Metronome M1 Pro vs Melodee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Metronome M1 Pro
This app provides a versatile metronome for musicians, supporting a wide tempo range and various time signatures. It offers tap tempo functionality, customizable note values, and haptic feedback to aid practice and improve aural skills.
- Wide tempo range (10-300 BPM)
- Supports various simple and compound time signatures
- Customizable time signatures
- Tap Tempo feature
- Adjustable note values for tempo marking
- Haptic feedback on beats
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Metronome M1 supports a wide tempo range between 10-300 BPM, ranging from Grave to Prestissimo covering all popular styles including Lento, Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Vivace and Presto. The "Tap Tempo" feature lets you quickly set your desired tempo with the ease of tapping a button. Metronome M1 supports the following common Time Signatures and more. Simple time signatures: - 2/4 (duple): Commonly used for polkas or marches. - 3/4 (triple): Used widely for waltzes, minuets, scherzi, country & western ballads, R&B. Also occasionally used in pop. - 4/4 (quadruple): Also known as common time, this is used widely in most forms of Western popular music. It is also the most common time signature in rock, blues, country, funk, and pop. Most students start practicing with this time signature. Compound time signatures: - 6/8 (duple): This compound time signature is used in double jigs, polkas, sega, salegy, tarantella, marches, barcarolles, Irish jigs, loures, and some rock music. - 9/8 (triple): Also known as compound triple time, this is used in triple jigs. - 12/8 (quadruple): Commonly used in slower blues (where it is called a shuffle) and doo-wop; also used more recently in rock music. With the latest update, you can now set any time signature you want. You also have the ability to set any of these note values for the tempo marking - Quarter note, Dotted quarter note, Half note, Dotted half note, Eighth note. You can also get haptic feedback on metronome beats. Now you no longer have to give an excuse for practicing without a metronome as you can have this app on your mobile device all the time. Make metronome your best friend and always practice with it. Moreover, practicing with metronome is proven to improve your aural skills.
Melodee
This app allows you to play audio files directly from your device's file system without importing or syncing. It offers robust file management, tag editing, and format conversion for MP3, M4A, WAV, and ALAC files.
- Direct file management via iOS Files app
- Supports MP3, M4A, WAV, ALAC playback
- In-app tag and album art editing
- Batch file editing
- File format conversion (WAV, MP3, M4A)
- ZIP archive extraction
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Have a file-based music collection? Melodee is the app for you. - File Management Melodee is a file focused audio player. It supports file management directly from the built-in iOS/iPadOS Files app, so you don't have to fumble with share sheets, AirDrop, or cloud storage services. No import or sync is necessary, move your audio files directly to the Melodee folder in the 'On My iPhone/On My iPad' folder, and Melodee will automatically pick them up. You can also select your own folder to playback from. Melodee also supports renaming and deleting files in-app. - Media Player Melodee supports playing audio and video. You can queue files for playback, play entire folders, and control audio playback from your Lock Screen, Control Center, or even your Apple Watch. - Tag Editor Melodee supports tag editing for audio files. The following fields can be edited: Title, Artist, Album, Album Artist, Year, Track Number, Genre, Composer, Disc Number. You can also modify your audio files’ album art. Additionally, you can use advanced replacement tokens that use information from a file's file name to fill out tag data. You can easily edit multiple files at one go, changing only the fields you want to change. - File Conversion Melodee supports conversion between WAV, MP3, and M4A formats. - Wide File Support Melodee supports previewing images, PDF documents, and text files. If your audio files come in the form of a ZIP archive (such as when purchased from Bandcamp, etc), Melodee can also help you extract them. Simply drop your ZIP archives into the Melodee folder, and open them in the Melodee app. Note: Editing many files at once, or using large album art images may result in longer save times.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Melodee at Free against Metronome M1 Pro's $2.99. Melodee also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Metronome M1 Pro's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 50%) and ratings volume (68 vs 5). On update cadence, 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
Melodee is free to download; Metronome M1 Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Melodee holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metronome M1 Pro has 68 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Metronome M1 Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Melodee's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Metronome M1 Pro ships an update every 2 months, Melodee monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Metronome M1 Pro | Melodee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (68 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bijoy Thangaraj | Justin Xin |
Customer experience
Metronome M1 Pro
Melodee
In-app purchases
Metronome M1 Pro
No in-app purchases
Melodee
No in-app purchases









