Tour Tempo vs Metro Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tour Tempo
Learn to integrate the tempo of professional golfers into your swing with this scientifically proven app. It uses musical notes to guide your backswing and downswing timing, helping you improve your golf game. Suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to pros.
- Learn professional golf swing tempo
- Scientifically proven method
- Musical notes guide swing timing
- Long game tempo ratios (3:1)
- Short game tempo ratios (2:1)
- Improves all facets of golf game
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Used by beginners through Major Championship winners on the PGA Tour, and validated by an Independent Scientific Study by the Departments of Physics and Biomechanics at Yale University. The Tour Tempo Total Game allows you to learn how to correctly integrate the Tempo of the Tour Pros into your golf swing. Over 100,000 golfers worldwide, including Major Championship winners on the PGA Tour, have improved their games by using Tour Tempo. "In all the reviews I've written for MyGolfSpy (a number now pushing up on 100), I'd only given one perfect score. Now Tour Tempo can be added to that most-elite company. Tour Tempo is scientifically proven, it's easy to use, and it will help you in every facet of the game." — GolfSpy Matt: http://www.mygolfspy.com/tour-tempo-review "It will be the best thing that you will ever do for your game." — Pat Dempsey, 2011 RE/MAX World Long Drive Grand Champion 55+ "You will get better right away! When you synch your swing to that of the Tour Pros with Tour Tempo, you’ll get better right now!" — Dan Rooney, Folds of Honor "The Unified Theory of Tempo" — Golf Digest "No one has ever come up with a way to teach Tempo until now." — Travel + Leisure Golf Based on the international best selling golf book, Tour Tempo. The book outlines and explains the discovery of a specific mathematical ratio regarding the elapsed time of the backswing and the elapsed time of the downswing of the Tour Pros. The Tour Tempo System is simple and easy to learn. All you do is react to three scientifically spaced musical notes. These musical notes alert you to start your takeaway, start your downswing, and then the third note lines you up with impact. It’s just that easy - you literally download the app, turn it on, grab a club and start swinging to the Tempo of the Tour Pros. LONG GAME The Long Game Tones will teach you how to swing with the tempo ratio exhibited by the Tour Pros. We measured the time of their backswings and downswings by counting how many frames of video each part took. The magic ratio on full swings turned out to be three parts backswing to one part downswing. Tones are provided for each of the following frame ratios of Tour Tempo - 18/6, 21/7, 24/8 & 27/9. The Tour Tempo Tones have a clear purpose. They establish the intrinsic tempo of the golf swing in your subconscious mind. Once this is accomplished, you will not have to think about tempo while playing. This is what the Tour Pros have already done. You are about to acquire that same ability. SHORT GAME The Total Game App also contains the Short Game Tones of 14/7, 16/8, 18/9 & 20/10. After the publication of Tour Tempo, John Novosel studied the short game swings of the top touring pros, and discovered that virtually all of them employ a 2 to 1 swing ratio on or around the greens - a different Tempo than the 3 to 1 ratio of the Long Game. This is another reason why the game of golf is so hard to master. TEMPO TRACKS The Tempo Tracks are an easy way to integrate Tour Tempo into your daily routine. One of the best ways to use the Tracks is to listen to them while driving to the course before a round of golf. The more you listen to them, the more the Tour Tempo rhythm will be ingrained into your Golf Swing. FOCUS TRACKS The Focus Tracks are revolutionary relaxation songs that contain the Tones of Tour Tempo. Each Track has a Part II that has binaural tones embedded in the music to get your brain into an optimum state for concentration. This optimum state is more commonly known to athletes as “Being in the Zone.” VIDEOS The videos give a complete explanation of the Tones and how to use them to immediately and dramatically improve your Total Game. DISCOUNT Get a one-time $10 discount code from the Info screen, valid on future purchases at TourTempo.com and TourTempo.eu. TERMS OF USE (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Metro Timer
This app functions as a metronome timer, allowing users to set custom intervals and repetition counts. It includes a memo feature to log results automatically, with options to edit entries. The timer can be set to run indefinitely.
- Customizable intervals
- Set number of repetitions
- Gradually shortening intervals
- Automatic result logging
- Editable memo function
- Infinite repetition option
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It is a timer that counts as a metronome. You are free to set the interval and number of times. Gradually shorten the interval, let physical ability up! In memo function, you can note the results in one click. How to use Number of times it becomes infinite by setting to zero. When you click the memo button after stop, date, time, interval, number of times are automatically recorded. You can freely edit the memo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Metro Timer at Free against Tour Tempo's $24.99. Metro Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). Tour Tempo's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 1.8) and chart position (#6 vs unranked). On ads, 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
Metro Timer is free to download; Tour Tempo costs $24.99 up front. Tour Tempo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Metro Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tour Tempo holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tour Tempo has 89 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Tour Tempo's written reviews are positive against 54% of Metro Timer's.
| Parameter | Tour Tempo | Metro Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (89 ratings) — better | 1.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.7% of reviews — better | 53.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #6 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 410 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tour Tempo | 2ka |
Customer experience
Tour Tempo
Metro Timer
Bugs and requests
Tour Tempo
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes or freezes on intro
- Videos do not load or app crashes when accessing them
- Lost videos after upgrading
- Audio difficulties
- App no longer on Apple Watch
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- App is glitchy and crashes frequently
Requested features
8 requests- Add an OFFLINE button for login timeouts
- Allow customization of tempo ratios and tones
- Include more diverse tones and voice cues
- Add metrics tracking use over time
- Include a tutorial for the driver
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- Add real music instead of just tones
- Randomize spacing between tone sets
- Include 30/10 and 33/11 tempos on the app
Metro Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tour Tempo
- Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$49.99
Metro Timer
No in-app purchases









