Reviews for liveBPM - Beat Detector

This is the best app I have found! I have been playing drums live for 30 years and this app does exactly what I needed! It’s not a metronome, it’s a musical “speedometer”. It lets me know if I start rushing or dragging. Fantastic!

Works perfectly. Tested with several known beat tracks and detects. Very well. I will be using this for playing live and/or practicing. Also using to record some vintage drum machine sounds from a 1975 Baldwin Fun Machine that uses a potentiometer that controls the BPM and doesn’t directly let you choose the exact BPM. Thanks […]

Works great as a speedometer when playing gigs. I put it on a cymbal stand w a clamp and tells me in real time if Im rushing/ dragging etc. Also works great on anything with a tempo especially watching a band to see if the drummer is solid. Simple app that does what it says […]

Been using this app for years well worth the price. Great for the gigging and practicing musician it’s a great way to keep the song in check. Only request would be to add a portrait orientation option and perhaps a dark mode for on stage?

Would be 5 stars but…after using it twice in a day it comes up a blank screen when trying to open the app. I even tried a force close. The only thing that fixes the issue is a restart of the device. I am an android user on the Samsung Galaxy S9 plus. This happened […]

Fantastic app! I tried several other BPM apps to automatically read out BPM’s of my hip hop vinyl records and none of them worked – not even close. The only thing that worked was to manually “tap” an app to count BPM – that is certainly not something I want to do. liveBPM worked immediately […]

I’ve used this now for a couple of years as I play drums. Though my tempos are pretty consistent, the band I was with at the time needed me to be even more so. Since using LiveBPM and it has changed my drumming life. I have it installed on my android phone so it is […]

My music teacher told me to work on my timing. I thought my timing was fine. LiveBPM gives me an objective way to measure my tempo while practicing. Played a few measures for 3 minutes and the graph was far from the flat line that would have showed perfect timing. My music teacher was right. […]

Love this! Use it for live gigging and rehearsal for drums. Could you not have it change from 159 to 80 (halftime beat)? That’s right in a common bpm zone for me and it’s annoying. Slight delay picking up beat but it’s pretty accurate. Thanks!!

Performs an essential musical performance task and the display is easy to understand even with most of your attention on playing. Just noting that there have been no updates since 2017, and with the latest Android upgrade, it stopped working until I reinstalled it . It now gives a notice on install that it may […]

This app is absolutely fantastic. I love being able to have a graph showing how dynamic my tempo is. My only ask for liveBPM 2.0 would be for WearOS incorporation. Being able to see my bpm right there on my wrist would be sweet. If the app could use the watch motion to to detect […]

I use in worship service in lieu of click track. As a percussionist, this app allows me to basically keep a mindful eye on the tempo of the group creating more flexibility. Much like the speedometer in your car it will help you keep your speed in check. Definitely worth the small amount of money.

Great..even though needing an update. It’s much easier to manage the tempo than using a metronome when playing with a band and it is easy slow down or speed up when you are only a few bpm off . At first I was disappointed because it only displays in landscape view. However I worked around […]

This app is an excellent, must-have app for all musicians! Well worth the price. I’ve been using it for years at practice and at all gigs. The graph is a great feature. One request for additional capability is I’d like to be able to save the graphs. Sometimes I’m told my drumming was too fast/slow […]

Seems to be the only app out there that can detect tempo. *Update* three years later I’m STILL using this every day, every time I play. It has not been updated for a long time so I hope it continues to remain functional into new versions of Android, but I’d happily pay for times the […]

Not sure how well this works with other instruments but I’m a drummer and this is a fantastic tool to have. I often use it during live performances. I purchased a phone clamp that attaches to my high hat stand, where it’s in easy view and out of the way. When you count off the […]

Works great, I use it a lot while practicing with band and on gigs and it is much better than classic metronome. I play mostly jazz, I often slow down or speed up and this helps me a lot to maintain same tempo without having to have earphones with clicking metronome. Don’t expect that it […]

I use this to a fault! probably my favorite most used app. I’m a working drummer and it has got me through so many gigs I can’t even count. Especially when bonehead singers turn around and tell you you’re rushing or dragging you could just point to the app 😃👍 New development is that when […]

I have bought this app. Works well. I use it for scales practise. It helps re-assure me that i have been in-sync with the metronome on a sustained basis. However there is one issue. It does not seem to work beyond 200 bpm !? Why ? This cannot be a limitation of the signal processing […]

I have been so happy to have found this app. I had previously spent a bunch of money on a reverse metronome that didn’t work well (which I then returned). Finding this app has been just great. Sometimes bands/drummers playing live to a metronome doesn’t work well since once you are off, you are off. […]