Time Guru Metronome vs FiveLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
FiveLoop
Enhance your music learning with a tool that allows you to slow down, loop, and repeat sections of online video tutorials. It also offers AI-powered audio analysis to split songs into stems, detect chords and BPM, and generate transcriptions.
- Loop any video section
- Adjust playback tempo
- Handsfree MIDI/Bluetooth control
- AI song stem separation
- Chord and BPM detection
- Note-for-note transcriptions
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Practice Music Smarter with FiveLoop Turn online music lessons and songs into focused practice sessions. Slow down difficult passages, repeat precise A B loops and control playback without taking your hands off your instrument. Learn from the platforms you already use FiveLoop works with most online video platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo, TrueFire and many more. Practice at your own pace • Set exact loop points and repeat any passage • Adjust playback speed in 5% steps • Play, pause, rewind and fast forward • Control playback hands free with MIDI or a compatible Bluetooth foot controller Discover FiveLoop Studio Import a song and use powerful AI audio analysis tools to understand and practice every detail. • Separate music into drums, bass, vocals and other instruments • Isolate or mute stems to focus on the part you want to learn • Detect chords, key and BPM automatically • Practice with a metronome matched to the song • View note transcriptions for bass, vocals and other stems Made for every musician FiveLoop helps beginners, advanced players, guitarists, bassists, drummers, singers, pianists, teachers and students learn more effectively from video and audio. Tested and recommended platforms • YouTube • TrueFire • learnpracticeplay.com • gitarrenlehreronline.de • fingerfux.de Is your favorite platform not supported? Contact us at mail@duechtel.com Terms: https://www.fiveloop.io/terms.html Privacy: https://www.fiveloop.io/pricacypolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FiveLoop at Free against Time Guru Metronome's $2.99. FiveLoop also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Time Guru Metronome's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On rating, review sentiment and ads 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
FiveLoop is free to download; Time Guru Metronome costs $2.99 up front. FiveLoop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Time Guru Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Time Guru Metronome against 4.4 for FiveLoop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time Guru Metronome has 450 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Time Guru Metronome's written reviews are positive against 84% of FiveLoop's.
Time Guru Metronome ships an update weekly, FiveLoop every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Guru Metronome | FiveLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (450 ratings) — better | 4.4 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 450 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #70 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 730 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Avi Bortnick | Stephan Duechtel |
Customer experience
Time Guru Metronome
FiveLoop
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
FiveLoop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Time Guru Metronome
No in-app purchases
FiveLoop
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$44.991 Year
- Fullversion$3.99
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