Touch Metronome vs IMSLP Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touch Metronome
This music app offers intuitive operation and a customizable interface for musicians. It provides accurate rhythm selection and advanced functionality for tempo control and beat adjustment. Developed by a leading instrument manufacturer, it's designed for iOS devices.
- Intuitive single-screen operation
- Customizable interface layout and colors
- Accurate tempo control (10-1000 bpm)
- Adjustable rhythms with beat muting/accenting
- Save and load common settings
- Background play compatible
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〓 Intuitive, enjoyable operation 〓 Elegant, customisable interface 〓 Accurate, diverse rhythm selection ◎ Developed for musicians by a leading musical instrument manufacturer. ◎ Designed for iOS, with a clean, elegant interface. ===================================== ● Matching Touch Tuner app also available! ===================================== ■Key strengths 1: Operability - All operations available from a single screen - Effortless, single-finger operation - Intuitive interface with swipeable control dials - Realistic animation effects ■Key strengths 2: Customisability - Freely adjustable interface layout and colour - Amusing ‘auto-layout’ mode - Selectable wallpaper background with accent flash - Adjustable pendulum position and motion settings ■Key strengths 3: Functionality - The highest level of tempo accuracy possible with an iPhone - Adjustable tempo range from 10 to 1000 bpm - Simultaneously set the number of beats and tempo with multi-tapping - Background play compatible - Fine adjustment and dynamically changeable tempo - Adjustable rhythms by muting/accenting individual beats - Load and save common settings as Songsets
IMSLP Practice
Access a vast library of public domain classical music scores and enhance your practice with integrated tools. Annotate directly on scores, use a metronome and tuner, record yourself, and organize your music for lessons or performances. Import your own PDFs and use hands-free page turning.
- Vast public domain score library
- In-app metronome and tuner
- Score annotation with Apple Pencil/finger
- Practice session recording and playback
- Practice plan creation and logging
- Hands-free page turning
- Import personal PDFs and forScore backups
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IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, the public domain collection of classical scores that musicians have relied on since 2006. This app puts it on your device, and gives you somewhere to work on it. FIND A SCORE Search by work, composer or instrument, or browse a composer's catalogue the way you would a shelf. Open anything straight away, or download it and keep it. Once a score is on your device it stays there, and it opens with no connection at all. MARK IT UP Annotate with Apple Pencil or your finger: fingerings, bowings, cuts, a reminder for the next rehearsal. Your marks stay with the score. PRACTICE ON IT A metronome and a chromatic tuner sit in the same window as the music, so you never put the score down to reach them. Record a take while you play, then listen back against the page you were reading. KEEP TRACK Build practice plans, log what you worked on, and see where the time actually went. ORGANISE Group scores into setlists for a concert or a lesson, and into collections for everything else. Put them in the order you play them, and they open that way. BRING YOUR OWN Import PDFs, photograph a printed part, or bring a forScore backup across. Your existing library comes with you. HANDS FREE Optional head-gesture page turning, so you can keep both hands on the instrument. It uses the front camera, it is off until you turn it on, and nothing leaves the device. MEMBERSHIP A free account holds ten scores and ten hours of recordings. An IMSLP membership lifts both limits, removes the download wait, lets you upload your own recordings, and opens the commercial recordings. It also keeps IMSLP itself free and open for everyone who reads from it. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Terms_of_Service_and_Privacy_policy_(app)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: IMSLP Practice at Free against Touch Metronome's $0.99. IMSLP Practice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months). Touch Metronome's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On 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
IMSLP Practice is free to download; Touch Metronome costs $0.99 up front. IMSLP Practice sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Touch Metronome asks for nothing beyond the download.
IMSLP Practice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Touch Metronome has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Touch Metronome ships an update every 13 months, IMSLP Practice weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touch Metronome | IMSLP Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Project Petrucci LLC |
Customer experience
Touch Metronome
IMSLP Practice
In-app purchases
Touch Metronome
No in-app purchases
IMSLP Practice
- Monthly Membership$3.991 Month
- Annual Membership$35.991 Year
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