Tonaly Beat

Accurate to the sample. Easy on the eyes

Sample-accurate timing in an app you won't mind staring at for an hour. Two styles — wood and digital — in seven colours.

Coming to the App Store

In private beta now — email us to join.

Tonaly Beat in the Classic theme: a wooden metronome with a swinging pendulum, showing 195 BPM, Presto.
Tonaly Beat in the Digital theme: a back-lit panel display with beat indicators.

Features

Made for practice, not for settings screens

  • Sample-accurate timing

    Clicks are scheduled at exact audio sample positions, so the beat stays rock-steady even while the screen animates.

  • Tap tempo

    Tap along and Beat matches your tempo instantly, averaging your taps over a rolling three-second window.

  • Subdivisions

    Add eighths, triplets, or sixteenths between the main beats to practise finer rhythms — or switch them off.

  • Time signatures

    2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8, with an accented downbeat so you always know where you are in the bar.

  • Haptics

    Feel the beat as well as hear it — useful when you're practising quietly or wearing headphones.

  • Keeps going when you leave

    Switch to your sheet music, lock the screen, run a backing track — the beat carries on. Set it once and forget it.

Themes

Two styles, seven colours

Classic is a wooden metronome with a swinging pendulum and a warm, woody tick. Digital is a back-lit panel with a clean electronic beep. Each has its own colours — pick the one you like looking at.

  • Classic

    • Walnut
    • Ebony
    • Natural
  • Digital

    • Mint
    • Amber
    • Blue
    • Candy

Details

Specifications

Tempo range
40–208 BPM
Time signatures
2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8
Subdivisions
Off, eighths, triplets, sixteenths
Themes
2 modes, 7 colour variants
Requires
iPhone, iOS 17 or later
Data collected
None

In practice

Built for how you actually practise

Working a passage up to speed

Set a tempo you can play cleanly, then nudge it with +1 as the passage settles. The range runs 40–208 BPM, so you can start slower than feels dignified and end up past tempo.

Finding the tempo of a piece

Tap along to a recording, or to the tempo in your head, and Beat locks on — it averages your taps over a rolling three-second window, so it settles quickly.

Reading sheet music while it keeps time

Switch to your score, lock the screen, or start a backing track — the beat keeps going. Set it once and leave it.

Tightening up subdivided rhythms

Add eighths, triplets or sixteenths between the main beats to hear exactly where the inner rhythm sits — then switch them off once it's in your hands.

Practising quietly, or late

Haptics let you feel the beat without hearing it, which works with headphones or when the house is asleep.

Legal & support

The full documents for Tonaly Beat.