Comparison

Guitar Pro vs Time Trainer Metronome

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Guitar Pro

View and play sheet music and tablature files from a popular desktop program. Practice songs, record ideas with a single-track tablature editor, and access a library of scores. Supports various file formats and includes practice tools.

Highlights
  • Play GP3/4/5/6/7/8 and PowerTab files
  • Tablature, slash, and standard notation support
  • Multitrack player with soundboard
  • Metronome and visual countdown
  • Single-track tablature editor (NotePad)
  • Export to PDF and Guitar Pro formats
Features
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The Guitar Pro application allows all musicians to view and play sheet music and tablature created with the famous Guitar Pro tab-editing program for Windows and Mac. This mobile version is the ideal companion for you to practice your favorite songs and share them any time, anywhere! Coming up with some arpeggio, a riff, a chord sequence? You can now note and save it all on the single-track tablature NotePad. Powerful score player • Supporting GP3/4/5/6/7/8 (.gp) and PowerTab (.ptb) file formats,
 • Tab (with rhythmics), slash, and standard notations, • Compatible with mySongBook portal to sheet music (monthly subscription and single buying), • Switch between Dark and Light viewing modes, • Load files via WiFi and web browser, iTunes, e-mail, • Integrated sheet-music library with search, filters, and favorites, • Multitrack player with soundboard: volume / solo-mute / soundbanks, • Metronome and visual countdown,
 • 3 zooming levels, • Guitar or bass fretboard (for right- and left-handers), and virtual keyboard, • On-the-fly tempo changes,
 • On-the-fly global transposing by half-tones, • Playing any selection in loops, • Simplified navigation between sections, • E-mailing files directly from the application, • Exporting files to PDF, • Compatible with the Fretlight Wireless Guitar. NotePad tool to create a tablature • Use the NotePad to edit a single-track tablature for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, and mandolin, • Tablature for 4- to 8-string instruments, • 19 built-in sounds, • Customizable tuning and tempo, • Export your ideas into Guitar Pro 6 and 7 formats so as to later carry on with your composition on the Guitar Pro desktop version. ———————————————————————- The app is updated frequently, so feel free to contact our team to ask any question or give your feedback. For more info: Need help: https://support.guitar-pro.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arobas.music Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arobasmusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guitarpro_official FAQ: Q: Can I create or edit sheet music with this app? A: Unlike Guitar Pro for Windows and Mac, this app does not let you change the notation in an existing Guitar Pro file, or create sheet music in standard notation. It is however possible to edit a single-track tablature with the NotePad tool and export your work into .gpx and .gp formats to finish your composition in Guitar Pro 6 or 7. Editing a drum track is not available with the NotePad tool.

About

Time Trainer Metronome

This app offers a precise metronome with customizable sounds and visual cues. It goes beyond basic timing by including five unique training tools designed to improve a musician's internal sense of rhythm and tempo control.

Highlights
  • Accurate and stable metronome
  • Tap tempo functionality
  • Countdown timer
  • Customizable metronome sounds
  • Visual metronome movement
  • Bar Breaks training tool
  • Random Beat Drop feature
Features
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Way more than a metronome, the Time Trainer adds five training tools to help you develop your own internal sense of time! This is an accurate and stable metronome (many metronome apps out there are not) and features: • tap tempo (to work out tempos by tapping a button), • countdown timer (for keeping your practice to schedule!) • many different sounds (you like cowbell, wood or xylophone?) • accent control (for odd time playing) • visual metronome movement with a flash on the beat • vibrate option (on each beat or just accent) ...but then we add to that with five training tools which will really help you develop your own time feel - essential for all musicians! • Bar Breaks • will mute the metronome for a bar or more forcing you to keep your time solid and be perfectly synchronized when the clicks return! This is a superb exercise and will really help develop confidence in holding your tempo. You can adjust how many bars are solid at the start then how many bars are solid and how many bars are muted which will cycle for the duration of the session. You can also select "random" mode and a % of bars (that you set) that will be dropped for an even more challenging practice session! • Random Beat Drop • does exactly what it says on the tin... some of the beats (clicks) will be muted at random, forcing you to be confident with your time and not rely on the click too much. Many people chase the beat or try and anticipate it, and this exercise will help you stop those bad habits! I've personally found that the "gradual" setting is most useful, a five minute session starting at 100% with more and more beats muted up to the % that you set. • Speed Up • is a tool I have wanted for years for my own practice so now I made one. Often when working on scales, arpeggios or licks you want to start at an easy speed where you are playing it 100% correctly and gradually push your technique by playing it faster and faster. With this tool you set a start tempo, end tempo and duration of you practice session and off you go, no more stopping to bump the bpm up a few notches every minute! • Step Upper • Many people requested that we make a programmable mode, most likely to be used to be able to move from one consistent tempo to another, rather than the gradual increase you get in the Speed Upper. You can program a tempo for X number of bars OR minutes :) • Subdivisions • Another heavily requested feature was to add in subdivisions for those that need to hear them, and for super slow tempo's where having subdivisions can be really helpful! I'm sure you will find all of the tools very useful, and of course you will find full support on the justinguitar community forum - please take the time to rate and review it, good things will help promote it and anything negative will help me improve it! Wishing you many happy hours of practice :) Justin

Screenshots

Guitar Pro4 screens
Time Trainer Metronome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Time Trainer Metronome at 4.4 against Guitar Pro's 3.6. Time Trainer Metronome also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (81% vs 47%). Guitar Pro's advantage is ratings volume (905 vs 73) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Guitar Pro costs $6.99 and Time Trainer Metronome $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Trainer Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guitar Pro has 905 ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Guitar Pro's written reviews are positive against 81% of Time Trainer Metronome's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Guitar Pro versus Time Trainer Metronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar ProTime Trainer Metronome
Price$6.99$1.99 — better
Rating3.6 (905 ratings)4.4 (73 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.0% of reviews81.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings905 — better73
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#21 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArobas MusicJustin Guitar

Customer experience

Guitar Pro

All ratings896 ratings
Positive64.5%
Neutral8.6%
Negative26.9%
Written reviews1,182 reviews
Positive47.0%
Neutral16.5%
Negative36.5%

Time Trainer Metronome

All ratings73 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative11.0%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative15.6%

User reviews

Guitar Pro

From 905 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great practice tool
  • 👍 Useful for learning songs
  • 🎸 Essential for guitarists
  • 💡 Notepad feature for quick ideas

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔇 Poor sound quality
  • 📱 Limited mobile functionality
  • 💰 Overpriced for limited features

Time Trainer Metronome

From 73 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great for practice
  • 👍 Straightforward, solid metronome
  • 🚀 Extremely versatile
  • 👍 Awesome
  • 🚀 Multi-useful

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes and needs to be deleted and reloaded
  • 🔒 Cannot be used with Ultimate Guitar
  • 🐛 Delay when you press play
  • 🐛 Timer doesn't pause correctly
  • 🐛 Training mode broken

Bugs and requests

Guitar Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Corrupt file issues
  • Playback sync problems
  • Compatibility issues with iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Multi-track editing
  • Finer tempo control
  • Drum programming
  • Improved file management
  • Seamless desktop integration

Time Trainer Metronome

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Training mode doesn't work
  • Crashes on iOS 8
  • Tap tempo not working properly

Requested features

12 requests
  • Allow running on M1 computers
  • Remember last settings for each trainer mode
  • Ability to program tempo increases in smaller increments
  • Ability to save/edit songs
  • Ability to backup settings
Show 7 more
  • Longer bar breaks
  • Landscape mode on iPhone
  • Larger countdown timer
  • More time signature options
  • More flexible trainer mode options
  • Ability to set starting and ending tempos for gradual increases
  • Ability to stay in Speed Upper mode without going back to main metronome

In-app purchases

None

Guitar Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Time Trainer Metronome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guitar Pro free?
Guitar Pro costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Trainer Metronome free?
Time Trainer Metronome costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Guitar Pro or Time Trainer Metronome?
Time Trainer Metronome is rated higher. Guitar Pro averages 3.6 out of 5 from 905 ratings, while Time Trainer Metronome averages 4.4 from 73 ratings.
Do Guitar Pro or Time Trainer Metronome have ads?
Guitar Pro shows ads; Time Trainer Metronome does not.
Which is updated more often, Guitar Pro or Time Trainer Metronome?
Guitar Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Time Trainer Metronome every 2 months. Most recently, Guitar Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Time Trainer Metronome on November 1, 2026.

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