Comparison

Super Time vs ESTË

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

Head to head
About

Super Time

Features
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A metronome that plays real drum grooves as well as a click. Set a tempo, tap Play and start practicing. Speed Trainer can raise the tempo a few BPM at a time while you keep playing. Super Time is for guitarists, bassists, drummers, pianists and singers. You don't need an account, and there are no ads. DRUM GROOVES - 140+ grooves built from recorded drums: rock, funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, Latin, reggae, blues, country, metal, gospel and odd meters - Humanize adds the small timing and volume changes a live drummer makes - Variation moves ghost notes and hi-hat accents from bar to bar - Fills every 4, 8 or 16 bars THE CLICK - Timed on the audio clock, so the beat doesn't drift - Tap tempo, and tempo to a tenth of a BPM (93.4) - Nine click sounds, including woodblock, clave, ride, 808 and snare - Tap a beat to accent it. The beat flash and haptics land with the sound SPEED AND TIMING - Speed Trainer raises the tempo by your chosen step every few bars - Gap Practice mutes bars so you can hear whether you held the time - One- or two-bar count-in - Practice Plan sets a daily goal in minutes, with an optional reminder RHYTHM - Odd meters like 7/8, 5/4 and 12/8 - Subdivisions from quarters to 32nds, including triplets and sextuplets - Swing from straight to shuffle - Polyrhythm: 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and more. Hear each side alone or both together - Chain polyrhythms into a looping sequence, for example 3:2, then 4:3, then 5:4 DRONE - Hold a drone on any root note, chord and octave for scales, intonation and long tones PLAYING WITH OTHERS - Play together: phones on the same Wi-Fi share tempo, meter and start/stop once you tap Join on one and Accept on the other - Practice Circle shares one tempo, meter and count-in with other phones over the internet, using an invite code - Ableton Link keeps tempo and start/stop in sync with Live, Note and other Link apps - Home Screen widget, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island controls, Siri and Shortcuts SuperTime is a yearly subscription with a one-week free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Both include every groove and feature. The yearly plan renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your practice settings and history stay on your phone. Practice Circle stores your display name and a participant ID on your phone. The Circle service handles timing and presence only while a live session is running. Privacy Policy: https://supertimeultra.com/privacy-policy-ios Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ESTË

Features
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ESTË - Metronome is the metronome built by people who play live. Precise, sample-accurate timing with the focus serious musicians actually want every day — on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. CORE - 30–300 BPM: tap tempo, fine tuning, direct numeric entry - Time signatures from 2/4 to 12/8, plus custom (any numerator over /2 /4 /8 /16) - Per-beat accents: strong, accent, muted or silent - Subdivisions: 8th, triplet, 16th, dotted 8th; each with its own volume - Curated sound packs: Digital, Woodblock, Rim - Per-voice pan and volume mixer, plus master volume BUILT FOR THE STAGE - Setlists with song sections: each section keeps its own BPM, time signature, accent pattern, subdivision and polyrhythm, advancing after a fixed number of bars or on your cue - Speed trainer: raise the tempo automatically as you play - Polyrhythms: a second cross-rhythm voice (4 vs 3, 5 vs 4…) with its own timbre and pan - Ableton Link: share tempo with other Link apps and devices on your network APPLE WATCH - Standalone, or paired with your iPhone - A haptic click on your wrist: feel the beat with the screen off DESIGNED WITH CARE - A distinctive, screen-recordable rhythm visualisation - A dark, focused interface with an adaptive layout on iPad - Italian and English PRIVACY No tracking. No analytics. No accounts. No data collection: everything stays on your device. Ableton Link talks only to devices on your local network. ESTË - Metronome is free. An optional tip jar lets you support development if you’d like. Every feature is free for everyone.

Screenshots

Super Time4 screens
ESTË4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Super Time at 17.0 against ESTË's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Super Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ESTË sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Super Time ships an update every 4 days, ESTË weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Super Time versus ESTË: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuper TimeESTË
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDONNCHA OTOOLESergio Ferraresi

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Super Time

Subscriptions2
  • Super Time Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Super Time Pro Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Super Time Pro Lifetime$59.99
3 purchases

ESTË

One-time3
  • Lento$1.99
  • Allegro$2.99
  • Vivace$3.99

Questions

Is Super Time free?
Super Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ESTË free?
ESTË is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Super Time or ESTË have ads?
Neither Super Time nor ESTË shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Super Time or ESTË?
Super Time ships an update every 4 days, and ESTË weekly. Most recently, Super Time was updated on October 31, 2026 and ESTË on October 31, 2026.

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