# Time Guru Metronome — user reviews > 177 indexed App Store user reviews of Time Guru Metronome by Avi Bortnick, rated 4.50/5 from 450 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/time-guru-metronome/id421929034/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/time-guru-metronome/id421929034.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 362 · 4★ 38 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 30 ## What do users think of Time Guru Metronome? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent metronome app - 👍 Highly customizable and flexible - 🎼 Helpful for developing internal rhythm - 🎯 Effective for practicing odd time signatures - 💡 Innovative random mute feature **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🤔 Not very intuitive interface - 🔊 Could use better volume control **Commonly reported bugs** - Skipping beats and glitching - Unable to delete saved rhythms - Incompatibility with newer devices **Most requested features** - Ability to rearrange rhythm patterns - Option to assign different sounds to beats - Gradual tempo increase/decrease - Higher quality sound options - More time signature options beyond 7 beats ## Newest reviews (17 of 177) ### 4/5 — Incredibly useful app! *2026-07-25* I dinged it one star for usability. It’s not a huge problem, but it has room to improve. I would give it an enthusiastic five stars, otherwise. As a bluegrass bassist, you’re essentially the kick drum. You don’t time to them so much as they time to you. If your internal clock is off, the whole band suffers. This app seems so much more effective than just a basic metronome. Love it! ### 5/5 — Excellent app! *2026-02-17* I am a piano teacher, and this app is fantastic for learning to feel uneven pulses for pieces such as Bartok's Bulgarian Dances. I have a suggestion—is there a way I can send a preset to one of my students? If not, could you enable that in a future version? Again thanks for a very valuable app! **Developer response:** HI there. Thanks for the review! And YES - the latest update allows for sending your presets to someone else (as long as their using the iOS version for iPhone (or iPad)). Go to Presets and select the Transfer button at the top right. ### 5/5 — Was great. Even better. *2026-02-01, version 5.5.7* This is a neat metronome that breaks the fourth wall of metronomes. 5d chess Please add acciaccatura (grace notes)! ### 5/5 — My favourite metronome! *2026-01-15* Thank you for the update! I love Time Guru for the random mute function and the ability to build bars of odd rhythms I need to practise. ### 5/5 — Тик-так *2026-01-13* Любимый метроном ### 2/5 — Better Pre-Update *2026-01-10* There was a major update a month or two ago that, for me, turned this app from a 5 to a 2. It has become sluggish, with the flashing light no longer lining up with the sound, and the whole experience off the app went from something crisp to something that feels like it’s being managed by bad AI. Something I liked in the old version is that my phone wouldn’t sleep when using my metronome even on low power mode, which helped my phone last longer as a metronome. This is also gone. The update did nothing to improve my experience with the app, and I’m a professional who practices 2-3 hours per day. I’ve considered a new metronome, sadly. **Developer response:** Hello Tsalm. Are you still having visual sync issues? Everything works fine on my test devices. Is this with bluetooth or just on the device? You can contact me at timeguruvoxbeat@gmail.com. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Fantastic Metronome App *2025-12-22, version 5.3* Thank you for updating the metronome to gradually increase/decrease tempo over time. A very welcome addition to an already fantastic app. ### 5/5 — Incredible for developing internal rhythm *2025-12-21, version 5.3* The two standout features are the way you can mute randomly or in patterns you create. And the ease of creating odd meters. Super helpful. ### 5/5 — The best!! *2025-12-15, version 5.2.2* I just use this metronome for a click track, but love the random feature! The updates make it even better! ### 3/5 — Has potential *2025-12-10, version 5.2* There seems to be a lot of flexibility with the meter adjustments, but the controls aren’t at all intuitive. Got into some weird crazy loop where I couldn’t even figure out how to get back to 4/4 time with the accident on beat one. ### 5/5 — Yes! This is the best metronome app. *2025-10-28* I really appreciate being able to save each song time setting individually. I also like being able to choose the sound so I can hear it depending on what instrument I am playing. There’s so much I like about this app! ### 5/5 — Innovative Metronome *2025-09-14* I used to have to program my old Boss Dr. Beat to mix rhythms. Not with time guru! Easy to customize and combine rhythms with this app’s novel approach. You slap your forehead and think: ‘why didn’t someone think of this before?’. ### 5/5 — YOU NEED THIS! *2025-06-12* Helps builds synapses that recognize solid meter without leaning on the metronome to achieve it. One of the most useful music apps ever. Thanks Avi! ### 5/5 — Your brain needs this app’s mute mode *2025-04-29, version 4.5.3* I came here after seeing Molly Gebrian’s YouTube video about fMRI research on brain activity when 1) following a rhythm and 2) sustaining a rhythm oneself. Check it out to see why the mute mode of this app might help you be a better musician. “What musicians can learn about practicing from current brain research - part 3 - metronome use” ### 5/5 — It’s fun! *2025-03-05, version 4.5.3* I’m still a beginner, but this app is fun to use with its “random” feature! I would like to be able to see the time while using the app though. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-02-25* Blowing mind of rhythmic possibilities. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-01-18* I use this metronome for its simplest function as a click track, but love the random feature in particular. My only change would be the ability to see the phone’s time, Wi-Fi, battery status line. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This update is no good *2025-12-26, version 5.3* I loved this product until it stopped being able to function below 65 BPM. Please fix or I’ll have to get a new metronome ### 1/5 — 100bpm no longer works *2025-12-17, version 5.2.2* i’m not sure how you messed this up but the tempo skips from 99 to 101 after the latest update. you straight up cannot select 100bpm ### 1/5 — new update made it suck *2025-12-15, version 5.2.2* they changed a bunch of features on it and now i don’t want to use it because they reorganized everything or maybe even removed some things. sometimes i want it to function like a normal metronome and it literally sucks for that now ### 1/5 — Unglaublich komplizierte Bedienung *2024-07-28* Es lassen sich die einzelnen Tag Ketten nicht mehr löschen. Außerdem ist es sehr aufwändig, diese zu erstellen und bei zu bearbeiten eine App, die wenig durchdacht ist und somit im all täglichen Betrieb nicht gut funktioniert. Na, neh mehreren. Versuchen bin ich zu dem Schluss gekommen. ### 1/5 — Nothing special *2024-02-16* This isn’t a very flexible or well documented app. Once I take my eye if the screen there is no aural indication of the start of the measure. It could be developed into something useful but it isn’t there yet. ### 1/5 — A headache! *2023-08-05, version 4.5.3* I wish there was a video demo showing how to program this. It’s power is completely lost in the convoluted interface. ### 1/5 — Sélection des rythmes impossible. L’appli ne fonctionne pas sur iPhone *2023-05-20* L’appli ne fonctionne pas correctement ### 1/5 — Erase Funktion geht nicht auf iOS *2022-08-09* Der Titel sagt es schon. Auf iOS Geräten nicht brauchbar, da man die eingegebenen Beats nicht mehr löschen kann. ### 1/5 — Not working properly *2021-12-12* So you can add different bars of different time signatures etc but then you’re supposed to be able to double tap and erase them and this is not working. I’ve had to delete and reinstall a couple times and until you fix this bug it’s unusable. Otherwise it looked like such a great metronome I had to have it…just can’t use it yet :( please fix!! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work! *2021-09-03* Just got this app, because it looked like it has divisions in 5s and I can’t very get it to click. All of the meter select options are blank, and down the bottom it says “label” where there clearly is a fail at interface completion. Waste of money! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Convenient and malleable *2026-08-19* There are many ways to use this metronome, and that’s why it’s so cool to use it every day. I’ve been relying on it for a long time now ! ### 5/5 — All you need and nothing more *2026-06-28* I have been using the app for years to practice drumming and regularly use it for live gigs as well. It’s incredibly versatile and has all the functions one needs to play around and utilize time. ### 5/5 — Incredibly Versatile *2026-06-21, version 5.6.3* but subtle ### 5/5 — excellent *2026-05-29, version 5.6.3* great for developing internal clock. ### 5/5 — Best metronome ever *2026-04-30* Avi is the best ### 5/5 — Best metronome app on iPhone, I recommend it to everyone *2026-04-16, version 5.6.0* Its real good ### 5/5 — Best metronom app out there *2026-04-15* this is by far the best app for timing practice I know. After years of trying different apps. This one is it!!! ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-03-18, version 5.6.0* This app is helping me get better at rhythm one click at a time. It’s not super fancy. But I like that since my main goal isn’t to learn a metronome tools it’s to learn how to count for my instrument. ### 5/5 — A joy for musicians *2026-03-11* I’m a piano teacher and gigging musician and I’ve used this for years, it’s one of my favourite apps. Functionally, it’s perfect. Aesthetically, I do think it would benefit from a modern visual redesign to reach a wider audience as the app could easily appeal to millions of musicians. Also, I would reduce the number of quirky but less useful metronome sounds and set the default to something nice like woodblock two. Thank you to the developers for their outstanding work, I’m incredibly grateful. ### 5/5 — I love time guru *2026-02-18, version 5.5.9* Why are you practicing? --- *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 2026-09-09.*