Poly Metronome vs Metro'n Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poly Metronome
Master rhythm with a precise metronome offering advanced features like subdivisions and polyrhythms. Create complex patterns, save setups, and train your timing with built-in tools. Visual, flash, and vibrate modes ensure you stay on beat in any environment.
- Subdivisions per beat
- Polyrhythm creation
- Programmable setlists
- Coach Trainer with mute
- Automator tempo progression
- Visual, flash, and vibrate modes
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Poly Metronome is a precise, modern practice tool for musicians who want more than just a click. Set any time signature, shape odd meters with accent groupings, layer polyrhythms, then save your setups as presets and setlists — or build up speed with practice sessions that track your progress. A clean interface scales from iPhone to iPad, with a live pulse ring that shows every voice and accent at a glance — and stays in sync with the sound on the speaker, headphones, AirPods or AirPlay. FREE FEATURES • Studio-grade timing engine, 1–800 BPM • Any time signature: 1–32 beats per bar, counted in quarter or eighth notes — 5/4, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8 and more • Accents and groupings such as 2+2+3 for odd meters • Two-voice polyrhythms such as 3:2 or 4:7 • Count-in before playback • Tap tempo and manual BPM entry • Vibration and LED flash on the beat (iPhone) • Foot pedal and Bluetooth keyboard control • Siri and Shortcuts: start, stop and set the tempo hands-free • Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and Control Center controls • AirPlay and Bluetooth speakers, with a latency notice • Searchable user guide with live examples • Ad-free, with dark, light or system theme PRO FEATURES — one-time purchase, Family Sharing supported • Up to 5 polyrhythm voices, each with its own sound, color, accents and pattern • 18 sound banks (10 metronome + 8 polyrhythm) • 16 built-in rhythm patterns and a custom pattern editor with real notation — even a different subdivision on every beat • Presets: create, edit and duplicate, with notes such as the key or capo shown on stage • Setlists: songs in order, each with its own tempo, notes and auto-advance on the downbeat — the app reopens on the same song if it closes mid-gig • Practice sessions: Coach mutes bars to test your inner time, Automator ramps the tempo by bars or seconds, and session goals keep you on track • Practice log: day streak, minutes per day and your top-tempo progress • Siri and Spotlight for your presets, practices and setlists • iCloud sync across all your devices Ideal for drummers, guitarists, pianists, singers, dancers and any musician serious about timing.
Metro'n Drums
This app provides a metronome function combined with a drum set for music practice. Create custom rhythm patterns using drum sounds and save your settings. Pre-set rhythms are available, and it's controllable from Apple Watch.
- Basic metronome function
- Rhythm patterns with drum set sounds
- Save metronome settings and patterns
- Pre-set rhythm patterns
- Apple Watch control
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Metro'n Drums is a metronome app for music practice that combines a metronome and a drum set. *Basic metronome function *Rhythm patterns can be created with the sounds of drum sets *User memory function that can save your metronome settings and rhythm patterns *A simple rhythm pattern is prepared in advance in the preset memory. *It can also be controlled from your Apple Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Metro'n Drums at none against Poly Metronome's 1. Metro'n Drums also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Poly Metronome's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Poly Metronome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Metro'n Drums asks for nothing beyond the download.
Poly Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poly Metronome has 204 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Poly Metronome ships an update every 5 days, Metro'n Drums every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poly Metronome | Metro'n Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (204 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 204 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imre Virag | Yasuto Saito |
Customer experience
Poly Metronome
Metro'n Drums
In-app purchases
Poly Metronome
- Pro Version$4.99
Metro'n Drums
No in-app purchases
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