Comparison

SongTorch vs Metronome

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SongTorch

Create and share interactive music books with songs, animations, and talking characters. Features include interactive instrument fingering, avatar customization, and student progress tracking. Seamlessly switch between devices and access demos of all songs.

Highlights
  • Interactive song and multimedia book creation
  • Animations and talking characters
  • Interactive recorder, guitar, and ukulele fingering
  • Customizable avatars with rewards
  • Student progress tracking
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Automatic page turning
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This wonderful new interactive song and multimedia book format is wowing musicians, singers and educators around the world. It’s free to use. Demos of all songs are available. Create your own interactive songs and interactive books. Now it's also available on iPad/iPhone/iPod and Mac app. Switch between all devices anytime, easily in seconds. New and improved: *Songs and books can now have animations and talking characters. *Interactive recorder, guitar and ukulele fingering is now available. *Create your own avatar to represent you and be rewarded with more avatar options when you earn stars. *Give interactive learning access to all of your students. *Student tracking of their interactive learning stars earned. *You can now have multiple devices logged in at the same time and have a different song or multimedia book open on each. *You can close a song or book remotely to switch it to your current device. *Automatic page turning features.

About

Metronome

This app provides a precise and stable metronome with customizable beat accents and multiple visual, vibration, and flash modes. It includes advanced features like subdivision modes and a rhythm trainer, making it suitable for musicians of all levels to sync with their team.

Highlights
  • Customizable beat accents (strong, weak, mute)
  • Multiple subdivision modes (triplets, dotted notes)
  • Visual, vibration, and flash modes
  • Background play mode
  • Rhythm trainer
  • Save tempos to playlists
  • Customizable tempo-change practice
Features
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Metronome App is a metronome designed specifically for iPhone. Its features are sufficient for almost all instrumentalists. The metronome interface allows you to easily set the tempo. Additionally, Professional Metronome offers up to 7 metronome tones. Based on self-developed audio technology, its rhythm is extremely precise and stable. Now you can also customize the accent of each beat. Unlike other metronomes, Professional Metronome provides four modes: "strong", "secondary strong", "weak", and "mute". In addition, you can use the Subdivision function. We offer various subdivision modes, including triplets, dotted notes, etc. Professional Metronome is a metronome that goes beyond a metronome. You can have visual, vibration, and flash modes simultaneously. The visual mode allows you to not only hear the beats but also see them; the vibration mode helps you find the tempo in noisy environments. With the screen and high-brightness camera LED flash, whether you are a bassist, guitarist, drummer in a band, or even a musician in an orchestra, Professional Metronome allows you and your team members to easily sync beats! Professional Metronome also offers many other settings, such as background play mode, in-app volume settings, timer, rhythm trainer, saving tempos to playlists, and supporting customizable tempo-change practice. With a carefully designed interface, Professional Metronome is powerful, easy to use, and accessible to everyone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SongTorch3 screens
Metronome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Metronome at 100% against SongTorch's 50%. Metronome also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). SongTorch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SongTorch sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Metronome sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SongTorch ships an update every 3 months, Metronome weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SongTorch versus Metronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongTorchMetronome
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.3
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIJAM Music Pty Ltd杭州掌上读科技有限公司

Customer experience

SongTorch

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Metronome

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SongTorch

One-time2
  • KeyFixer for SongTorch$8.99
  • KeyFixer for SongTorch$12.99
8 purchases

Metronome

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly Plan3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Plan3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Weekly Plan3 Days trial$4.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • Annual Plan3 Days trial$6.991 Year
  • Monthly Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Annual Plan3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Annual Plan3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Version$12.99

Questions

Is SongTorch free?
SongTorch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Metronome free?
Metronome is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SongTorch or Metronome have ads?
Metronome shows ads; SongTorch does not.
Which is updated more often, SongTorch or Metronome?
SongTorch ships an update every 3 months, and Metronome weekly. Most recently, SongTorch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Metronome on October 7, 2026.

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