# Drum Beat Metronome

> Free Metronome for drum or piano practice.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.kitbread.drumbeatmetronome](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.kitbread.drumbeatmetronome)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.kitbread.drumbeatmetronome`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** KitBread
- **Category:** MUSIC\_AND\_AUDIO
- **Downloads:** 109,834
- **Rating:** 3.10 / 5 (153 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.11
- **Last updated:** 2020-06-16
- **First published:** 2017-02-08
- **Data as of:** 2025-05-21
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kitbread.drumbeatmetronome)
- **Website:** [http://www.kitbread.com/](http://www.kitbread.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://kitbread.com/PrivacyPolicy.html](http://kitbread.com/PrivacyPolicy.html)

## Description

The **Drum Beat Metronome** is a versatile and free metronome extension designed to assist musicians in their practice sessions. It supports various instruments including drums, piano, and guitar. The tool uniquely focuses on helping users hear beats clearly, making it especially effective for odd-numbered beats. It includes an automatic music score pattern generator that aids ear training and listening practice.

Key features include customizable accent and rest timings, sound layering with beep and vocal count options, and various beep pitch sounds. Voice Plus modes enhance beat counting variations (1+, 1234+, etc.), while multiple preset patterns such as 8 beats, 16 beats, and diddle rhythms support diverse practice needs. The extension also offers a practice review chart that displays BPM, difficulty levels, and total played time, storing this data locally to ensure privacy and offline access. This metronome is free and contains no in-app purchases, making it accessible for all skill levels.

## Review summary

Users appreciate Drum Beat Metronome for its customizable rhythms, including accents and subdivisions, voice counting, and added drum sounds, which help in practicing instruments like guitar. However, multiple users find the interface complicated and clunky, struggle to mute the voice counting as the option is not intuitive, and face occasional functionality issues like sound stopping. Recent updates have improved some features but also upset users who preferred the prior simpler version. Overall, the app is valued but has a learning curve and usability concerns.

### Pros

- Offers customizable features including subdivisions, accents, and flam, making it more than a simple metronome.
- Includes voice counting which some users find helpful during practice sessions.
- Recently added drum sounds and updated features have improved the app's functionality.
- Helpful for practicing instruments like guitar due to its versatile rhythm options.
- Some users find it generally helpful and easy to understand after getting used to it.

### Cons

- User interface is considered complicated, clunky, and hard to navigate by multiple users.
- Voice counting feature is annoying to some and the option to mute it is not intuitive to find.
- Some users experienced functionality issues such as sounds stopping unexpectedly.
- Recent updates caused dissatisfaction for some users who preferred the previous version's simplicity.
- Certain rhythm subdivisions (like 1/3 notes) are hard or not possible to set up easily.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.kitbread.drumbeatmetronome)