Beater vs ORhythmic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beater
This digital metronome offers comprehensive features for musicians, allowing for the creation of simple and complex time signatures. Customize individual beats, subdivide them, and practice polyrhythms with high accuracy.
- Customizable time signatures
- Beat subdivision
- Beat on/off selection
- Polyrhythm practice
- High audio sample accuracy
- Ad-free and in-app purchase free
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Built by a musician for musicians, Beater is a full-featured and compact digital metronome, containing all the features you need to build simple and complex meters. On the Time and Tempo screen, set the overall meter and tempo. Then for more customization, dive into the beats view, where you can select the sound of individual beats, subdivide beats into parts, and turn beats on and off. Beater is accurate down to a single audio sample. The current version of Beater was designed for practicing polyrhythms in addition to standard meters. By setting a fast tempo and 11 beats per measure for example, the user can use a variety of sounds and accents to practice a repeating meter of 4/4 followed by 3/8. Like all my apps, Beater will always be free of ads and in-app purchases!
ORhythmic
This app transforms traditional metronomes into interactive rhythmic trees for practicing complex tuplets. It offers near-unlimited nested tuplets with intuitive editing and extensive BPM and time signature controls.
- Near unlimited nested tuplets
- Intuitive edit controls
- BPM controls (1-500)
- Flexible time signatures
- Interactive rhythmic trees
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For too long, metronomes have made practicing tuplets hard and clunky. ORhythmic turns traditional click-tracks into interactive rhythmic trees, allowing you to create structures previously confined to your innermost thoughts. Top features: - Near unlimited nested tuplets at the click of a button. - Intuitive edit controls without diving into complex menus. - BPM controls from 1 to 500. - Time signatures from 1/1 to 100/100. For iOS 17+ Privacy policy: https://prospero23.github.io/orhythmicsite/legal/privacy-policy.html Terms of use: https://prospero23.github.io/orhythmicsite/legal/terms-of-service.html
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Verdict
Beater and ORhythmic both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ORhythmic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Beater's. ORhythmic also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months). Beater's advantage is iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
ORhythmic is free to download; Beater costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beater against 5.0 for ORhythmic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ORhythmic has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Beater's written reviews are positive against 100% of ORhythmic's.
Beater ships an update every 12 months, ORhythmic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and July 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beater | ORhythmic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Geilich | Benjamin Eugene Eidson |
Customer experience
Beater
ORhythmic
In-app purchases
Beater
No in-app purchases
ORhythmic
No in-app purchases
