Tack: Metronome

Patrick Zedler

About this app

Tack is a modern metronome app for Android with a beautifully designed interface that has all the features you need for practicing a music piece accurate to the beat. There also is a separate Wear OS app available with many features directly on your wrist.

Features of the mobile app:
• Beautiful beat visualization with subdivisions and changeable emphasizes
• BPM bookmarks as app shortcuts
• Options for count in, incremental tempo change, song duration and swing
• Settings for flash screen, volume boost, audio latency correction and elapsed time
• Dynamic color and dynamic contrast support
• Large screen support
• No ads or analytics

Features of the Wear OS app:
• Convenient tempo picker and tempo tap
• Advanced beat options with changeable emphasizes and subdivisions
• Settings for flash screen, volume boost and audio latency correction

Contribution:
If you run into a bug or miss a feature, please open an issue in the project's GitHub repository at github.com/patzly/tack-android.
You can also help translate this project at Transifex, if your language is incomplete, contains typos or is not available yet: app.transifex.com/patzly/tack-android.
Thanks for your contributions!

Ratings and reviews

with the 4.0.1 update, the app looks awesome and the buttons that save speeds are laid out much better so that the "delete" part of the button is smaller and doesn't get pressed by accident. One issue though - the app no longer works over Bluetooth. The previous version worked fine; but now, after about 30 seconds of starting the metronome, the click sound goes silent. If I let the metronome run, disconnect and reconnect the Bluetooth connection on the device, the click sound is again audible.

On Android 14 and WearOS 4, while using the mentioning without accents, the BPM is inaccurate (120 BPM is actually closer to 119) and had some jitter. When I added accents, it completely fell apart, with a crazy amount of jitter! The experience on WearOS is far worse. It's a great looking app, and a fantastic idea to have a companion WearOS app, and I hope this can be fixed!

A great app for anyone who plays literally any instrument. It is simple to use, and is a very good tool for professionals and beginners alike. The best part is: No Ads! A slight piece of criticism I have though is that everything seems a little too soft. It would be nice to have a volume a vibration control for the metronome.

What's new

Complete rewrite and redesign of the Wear OS app✨