Keep Time vs Simply Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Keep Time
This application provides musicians with a visual metronome to enhance their playing. It offers adjustable tempo, customizable sounds and colors, and various subdivision options. Advanced features for rhythm simulation are available through in-app purchases.
- Adjustable speed with touch gestures
- 4 metronome sound options
- 7 color choices for visualizer
- Sub-division options (8th, 16th, triplets)
- Configurable visualizer beats per measure
- Apple Watch remote tempo adjustment
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Are you a musician who wants to improve your playing? Metronomes are a great way to work on your speed, timing, and accuracy, no matter what instrument you play! Keep Time is a free, fully functioning metronome with a strong visual component. Featuring: - Adjustable speed using touch gestures. You can tap the screen to synchronize it with your tempo. - 4 different metronome sounds - 7 different color choices for the visualizer and interface, including a "rainbow" option - Sub-division options such as: 8th notes, 16th notes, triplets, and shuffles - Visualizer configurable to display 2-8 beats per measure - Advanced features such as Auto Adjust and Simulate Human Rhythm available via In-App purchase - Support for iPad multitasking - Remote tempo adjustment using Apple Watch Directions: Keep Time is operated by using the menu at the bottom of the screen. Start and pause the metronome by using the "Play" button on the far left. Use the "Settings" menu to change the speed, sounds, and colors. Push the "Visualizer" button to remove the settings menu overlay. Finally, the "More" button provides technical information and links to the entire Okunarium Labs catalog.
Simply Metronome
This application provides a straightforward metronome tool designed for musicians of all levels, from beginners to experienced players. It helps users maintain a consistent rhythm, improve focus during practice, and foster a better understanding of musical timing. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to select tempos and start or stop the beat.
- Dead-simple to use
- Select BPM
- Play/Stop button
- Helps foster rhythm ideas
- Aids calm and balanced playing
- Improves practice efficiency
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This is a dead-simple Metronome app. For every instrument. 【Why】 Metronome is a key tools to help you find the right rhythm when you playing instrument. - Fostering ideas about rhythm. - Make the playing calm and balance. - Help concentrate your mind, make your practice more efficient. We want to make a Metronome for parents, children, and violin newbies, who have no understandings for music theory. So they can easy to use. 【How to】 - Open the metronome app. - Before you start playing, select the bpm you need, and click the play button. - When your playing finished, click the stop button. 【Features】 - Dead-simple to use. never disturb by all kind of options.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simply Metronome at none against Keep Time's 1. Simply Metronome also leads on ratings volume (778 vs 1) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Keep Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simply Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simply Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply Metronome has 778 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Keep Time's written reviews are positive against 87% of Simply Metronome's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Keep Time ships an update every 4 months, Simply Metronome monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keep Time | Simply Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (778 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 86.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 778 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Okun | Shenzhen Mango Future Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Keep Time
Simply Metronome
Bugs and requests
Keep Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Simply Metronome
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional skipping or jumping of the tempo
- App crashes or stops working in some cases
Requested features
3 requests- Allow tapping in a custom beat
- Provide more time signature options
- Add a visual metronome display
In-app purchases
Keep Time
- Feature Pack$1.99
Simply Metronome
No in-app purchases
Questions
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