Comparison

metrOnly vs What About Phase?

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

Head to head
About

metrOnly

This metronome app provides perfectly timed clicks without distracting features like accents or blinking lights. It offers tempo adjustments from 10-500 bpm and includes accessibility options for ease of use. Designed for focused practice, it aims to be a simple and effective tool for musicians.

Highlights
  • Perfectly timed clicks
  • No distracting features
  • Tempo range 10-500 bpm
  • Intuitive tempo adjustment
  • Accessibility options
  • Customization features
Features
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A metronome for musicians who hear better when the screen is quiet. metrOnly gives you precise time without accents, flashing lights, time signatures, or menus competing for your attention. Drag anywhere to change tempo from 10 to 500 BPM. Feel each number click into place. Tap the tempo to enter an exact value. Press one button to start. Choose from 19 carefully prepared click sounds, including woodblocks, sticks, rims, hats, snaps, and percussion. Set an optional practice timer, keep the click running in the background, and focus on the music. No clutter. Just time. New users need an auto-renewing subscription after onboarding. Weekly, monthly, and annual plans are available. Eligible customers can try the annual plan free for 7 days. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sprinworld.com/privacy

About

What About Phase?

Record short audio clips and transform them into evolving, hypnotic soundscapes. This pocket instrument uses phasing and other processes to create unique, unfolding audio patterns from simple sounds.

Highlights
  • Audio recording and looping
  • Ten distinct audio processes
  • Radial display of sound patterns
  • On-device pitch detection
  • Save, share, and revert recordings
  • Live control over audio parameters
Features
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Record a few seconds of anything — your voice, a clap, a passing train — and let the app pull it apart in time. What about phase? is a pocket instrument for process music: it loops your recording in two channels and lets them drift out of sync, so simple sounds grow into shifting, hypnotic patterns. Inspired by the tape-phasing experiments of 1960s minimalism, it makes the process itself audible — you set it in motion, then listen as it unfolds. TEN PROCESSES • Phasing — two copies of your loop, one drifting a few cents faster; hear them separate into echo, then canon • Gradual process — a ramp that grows louder and sweeps across the stereo field • Tape loop multiplication — your loop fanned into a detuned chorus • Rhythmic construction — a rhythm assembled hit by hit • Pattern substitution — beats replaced one at a time: silence, octaves, fifths • Resultant patterns — two interlocking rhythms revealing a third • Clapping Music — a pattern rotating against its fixed copy • Pulse / drone — a pulse grid over a deep foundation • Canon — staggered voices entering one after another • Speech melody — a syllable pulsed in speech rhythm and dynamics THE WHEEL A radial display shows what the process is doing: your loop's waveform — or the process's own pattern — wrapped around a circle, left channel in coral, right in cyan, a comet sweeping the playhead. In Phasing you can watch the two rings physically drift apart. Volume and pitch views included, with on-device pitch detection. MADE FOR EXPLORING • Ten built-in demo takes, one per process, playable from the very first launch • Every take saves with its process and settings; rename, share as WAV, revert • Takes named after where you record them (optional, location used only while in the app) • Live controls: drift in cents, process amount, tempo, sample offset • No account, no ads, no analytics — recordings never leave your device unless you share them Record something small. Let it become something long.

Screenshots

metrOnly4 screens
What About Phase?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: metrOnly at none against What About Phase?'s 1. What About Phase?'s advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 20 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. What About Phase? sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. metrOnly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for metrOnly against 5.0 for What About Phase?. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

metrOnly ships an update every 20 months, What About Phase? daily. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
metrOnly versus What About Phase?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermetrOnlyWhat About Phase?
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAustin DansonVladimir Gusev

Customer experience

metrOnly

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

What About Phase?

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

metrOnly

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

What About Phase?

One-time1
  • Full Version$0.99

Questions

Is metrOnly free?
metrOnly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What About Phase? free?
What About Phase? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, metrOnly or What About Phase??
metrOnly and What About Phase? are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do metrOnly or What About Phase? have ads?
Neither metrOnly nor What About Phase? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, metrOnly or What About Phase??
metrOnly ships an update every 20 months, and What About Phase? daily. Most recently, metrOnly was updated on October 2, 2026 and What About Phase? on October 21, 2026.

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