Tunepal vs Time Guru Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tunepal
Identify traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh, and Breton tunes by playing them into your device. Search a vast database, download and view notation, edit staves, and share your findings. Enjoy high-quality playback of identified melodies.
- Identify tunes by playing them
- Searchable database of 22,000+ tunes
- Download and view musical notation
- Edit tune staves
- High-quality playback engine
- Share tunes via email and Facebook
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Listed in the top 500 apps of all times by the Sunday Times (6 February 2012) Listed in the top twenty cultural apps for iPhone by the Sunday Times (28 March 2010). Winner of the best overall invention 2010 in the Dublin Institute of Technology. Tunepal was in the top 25 grossing apps on the app store (17-18 July 2010). The essential tool for all musicians playing traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh and Breton music! Ever sat in a trad session and wondered what was the name of that great tune someone just played? Well now you can search a database of over 22,000 tunes from your iPhone/iPod BY PLAYING! Hold your device up to a melody instrument such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, uilleann pipes, accordion or banjo, hit record and the melody will be extracted and submitted to the tunepal.org search engine for matching. Matching tunes are downloaded to your device, where you can view and edit the notation or the stave, email the tune, post it to facebook or play it back using the high quality playback engine based on ABC2MIDI and FMOD.
Time Guru Metronome
This app strengthens your internal sense of rhythm by periodically going silent, testing your ability to maintain tempo. It offers random and patterned muting, complex meter sequences, and gradual tempo changes for comprehensive practice.
- Random and patterned muting
- Complex meter sequences
- Gradual tempo changes
- Practice timer
- Customizable sound sets
- Voice counting
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**Strengthen your internal sense of rhythm.** Time Guru is the only metronome that periodically goes silent—randomly, in patterns, or both—so you discover whether you rush, drag, or lose your place. **Random & Pattern Muting** Set any percentage of random muting to test your timekeeping. Or create sequenced muting patterns. Or combine both. You'll quickly learn where your time falls apart—and strengthen it. **Complex Meter Sequences** Build unlimited chains of shifting meters: 4/4 -> 7/8 -> 3/4 -> 11/16 -> 4/4 -> 3/8. Meters go up to 16/x, patterns have no length limit, and you can rearrange them with drag-and-drop. **Gradual Tempo Changes** Automatically speed up or slow down over time—perfect for building technique. **Practice Timer** Set the metronome to stop after a specified duration. **Also includes:** • 35 loud, clear sound sets • Drum machine-style rhythmic patterns • Voice counting in English, Chinese, French, German & Russian • Tap tempo (5–300 BPM) • iCloud backup and sync • Light and dark themes • Full VoiceOver accessibility • Rock-solid timing via custom audio engine Developed by Avi Bortnick and Adam Bellard
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tunepal at Free against Time Guru Metronome's $2.99. Time Guru Metronome's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Tunepal is free to download; Time Guru Metronome costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Time Guru Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Guru Metronome has 455 ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Tunepal's written reviews are positive against 80% of Time Guru Metronome's.
Tunepal ships an update every 2 months, Time Guru Metronome weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tunepal | Time Guru Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (46 ratings) | 4.5 (455 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.1% of reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 | 455 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #58 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Duggan | Avi Bortnick |
Customer experience
Tunepal
Time Guru Metronome
Bugs and requests
Tunepal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Time Guru Metronome
Reported bugs
3 issues- Skipping beats and glitching
- Unable to delete saved rhythms
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to rearrange rhythm patterns
- Option to assign different sounds to beats
- Gradual tempo increase/decrease
- Higher quality sound options
- More time signature options beyond 7 beats
In-app purchases
Tunepal
No in-app purchases
Time Guru Metronome
No in-app purchases
