Comparison

Keep Time vs Simply Metronome

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Dead-simple to use
  • Select BPM
  • Play/Stop button
  • Helps foster rhythm ideas
  • Aids calm and balanced playing
  • Improves practice efficiency
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Keep Time4 screens
Simply Metronome3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Keep Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simply Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Keep Time versus Simply Metronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeep TimeSimply Metronome
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.3 (778 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better86.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1778 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB162 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin OkunShenzhen Mango Future Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Keep Time

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Simply Metronome

All ratings778 ratings
Positive82.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews366 reviews
Positive86.9%
Neutral5.5%
Negative7.7%

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

1 purchases

Keep Time

One-time1
  • Feature Pack$1.99
None

Simply Metronome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Keep Time free?
Keep Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simply Metronome free?
Simply Metronome is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Keep Time or Simply Metronome?
Simply Metronome is rated higher. Keep Time averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Simply Metronome averages 4.3 from 778 ratings.
Do Keep Time or Simply Metronome have ads?
Neither Keep Time nor Simply Metronome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keep Time or Simply Metronome?
Keep Time ships an update every 4 months, and Simply Metronome monthly. Most recently, Keep Time was updated on October 6, 2026 and Simply Metronome on October 18, 2026.

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