FeisBox vs BARBARA the Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FeisBox
This app provides professional-grade tools for Irish dancers to practice their steps. It features adjustable tempo, custom practice regions, and tune favorites with speed memory. Track your progress and practice offline to prepare for competitions.
- Smart BPM Control
- 117+ Tunes (12 free)
- Custom Practice Regions
- Favorites & Speed Memory
- Offline Mode
- Practice Tracking
- Customizable Themes
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Everything You Need to Master Your Irish Dance Steps and prepare for your next feis. Professional-grade practice tools designed specifically for Irish dance practice: Smart BPM Control Adjust tempo from 50% to 150% with advanced pitch-preserving technology and precise beats per minute. Visual competition zones help you practice at the right speed. 117+ Tunes All users get 12 free tunes included with both traditional and contemporary versions (24 recordings total). No purchase required. FeisBox Pro subscribers can enjoy 117 recordings and counting with both traditional and new contemporary remixes coming as we grow. Custom Practice Regions Adjust the start and end point to loop just the area you want to focus on. Favorites & Speed Memory When you favorite a tune, this feis app remembers your last speed so you can pick up right where you left off. Offline Mode Download your favorite tunes and practice anywhere, even without internet connection. Practice Tracking Track your practice time with weekly goals, streaks, and progress visualization. Stay motivated and consistent. Customizable Themes Choose from 18 beautiful accent colors and toggle between light and dark modes. Apple End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
BARBARA the Metronome
Create and play complex metronomic sequences with customizable time signatures, rests, and alternative sounds. Offers quick start for traditional rhythms and advanced programmable features for musicians.
- Create metronomic sequences
- Variable time signatures per bar
- Rests between bars
- Alternative metronome sounds
- Programmable tempo changes
- Sequence repetition options
- Save and name custom sequences
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With BARBARA you can quickly create and play metronomic sequences of bars, and the bars can have different time signatures. You can put rests between bars, and you can use alternative metronome sounds for selected bars. You can specify how many times, or minutes, each bar is played. BARBARA has many pages of buttons with which you can create sequences of bars. The buttons are marked with familiar musical symbols. BARBARA is a programmable metronome as its operation is based on the sequences of bars that are created with the buttons. Although BARBARA can be made to play bars with different time signatures, musicians most often need the basic metronomic functionalities. For these purposes BARBARA has a Quick Start button with which you can quickly start making some traditional rhythms or a monotonous metronome sound. You can set the tempo and activate the metronome by tapping an empty area of the main screen. With tempo buttons you can set or change the tempo of the metronome in any position in a sequence of bars. When tempo is programmed in a sequence, you can make BARBARA play a certain bar for a certain number of minutes. Special buttons exist to accelerate or slow down the tempo within a number of bars. BARBARA can be made to tick certain sections of music with a different metronome sound. One way to utilise this feature is to use the secondary metronome sound to mark changes in a piece of music. In addition to traditional metronome sounds, BARBARA can play simple drum sounds. Sequences of metronomic bars can be created so that they contain both traditional metronome sounds and drum sounds. There are several ways how BARBARA can repeat sequences of bars. You can even create a repeated sequence that is inside a longer sequence that is also repeated. BARBARA will store the sequences of bars that you create. You can name your sequences and play them later. A named sequence can be sent to a friend in a message. The metronome app contains many demo sequences that will help you to learn how the metronome can be used. You can copy and modify the demo sequences for your own purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FeisBox at Free against BARBARA the Metronome's $6.99. FeisBox also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 2). BARBARA the Metronome's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
FeisBox is free to download; BARBARA the Metronome costs $6.99 up front. FeisBox sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. BARBARA the Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for FeisBox against 5.0 for BARBARA the Metronome. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
FeisBox ships an update every 10 months, BARBARA the Metronome every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FeisBox | BARBARA the Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Russell Wulfenstein | Asteroid Zone Software |
Customer experience
FeisBox
BARBARA the Metronome
In-app purchases
FeisBox
- FeisBox Pro$7.991 Month
BARBARA the Metronome
No in-app purchases









