RhythmBot vs Ghost Beat
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
Ghost Beat
This app challenges your internal rhythm by making metronome beats disappear. It helps you maintain tempo by ear and provides a score based on your accuracy. Features include customizable beat patterns, random mutes, and a speed trainer.
- Disappearing beat patterns
- Random beat muting
- Accurate timing score with deviation
- Automatic speed trainer
- Practice tracking and history
- Multiple click sounds and pitch shifting
- Support for various time signatures and subdivisions
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The metronome that teaches you to keep time on your own. Ghost Beat cycles between audible and silent bars — your job is to keep the tempo when the click is gone. It's not just a metronome. It's survival training for your internal clock. GHOST BARS Set how many bars play and how many go silent. 2 on, 2 off. 1 on, 3 off. When the click vanishes, your real timing is exposed. TAP ACCURACY Tap along with the beat and get graded S through D. Calibrates to your touch latency, then measures your actual deviation in milliseconds. DAILY CHALLENGES A new timing challenge every day — survive ghost bars, hit accuracy targets, or hold tempo for a set time. PRACTICE ROUTINES Chain exercises into timed sessions. Set BPM, ghost bars, and time signature per step. Hit play and the routine runs itself. PRACTICE STATS Streaks, timing grades, session history, and weekly charts. See your improvement in timing-specific terms — not just minutes practiced. RANDOM MUTE Beats disappear unpredictably. You never know which one is next. Pure internal time training. DEEP CUSTOMIZATION 6 time signatures · 7 subdivisions (1/4 through 1/32T) · 4 click sounds · Accent patterns · Count-in · Jog wheel BPM · Haptic feedback GHOST BEAT PRO — $4.99 one-time Unlock unlimited routines & steps, unlimited presets, sound pitch control, progressive difficulty, and detailed all-time stats. Built by a drummer, for drummers. No ads. No subscriptions. No account required. 100% offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Ghost Beat at free against RhythmBot's free with in-app purchases. RhythmBot's advantage is ratings volume (126 vs 4) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. RhythmBot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ghost Beat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RhythmBot against 5.0 for Ghost Beat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RhythmBot has 126 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of RhythmBot's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Beat's.
RhythmBot ships an update fortnightly, Ghost Beat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RhythmBot | Ghost Beat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (126 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Pierre Bouvet | LANCE LAVERNE PEDERSON |
Customer experience
RhythmBot
Ghost Beat
Bugs and requests
RhythmBot
Requested features
2 requests- Include triplets, tuplets and ties
- Expand rhythm generation capabilities
Ghost Beat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RhythmBot
- RhythmBot Pro2 variants$4.99
Ghost Beat
- Ghost Beat Pro$4.99
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