, it opens then closes right away. Now I’m using the Ableton Note built in metronome as a back up. Please fix! (I’ll write to Apple too after I finish trying ALL my Auv3 and audio apps). Thanks for any support. ### 5/5 — iOS 18 not supported *2024-09-27* Great app for practicing with my Ocarina, however I don’t think it supports iOS 18. Would it be possible if the AudioKit team could look into this, please.🙏🏾 Thanks for all your work! 👍🏾 ### 5/5 — 2 Pink Floyd songs…..plus many other greats. *2024-08-30* This is excited for the entire music app community. I’ve been ripping on the beat machine so much then this app was so great I was inspired to pick up my guitar 🎸 again Go team Go, you people are the coolest dev team. Thanks. It’s a great drum machine with the best standards built in. I think the metronome is probably cool to I just haven’t tried it. This beat machine got me hooked. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-08-17* I use it like a basic drum machine during piano practice~ more fun than simple clicks --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*