Beat vs Concert Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beat
Develop pitch sensitivity and harmonic awareness through interactive exercises focused on just intonation. Explore intervals and chords, tune by ear, and enhance your musical listening skills in a focused environment. Ideal for musicians seeking to refine their understanding of pure tuning relationships.
- Interactive interval training
- Chord tuning and harmonic awareness
- Progressive ear-training exercises
- Customizable interval and chord building
- Focus on just intonation
- Designed for real musical environments
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Core Features Interactive Interval Training Develop sensitivity to pitch relationships by exploring intervals tuned using just intonation. • Hear intervals begin perfectly aligned • Adjust pitch in real time to hear beats appear and disappear • Tune intervals by ear using guided listening exercises • Practice intervals across multiple keys and registers Chord Tuning and Harmonic Awareness Understand how scale degrees shape harmony by exploring chords built from pure tuning relationships. • Major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads • Seventh chords including dominant, major, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished • Isolate chord tones to hear how each pitch affects resonance • Adjust individual notes to hear chords stabilize or destabilize Challenge Mode Strengthen listening accuracy through progressive ear-training exercises. • Tune intervals by ear with adjustable difficulty levels • Customize time limits and precision targets • Unlock intervals through guided progression • Track improvement and share results with teachers or directors Lab Mode Experiment freely with pitch relationships and harmonic structure. • Build custom intervals, chords, or harmonic textures • Assign independent tuning values to each pitch • Explore consonance, dissonance, and overtone interaction Designed for Real Musical Environments In rehearsals and performances, musicians rarely hear themselves in isolation. Beat-Less Tuning removes ensemble noise and allows you to focus on deliberate listening, helping you build reliable tuning instincts that translate directly into real musical situations. This app is ideal for: • Band and orchestra students • Choir and vocal ensemble singers (especially Straight-Tone singing) • Drum corps and marching musicians • Barbershop and a cappella performers • Music educators and ensemble directors Why Just Intonation? Most modern instruments use equal temperament, which balances pitch across all keys but slightly compromises many intervals. Beat-Less Tuning introduces just intonation, where intervals follow natural harmonic ratios that create clarity, depth, and resonance. The listening skills developed in this app strengthen tuning awareness in any musical tuning system. Built by Musicians and Educators Beat-Less Tuning was created by Grammy Finalist and Recording Academy Music Educator of the Year Jeremy Bradstreet, in collaboration with software developer Noirit Ghosh Choudhuri. Together they combined decades of teaching experience and advanced software design to create a powerful and intuitive listening tool for musicians at every level. Train your ears. Build your sound. Hear music more clearly.
Concert Timer
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Concert Timer is a timing tool made for orchestra librarians and personnel managers. Build your program, time each piece as it's performed, and run a countdown intermission with a tuning note at the end. Add encores on the fly, and the moment the concert ends, share a clean PDF of the actual timings — scheduled start time and end time included — straight to your personnel manager. • Build a program in seconds: pieces, intermission, conductor, and soloists • Time each piece live, with a clear running clock • Start, pause and stop from your Apple Watch, with the current piece on your watch face • Countdown intermission with an adjustable length, a warning before it ends, and a tuning note at zero — choose your pitch, from Baroque (392, 415 Hz) to modern (440–443 Hz) • Record encores during the concert • Export a dated PDF of the full timing sheet • Everything stays on your device — no account, no tracking • Available in 11 languages Designed in the spirit of Swiss typography: clear, quiet, and quick to use in the dark backstage. Made by a librarian, for librarians.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Concert Timer at Free against Beat's $4.99. Beat's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Concert Timer is free to download; Beat costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Beat | Concert Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Bradstreet | Michel Leonard |
In-app purchases
Beat
No in-app purchases
Concert Timer
No in-app purchases









