A free online metronome with steady, accurate timing: 20–300 BPM, time signatures, subdivisions, accents, and tap tempo. Nothing to install.
The metronome keeps a steady click from 20 to 300 beats per minute. Set the number of beats in the bar, accent the first beat, and split each beat into eighths, triplets, or sixteenths when you need to hear the subdivision. If you don't know the number, tap the tempo button in time with the music and it works the BPM out from your taps.
Every click is scheduled on the browser's audio clock rather than a page timer, so the beat doesn't drift and keeps going when you switch tabs. Use it for instrument practice, keeping pace while recording, or checking a tempo before you set it in a project. To find the tempo of an existing recording, the BPM finder measures it from the file; what BPM means and typical BPM ranges by genre give you starting points.
This one schedules each click on the browser's audio clock, which runs at the sound card's sample rate, instead of relying on a page timer. That keeps the spacing between clicks steady to well under a millisecond, and it keeps running correctly when the tab is in the background. Bluetooth headphones add a constant delay, but it does not change the tempo.
Tap the button in time with the music at least twice. The metronome averages the gaps between your most recent taps, up to six of them, and sets the BPM to match. If you pause for more than two seconds it starts a new count.
Beats per bar sets how many clicks pass before the accented first beat comes around again, so 4 gives common time and 3 gives a waltz feel. Subdivision adds quieter clicks between the main beats: eighths split each beat in two, triplets in three, and sixteenths in four. Subdivisions help most at slow tempos, where the gap between beats is hard to feel.
You can set any tempo from 20 to 300 BPM with the slider, the plus and minus buttons, or tap tempo. The word under the number is the traditional Italian marking for that speed, running from Grave below 40 BPM through Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Vivace, and Presto to Prestissimo at 200 BPM and above. The boundaries between these markings vary from source to source, so treat them as a rough guide.
Yes. Tempo, beats per bar, subdivision, accent, and volume can all be changed while it runs, and the change is heard within a fraction of a second without stopping or restarting the count. The plus and minus buttons move the tempo by one BPM at a time, which suits working a difficult passage up gradually: play it cleanly at a comfortable speed, add a few BPM, and repeat.