Steady: Metronome, BPM & Tuner

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About this app

Steady is a precise metronome and chromatic tuner for daily practice — tap tempo, subdivisions, polyrhythms and odd time signatures, with rhythm that never drifts.

Whether you play guitar, piano, drums, strings or sing, Steady keeps you in time and in tune. No clutter and no ads in the core app.

METRONOME
• Tempo 20 to 400 BPM. Drag the big number for fine control, or use the numbered tempo ruler.
• Tap tempo: tap along and Steady sets the BPM.
• Time signatures from 1 to 16 beats, with 2/4/8/16 beat units.
• Tap any beat to accent, soften, or mute it.
• Subdivisions: eighths, triplets, sixteenths, dotted, and swing.
• Polyrhythms: layer 2 to 9 cross-pulses over the main beat.
• Low-latency, drift-free timing pinned to a precise audio clock.

TUNER
• Chromatic microphone tuner with a clear needle dial and live frequency.
• Instrument profiles (guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, cello, voice and more) for faster, steadier readings.
• A scrolling pitch graph so you can see how steady you hold a note.
• Adjustable A4 reference and a drone tone to tune against.
• Advanced tuning with Pro: historical temperaments and transposing instruments.

PRACTICE TOOLS
• Tempo trainer: ramp the BPM up to a target every few bars, or ramp it back down to practise a passage progressively slower.
• Gap trainer: play some bars, go silent, and test your inner clock.
• Random trainer: drop beats at random and hold the pulse on your own.
• Count-in bars and a big on-screen beat number.
• Practice tracker: a calendar heatmap, history charts, streaks and daily goals.
• Preset Sequencer: chart a piece section by section — tempo, meter and accent changes bar by bar — then play the whole thing hands-free.
• Record practice clips, play them back, and share them.

SOUND AND FEEL
• Built-in click packs, all synthesised: a realistic mechanical Tick, plus Wood, Click and Beep. Pro adds Cowbell, Clave, Rimshot, Mechanical and Bell.
• Design your own click in the custom sound studio.
• Vibration on the beat for silent practice.
• Visual modes: flash on beat, a swinging pendulum, or the camera flash.
• Pick your accent colour or a gradient theme.
• Keeps clicking in the background with controls in the notification, plus a home-screen widget and quick-settings tile.

FREE AND FAIR
The full metronome and tuner are free forever with no ads. Steady Pro is an optional one-time purchase (no subscription) that unlocks the advanced trainer, practice streaks and analytics, the Preset Sequencer, advanced tuning, premium click packs and the custom sound studio.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No ads, no analytics, no tracking. The microphone is used on your device only and is never recorded or sent anywhere. Everything you do stays on your device.

Made by a classical pianist and software engineer who wanted a metronome worth practising with.

What’s new

• The tuner now names the string it is hearing, not just the note. Pick a string and it measures against that one instead of guessing which you meant.
• Picking a string no longer shoves the rest of the page down.
• The banjo's short fifth string is drawn as a deliberate part of the neck.
• A refunded Steady Pro purchase now locks Pro again.

Timing is untouched, as always.