Fifths vs Pulseview Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fifths
This app helps musicians practice by creating custom drone progressions and looping sections of songs. It offers hands-free control via Siri and includes a metronome, a visual circle of fifths, and daily music theory questions.
- Create looping drone progressions
- Practice with metronome and subdivisions
- Hands-free Siri control
- Visual circle of fifths exploration
- Turn YouTube lessons into practice loops
- Daily music theory questions and streaks
- Over 100 instrument sounds
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Fifths is built around one idea: practicing with musical context, not just isolated exercises. Create moving drone progressions, explore harmony through the circle of fifths, and turn YouTube lessons into focused practice loops. Build the exact practice environment you need for intonation, improvisation, fretboard awareness, phrasing, ear training, and learning real songs section by section. When you want a fixed reference, Fifths also works as a focused single-note drone, or a continuous tanpura for a rich harmonic center. And when your hands are on your instrument, just ask Siri: start a drone, load a preset, start the metronome, or answer today's question without touching your phone. Use Fifths to: - Build looping drone progressions for scale, melody, and improvisation practice - Create single-note or multi-note drone steps to outline changing harmonic centers - Hold a single drone when you want a stable key center for ear training or intonation work - Practice in time with a built-in metronome from 30 to 400 BPM, synced to your drone progressions, with subdivisions from eighths and triplets to swing, sixteenth patterns, quintuplets, and septuplets - Control Fifths hands-free with Siri and Shortcuts: start drones by key or preset, start the metronome, look up scale notes and intervals, check your practice streak, and hear and answer the Daily question - Load ready-made chord progressions from a library of pop, rock, minor-key, blues, jazz, and classical examples, organized around the circle of fifths - Turn YouTube lessons into saved practice loops, and share loops with other Fifths users - Slow down difficult sections, set rep targets, and let Fifths automatically ramp up speed as you progress - Fine-tune loop start and end points and adjust volume - Quickly search for a song's key and BPM while you practice - Explore the circle of fifths visually and hear key relationships instantly - See key signatures, relative keys, parallel keys, and scale notes at a glance - Train faster with daily questions, streaks, and multiple quiz difficulties - Add the Music Theory Daily widget to keep a fresh question on your Home Screen, and answer it right from the widget - Practice with 100+ sounds including strings, choir, organ, guitar, winds, pads, and synth textures - Save presets, favorite sounds, loops, and sounds tailored to your workflow - Customize the Drone screen by reordering or hiding sections, plus note naming, reference pitch, octave range, fade time, and quiz length - Keep practicing alongside other audio apps Fifths Pro unlocks unlimited saved loops, longer drone progressions, the full sample progressions library, the full sound library, and Medium and Hard quiz difficulty. Whether you are working on intonation, improvisation, key signatures, modes, intervals, songs, or general musicianship, Fifths gives you a practice tool that is immediate, musical, and built for repetition. Privacy Policy: https://fifthsdrone.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Pulseview Metronome
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Most metronomes are made to be heard. This one is made to be seen. Pulseview shows you the beat as clearly as it plays it — so you can keep time in a loud rehearsal room, on a noisy stage, or with headphones off entirely. TWO WAYS TO SEE THE BEAT • Bars — each beat is a column that lights up in turn, its height showing the accent • Circle — beats arranged in a ring, pulsing as the bar comes round BUILT FOR REAL PRACTICE • Tempo from 10 to 360 BPM, adjustable in fine or coarse steps • Tap tempo — tap along with a track and the app works out the speed • Bars of 1 to 16 beats • Four accent levels per beat — silent, soft, medium, accented — so you can build anything from a plain 4/4 to complex mixed-metre patterns MAKE IT YOURS • Twelve colour schemes, from high-contrast crimson to a restrained monochrome • Eight click sounds: classic click, wood block, drum stick, clave, hi-hat, cowbell, kick drum, and a pure sine tone • Light and dark themes, following your system setting IMMERSIVE MODE One tap hides every control and leaves only the rhythm pulsing on screen. Prop your phone on a music stand and glance at it — no buttons, no clutter, nothing to distract you. NO NONSENSE No account. No ads. No subscriptions. The metronome works offline. Optional usage analytics not linked to an account stays off unless you allow it. Supported production builds automatically send limited crash and diagnostic data to Google Firebase to help us fix reliability problems.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulseview Metronome at none against Fifths's 3. Pulseview Metronome also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Fifths sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pulseview Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fifths ships an update every 8 days, Pulseview Metronome every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Fifths | Pulseview Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Chirino | Ilia Shatalov |
In-app purchases
Fifths
- Fifths Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Fifths Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Fifths Pro Lifetime$29.99
Pulseview Metronome
No in-app purchases
Questions
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