SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer vs Poly Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer
This app is a powerful practice tool for musicians, blending a graphic sequencer with an advanced metronome. Create custom rhythm chains for skill development or download pre-made patterns to improve timing and learn new musical ideas.
- Graphic rhythmic sequencer
- Advanced metronome
- Custom rhythm chain creation
- Save practice routines
- Download pre-programmed rhythm chains
- Skill development tool
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Far more than a metronome, SYNKD is a revolutionary educational tool for all musicians. The app combines an easy-to-use graphic-based rhythmic sequencer with a highly advanced metronome. Build and save rhythm chains for practice routines and skill development. Download pre-programmed rhythm chains to maximize your practice time, learn new patterns, and perfect your timing, all from the palm of your hand.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Poly Metronome at Free against SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer's $9.99. Poly Metronome also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 12 months). SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer's advantage is review sentiment (45% vs 23%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). 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
Poly Metronome is free to download; SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer costs $9.99 up front. SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Poly Metronome sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Poly Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poly Metronome has 204 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer's written reviews are positive against 23% of Poly Metronome's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer ships an update every 12 months, Poly Metronome every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer | Poly Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (23 ratings) | 4.3 (204 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.7% of reviews — better | 22.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 204 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flamadiddle Inc. | Imre Virag |
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In-app purchases
SYNKD Metronome & Sequencer
- D’Addario Education CollectiveFree
- Pack of Polyrhythm Chains$1.99
- Pack of World Rhythm Chains$1.99
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- Essential Odd Times 1$1.99
- Over The Bar Line$1.99
- Accents and Subdivisions 2$1.99
- Pack of Timing Chains$1.99
- Note Rate Combinations$2.99
- Accents and Subdivisions 2$2.99
- Pack of Timing Chains$2.99
- Tuplet Transitions$2.99
- Pack of Polyrhythm Chains$3.99
- Pack of World Rhythm Chains$3.99
- Between the Beats$3.99
- Rhythm Basics - Modern Drummer$4.99
- Stickings & Subdivisions$6.99
Poly Metronome
- Pro Version$4.99
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