Comparison

RhythmBot vs Ghost Beat

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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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A metronome can keep time for you. Ghost Beat helps you learn to keep it yourself. Ghost Beat alternates between audible clicks and silent bars, giving you room to feel the tempo on your own. When the click comes back, you can hear how well you held it. Use it for drum practice, warm-ups, or working through a tricky rhythm. PRACTICE WITH AND WITHOUT THE CLICK Choose your tempo, time signature, subdivisions, and accents. Set how many bars play and how many stay silent, or use Random Mute to make individual beats disappear. Add spoken counts alongside the click and adjust their volumes separately. BUILD A PRACTICE HABIT Set a daily goal and follow your progress through the day. See your recent practice history, streaks, and weekly totals. Optional on-device detection can count your playing even when you don't need the metronome. Detection requires Ghost Beat to be open and active. START HANDS-FREE Use Start on Sound to begin without reaching for the screen. Calibrate microphone sensitivity for your room and playing, and choose whether silence should stop the metronome automatically. MAKE YOUR OWN ROUTINES Chain exercises with their own tempos, ghost patterns, and time signatures. Choose timed or bar-based steps, loop your routine, and save presets for setups you use often. Free tempo ladders help you work toward a target speed. CHECK YOUR TIMING Tap along in Tap Accuracy mode to see how consistently you land on the beat. Timing grades and deviation measurements give you something concrete to work on next time. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional private iCloud sync keeps your routines, presets, practice history, daily goal, and saved notes together across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You don't need a separate Ghost Beat account. FREE TO START The free app includes ghost bars, Random Mute, tempo ladders, daily goals, recent practice stats, up to 4 routines with 6 steps each, and 3 presets. GHOST BEAT PRO A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited routines, routine steps, and presets, plus adjustable click pitch, progressive fade, extended practice statistics, and notes for your routines and presets. No subscription. YOUR PLAYING STAYS YOURS Microphone audio is analyzed live on your device. It is never recorded or uploaded. There are no ads. Ghost Beat uses app-session analytics, separate from your practice content. See the privacy policy for details. Questions or feedback? Reach out at support@ghostbeat.cc.

Screenshots

RhythmBot4 screens
Ghost Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RhythmBot at every 2 weeks against Ghost Beat's every 3 months. RhythmBot also leads on ratings volume (143 vs 5). Ghost Beat's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 143 ratings behind it against 5, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RhythmBot ships an update every 2 weeks, Ghost Beat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RhythmBot versus Ghost Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhythmBotGhost Beat
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (143 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews96.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings143 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJean-Pierre BouvetLANCE LAVERNE PEDERSON

Customer experience

RhythmBot

All ratings143 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive96.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative0.0%

Ghost Beat

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

1 purchases

RhythmBot

One-time1
  • RhythmBot Pro2 variants$4.99
1 purchases

Ghost Beat

One-time1
  • Ghost Beat Pro$4.99

Questions

Is RhythmBot free?
RhythmBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Beat free?
Ghost Beat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RhythmBot or Ghost Beat?
RhythmBot and Ghost Beat are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 143 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do RhythmBot or Ghost Beat have ads?
Neither RhythmBot nor Ghost Beat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RhythmBot or Ghost Beat?
RhythmBot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ghost Beat every 3 months. Most recently, RhythmBot was updated on October 19, 2026 and Ghost Beat on October 10, 2026.

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