# liveBPM - Beat Detector — user reviews > 115 indexed App Store user reviews of liveBPM by Daniel Bach, rated 4.10/5 from 115 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/livebpm-beat-detector/id554766778/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/livebpm-beat-detector/id554766778.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 74 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 18 ## Newest reviews (15 of 115) ### 3/5 — Landscape mode? Really? *2024-02-11, version 1.2.1* Forcing you app to run in landscape mode is a PIA. Yes, if you operate in landscape the controls are similar to portrait mode but it’s awkward and what in this app requires the width? Stumble over this whenever I use it. ### 4/5 — Cool and useful tool *2024-01-12* I just stumbled upon it and wanted to try it out. Being a drummer I was having over the years quite some discussions like „hey you did not stay on x bpm throughout the song” And we drummers day “ hey dude, get yourself either a metronome or trust me 😂” Now I have proof - especially when you recorded the song. Nice work😀 Only the format of the app is not optimum for me. I would like it to be in portrait mode on my iPhone, too. So far I get only a forced landscape view. But maybe I need tutorial for this 😉 ### 5/5 — Uso em Bateria de Escola de Samba *2023-10-11* Muito útil pra monitorar o andamento de uma bateria, percebendo a variação de andamento entre ritmo, viradas e retomadas e bossas. ### 3/5 — annoying *2023-09-17* Annoying app to use, only landscape orientation which is painful especially if you’re not used to it. Only counts to 160 anything above it’ll give you half speed so you need to do maths. I’d expect it to be smarter for the price. ### 2/5 — Hat die App früher besser funktioniert ? *2023-09-14* Die App scheint prinzipiell alles in double time zu erkennen. Spiele ich (auf dem Pad) etwas unter 100 dauert es recht lang bis aus 60 120 wird….🤔 ### 3/5 — Great idea needs improvement *2023-07-15* App doesn’t exit cleanly. Seems to Lock Screen. When playing iTunes tracks I don’t know if it’s working because live bpm seems to mute speaker? Either that or Apple Music App stops when live bpm is open. So it has limited functionality imo ### 5/5 — Funktioniert gut, auch im live-Einsatz *2023-05-03* Dauert etwas bis das Tempo erkannt wird, ist aber ziemlich zuverlässig (zumindest bei Rock/pop music) ### 3/5 — But you can never leave ….. *2023-04-05* A friend brought his to a session, and I found it useful and download my own copy. It works when I run it. But the app switcher on my iPhone 12 Pro (iOS 16.2) doesn’t work within live BPM. It works with all my other applications. The only way I found to exit is to shut down my phone and reboot. Not good. I found no way other than Facebook to contact the creator Daniel Bach. Not so good for those of us that choose not to sell our soul to Meta. Updated: 4/5/23 App developer Daniel Bach offered this help: “the app is closed by swiping in the orthogonal direction, like all apps running in landscape mode”. This is the only app I have that runs only in landscape mode, and a Google search didn’t offer much insight. But with experimentation I found fix. A greyed out bar appears at the bottom of the landscape mode screen. One upward swipe turns the bar from grey to white, and a second upward swipe get you back to the Home Screen. **Developer response:** The app is closed by swiping in orthogonal direction like all apps running in landscape mode. ### 4/5 — Good for what it’s meant for *2023-01-12* It does a good job of tracking tempo. However, I wish it would support split screen on the iPad so I can run it side by side with Forscore. It’s a terrible waste of space running in full screen. I will still give it 4 stars because it is successful in reading and accurate bpm when playing live. ### 5/5 — Purchased *2022-11-14, version 1.2.1* Cannot get the device to pick up vibration to give tempo ### 4/5 — Works every time without fail, but maybe runs fast *2022-11-12* I’ve been using this at least once a day on average for six months. … very reliable and picks up the beat very fast. However comparing its readings to accepted readings posted by DJ’s online it might be running a couple of BPM fast. Or maybe it’s my turn table. ### 5/5 — Great great app. *2022-11-11* I use it in rehearsal and concert, as a drummer, to be sure my tempo doesn’t fluctuate. It’s readable, and precise. ### 4/5 — Please update this App *2022-08-31* Great and the most Accurate BPM detection App. I would love an update for this app. ### 4/5 — Split screen *2022-07-29* Great if this can work on split screen mode, so that another app for set list could be run in parallel Thanks ### 5/5 — Please support up to 300bpm. *2022-06-15* I always use it! The question is, are there any plans to raise the maximum bpm to 300? If possible, please support up to 300. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Freezes my iPhone *2024-04-14, version 1.2.1* Had to delete. iPhone 13 Pro. 17.4.1 ### 1/5 — I just downloaded this and it was working and now it does not hear the music and stop working *2024-01-13, version 1.2.1* How do I get it to work ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2023-04-25* App does not appear to work on newer phones. Music cuts out when app is opened. Won’t measure beats. Am using an iPhone 14 on iOS 16 Appears to be a waste of money **Developer response:** It was never meant to measure the music coming out of the phone, but I'll look into this. ### 1/5 — Trash *2023-04-01, version 1.2.1* This app will not work on my iPhone. It will open and not respond to anything and then you can’t close the app without rebooting your phone. I feel like I was scammed out of the few dollars that this app cost me. Don’t buy this app! It doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Inconsistent *2023-01-31, version 1.2.1* Doesn’t consistently register a beat. Especially when streaming a song on the IOS device. Only works in landscape mode on the iPhone. ### 1/5 — Result very wrong *2021-11-30* If I play tunes on my iPhone which have a bpm included as part of the title the app result is often many times wrong. ### 1/5 — App has stopped working *2021-04-04, version 1.2.1* I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and it still doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Live BPM *2021-01-28, version 1.2.1* I wish it would work with IOS 14. It was the best app fir a drummer ### 1/5 — 真っ暗 *2020-12-15* 急に使えなくなった **Developer response:** 再インストール時に機能します ### 1/5 — Does not work 🤦🏼‍♀️ *2020-07-18, version 1.2.1* Does not work properly ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-07-28, version 1.2.1* For years certain bands I play in I had a bpm meter that use a trigger on snare. That means certain songs without snare or with overly complex patterns did read well. This app is great ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-05-28, version 1.2.1* My contract dance band totally relies on this to keep a good tempo for dancers. It’s the best! ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-05-13, version 1.2.1* Just want to say thanks for bringing Live BPM back to the App Store. I’ve really missed it. ### 5/5 — The True OG L I VE is back! *2026-05-05, version 1.2.1* The True OG L I VE is back! Love to see it - Eris Drew ### 5/5 — Best bpm live tracker in the market *2026-04-21* By far best app in the market. The tracking is so exact you can use the bpm for DJing ### 5/5 — Live BPM *2024-04-15* I’m a new user to Live BPM. After working with it for many hours now, I’m happy to say it works easy and seamlessly. The one enhancement I would suggest is: Adding a regular Metronome feature that you can set at the beginning of each song on stage(to begin the song) then display the beginning tempo to the ongoing tempo during the performance. Not sure if you can do this. It would definitely be an enhancement. ### 5/5 — DAW Pros…This one’s for us *2024-03-31, version 1.2.1* This is for anyone working in professional DAWs…Pro Tools, etc. I was dealing with a click track that had undergone a move in tempo but that move had been applied via the pitch shift algorithm in pro tools putting the tempo quicker but not precisely on any whole number (in the likeness of tape machines). The music and this new click were in perfect sync but the session grid was still in the previous BPM. LiveBPM saved me a ton of time by getting me in the right “zipcode” where I could then begin going granular with the BPM in the session. After starting playback of the click, liveBPM instantly honed in on 156.81 BPM (click was subdivided into 8th notes) and then only occasionally moved to .82 or .83 but stayed locked on .81 90+% of the playback. Since the BPM / grid of the session was defined in quarter notes, I cut 156.81 in half and that got me to 78.4050 (Pro Tools has BPM defined to 4 decimals). At that setting the old and new clicks were extremely close. A couple more fine adjustments and an a/b comparison of both clicks on playback rendered no discernible difference at a final setting of 78.4056. The only way to detect any drift between the two clicks was to microscopically zoom in visually on each to see that a tiny amount of drift was beginning to happen in the final measures of the 6-minute song. My only wish would be for a pro version of liveBPM to exist with detection to 4 decimals to match pro DAWs but I can certainly understand the market for that being most likely small. I’m most grateful to have located this app. Thank you for developing it. ### 5/5 — Great app to see a line of bpm over 30 min *2024-02-17, version 1.2.1* I wish I could set the full range to a narrow range. We want 110-120, so wish I could set the entire graph range to 100-130 or so. ### 5/5 — Hi Daniel *2024-01-13, version 1.2.1* Love this app, use it almost every session! Daniel is there any way to feed audio into the headphone port to detect beat? An option for detecting 3/4 time would also be amazing, thanks! ### 5/5 — serato djでうまく測れない曲もバッチリ *2024-01-11* serato djでうまく解析できない曲も正確にBPMを図れるため、手動でBPM設定ができ、とても助かってます。 似たようなアプリがあっても良いですがなかなか自動検出は無いので重宝します。 AppleWatchでも測れると良いと思います。 --- *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 2026-09-04.*