Comparison

Tempobot vs Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel

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

Head to head
About

Tempobot

This music practice tool offers a straightforward metronome with adjustable tempo via a slider. It includes features for saving favorite tempos and detecting beats by tapping. Designed to make musical instrument practice more enjoyable.

Highlights
  • Adjustable tempo slider
  • History and bookmarking of tempos
  • Tap to detect tempo
  • iPad multitasking support
  • Zoom functionality for older iPhones
Features
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Tempobot is a simple and fun metronome. Simply drag the slider to adjust tempo. Learning a musical instrument can be tiresome, so I designed Tempobot to make your practice session more joyful. tap and hold on the slider to zoom (iPhone 6 and older) • History & Bookmark: quickly load recent tempi and save your favorites Other Features: • iPad multi-tasking support (Slide Over and Split View) • Tap to detect tempo

About

Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel

This app analyzes music in real-time, identifying chords, their functions within a key, and recording progressions. It also includes a tuner, metronome, and key detection for producers and musicians.

Highlights
  • Real-time chord and key identification
  • Chord function labeling (I, IV, V, etc.)
  • Recording of musical progressions
  • MIDI input with built-in synth
  • Real-time tuner and metronome
  • Key detection for DJs
Features
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The Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel is a musician and producer toolkit — a tuner for chords and a measurement device for the vitals of the music in front of you. Point it at your mic or play it over MIDI, and it reads the harmony as it happens — the chord, the key, and the job that chord is doing. Works on piano, guitar, or recorded music with clear harmonic movement. It identifies each chord's role, not just its name, using the Beat Kitchen Ten Chord Toolkit (explained in the guidebook built into the app): the tonic (I) you keep coming back to, the IV that opens things up, the V that wants to resolve, a V/vi setting up a detour, a bVII pulled from the parallel minor. The matching wedge lights up as you play. What it does Hears chords from your mic in real time, right on your device — nothing leaves your phone Labels the wheel by function, not just by chord name: I, ii, IV, V, V/vi, bVII, and the rest Records what you played so you can study the path a progression took Tap any wedge to hear the chord Takes MIDI in, wired or over Bluetooth, with a built-in synth Locks to your key so the wheel orients to the music you're in A Learn tab that walks through what you're looking at If you've reached for a circle of fifths or a key finder before, you're in the same neighborhood — except this one works in real time, while the music is still playing. Producer Tools A tuner and a metronome, built for the studio. Check your tuning. Tap a tempo or let the mic detect it for you, then read it in BPM and in milliseconds for every subdivision — with your own click sound on each one. Watch the beat pulse from across the room and feel it in your pocket with haptics (iPhone). And because the wheel already reads your key in real time, it doubles as a key detector for DJs lining up harmonic transitions. Who it's for Producers, DJs, songwriters, students, and anyone who can tell a progression is doing something to them but can't always say what. You don't need to read music. You need to be curious about why a few chords in a row can move you. It's theory you can hear before you can spell it. Beat Kitchen is a school that teaches harmony by ear and by function first. Harmony Wheel puts that same way of listening on your phone.

Screenshots

Tempobot2 screens
Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tempobot at Free against Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel's $6.99. Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Tempobot is free to download; Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tempobot against 5.0 for Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tempobot ships an update every 12 months, Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tempobot versus Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempobotBeat Kitchen Harmony Wheel
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQi YangBeat Kitchen LLC

Customer experience

Tempobot

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tempobot

No in-app purchases

None

Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tempobot free?
Tempobot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel free?
Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tempobot or Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel?
Tempobot and Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Tempobot or Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel have ads?
Neither Tempobot nor Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tempobot or Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel?
Tempobot ships an update every 12 months, and Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel every 4 days. Most recently, Tempobot was updated on November 2, 2026 and Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel on November 5, 2026.

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