Metronome Ϟ vs Bagpipe Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Metronome Ϟ
This app offers a highly accurate metronome with visual and audio feedback, along with a practice timer. It features a beautiful design and advanced customization options for musicians. The app also supports background operation and offers various metronome sounds.
- Highly accurate audio and visual feedback
- Practice timer
- Visual indication of the beat
- iPhone LED flash visual feedback
- 8 metronome sounds
- Background mode
- Tap tempo functionality
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"Simple, useful, and good looking! Love it!" - D. Yang MetroTimer is the most accurate metronome app on the App Store. It provides highly accurate audio and visual feedback, and easy to use timer to track your practice sessions. MetroTimer is also one of the most beautifully designed metronome apps - it was recently featured on Behance! http://bit.ly/YyvU3k MetroTimer has been measured to be more accurate than any other metronome app for iOS. Most app store metronomes are derived from Apple sample code included with the iOS SDK (Software Development Kit). And regretfully, this code fails to account for all the factors that can cause small inaccuracies to build up over time. MetroTimer, created by a software company that specializes in clock time measurement and regulation, is guaranteed to meet laboratory standards for accurate timekeeping. Metronome Highlights: ● Tested with clock time regulation equipment ● Practice timer to track your practice sessions ● Visual indication allows you to "see" the beat ● iPhone LED flash visual feedback support ● 8 metronome sounds including human voice ● Background mode, blends with other audio ● Tap tempo functionality Metronome Pro (in-app purchase) adds these features: ● Custom time signatures ● Accents and subdivisions ● Interactive beat editor ● Presets list
Bagpipe Player
Learn, play, and compose bagpipe music with this app. It supports popular music file formats, offers authentic sounds, and provides tools for practice and creation. Manage your tunes, export them, and sync across devices.
- Play bagpipe music with authentic sounds
- View sheet music for BWW, BMW, ABC files
- Compose new tunes with a graphical editor
- Practice tools: section repeat, playback delay
- Export music as PDF or MIDI
- Organize tunes with folders
- Sync files via iCloud
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The Bagpipe Player is app for IOS uses very popular format BWW, BMW, ABC files for writing music of the bagpipe . Basic functions: show bww file as musical notes sheet, for playing and printing. The app useful for learning a new tunes and writing a new tune. Bagpipe Player play tunes like Great Highland Bagpipe with drones and embellishments. Authentic sound sampled from real GHB and Practice chanter. Ability to choose: - sound of the practice chanter or bagpipe ; - sound of the drones; - volume sound of drones and chanter; - duration of grace notes; - tempo change; - tone of sound on +- 5 halftone; - height of the music staff; - background for the sheet of notes; There is an ability: - create PDF, print it, send it email ; - create folders in main folder to store certain tunes; - to delay begin of playback for training; - highlight a section of the tune and repeat it; - turn on sound of the metronome; - use demo tuner; - create midi file of the tune and to send it to the email; - create own bww file in the graphical editor. The Bagpipe Player contains some .bww files for demonstration purpose. This is tunes from Tutor 1 and Tutor 3 The College of Piping and also my favorite tunes. Remember tap on button (i) you get info about control in the app. Your files can to download to iPad from a PC using iTunes file sharing or download from DropBox, attachment email, websites and etc. Posibility to sync files between devices using iCloud. Can to upload files from the app to the DropBox folder. Count of files is not limited. The preferred source to produce files .bww is a lot of network resources. I think, app Bagpipe Player will be useful for beginners and professional bagpipers for purposes learning new tunes and writing new tunes. The Bagpipe Player created for everybody who want, learn, plays and to loves sound of the bagpipe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Metronome Ϟ at Free against Bagpipe Player's $14.99. Metronome Ϟ also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (37K vs 25). Bagpipe Player's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#188 vs unranked). On update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Metronome Ϟ is free to download; Bagpipe Player costs $14.99 up front. Metronome Ϟ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bagpipe Player sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Metronome Ϟ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metronome Ϟ has 37K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Metronome Ϟ's written reviews are positive against 62% of Bagpipe Player's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Metronome Ϟ | Bagpipe Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (37K ratings) — better | 4.0 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.9% of reviews — better | 61.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #188 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ONYX Apps | Aleksey Vasilyev |
Customer experience
Metronome Ϟ
Bagpipe Player
Bugs and requests
Metronome Ϟ
Reported bugs
3 issues- Metronome stops unexpectedly
- Compatibility issues with headphones
- Tempo adjustments not always consistent
Requested features
4 requests- Allow editing of presets
- Add more time signature options
- Provide more sound options
- Ability to set custom practice timers
Bagpipe Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Metronome Ϟ
- MetroTimer Pro$9.99
Bagpipe Player
- Unlock save$0.99
- Tip Jar 1$0.99
- Tip Jar 2$1.99
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- Tip Jar 3$2.99
Questions
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