The short answer: Free for as long as you want it, in the browser, with nothing to install. Set a tempo from 20 to 260 BPM, tap it in if you don't know the number, and pick a time signature and subdivision to match what you're playing. Accent the beats that matter, choose a sound kit, and let a practice timer or a phone's vibration keep you honest without staring at the screen. Settings save themselves in the browser; named presets and setlists need a free account.
Last updated: August 2026
A metronome only earns its keep if it matches the music. The Metronome covers tempos from a slow ballad to a fast bluegrass run, subdivides the beat the way the part actually sits, and remembers what you set last time.
Tempo runs from 20 to 260 BPM, with 120 as the default. Type a number, drag the control, or use tap tempo — it listens to your recent taps and averages them into a BPM, faster than dialing in a number by ear. The time signature is fully yours to set — any meter up to 16 beats over 16, so 2/4, 6/8, 7/8 and 12/8 are all a couple of taps away. Within a signature, eight subdivision patterns split each beat further: quarters, straight eighths, swing eighths, triplets, sixteenths, quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets.
Tap a beat in the display to cycle its accent through mute, normal and loud, so a downbeat can ring out while a weak beat stays quiet. Two sound kits are available — sampled drum sounds or a synthesized click — and four rhythm feel modes (Rock, Jazz/Swing, Latin, Acoustic) change the default timing and subdivision to match the style, rather than switching the underlying sound.
An optional countdown timer runs alongside the click and stops the metronome automatically once time is up. On a supported touch device, an optional vibration pulse marks the beat as well as the sound does, for practising with the volume down.
It is an online metronome in the plain sense: it runs in the tab you already have open, so there is nothing to install and nothing to buy. Using the metronome online for free also means the settings travel with the browser rather than with a device — tempo, signature and every other setting persist automatically, so closing the tab doesn't lose your place. A free account adds saving named presets and grouping them into a setlist you can step through with previous and next.
Most of the time the tempo you want already belongs to a song. Type a title or an artist into the search field at the top of the page and the metronome lists the songs we hold a tempo for — cover, BPM and time signature on every row — then takes both from the one you tap. It is a BPM finder for songs in the plain sense: the number is looked up, not measured, so there is nothing to upload and nothing to analyse.
Only songs with a tempo recorded against them are listed. That is deliberate: a matching song with no BPM would be a row that does nothing when tapped. When the search comes back empty it means we have the song but not its tempo, or we do not have the song — and tap tempo is still two taps away. If a song's meter was never recorded it loads as 4/4.
Can I find a song's BPM here? Yes, for songs in our library. Search by title or artist and the list shows the BPM and the time signature of every match, then loads them into the metronome with one tap. The tempo is read from the song's entry rather than detected from audio, so there is no file to upload.
Why doesn't my song show up in the search? The list is limited to songs with a saved tempo, so a song we hold without a recorded BPM will not appear. Use tap tempo instead — a few taps in time give you the number.
How do I set a tempo I don't know the number for? Use tap tempo — tap the beat a few times and it averages your taps into a BPM.
Do the rhythm feel modes change the sound? They change the default timing and subdivision to fit the style (Rock, Jazz/Swing, Latin, Acoustic); the sound itself is set separately, from the sampled or synthesized kit.
Do I need an account to use the metronome? No. Every setting saves automatically in the browser. An account is only needed to save named presets and build a setlist.