Comparison

BPM Trainer vs RhythmForge

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

Head to head
About

BPM Trainer

Train your sense of rhythm and internalize musical tempos. Features two modes: guessing a given tempo and tapping your own. Utilizes over 20,000 music samples for practice.

Highlights
  • Tempo guessing mode
  • Tempo tapping mode
  • Extensive music sample library
  • Rhythm training
  • Tempo mastery
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Find your inner tempo! Test and train your sense of rhythm with two modes: - Guess the given tempo as accurately as possible. - Tap in a tempo yourself and check how accurate you are. Over 20,000 music samples help you internalize tempos immediately. Perfect for drummers, conductors, and all musicians who want to master consistent tempo.

About

RhythmForge

This app provides real-time feedback on your timing accuracy by listening to your playing through the microphone. It offers practice modes, scored challenges, and learning tools to help musicians improve their rhythm and precision.

Highlights
  • Real-time timing feedback in milliseconds
  • Scored rhythm challenges with tiers
  • Learning mode to master complex rhythms
  • Extensive library of rudiments and world rhythms
  • Tempo ramp and silent bar features
  • Per-device latency calibration
  • Pattern builder for custom rhythms (Pro)
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Most metronomes just count. RhythmForge listens back. Play along to the click and the app hears every stroke through the microphone. You see each hit land early or late, by how many milliseconds, and after the session where your timing held and where it drifted. Rushing or dragging, you'll know which. HOW IT WORKS Practice: turn on listening, play, and watch the timeline. The metronome plays one subdivision, you play another: eighths over a quarter click, triplets, offbeats. Challenges: pick one, set your tempo, play. Every beat is scored across six tiers, from Perfect (within 10 ms) to Missed. Consecutive Perfects build a combo. Your best score is kept with the tempo you set it at. Learn: can't play a challenge yet? Learn plays the notes the click doesn't cover, steps back as you lock in, and ends once you've played enough clean bars. Then start the challenge for real. Learn is free, costs no energy and saves nothing. 60+ challenges: rudiments (singles, doubles, paradiddles, rolls, gallops), grooves, world rhythms (tresillo, son clave, rumba, cáscara, mozambique, bossa nova, samba, baião, bembé), compound and odd meters, tempo ramps and silent bars. WHAT YOU GET • Live feedback on every stroke, measured in milliseconds • Rushing and dragging per session, timing spread, beat distribution • Assist: playing a different part than the click and lose it for two bars? The click steps back and your notes play until you're back. Those bars stay out of your accuracy • Tempo ramp and ghost measures (silent bars, the clock keeps running) • Per-device latency calibration, with AirPods drift corrected as you play • Works with a practice pad, snare, hand percussion, claves, djembe • 20 to 360 BPM, every standard subdivision, accents, odd meters • Hold the tempo to type it, tap it, or slide a ruler • Dark design, true black for OLED FREE • The full metronome, tempo ramp and ghost measures included • Every click sound • Unlimited practice with live feedback and every analysis screen, nothing blurred • Learn, on every challenge • Every challenge playable, nothing locked: 6 minutes of challenge time a day, refilling as the day goes, four times faster while you practice. Out of time, any challenge still gives you a free 25-second run • Your last 7 sessions RHYTHMFORGE PRO Try it free for 7 days: • Unlimited challenge time, no meter • Pattern builder: tap in your own rhythms, loop them, score them • Triplet and sixteenth targets over any click, plus per-beat patterns • Full session history WHO IT'S FOR Drummers and percussionists practicing on a pad, a snare or hand drums. Guitarists, bassists and producers who want tighter time. Students and teachers. It isn't a drum-kit transcriber: it doesn't tell toms from cymbals. It grades your time, not your kit. Privacy: your audio never leaves the phone. Timing detection runs on-device. Analytics are anonymous. Requires iOS 17 or later. Microphone access is needed for timing feedback. Terms of Service: https://rhythmforge.app/terms

Screenshots

BPM Trainer4 screens
RhythmForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BPM Trainer at none against RhythmForge's 3. BPM Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. RhythmForge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. BPM Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BPM Trainer ships an update every 4 days, RhythmForge fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
BPM Trainer versus RhythmForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBPM TrainerRhythmForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthias LangFlorian Preknya

In-app purchases

None

BPM Trainer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

RhythmForge

Subscriptions2
  • RhythmForge PRO Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • RhythmForge PRO Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • RhythmForge PRO Lifetime$74.99

Questions

Is BPM Trainer free?
BPM Trainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RhythmForge free?
RhythmForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BPM Trainer or RhythmForge have ads?
Neither BPM Trainer nor RhythmForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BPM Trainer or RhythmForge?
BPM Trainer ships an update every 4 days, and RhythmForge fortnightly. Most recently, BPM Trainer was updated on October 30, 2026 and RhythmForge on November 5, 2026.

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