RhythmBot vs MetroBPM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RhythmBot
This app serves as a personal music coach, offering tools for sight-reading practice, rhythm creation, and metronome functionality. It helps musicians master complex rhythms and enhance their creativity through customizable exercises and performance tracking.
- Infinite rhythm generation
- Customizable rhythm parameters
- Sight-reading practice mode
- Play-along accuracy tracking
- Advanced metronome functions
- Stepwise rhythm trainer
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RhythmBot is your personal sight-reading coach, creative tool, and metronome. Master complex rhythms and become more creative on your instrument. RhythmBot creates infinite new rhythms according to the parameters you set, which include complexity, tempo, time signature, subdivision, playback sound, swing percentage, and more. *READING MODE: An infinite scroll of sight-reading practice at your complexity level. *PLAY ALONG MODE: RhythmBot measures your accuracy and longest streak as you tap the rhythms. - Start simple and increase complexity. - See your stats after each attempt. - Push yourself by drilling rhythms that you missed. METRONOME - Tempo control - Tap tempo - Innovative outer wheels for subdivision and signature - Practice timer - Individual click volume control - Individual click accent or rest - *Gap click - *Stepwise trainer (increase, decrease, alternate) - *Save to setlist *Upgrade to RHYTHMBOT PRO to unlock: - Sight-reading mode - Play along mode - Playback sound controls - Subdivision controls - Time signature controls - Presets - Swing percentage - “Add space” slider - Metronome setlist, gap click, and stepwise trainer
MetroBPM
This app provides a real-time tempo detector and metronome for musicians. It uses your device's microphone to analyze rhythmic music and offers customizable metronome sounds and visualizations. Optimized for live performance with a modern design and live activity support.
- Real-time tempo detection
- Live metronome with selectable sounds
- Tempo history plot
- Tap-to-detect tempo
- App icon shortcuts
- Live Activity & Dynamic Island support
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Measure your tempo for practice and live performance. MetroBPM combines a Live Tempo Detector with a Metronome in your pocket. It uses your device's microphone to detect tempo from percussive/rhythmic music in Real-Time. Designed for drummers, percussionists, dance musicians and DJs. - Features - • Real-time detection of tempo from rhythmic music • Tempo history plot • Metronome with selectable sounds • Tap-to-detect tempo • Clock / timer for live performance or practice • Quickly launch frequently used tempo by tap-hold app icon • No Ads or Subscription - Modern Design - • Optimized for live on-stage use on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad • Dark mode for low-power usage on OLED displays • Live Activity & Dynamic Island Support (monitor and control from Home Screen, Lock Screen and supported Watch OS) Note: Tempo detection optimized for rhythmic / percussive music in quadruple, 6/8 time signatures, performance may vary. Works best with live music in low background noise.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RhythmBot at Free against MetroBPM's $3.99. RhythmBot also leads on ratings volume (145 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). MetroBPM's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, update cadence, 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
RhythmBot is free to download; MetroBPM costs $3.99 up front. RhythmBot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MetroBPM asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RhythmBot against 5.0 for MetroBPM. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RhythmBot has 145 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RhythmBot ships an update every 2 weeks, MetroBPM every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RhythmBot | MetroBPM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (145 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 145 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Pierre Bouvet | Qi Yang |
Customer experience
RhythmBot
MetroBPM
Bugs and requests
RhythmBot
Requested features
2 requests- Include triplets, tuplets and ties
- Expand rhythm generation capabilities
MetroBPM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RhythmBot
- RhythmBot Pro2 variants$4.99
MetroBPM
No in-app purchases
