# Beat Time! — user reviews > 146 indexed App Store user reviews of Beat Time! by Guy Shaviv, rated 3.50/5 from 73 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beat-time/id469390635/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beat-time/id469390635.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 34 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of Beat Time!? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎵 Excellent audio quality when slowing down videos - ⚡ Fast and responsive performance - 🎸 Perfect tool for musicians learning songs - 🔄 Reliable pitch shifting without distortion - 📱 Works seamlessly with YouTube integration - ⏱️ Effective time-stretching algorithm - 🔁 Loop and marker functionality for practice - 💬 Responsive developer with quick support - 📤 Easy export to multiple formats - 🎼 Chord and pitch detection features **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes on export - 🐛 App crashes when loading YouTube videos - 😕 Confusing and unintuitive user interface - 🔄 YouTube integration breaks after updates - ⚠️ No documentation or user instructions - 🔌 Inconsistent performance across devices - 😞 Recent UI redesign poorly received - 🔐 YouTube authentication loops infinitely - 📉 Data loss on reinstallation - ⏳ Slow video loading times **Commonly reported bugs** - YouTube video import fails with 'error reading file' - App crashes when exporting audio files - Black screen appears when loading YouTube audio - Download button stops working without app restart - Infinite buffering with 'Preparing for Playback' message - File open button stalls and doesn't respond - Audio doesn't reload on app reopening - Incompatibility with iOS updates (iOS 8, 10, 14) - Video format compatibility issues (.mov files) - Keyboard doesn't function properly **Most requested features** - Reverse audio capability - AU3 plugin option - Dark mode interface - Better file organization and alphabetical sorting - Step forward/backward navigation buttons - Save loop markers with files - Dropbox export integration - Improved bookmark management system - Percentage-based pitch control mode - Better keyboard functionality ## Newest reviews (11 of 146) ### 3/5 — 최근에 유튜브에서 안되는 음원들이 생겼는데 왜 이러는지 아시나요 ㅠㅠ? *2025-10-26* 어떤것은 되고 어떤것은 안되고,, 이유가 있나요? ### 3/5 — Not working *2025-09-25, version 4.1.3* The past 3 YouTube beats I’ve tried to download doesn’t work it gives me an error.. I’m not trying to rip any one off. Just trying to practice and have music to share with friends ### 2/5 — It was working before *2025-08-26* I can’t extract any videos no more ,it was working before the new update ### 4/5 — Great App! *2025-08-22* Awesome app. Super easy to use. But lately, it’s been crashing. I hope they fix the issue soon. ### 4/5 — Excellent App *2025-06-11, version 3.5.0* This is an excellent app. I had a few issues and wrote to guy for support. The customer service I got from him was simply outstanding. ### 2/5 — Help! *2025-06-08, version 3.5.0* I used to use beat time to convert YouTube videos and it was perfect! Now when I try to convert a video it shuts down and goes back to my Home Screen. I’ve tried it on my iPad mini 6 and iPhone 13 and the shut down keeps happening. What’s wrong? ### 5/5 — Excellent tool *2025-06-06, version 3.5.0* I’ve been using it for a long time now, I’m able to download YouTube vids and change key, change speed, export a section of vid or mp3, and save a slowed don file too, I recommend it to all players. ### 4/5 — Great app! *2025-03-09* Great for learning and teaching songs! Slowing down songs is much smoother sounding than the competition. Time for an update though. ### 5/5 — plz update *2023-11-30* plz ### 4/5 — Please add Reverse audio capability *2023-11-23* Please add the ability to reverse audio, please. Other than that, this app has been amazing. Would love ability to reverse audio. ### 5/5 — Super useful *2023-10-29, version 3.5.0* If you want to sample something from the Interweb, this is the most useful app. Very easy to save video, and/or extract audio for use in a project. The one thing that would make it even more useful, is if there was an AU3 option, as an IAP. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken *2025-10-05, version 4.1.3* It use to be a great app, but now it doesn’t work anymore. Can we please fix this app??! ### 1/5 — Don’t know why you decided to ruin the app but now it’s so bad that I’m uninstalling it. *2025-08-19* Update: Looks like the developer is doubling down on making the app worse. I guess it was just was too simple and worked too well for too long. Oh no, we can’t have that. Let’s destroy everything what worked and replace it with barely functional tackiness. Complete with a random burgundy stage curtain framing the main menu for some reason. The whole user interface is different (for the worse). It has all these tacky buttons around and some of them don’t work. Like the one that’s supposed to open files. It just stalls. I couldn’t even share an audio file to open it in the app. Nothing works and the app looks like a pop-up ad that you have to close before you can start a new game in a free chess app. Uninstalled until the real app comes back. ### 1/5 — Don’t know why you decided to ruin the app but now it’s so bad that I’m uninstalling it. *2025-06-29* The while user interface is different (for the worse). It has all these tacky buttons around and some of them don’t work. Like the one that’s supposed to open files. It just stalls. I couldn’t even share an audio file to open it in the app. Nothing works and the app looks like a pop-up ad that you have to close before you can start a new game in a free chess app. Uninstalled until the real app comes back. ### 1/5 — 돈냈는데 갑자기 안됩니다 *2025-06-11* 어찌 좀 해주세요 ### 1/5 — 내돈 *2025-06-05* 잘쓰고 있는데 트랜스포즈 하려고만하면 튕기네요?? ### 1/5 — Don’t buy *2025-03-27* Garbage…save yourself the 5 dollars and don’t buy it just because some moron influencer said he used it ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-02-27, version 3.5.0* The app does nothing ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2024-03-14, version 3.5.0* Broken. ### 1/5 — crash isssues *2023-10-13, version 3.5.0* the app isnt wrking it just crashes everytime i get audio from you tube it showa black screen til you click it ,then audio appears to show up but when you press play it just crashes. ### 1/5 — Lost all my data *2022-05-18* The app was not saving my exports, took it out of my phone to reinstall and lost all my songs….about 40 of them! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Gets the job done *2026-03-07* Awesome! Thanks for keeping it updated 🙏🏽 ### 5/5 — Freaking out *2025-09-26, version 4.1.3* Absolutely love this app, but for some reason, it’s not letting me do what I do with the app for any of the songs on YouTube not even my own music that I posted that is actually made by me like my own tracks. I can’t even it just keep saying import air help me out. ### 5/5 — What happened? *2025-07-26, version 4.1.2* Why is the interface so different? Now it wants me to log into YouTube, but takes me round and round when I try. What the h*** happened to this app? It used to be so easy and elegant to use. Get the URL and go. PLEASE bring back the ease of use. This is nuts. Makes me so very sad. ### 5/5 — The best App ever *2025-07-14* Just get it .... ### 5/5 — Awesome support services *2025-06-27* The app is super helpful for improving my guitar skills. You can download YouTube clips with a single button, save them, repeat selected sections, and play them back over and over. It’s the best app I know of for any musician. ### 5/5 — Update has fixed the app. *2025-06-27, version 4.1.0* The new ui takes a little getting used to if coming from an earlier version however all the great features remain and work well. The developer also responds to issues quickly. Well worth getting. ### 5/5 — Great update *2025-06-16, version 4.0.1* I’ve been using Beat Time for years to segment, slow down, and loop my video tracks and videos from YouTube. It’s the best at slowing a video down without distorting the audio, and. a wonderful learning tool that we recommend to all of our hammered dulcimer students at HD Homeland. The developer, Guy, is very responsive to problems. And in fact, I emailed him about a problem with YouTube videos right while he was working on this new big UI update and he took the time to try to fix it to include. And sure enough he found the fix! Can’t ask for more than that from a developer. And the UI improvements that he made in this release are great. They address things like renaming and organizing files and improvements in the interface. All for the better! I love this app. Thanks so much. ### 5/5 — App updated June 13, 25 *2025-06-13* New update today June 13, 2025 and my absolute favorite FIVE STAR app is still kicking it! ### 5/5 — Incredibly useful app! *2025-06-12* I’ve been using this app almost daily for about a decade now, and it has made my personal and professional life so much easier. There are other music apps that let you slow down songs, but this one has been the only truly reliable one that I’ve used. Having the ability to import songs from almost any source, slow them down, transpose them, mark and repeat parts or sections, export those sections or entire songs in new formats, etc. is exactly what I look for in an app. By far and away, the best feature is the ability to import audio directly from YT and save the files for later use. Of course, this feature can sometimes be at the whim of YT’s system, but the Beat Time! developer is always incredibly quick to update things to keep everything running smoothly. Thank you for such an amazing app! I hope to be using it forever! ### 5/5 — The best app for musicians *2025-06-08, version 3.5.0* I use this app to learn new songs. You can download any song from YouTube directly into the app and save it there. You can change the key and play sections at any speed you want. It’s the best app for musicians. --- *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 2026-08-30.*