Resolve vs Metric Flow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resolve
This app offers a structured video course and a practice tool to develop a direct connection between your ear and your instrument. It generates random chord voicings for you to play along with, enhancing musical instincts and harmonic understanding.
- Integrated video course and practice tool
- Random harmonic voicings
- Harmonic complexity slider
- Train real musical instincts
- Designed for use with your instrument
- Complements functional ear training
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Resolve is a powerful ear training system, developed by Tom Quayle and David Beebee, combining a structured video course with a custom practice tool. The course and practice tool are designed to work together: the videos explain the concepts and exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you use to train your ear on your instrument. Reactive Ear Training focuses on developing a direct connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Resolve generates random, non-functional chord voicings for you to react to by playing over each chord using the exercises taught in the inlcuded course. The Harmonic Complexity Slider lets you tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. Practicing this way strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Over time, this develops stronger musical instincts and a deeper, intuitive understanding of harmony that maps directly to your instrument and translates to real musical situations. Key Features ‣ Created by Tom Quayle and David Beebee Resolve was developed as a complete Reactive Ear Training system, combining a structured video course with a practice tool designed to work together. ‣ Integrated Video Course and Practice Tool The course explains the method and demonstrates the exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you react to on your instrument. ‣ Random Harmonic Voicings Generate non-functional chord voicings to react to in real time. This approach strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. ‣ Harmonic Complexity Slider Tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. ‣ Train Real Musical Instincts Resolve is designed to be used without naming or labelling chords, scales, or intervals. By focusing purely on sound, you learn to respond directly on your instrument. With some familiarity of major and minor sounds, you can begin immediately. ‣ Complements Functional Ear Training Designed to support your ongoing study of harmony, scales, chords, and functional ear training. ‣ Designed for Use With Your Instrument Built for active playing, helping connect what you hear directly to movement on your instrument. Resolve works for: ‣ Guitarists ‣ Bassists ‣ Pianists ‣ Any instrumentalist developing their ear Whether you’re improvising, composing, or learning music by ear, Resolve – Reactive Ear Training helps you develop faster and more reliable musical instincts.
Metric Flow
Generate endless rhythmic patterns for improvisation practice. Visualize rhythms without traditional notation and customize them with advanced options. Export rhythms as audio files for use in DAWs.
- Endless rhythm generation
- Visual rhythm representation
- Customizable rhythm patterns
- Audio export (WAV, AAC)
- Supports complex time signatures
- Built-in drone synthesizer
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Supercharge Your Rhythm Skills and Build Your Rhythmic Vocabulary with Metric Flow! Practice improvising, develop rhythmic accuracy, build your rhythmic vocabulary and become inspired with an endless supply of rhythms, whilst working on your phrasing and rhythmic control. Generate Endless Rhythms with Ease Metric Flow automatically creates one-bar rhythm patterns in your chosen time signature, providing a versatile improvisation practice tool for developing your rhythmic vocabulary and control. The app supports many common, odd, and complex time signatures, including polymetric overlays such as 7/8 or 5/16 over 4/4, helping you master phrasing across the barline and expand your modern rhythmic vocabulary. Simply tap the ‘Generate Rhythm’ button for a new pattern, then press ‘Play’ to listen at your selected tempo. Adjust the speed using the tempo slider or tap tempo feature, ranging from 40 to 200 BPM. Visual Rhythm Representation with Standard Notation or Timeline Views Metric Flow shows your randomly generated rhythms using beautifully rendered, animated standard musical notation. Practice your rhythm sight reading at the same time as developing your rhythmic vocabulary! Alternatively, the intuitive ‘Timeline View’ employs animated dots to visually depict your rhythms based on 16th note and triplet subdivisions. This visual approach eliminates the need for reading traditional notation; downbeats are clearly marked for each time signature and update in real time, even with complex polyrhythms or tied notes extending over bar lines. This makes understanding note and rest durations straightforward and accessible, fostering ear training and internalization of rhythmic patterns without prior music theory knowledge. Rhythmic Customization Options Metric Flow offers sophisticated customization features that allow you to refine the randomly generated rhythms. These options provide greater control and flexibility, enabling you to tailor rhythms to suit your practice level and compositional needs. Creative Rhythm Variations & Audio Export You can tap directly on the rhythm visualization to cycle the rhythm elements around through the bar, giving you many variations of a single loop. Alternatively, tap the arrow icon above the rhythm to shift the whole rhythm forwards by one 16th note, exploring every permutation of that rhythm throughout the bar and create phrases that cross over the barline. Once you find a rhythm you like, tap the heart icon to save it to your favorites, or export a single, perfect cycle as a WAV or AAC file. These exported loops can be shared or stored on your device, complete with tempo information for seamless synchronization in your DAW with backing tracks, drum patterns or even in your compositions. You could even combine multiple, single exported loops in different time signatures to create complex rhythms that cross over the barline and expand your creativity in any genre. Enhanced Practice Features Metric Flow enhances your practice sessions with a built-in drone synthesizer pad for harmonic support and an optional 16th note swing to add groove and feel to your rhythms. Save your favourite rhythms to practice with later or use them as inspiration for writing melodies, riffs and songs. These features help develop your timing, feel, and musicality in an engaging and effective manner. Designed by world-renowned guitarist Tom Quayle – co-creator of best-selling music app 'Solo - Fretboard Visualization'. Works on iOS, iPadOS and MacOS.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Metric Flow at $9.99 against Resolve's $17.99. Metric Flow also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Resolve's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 9 months) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Resolve costs $17.99 and Metric Flow $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Metric Flow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Resolve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Metric Flow's.
Resolve ships an update every 9 days, Metric Flow every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resolve | Metric Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $17.99 | $9.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #105 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trio Software Ltd | Thomas Quayle |
Customer experience
Resolve
Metric Flow
In-app purchases
Resolve
No in-app purchases
Metric Flow
No in-app purchases
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