LiveBPM - Beat Detector App Reviews

VERSION
1.2.1
SCORE
3.9
TOTAL RATINGS
97
PRICE
$3.99

LiveBPM - Beat Detector App Description & Overview

What is livebpm - beat detector app? Sharpen your sense of time! liveBPM is the tempo monitoring tool for drummers, bands and DJs. It detects music and beats via the microphone and continuously displays the current tempo in beats per minute (BPM). It is easy to use and delivers high-quality results while being energy efficient.


=== What users said about liveBPM ===


John Walden, freelance musician and music technology journalist at musicappblog.com:
"There are three obvious applications for the app. First, it would make a brilliant practice tool for a drummer, allowing them to monitor just how good they are at keeping a steady tempo without the aid of a click track to guide them. Second, sat beside your kit during a performance, it would allow you to judge just how well you are hitting the ideal tempo for each song in your set. It’s not just drummers that can benefit for liveBPM as the third use is in mapping the tempo – and any tempo changes – in commercial recordings. While this is useful for drummers, it is instructional for almost any musician."


JonLong:
"I used this at my last band practice and wasn't expecting it to work. I couldn't believe how quickly and accurately it started tracking the bpm, even despite the very loud volume of our music."


PocketDrummer82:
"I am a professional drummer and I have been looking for something like this for years! Unless your playing with backing tracks or recording, Playing with a Click is too Mechanical. This app allows the tempo to breathe, and its like a little angel on your shoulder telling you the band is speeding up or slowing down. It is totally worth the money."


Chris Walther:
"I have used this about five gigs now and have quit using my previous tempo meter. I used both for a few gigs to test the accuracy. Dead on. Thanks! Every drummer should use this."


magrec:
"This has been very helpful for recording. thanks!"




=== Detailed Description ===


This is a tool designed for professional use:
- Well-tested beat detection engine guarantees trustworthiness
- Can handle most genres
- Produces results accurate to within 0.1 BPM under the following conditions:
-- The tempo is constant or almost constant
-- Strong impulses are defining the beat (drums, accentuated rhythm instruments like bass/guitar, etc.)


Further features:
- Tempo curve shows the development of tempo over time
- Multiple zoom modes to show last 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes
- Advanced audio spectrum analysis via FFT
- More accessible and usually more accurate than BPM counters that function through tapping
- Low battery drain thanks to high performance code and efficient algorithms


Using it as a musician:
- Use it as an objective tempo reference like a metronome
- It actually has several advantages over a metronome:
-- You are not tied to a click, giving you more flexibility
-- Helps you use tempo changes to enhance your musical expression
-- With blind tests, it can massively improve your timing confidence, which is especially important if you are in a tempo leading role (e.g. drummer)
- Discover how/whether your favorite artists use tempo changes
- Measure and improve your time-keeping skills
- Identify slowdowns and speedups while practicing your instrument
- Always be in control of the tempo during your live gigs and rehearsals


Controls:
- Power Button: For freezing the tempo curve and minimizing battery drain
- Clear Button: Clears the tempo curve
- Slider: Adjusts the target tempo range (i.e. 80-160 BPM)
- Zoom Buttons: Switch between zoom modes for the tempo curve. (2-30 minutes)


Note:
- You can check and improve the detection by clapping loud to the beat. Also, results can be improved by plugging in a suitable external microphone.
- You can support my work by rating it on the App Store. If you have questions and/or suggestions, feel free to contact me via e-mail or facebook.

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App Name LiveBPM - Beat Detector
Category Music
Published
Updated 09 May 2017, Tuesday
File Size 888 KB

LiveBPM - Beat Detector Comments & Reviews 2024

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Does not work 🤦🏼‍♀️. Does not work properly

Wow! Exactly what I've been looking for!. I've been looking for a good BPM detection app for years, how has this gem been out since 2012 and never shown up on my App Store searches? I'm a DJ with a large vinyl collection, and a lot of my records are not labeled with BPM due to how tedious a process it is; this app is exactly what I need! While some may take issue that it is not 100% accurate down to the 100th, it is more than enough for my purposes and–by a wide margin–the best app I've found to do the job. More than worth the price. I see it hasn't been updated since 2013, I hope the developer didn't abandon it and will eventually add more optimization and features!

An Absolute must have.... If you are a drummer this is a no brainer. I was skeptical at first, but after testing on a tune in 7/4 I was playing with a group, I was sold. Pro drummer, covering multiple genres, and this app is my best friend. Great practice tool, excellent gigging tool...this lets the pocket breathe to your personal feel. Sure a metronome is a great static representation of the time, but this to me personally is a greater tool, letting you know how much your time alters throughout a tune. Very accurate. My only request ( a crazy one) to let the app drive a metronome through something like audiobus, at a user chosen interval( metronome bpm adjusts over a set time or number of bars) to allow the click to be fed to others.

Inconsistent. Doesn’t consistently register a beat. Especially when streaming a song on the IOS device. Only works in landscape mode on the iPhone.

This App no longer works with latest IOS. It looks like this app may not been updated for years and although it’s a great app and I use it weekly in my job. It crashes with the latest update and won’t run.

Can not open app. Please help with my app it will not open!

Detecting a click tract bpm. I use it only to detect the click track count in for the backing tracks I purchase. Some producers publish the tempo but most don’t which makes it unclear visually where sections start and stop. I can have it listen to the count off click audio, set the discovered bpm in Reaper, load a track and see how it lines up many bars down the line. If the tune is played in good time, everything will line up visually and the snap function will be useable. Live bpm worked perfectly for this simple task.

Purchased. Cannot get the device to pick up vibration to give tempo

Stop the whining. I say that in the title for both people in your band if your using the app, and some of the complaints I read about people who have purchased the app. I found this app when I was at a local jam session in DC. The house drummer has it on a phone on his bass drum. After on jam I immediately downloaded the app. It was that impressive to me. I rarely pay to purchase apps, but this was a no brainer. Years ago I had a thing called a beat bug. You put a trigger on your snare drum, and you’d get the space between hits as a number on a screen. It kind of worked, but had a lot of shortcomings especially since it only worked when you hit the snare on a consistently on the same beats. In most cases this app picks up the BPM in a few seconds, and holds on to it very well. I read reviews saying it’s bad at odd time signatures. They are wrong. Using the speaker from my iPad I played “Love is stronger than justice”, by Sting, and it had no problem keeping up with Vinnie Colaiuta’s perfect timing switching between a groove in 7/8 and a double time chorus in 4/4. I, going to say that folks that had those issues were experiencing user error. I’d say I’m a professional level musician who plays a semi pro amount of gigs each year. Last year I did over 70 gigs, and used this app on many of them. It give you invaluable information on the gig and stuff for you to work on when you get home. It is a speedometer for your drums. No more whining about what happened with the tempo. You’ll have actual documentation. I have had a number of drummers do the exact thing that I did when I first saw the app, which is just download it. You should do the same.

Only 4/4 time.... I absolutely love this app and would recommend it to any and all musicians!!! Sometimes I feel it’s more useful than a click track to be able to watch your tempo and adjust on the fly. It’s not a messy or difficult process like a click track can be. For me it was as simple as getting a phone mount and finding a spot for it on my drum kit. I use this app multiple times a week and I can say it’s well worth the money! Now to answer a few of the questions I had about this app.... It can detect a beat from any instrument, clapping, or pretty much any noise. It has about a 1-3 second delay on reading your tempo. If you have a simple 1-2-3-4 beat, it can easily read it and display your tempo. If you’re in a funky groove with lots of accents it may be a bit more delayed (based on my experience) Lastly, it only detects in a 4/4 time signature. Now this last one is my main issue with the app. I understand you can’t get an instant read on your tempo no matter what. And it’s very usable and helpful even with the slight delay. The main complaint I have is that there’s not a button or toggle switch to go from 4/4 to something like 3/4 or even 6/8. I would love for the developer to possibly add this feature. That being said, when you’re playing in 6/8 time (or anything but 4/4) you’ll still be given a tempo that is reliable and allows you to stay focused on keeping that same BPM in your music. What is frustrating is that if you’re learning a song that should be played at say 60bpm 6/8 timing. You CANT expect your app to tell you when you’re at 60bpm in 6/8... you’ll get something totally different! Since it is reading your beat based on 4/4 timing. Overall, I love the app and think the benefits far outweigh any and all negatives. It’s very manageable to get around these cons. It’s just not as easy and polished as it could be. Great app, I love it and thank you!!!!

Drummers need this.. The app can be a bit wonky with odd time signatures, but it otherwise does a fairly amazing job without the need for extra trigger hardware. I have used it to learn how my emotions impact my tendencies to speed up or slow down. I also use it to show bandmates where their perception of time is off (“No, in fact we did not speed up. We were +/- 1 bpm the entire time. Have a look at the data.”)

Worth it. Sometimes you just need to quickly know the BPM of a song, and you do not have the time (or the mind!) to do the math. It’s annoying that the orientation is landscape. A bit more difficult to hold with one hand and operate.

Stop the bpm questioning. Not so many musicians have a perfect feel for tempo. “We” as base players and drummers are the guides. This app is a must have and it closes out the complaints from singers and other not perfect timers. I (the drummer) set the tempo for the band. Without the app I was not able to SHOW the factual tempo and that is where it gets annoying sometimes. Now the tempo played is not a “feeling” anymore but a fact. Made my live easier. And I can see when I screw up before anybody else 😉. And yes sometimes the singer of solo players want some freedoms, that’s fine too! We than can show them how much freedom we gave them.

Can’t close app on iPhone X modified review. Previously I stated you could not close the app on an iPhone X however as the developer pointed out if you do turn the phone sideways you can close it by swiping up. Thank you so much for the response this alleviated a very frustrating problem for this app.

Great idea, but a couple major flaws. Firstly, praise is due for how well it tracks the beat. Nicely done. The issues are how it forces to a reversed landscape and there's no option to switch it. It really shouldn't require landscape at all and, at the very least, it should be able to flip counter clockwise for that forced landscape view, instead of clockwise. I've encountered no other apps that only work that way. All others follow phone orientation. The other issue is related - closing the app requires swiping from the direction of the forced landscape view.

Like it. I'm trying to locate songs in my library recorded with a click to play along with. This app rocks. Just turn it on for a few seconds, plug the detected BPM in my metronome to test against the suspect tune and presto I have the verdict. Much less time consuming than endless metronome tapping and second guessing rush/drag tempo discrepancies. Only deficiency is failure to detect 3/4 or 6/8 time correctly. LiveBPM does try but winds up floating 4 beat rhthym over the 3/4 which results in some interesting Huapangoesque cross-rhthyms; but useless as a BPM measurement. Add that feature and an onboard metronome to next update please.

Love this App. Drummer here... This is a great $4 “insurance policy” for tempo. The big display (I use an iPad) allows me to look over and see if I’m creeping up or dragging (spoiler: I don’t have perfect tempo). Especially helpful for me on the sower songs but I use it for everything. Again, it is just a nice “double-check” on the tempo.

Best BPM Counter app!. Use it on the daily. From radio, DJ sets, to live bands. When you want to know the BPM the of a song, just fire it up and goes to work( Kind of like Shazam for BPM's). Works great and you don't have to tap!!! Thank you for this app!!!!

Love using this app.. I'm a performing drummer and use this app to help keep an eye on the bands tempo. It really is unique in listening to the tempos and displaying them. I would recommend it. There are few things that could use updating. But overall it is a winner.

Not worth the money. Slow to register beats measurement. Consistently off the actual bpm being played. Not sure why this app costs a much as it does.

Good for what it’s meant for. It does a good job of tracking tempo. However, I wish it would support split screen on the iPad so I can run it side by side with Forscore. It’s a terrible waste of space running in full screen. I will still give it 4 stars because it is successful in reading and accurate bpm when playing live.

But you can never leave …... A friend brought his to a session, and I found it useful and download my own copy. It works when I run it. But the app switcher on my iPhone 12 Pro (iOS 16.2) doesn’t work within live BPM. It works with all my other applications. The only way I found to exit is to shut down my phone and reboot. Not good. I found no way other than Facebook to contact the creator Daniel Bach. Not so good for those of us that choose not to sell our soul to Meta. Updated: 4/5/23 App developer Daniel Bach offered this help: “the app is closed by swiping in the orthogonal direction, like all apps running in landscape mode”. This is the only app I have that runs only in landscape mode, and a Google search didn’t offer much insight. But with experimentation I found fix. A greyed out bar appears at the bottom of the landscape mode screen. One upward swipe turns the bar from grey to white, and a second upward swipe get you back to the Home Screen.

Can’t figure it out. I bought this app so I could find the BPM while listening and looking for music in my indoor cycle classes. I can’t figure out how to use it. Nothing ever shows and I have to keep doing a hard reset on my iPhone 11 to get out of the app.

What happened?. I’ve used this app for about 1 year. Love it. Out of the blue, it shows up as only a black screen. I reset my phone to factory settings. No go. Still a black screen. iPhone 7 current OS. Only writing here because cannot find a way to contact developer. Anyone else experiencing this issue? Might be a hardware problem. Frustrating nonetheless. Please advise.

Didn’t work. Ok for one thing I am almost certain that the readings were way way way way way off. Two it was so slow that it was always changing and I couldn’t hardly read it. Plse fix!!

Awesome app. I downloaded this app a few days ago and have been playing with it ever since. If there was some way to calculate the average tempo over what it recorded and displayed the lowest BPM/highest BPM over that period would be great. These numbers could be used for all sorts measurements making it easier to see improvement over time.

This app is great!. First off this app is totally worth the money and I recommend it to any serious rhythm player. I have already been promoting it a lot. I am a professional drummer and I have been looking for something like this for years! Unless your playing with backing tracks or recording, Playing with a Click is too Mechanical. This app allows the tempo to breathe, and its like a little angel on your shoulder telling you the band is speeding up or slowing down. It is totally worth the money, but I have two requests: 1) MUST HAVE Include integrated metronome with capability to store tempos for a set list like the "Tempo" app this way I could click on a song and see the tempo to start out with. It would be great if you could choose how many measures for that to go for, just to help start at the right tempo, then the app could go into BPM detection mode. That's the only problem with this app is that it does not help me know exactly what tempo to start a song, and during a show I do not have time to experiment with different taps to find the right tempo. 2) NICE TO HAVE Ability to save the graph for different performances If you could integrate number 1 above this would be the best tempo tool app on the market and I would easily pay at least twice as much maybe even four times the current value. Please add number 1 above!! Great app thanks!! CV

Thanks for Update. Daniel, thanks for the update. With the last updates from Apple, I thought it might have killed your app. This is such a handy app. It's like having a speed radar gun for your band. Much handier than a click track as you get a feel for the speed of the whole band. I just attach my phone to my kit with a simple mount and I always know where we are on timing. I'm surprised this app isn't used by every band. Look forward to 2.0!!!!

Doesn’t work for fast speed on piano. With fast piano speed, it doesn’t work at all

Stays on screen. App won’t close on new IOS.

Great. Love this app but today it is crashing and won’t launch —maybe it is my phone-anyone else having this ?

Doesn’t work with odd time signatures.. I’m a professional musician specializing in traditional folk music from many countries. I downloaded this AP just now and tested it playing my hurdy gurdy. I’m afraid it doesn’t work at all with 3/8 — even with a loud, steady pulse from the dog (the buzzing bridge on the gurdy), though it had no problems with tunes in 2/4 and 4/4. I then played samples of recorded music — Irish, Old Time, etc. It can barely handle 6/8 if there is a loud guitar in the mix, not on solo fiddle or pipes; and it gets totally confused with recordings of Hungarian, Balkan music, etc. Too bad, I had high hopes.

Good idea but needs further development. As a musician who does a lot of transcribing, this tool saves so much time and has many practical applications. However, the app is missing some features that, in my opinion, are necessary. It measures BPM and plots it on a graph, but there is no way to export or save the results for later analysis. Lastly, the UI really needs some simple improvements, such as buttons

Beat Live BPM Detector. Works again! Accurately detects bpm every time. I am a professional DJ and have been using this app for years. Perfect for auditioning tracks and getting quick accurate bpm. Great for live shows. Detect bpm of dj on before you! A quick note. App stopped working with IOS 14 update so I deleted. Tried other apps that all sucked so I installed this one again, authorized app to use microphone and it’s working again!!!! So happy. Hope this helps someone else:)

Trash. This app will not work on my iPhone. It will open and not respond to anything and then you can’t close the app without rebooting your phone. I feel like I was scammed out of the few dollars that this app cost me. Don’t buy this app! It doesn’t work.

App has stopped working. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and it still doesn’t work.

Amazing. It's not perfect but it really does the job. I use a mount on my hihat stand to hold the phone on gigs. There is a 3 or 4 second lag so the trick is not to chase the reading. With the running graph and the bpm display its easy to see if songs are tending to speed up or slow down before things get out of control. As mentioned it sometimes drops the time signature and will display double or half time, but it recovers quickly. I love this thing! What astounds me is that it actually pretty much works! One bug is that if I get a text it stops working. It would be great if there was a count in metronome. Currently its's my favorite music app.....

Been using for 4 years. I’ve been using this app for almost 4 years while Playing in a 24 piece big band. I Had a few people inquiring how I keep such a good time after last nights rehearsal. I pointed directly to this app and claimed, not only does it keep me honest, but I have proof when the band doesn’t listen well! Lol ! Seriously, this app has saved a few arguments with the Director!! I have never tested its accuracy to a click. However, it’s very very close. And when the band decides a tempo feels good, this app is gold to help repeat that bpm for the next performance if we wish. I’ve been meaning to write a review of this app for a long time. The interest from other band mates last night and the nice comments I received about holding the band together (I’m the Drummer) told me it was time to write this review. Thank you to the developer, your work is very much appreciated.

Decent, not very fast though. This seems like a decent tool for recording speed at lower tempos. However it only seems to effectively measure tempo ranges below roughly 200 bpm. I personally bought this to measure drum roll speed, but sub 200 bpm is way to slow to for any reasonable roll. So for what it can do it’s a fine app, just don’t expect to measure a 800 bpm roll on this with any real accuracy.

Works very well!. I usually don't rate apps. I wanted to rate this one because I was so impressed. I'm using it on an iPhone 5 with the latest OS. It's not optimized for the taller screen, but that doesn't affect functionality. I used this at my last band practice and wasn't expecting it work. I couldn't believe how quickly and accurately it started tracking the bpm, even despite the very loud volume of our music. One thing I noticed is that it sometimes loses the time signature. For example, it might be reading at 120bpm, but then a change in drum pattern will cause it to read at half or double tempo. This happens very rarely and doesn't affect the usefulness of the app. The only change I'd like to see in future updates, other than being optimized for iPhone 5 screen, is the ability to tap something to indicate where a song starts and stops. Sort of like a lap timer on a stopwatch. That way I could go back and look at the tempo graph for various songs. All in all, it's a great app.

Works great.. I am a old school DJ who still spins vinyl. I use this to know the actual BPM of what I am playing on the fly. No more tapping out the beat, just put my phone in front of a speaker.

I wish I could get a refund!. I bought this app thinking it would be more useful, faster to respond, and able to save tempos. It’s super slow to pick up tempos, and the tempo range slider switch serves little purpose that I can see. Another 4 bucks gone!

Useful app. I have enjoyed using this app, and the developer was very responsive to a question I had.

Perfect for vinyl DJs. For true vinyl DJs this is an invaluable tool!! No foolish tapping required, just leave this app open and you have a live + accurate display of your current track’s bpm. Easily the best $4 I have spent on my music this year... Thank you Daniel !!

Used to work better?. I have used this app for a couple of years, and in general it works great. More and more frequently though, it gets stuck at 140 BPM, no matter what the actual beat of the song is. If I delete it and re-load it it’s fine, but it’s happening more & more frequently. :-(

Essential App. I use it all the time for mixing my records. It never fails! Giving it a 4 since it could have a better interface, perhaps some digital-looking font and a “night mode”.

Works every time without fail, but maybe runs fast. I’ve been using this at least once a day on average for six months. … very reliable and picks up the beat very fast. However comparing its readings to accepted readings posted by DJ’s online it might be running a couple of BPM fast. Or maybe it’s my turn table.

Can't live without it!. I've been using Live BPM for over a year now and can't live without it. Do yourself a favor and download it now.

Needs an update. Usually very good. I use it every week. Since last iOS update it no longer opens. Please update. Edit: I reinstalled the app & it is working once again.

Live BPM. I wish it would work with IOS 14. It was the best app fir a drummer

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An excellent App. I only used this for around 15minutes lsat night & already I can see how great it is. This is going to be so good for a persons inner clock, because you need to keep the tempo yourself & it isn't given to you via a quarter note click like standard metronomes do. I'm going to use this at my next band rehearsal. I might position it so the whole band can see it. They love to give 100% blame to me (the drummer) for any timing fluctuations. Not fair. I highly recommend it.

Don’t bother. App does not appear to work on newer phones. Music cuts out when app is opened. Won’t measure beats. Am using an iPhone 14 on iOS 16 Appears to be a waste of money

live bpm. great app.... simple an does what it says it does. reads the bpm of what ever it picks up through the mic. this has been very helpful for recording. thanks!

Works as described. Great drumming companion. Thanks

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WOW! AWESOME!. I placed it under my hi-hats tonight @ rehearsal (for 3hrs) & it worked perfectly! Very impressed! 100% satisfied!

Fantastic super useful music application. I use it in a couple of different ways. One of the ways I use it as a songwriter is when I get a work tape from a writing session I play it back and then use liveBPM to determine the BPM of the song so I can then pull it into my Studio One DAW and then use the tempo detected by LiveBPM to produce the demo. So much more efficient and time saving to use liveBPM rather than trying to guess the tempo and trial and error using a metronome. It’s also very useful in a live club situation where I’ve used it to research which popular song tempos resonate with different demographics in different genres of music.

Great app. This is a great app for drummers, especially those who play shows with minimal rehearsal. If this functionality could be paired with a count-in metronome and the ability to store set lists, this app would be perfect.

Amazing. Fantastic app. I'm still in shock it actually works. Would love a version with a "count off" feature so I don't need two devices for gigs. Thanks again.

Pretty accurate.. Saw this app being used by rick beato and must it is accurate. Test it with a metronome.

Works Astonishingly Well. Reliably grabs tempo off of any track with rhythm elements. Sometimes doubles tempo, but that’s easy to deal with. Great job!

Very useful app. As a drummer, I always dreamed of having a gadget for real-time feedback of my tempo. As an electrical engineer, it seemed a mobile app would be the perfect way to go. But to reliably extract the bpm from whatever acoustic sounds the mic is picking up? Wow, that's a tough problem. While looking around for ideas and tools on how I might make my own, I stumbled upon liveBPM. There must be a lot more under the hood than the simple interface would suggest, because this app is very robust. I'm very impressed with how it responds to changes in volume, rhythm pattern or tempo. Clap a simple rhythm along to a metronome in the background, then turn off the metronome to watch your how your internal tempo drifts. It's fun to watch the bpm graph with your eyes open or closed. If new releases of liveBPM are planned I'd love to add a second graph displaying the position of individual claps relative to the current measure. An excellent, well-engineered app.

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Fantastic. I am a professional drummer, and I am in love with this app. I have used it with numerous styles and various rhythms, and it works perfectly. I have also checked it with my metronome to ensure accuracy, and it's dead on. It even is able to figure out 2/2 as opposed to 4/4. I don't know how, but I'm impressed!!!!

Right out the gate.....WOW!. ....and in a clutch too......thank you,thank you.....Thank you.

This is the real deal -- for DJ beat matching. I tried a bunch of bpm detector apps because I am trying to match beats between electro and rap records. None of them worked properly -- except this one. It works like a champ -- quick, clear and accurate. Worth the money for sure!

Bring on the GodFather. Very satisfied as the computations are accurate. First tests were with music having strong down/up beat which matched lyrics. This was the easy test and expected to be right. Next was James Brown with a slow lyric tempo but faster percussion. Slider adjustment had to be used but after this adjustment Try Me registered dead on. I'm a Westie (Swing dancer) and favor songs with slow tempo lyrics with odd percussion that might trick the ear. Happy to come upon this tool!

Alien Seven (were on The Face Book). Keeps things from getting out of control. Of course, what is control? Dan, great work. I wish you would create a looper.

Best in App Store. The others I've tried were grossly inaccurate or required tapping.

It actually works. Brought it to last night's gig on an iPod Touch. I play bass. Set it up where the drummer and I could both see it. Way more useful than a metronome in this application, because it's not forcing anything. It just tells you which way you're drifting.

Awesome !!. I love it !!! The guitar player says" man , we are rushing " , x on the drums , you %$@&. And I show him the last song he complained about thru the live bpm graph and everything gets really quiet :)

Blank Screen. I heard a lot about the accuracy of this app. Was exited to do a trail run. Paid my money. Then nothing but a blank screen. I've got a IPod touch running iOs 5.0.5. And would really like to have this app.

Accurate. Almost too accurate. I thought I was all over the place then I used this while listening to the radio. All non-drum machine music have tiny deviations in tempo. I wish it also had a metronome with goals for gigging. That would make this app A+++. Still rad.

Great performance tool. I keep this mounted to stay on tempo during gigs and the band leader will check it out and call out a tempo change if he feels it. It works great and the one thing that would make it perfect is being able to set a starting tempo.

Not too happy. The app does what it claims to do... for some music. If a tune has a consistent down beat, it keeps track pretty well. But it cannot keep up with anything that has a lot of off beats; it gets confused very easily. If you plan to use this with rock, jazz, etc. it will probably work very well for you, but if you are doing something more advanced don't expect much.

Works Perfectly. I do a lot of remixes and need to detect the BPM of the songs I get. I used to tap tap tap along using some other apps but this one you just let it listen and it gives you the BPM. It works really well too. I’ve had it detect BPM through Apple Earbuds and off television. Good job!

I like it.. Thank you.

Not for real musicians.. This app seems nice in principle, but it can't count very high. It's counting every Coltrane tune I put on in halftime (160 vs. the actual quarter note speed of 320, etc.). If the developers are going to charge four dollars for this, you'd think they might have listened to a jazz album once or twice. If you play jazz, save your money.

Great Breakthrough!. Thanks to Daniel for creating this! This app is a great tool for performances, rehearsal and practice sessions. I am certain that working with this app will surely improve one's time and confidence. I highly recommend this app and I can't wait to see where Daniel takes this. A must have for any rhythm section player!

Love this app here's a few improvements that I'd love to see. It would be great if there would be an option to scroll back in the tempo line, say you would record a half hour performance to see how the tempo steadiness was.

Wow!. I was nervous spending this much money on an app , but glad I did! Put this in front of my drummer and he LOVED it, and I loved him pushing us to the correct tempo all night. This will get used every gig from now on!

Crap!!!!. Crap. I hope to get my money back!

Easiest way to stay steady while maintaining a human feel.. I took to this app the first time I ever used it. I have it installed on an old 3GS for back up. Sometimes I put the extra (the 3Gs) on the floor close to the bass player so he can have his own reference. I use it on my iPad for non-singing gigs and on my iPhone for all the rest. A must have for any serious drummer or bass player wanting to rein-in an errant drummer! It works on the floor, sitting on my bass drum or mounted on a stand!

What a lousy piece of junk. This is the sorriest piece of jock I'm trying to say joke J you and KS only way you can get this thing to work it's a bad as big a piece of crap is this thing you sold me I hope to hell no one spends their money on this junk because it does not give you any any instructions I can yo fart and get 140 beats try it sometime hit for beach in front of your speaker and you'll get 104 beats

Io7 no longer works. I loved this, but not since change to io7. It no longer works at all. A bandmate bought with io7 and his doesn't work either. Or only at much higher db than before. But not with the graph function. Anyone else?

Holy Cow. I cannot believe how good this works. I had looked at the clip-on hardware speed meters, but, just never wanted to spend the bucks for those. I play in a few different bands... an oribinal and two covers. This solution is exactly what I needed. I'm shocked at how well it works. I can set my phone on a chair nearby my set or on a spare drum. Awesome!

Nice. Nice enough on the ipad, but VERY disappointed it did not load to my iphone, especially for $3.99!

Close But Not Perfect. This is a good app to have if you need to know the approximate BPM. I sequence music and work with Music Software & Drum Machines But this app is not spot on but close Enough to get the BPM. Very helpful when listening to mp3, etc To get a Quick BPM count idea Instead of having to count with a pocket watch or a tapping finger app ( Buy it ) Still a Great Tool To Have Works with the iPods built in microphone, great little feature

Excellent app!. Great learning tool. Only suggestion: have an option to play along to roadmaps of charts (could be open-source) so it could tell you where your time was inconsistent. (i.e. rushed at bridge, hits, etc)

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Language English
Price $3.99
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 1.2.1
Play Store com.DanielBach.liveBPM
Compatibility iOS 7.0 or later

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The application LiveBPM - Beat Detector was published in the category Music on 31 August 2012, Friday and was developed by Daniel Bach [Developer ID: 554766781]. This program file size is 888 KB. This app has been rated by 97 users and has a rating of 3.9 out of 5. LiveBPM - Beat Detector - Music app posted on 09 May 2017, Tuesday current version is 1.2.1 and works well on iOS 7.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.DanielBach.liveBPM. Languages supported by the app:

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LiveBPM - Beat Detector App Customer Service, Editor Notes:

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon. - added 64 bit support to improve performance on current hardware and to ensure compatibility for iOS 11 - fixed a bug where during startup, the audio output would move to the small speaker on the iPhone when not using line-out - updated connection to iOS audio, using the native sampling rate of 48 kHz - now using the measurement mode, minimizing the amount of system-supplied signal processing Version 2.0 is work in progress, featuring a new improved beat detection engine. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in beta-testing (via facebook or dev.daniel.bach googlemail com).

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