Comparison

Time Guru Metronome vs Humanome

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Random and patterned muting
  • Complex meter sequences
  • Gradual tempo changes
  • Practice timer
  • Customizable sound sets
  • Voice counting
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Humanome

This app trains musicians to play in sync with fluctuating tempos, improving their ability to stay in the groove with any time source. It offers unique, randomly generated sessions that focus on responsiveness and musical phrasing.

Highlights
  • Trains responsiveness to fluctuating tempos
  • Improves groove and accuracy
  • Randomly generated, unique sessions
  • Adjustable speed, intensity, and time signatures
  • Focuses on musical phrasing
  • Optional 'Inhumanome' mode for extreme tempo shifts
Features
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Hey, musician! Having a strong internal clock is important anytime you’re in charge of the beat. Metronomes, with their perfect time, can help build that strength. But you and your bandmates don’t have perfect time. We’re human. We fluctuate. Humanome teaches you to hear an irregular tempo and adjust your playing to it, as you must always do to stay in the pocket with other non-metronomic human beings. Humanome sensitizes you to playing more responsively and accurately – more in the groove – with any external time source, whether it’s precise or not: a metronome, a click, a drummer, a band, a sequence, a track. How it works: Humanome encourages listening. It trains you to react, moment by moment, to a fluctuating external time source. Humanome‘s varying click and limited session time enhances focus and engagement in ways a metronome doesn’t. Humanome stresses the importance of the phrase and allows for odd time signatures. Each Humanome session is randomly generated and unique. A session is around 3 minutes long and has three parts: an initial 2-phrase segment of straight time, followed by the main body of the session’s shifting tempos, followed by a 1-phrase ending segment of straight time. Setting up each session: Speed is the Humanome’s initial tempo, from 1 to 5. Intensity is how frequently the tempo will change. Beats per measure indicates time signature. By default, Humanome accentuates the first beat of each measure. This can be disabled in More Settings. Select INHUMANOME if you want to kick the Humanome into true madness from any Intensity setting. Tempo changes will be much more severe. This gives you four additional intensities. More Settings: Measures per phrase. Much of the world’s music comes in 4 or 8 bar phrases and that is Humanome’s default setting. You can change that here. *2 multiplies each Speed setting by two, from *1 to *5. Remember: It’s not a metronome. It’s a Humanome. GO!

Screenshots

Time Guru Metronome4 screens
Humanome1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Humanome at 4.8 against Time Guru Metronome's 4.5. Humanome also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 80%) and device support (3 vs 1). Time Guru Metronome's advantage is ratings volume (455 vs 32) and chart position (#57 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Time Guru Metronome costs $2.99 and Humanome $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Humanome holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Guru Metronome has 455 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Time Guru Metronome's written reviews are positive against 92% of Humanome's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Guru Metronome ships an update weekly, Humanome every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Time Guru Metronome versus Humanome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime Guru MetronomeHumanome
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating4.5 (455 ratings)4.8 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.1% of reviews91.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings455 — better32
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#57 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAvi BortnickWayne Krantz

Customer experience

Time Guru Metronome

All ratings450 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral5.1%
Negative14.8%

Humanome

All ratings32 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Bugs and 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

Humanome

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Time Guru Metronome

No in-app purchases

None

Humanome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Guru Metronome free?
Time Guru Metronome costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Humanome free?
Humanome costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Time Guru Metronome or Humanome?
Humanome is rated higher. Time Guru Metronome averages 4.5 out of 5 from 455 ratings, while Humanome averages 4.8 from 32 ratings.
Do Time Guru Metronome or Humanome have ads?
Neither Time Guru Metronome nor Humanome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Guru Metronome or Humanome?
Time Guru Metronome ships an update weekly, and Humanome every 4 days. Most recently, Time Guru Metronome was updated on November 6, 2026 and Humanome on November 3, 2026.

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