I use the metronome in the Ultimate Guitar App. It is not great, but it is free. The think i really don’t like about it is that it takes like 5 clicks to get to the metronome function. I might try @roger_holland ‘Metr’ trick, that seems like about my speed.
That said, I had my wife order a physical one on line since I really want my kids to use it for practice and I don’t want them asking for my phone every time. We will see what she decides to get.
Interesting !! I’ve bookmarked it.
Not music related, but in the same general vibe: I like playing chess, and a few years ago brought a chess clock(*). While they are all electronic these days, I wanted a mechanical one, which is what I got used to when I learnt to play. Was not easy to find, but I tracked one manufactured who still sell those.
It’s mostly a display piece (I rarely play timed games), but I’d feel the same about a metronome: while I use Justin’s app on the phone, I’d really like a nice “wood and brass” metronome as a piece in my mantel.
(*) if you don’t know it, it’s basically two “countdown clocks” in the same devices, with an interlocked start/stop button, so that one of them is always counting down to zero. If you allow your time to reach zero before the game ends, you lose. It’s a way to avoid infinite “thinking time”
I use my Boss RC-5 looper. It has 99 built-in drum tracks, including a few different metronome clicks.
Rolland? Thats a nice one, I like the wood color. There is something cool about old time pieces.
I’l always use drumtracks since it resembles to playing in a/my band.
A metronome tends to distract me too much.
If you like the look/sound of the traditional “old school” metronomes, google WOODEN PYRAMID METRONOME & you’ll get tons of hits… also an incredibly wide variety of price points. I saw prices from about $30ish dollars to well over $300 dollars… US Dollars. Most of the cheapest ones were available from Amazon.
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I use various metronome apps including Justin’s. Also this
I too like Justin’s metronome app. The speed upper is nice booster: "come on, you can do it a little faster now…
If you record yourself playing with the metronome, and then play it back, you can hear if you’re on the beat or not (or look at the recording in something like Garage band and you visualize the congruence/disparity, if you’d like proof positive of your timing).
How’s my timing? An interesting option on the Justin metronome app is that you can tap on the dial to set the BPM to what you’re tapping. A side feature of this is that if you tap on it for a while, you get feedback on how well your brain is keeping time: does the BPM displayed vary, or does it stay at one number while you tap? This is where I consistently gather supporting evidence for the Einsteinian theory on the relativity of time…
The Justin teaching App also gives you the option of playing to just a metronome (the backing music/voice drops out).
There is something missing in these electronic gizmos though – they don’t sound/feel like the old mechanical metronomes. The whole table/piano top would resonate as the dog released the mechanism and the next beat would be announced as it clicked into place. Like sliding a disc out of its dust jacket, putting it on the platter, and gently putting the tone arm down (and occasionally seeing it skid across to the center) — sometimes it feels we’re losing a myriad little ineffable joys…
+1 for Justin’s TimeTrainer app. It has everything I need and more. In addition to what @Carreta Michal explained, you can also have it “drop” beats to see how you hold the tempo, and that too is adjustable in increments of 10%. It is inexpensive and portable. You can have it display a pendulum rather than a circle. You can adjust the tick sounds. Does it sound (and feel and smell) like an old-school mechanical pendulum? Nope. Would it be cool to have one of those? Yup. Would I use it as often as the time trainer? Nope.
I’m one of the old dogs, I use the old fashion wind up metronome. Other than being old school I like it for two reasons 1) I like the visual of swinging pendulum, It gives me better rhythm as I watch the pendulum swing back and forth. 2) I use it as a timer, when fully wound it’s about 40 minutes, that’s a good workout:).
Thanks for the tip, it seems to be a very good metronome app with many training features that I have been looking for. The timer alone makes practicing with the time-boxing concept easier for me.
Only the tapping seems to me to be faulty, when I tap a few times synchronized with the second hand of my wristwatch, I expect something around 60, but get something around 90. Only for that -1 for this app.
That’s when I use my metronome most BC. When I’m recording.
I’m doing a song now. yesterday I musta recorded the song 50 time (perhaps a exaggeration). For sure I can hear I’m off beat when played back. But many times I don’t need to wait to listen back. I can tell I’m off w/o listening back. If I do listen back, my goodness. being out of time sure is notable. Agreed on the DAW too. With the DAW you can see your out of time too.
Interesting comment there. Like I said, I mostly use my taktell. But when recording I use the digital one inside my DAW. Oddly, I think I’m doing ok while using the taktell, I feel I’m in time. Then I record and I use the DAW metronome and find that I’m out of time.
I can feel if I’m out of time while playing using either device I think. But using the DAW I get wildly out of time. This surprises me and I can’t think of any reason this would be. They both just go click click.
The longer I try though, in the end, I get in sync with the DAW too. It just takes me a moment though. I just find my reaction to two different versions of a metronome odd.
Yep, I also like the simplicity. Nothing to adjust other than the tempo.
Old style is also what I’m used to. I’ve used them since I was a kid 55 years ago. It’s a familiar tool for me.
I think the new electric ones are more versatile for sure. Like I dig the fact that I can have a metronome on via my DAW, while recording. Then I can listen back to the recording against the metronome. On my final version of the recording. The metronome is turned off and ya listen back and don’t even know I was using a metronome. But ya can note that I’m in time if listening for timing. How I did it would be unknown. Perhaps I just have great timing… 
For me, not likely, but the listener don’t know that… 
So I seem to have use for both old style and the new electric versions…
Some days, it feels like I’m using my circadian rhythm 
That’s interesting, Withold. I just tapped for 15 seconds, using my digital watch as a guide (one tap per second). Came up with 59bpm…I suspect the error was with my tapping, not with the accuracy of the app. As for precision, that could be impacted by the sensitivity of the phone screen, or how hard one taps.
here a short video, Samsung Galaxy S23+, the 60BPM tapping measurement start always with the value of 90 and goes slowly down. I can’t use it but to be honest, I don’t need this feature that much
I’ve now started using this - I really like some of the features. I’m using the cowbell 
ah yes the cow bells are good ,
personnaly i like the hi hat of a drummer
its a good metrnome for people who do not like a bip or click
