Comparison

RhythmBot vs RUN IT DOWN

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

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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

RUN IT DOWN

This app analyzes audio files or live recordings to identify song key, tempo, and meter. It visually breaks down song structure into sections with bar counts and allows for custom naming and editing of these sections. Features include practice tools like loop and speed adjustment, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Key, tempo, and meter detection
  • Automatic bar 1 identification
  • Visual song form breakdown
  • Customizable section naming
  • Offline functionality
  • Practice tools (loop, speed adjustment)
  • Support for various time signatures
Features
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It counts. You play. Play a song into your phone or add the file. In seconds RUN IT DOWN gives you the key, the tempo, the meter, where bar 1 is, and every section with its bar count. Made by drummer and MD Trevor Lawrence Jr. for every gig where the band gets the song an hour before downbeat. WHAT YOU GET KEY · TEMPO · METER in big type, with half time, double time and the relative key one tap away. Bar 1, found for you. Anything before it is the pickup (+1, +2), so the lead-in never counts as a bar. THE LINE: the whole form on one card, like INTRO 8 · V1 16 · HOOK 8 · BRIDGE 4 · VAMP · OUTRO. Odd-length sections, like a 7-bar bridge or a 10-bar outro, are marked in red so you see the watch-outs before you play them. THE STRIPS: one strip of tape per section, as long as its bar count and colored by repeat, so you see what comes back. Tap a strip to play from its bar 1. A bar counter while it plays that counts what THE LINE shows: V1 · 11/16, and HOOK 8 ×2 counts 1 to 8 twice. Section names in the band's words (INTRO, V1, PRE, HOOK, BRIDGE, VAMP, OUTRO…), or type your own: SHOUT, MODULATION, DRUM BREAK. Your names come back as buttons on every song. EVERY METER, BAR BY BAR 2/4 to 12/8. It hears odd meters like 5/4, 7/8 and 11/8 and counts the bars in them, and on a steady song it finds the bars the band plays in another meter, like two bars of 4/4 in a 7/8 tune. Set the time for a section, or for just THESE BARS: the bars after them move along, the way the band plays it. Count 7/8 your way: 2+2+3, 3+2+2 or 2+3+2. CLICK, COUNT IN and the counter follow, bar by bar. COUNT IN plays the first bar's meter or any meter you pick. RIDE Live take that rushes and drags? Turn RIDE ON and the bars, the counter and the click follow the band's own tempo. Or TAP IT IN: tap the beat through the part that floats, and RIDE lays the beats on your taps. RIDE OFF puts the steady count back. TWO WAYS IN LISTEN: play the song in the room, through the mic or an interface. It stops when the band stops and trims the silence. It tells you when to move closer. ADD SONG: any audio or video file, or share one from Files or Voice Memos. Apple Music and Spotify songs are locked to those apps: play them out loud and LISTEN. THE ONE Beat turned around? ◀ BEAT · TURN IT AROUND · BEAT ▶ moves bar 1 for the whole song; TRY THE OTHER ONE jumps to the app's second choice. Or COUNT IT OFF: tap the count on bar one with the record and every section re-counts from your one. PLAY + PRACTICE Back a bar, forward a bar, next section, and a strip of the song to scrub. Beat lights under the counter. LOOP the part you're learning. PRACTICE SPEED 50–100%, same pitch. CLICK is locked to the record's beat and plays straight 8THS or the BEAT, accents on or off, at every speed. FIX IT It's a fast first read, and your ears get the last word. Name any section (all its repeats at once, or just this one), set it to any length from 1 to 32 bars, add a note for the stand (HITS ON 4), split, merge, change the time signature, flip the key to its relative, name it C# or Db, halve or double the tempo. Every change is one tap to UNDO. When it's right, tap LOOKS RIGHT. MUSIC STAND Tap THE LINE and the whole song fills the screen with your notes, no scrolling. The part playing now is lit. The screen stays on, and playback keeps going if the phone locks. THE SET Your songs for the gig, in order. SAVE SET for Sunday, pull it back from SETS, CLEAR the pad for the next gig. COPY SHORTHAND One tap copies the title, key, tempo and the line as text, ready to paste in the group chat. PAD OR STAGE A yellow legal-pad look for the day, a dark STAGE look for the stage. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No ads. Every song is counted on-device and never uploaded, and it works in airplane mode. The microphone is on only while LISTEN is recording. PRICE The first 3 songs are free. After that, one payment of $0.99 unlocks every song, forever. No subscription, nothing renews.

Screenshots

RhythmBot4 screens
RUN IT DOWN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RhythmBot at 96% against RUN IT DOWN's 0%. RhythmBot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (147 vs 3). RUN IT DOWN's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 RUN IT DOWN 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

RhythmBot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RhythmBot has 147 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of RhythmBot's written reviews are positive against 0% of RUN IT DOWN's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RhythmBot ships an update every 2 weeks, RUN IT DOWN every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
RhythmBot versus RUN IT DOWN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhythmBotRUN IT DOWN
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (147 ratings) — better2.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews96.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings147 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJean-Pierre BouvetTrevor Lawrence

Customer experience

RhythmBot

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

RUN IT DOWN

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

RhythmBot

Requested features

2 requests
  • Include triplets, tuplets and ties
  • Expand rhythm generation capabilities

RUN IT DOWN

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RhythmBot

One-time1
  • RhythmBot Pro2 variants$4.99
1 purchases

RUN IT DOWN

One-time1
  • Unlock RUN IT DOWN$0.99

Questions

Is RhythmBot free?
RhythmBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RUN IT DOWN free?
RUN IT DOWN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RhythmBot or RUN IT DOWN?
RhythmBot is rated higher. RhythmBot averages 5.0 out of 5 from 147 ratings, while RUN IT DOWN averages 2.7 from 3 ratings.
Do RhythmBot or RUN IT DOWN have ads?
Neither RhythmBot nor RUN IT DOWN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RhythmBot or RUN IT DOWN?
RhythmBot ships an update every 2 weeks, and RUN IT DOWN every 3 days. Most recently, RhythmBot was updated on November 8, 2026 and RUN IT DOWN on November 6, 2026.

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