MetroGnome: Metronome & Tuner

New: eleven flamenco palos, unlimited custom rhythm patterns with rests and repeats, and a tuner with 60 alternate tunings and 16 era-accurate pitch setting.

A metronome with a gnome on top — and one of the deepest rhythm engines on the App Store underneath.

The pendulum swings, the hat bounces on the beat, and behind the charm sits a sample-accurate click, eleven flamenco palos, a pattern editor with no measure limit, and a tuner that knows 60 instrument tunings, 17 historical pitch settings. Press play and it just works. Open it up and it goes surprisingly far.

FLAMENCO COMPÁS, DONE PROPERLY

Most metronomes can't accent the beats flamenco actually needs. This one ships with the palos already built:

• Soleá, Alegrías, Bulería, Bulería in 3s, Siguiriya, Siguiriya (soleá form), Guajira / Petenera, Fandango, Tangos, Rumba, Tientos
• Start the cycle on 12 or on 1 — each palo carries the right convention
• Tap any beat in the ring to change its accent, live, while it plays
• Build your own compás and keep it

CUSTOM RHYTHM PATTERNS WITH NO CEILING

The pattern editor is the reason to stay. Write what you're actually practicing, in real staff notation, as you build it:

• As many measures as you want — no cap
• A different time signature on every measure
• Whole through thirty-second notes, dotted notes, triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets
• Rests anywhere
• Repeat counts per measure, so a 32-bar form doesn't need 32 bars of typing
• Highlight measures you're drilling
• Accelerando, ritardando and rubato marked per measure — gentle or strong
• Count-in: none, a partial measure, or a full one
• Every saved pattern remembers its own sound and its own look

A LIBRARY YOU ACTUALLY REUSE

Save patterns, name them, and load one in a tap. The piece you fought with last month is still there, exactly as you left it.

A TUNER THAT KNOWS YOUR INSTRUMENT

60 tunings across five instrument families, not just six strings and a shrug:

• Guitar — Standard, Drop D, Drop C, Drop B, Drop A, DADGAD, All Fourths, Open G, Open D, F# Relative Lute, Requinto, Baroque, Romantic, 7-string, 8-string
• Bass — 4, 5 and 6 string, drop and down-tuned variants, BEAD, Tenor, Piccolo, Fifths
• Ukulele — High G, Low G, Baritone, Soprano in D, Guitalele
• Bowed — Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
• Folk — Mandolin, Mandola, 5-string Banjo in Open G
• Chromatic "Any Note" mode for everything else

16 reference pitches, browsable by era, region and instrument: modern A=440, European A=442, Berlin A=443, Vienna A=445, Verdi's A=432, French Diapason Normal A=435, Old Philharmonic A=452, Baroque A=415, Chorton A=466, French Baroque A=392 and more. Each one tells you where it came from.

THE ORDINARY THINGS, DONE WELL

• 20–300 BPM — drag the pendulum weight, scrub the number, or tap it in
• Nine tick sounds: click, beep, woodblock, claves, cowbell, rimshot, hi-hat, bell, knock
• 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 2/2, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 12/8 and anything else you need
• Subdivisions: half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, thirty-second, triplet, quintuplet, sextuplet
• Four accent levels — strong, medium, normal and silent. Tap a dot to cycle it, no menu diving. Silence beats to test whether your time is really yours
• Grab the swinging pendulum with your finger to stop it

DRESS YOUR GNOME

Six gnome styles — Classic Red, Woodland Green, Wandering Wizard, Autumn Amble, Sunny Marigold, Rosy Blossom — plus ten colorways and a set of illustrated scenes to practice in: the burrow, the glade, the bramble, twilight, and a fox who showed up uninvited.

ADS

MetroGnome is free and supported by ads. One rule we won't break: an ad will never interrupt you while the metronome is running.

If you'd rather have no ads, a single in-app purchase removes every ad forever. Not a subscription. Not a trial. One purchase, and it follows you to your other devices.

Requires iOS 17. The microphone is used only by the tuner, on device.