Keep Time vs Guitar Lessons
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.
Guitar Lessons
Learn to play guitar with step-by-step video lessons from expert instructors. This app focuses on teaching actual hit songs from the start, making learning fun and effective for all skill levels. Access a vast library of song tutorials and helpful tools to accelerate your progress.
- Step-by-step video lessons
- Learn hit songs from day one
- Core Learning System for beginners
- Over 11,000 lessons
- Hundreds of song tutorials
- Downloadable tabs and notation
- Scale and chord finders
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Introducing Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks, the best, most fun, and educational way to learn guitar with guided, step-by-step videos. Our system is tested and proven to work for beginners and advanced guitar players. Guitar Tricks is designed to empower beginners to play guitar by learning actual hit songs from the very start – not boring drills and exercises. Learn to play guitar from top instructors who guide you through every step with shorter, incremental videos to increase skill rapidly. In a recent survey, members reported learning 50-100% FASTER than with other guitar apps! * Award-Winning: Best Online Guitar Resource and Instructional Material * High Quality Step-by-Step Video Guitar lessons * Over 4 Million Members since 1998 Core Learning System – Perfect for beginners The Core Learning System guides beginner guitarists through a series of short videos that focus on you making music from day one. After you nail the basics, the guided videos branch out so you can learn different styles of guitar like Acoustic, Rock, Country, Blues, and more. The Most Song Lessons Available Guitar Tricks has been teaching people how to play guitar since 1998. We offer over 11,000 lessons, ranging from skill and technique videos to artist and genre studies. We offer hundreds of song tutorials that include massive hit songs from great artists such as: -The Beatles -Ed Sheeran -The Rolling Stones -Pink Floyd -Eagles -Rihanna -Eric Clapton -Many more! High-Quality Tools and Features Along with our world-class instructors, we provide our members with useful tools to speed up the learning process: -Full, precise tabs and notation which are downloadable -Scale finder -Chord finder -Reference tuner -Fretboard trainer -Progress System -Advanced video playback and quality settings The free version of this app offers a rotation of free lessons. Access all of our content with an in-app subscription purchase. - Get all our lessons free with a 7-day free trial (converts to a monthly subscription at $19.99 after) - Choose monthly payments ($19.99), or yearly payments ($179.99) - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal Lessons that have worked for millions “More than just a great teaching experience. Guitar Tricks has knowledgeable and entertaining instructors who really seem to care about the student and material. I’ve learned a lot in a short amount of time. It’s a really fun spot.” – James Cox “I have always wanted to play guitar. Not learn it, just play it. My first experience (with Guitar Tricks) was amazing. Within a few minutes I was playing a song on my guitar.” –Phil Snell Enjoying our guitar lessons or love learning to play guitar from our instructors? Please leave us a review! You can also contact us directly if you have any questions at admin@guitartricks.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Guitar Lessons at 4.5 against Keep Time's 4.0. Guitar Lessons also leads on ratings volume (4.5K vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Keep Time's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 61%). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Keep Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Guitar Lessons sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guitar Lessons holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guitar Lessons has 4.5K 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 61% of Guitar Lessons'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, Guitar Lessons every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keep Time | Guitar Lessons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (4.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 60.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #176 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 383 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Okun | Guitar Tricks Inc. |
Customer experience
Keep Time
Guitar Lessons
Bugs and requests
Keep Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Guitar Lessons
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes and freezes frequently
- Inconsistencies between app and website functionality
- Difficulty finding and resuming previous lessons
Requested features
4 requests- Add more modern and popular song options
- Improve app navigation and progress tracking
- Incorporate tools like a tuner, metronome, and chord charts
- Allow for adjustable video playback speed
In-app purchases
Keep Time
- Feature Pack$1.99
Guitar Lessons
- Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks$14.991 Month
- Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- AutoRenewingSubscriptionTestingTrial7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks$129.991 Year
- Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks$179.991 Year
- AutoRenewingSubscriptionTestingTrial7 Days trial$179.991 Year









