KeyBee vs GroovePilot

The BPM, key — and the name — of the music around you. KeyBee listens through your iPhone or iPad microphone, shows the BPM and key in real time, and keeps a list of the songs it hears. Built for DJs, players and producers — keep it open next to you. • Real-time analysis: BPM and key of music from speakers, clubs or the rehearsal room • Song history: title, artist and artwork of every song it hears, in order — heart your favorites and export the tracklist • Stage mode: hold it sideways and the screen stays on with a big clock and a set timer (choose your set length) • Tap tempo: tap four times for a manual BPM; it returns to listening 3 seconds after you stop • Tuner: note name and cents for guitar, bass, piano and voice • Lock Screen & Dynamic Island: keep seeing the values while you use other apps • Camelot keys, iPad, and English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese • Private by design: analysis stays on your device. Audio is never recorded or sent — to name songs, only an audio fingerprint is matched with Shazam • Background listening: turn it on or off in Settings. When enabled, song recognition continues in other apps and with the screen locked. Because KeyBee listens through the microphone, results depend on the room, speakers and noise. Let it listen a little longer for better accuracy.

GroovePilot is a musician's toolkit for iPhone: a metronome you can trust, a BPM counter and a tuner, in one calm dark screen with no ads, no account and no tracking. METRONOME (free) • Every click is placed on the audio clock, sample by sample, so the tempo does not drift. • 40 to 300 BPM, beats per bar, accent on beat one • Tap tempo, slide or type a tempo • Flash and haptics to see and feel the beat • Keeps playing with the screen locked BPM COUNTER (free) • Play music near your phone and GroovePilot finds the tempo • Double or halve it with one tap and send it to the metronome TUNER (free) • Chromatic and instrument tunings for guitar, bass, ukulele and more • Reference tones to tune by ear GROOVEPILOT PRO (one-time purchase, no subscription) • Apple Watch app: the beat as taps on your wrist, also with the wrist down • MIDI clock, start/stop and notes to your other gear, over cable, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi • Subdivisions, polyrhythms, accent levels, muted bars and tempo programs • Presets and setlists for rehearsal and the stage • 10 extra click sounds, including a counting voice • Tools: transpose and chord finder • Songs: chord and strumming charts with their tempo Private by design: the microphone is used only while the BPM counter or tuner listens. Sound is analysed on your phone and never recorded or sent. GroovePilot works fully offline.