Metronome

Metronome and Pulse are the same click, wearing two outfits. Under the hood there's one engine, and only ever one click running — start it in one place and it's the same beat you'd hear in the other. What differs is the outfit: Pulse is the full-featured "keep time" home, the tab you'll actually live in day to day. Metronome is a stripped-down utility that lives inside the Practice Hub, built for moments when you need a click right here — mid-loop, mid-routine — without leaving the flow you were already in.

That's the mental model to keep: if you're sitting down specifically to work on time, reach for Pulse. If you're in the middle of something else and just need a beat to lock onto, Metronome is what shows up.

Where it lives

Metronome is one of the tool tiles in the Practice Hub — tap it and it opens as its own screen, not a tab. You'll also run into it secondhand: it's the same tool that surfaces inside a loop player or as a step in a routine, already ticking at whatever tempo that context set.

What's on the screen

Metronome keeps everything on one page — no settings sheet to dig into:

• A BPM readout with −/+ steppers. Tap to nudge the tempo one beat at a time — no press-and-hold acceleration here, so getting from 60 to 180 takes a lot of tapping or a drag on the slider instead.
• A tempo slider, running 40–240 BPM.
• Beat dots that light up in time, so you've got a visual alongside the click.
• The same four-symbol subdivision row as Pulse — quarter, 8th, triplet, 16th.
• Start/Stop.
• A combined time-signature and sound-tone options grid.
• An Accent beat 1 toggle and a Mix with other audio toggle, sitting right on the main screen.
• A standalone tap-tempo card, for when you'd rather feel a tempo out than dial it in.

Time signature and sound

The options grid covers four time signatures — 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and 7/8 — a narrower set than Pulse's seven. One thing worth calling out directly: there's no 7/8 grouping toggle here. Pulse lets you choose how a 7/8 bar accents internally; Metronome doesn't offer that choice, so 7/8 on this screen always accents beat 1 only and nothing else.

What Pulse has that Metronome doesn't

Worth being direct about this, since the two tools look similar at a glance. Metronome doesn't have:

• Gap click (muting the click on a cycle to test your internal time)
• Tempo ramp (gradually speeding up over a set stretch)
• The visual pulse glow Pulse displays
• Press-and-hold acceleration on the BPM steppers
• Pulse's wider 30–300 BPM range and full seven-signature set
• The 7/8 grouping toggle
• Persisted settings — Metronome doesn't remember your tempo, signature, or sound choice once you leave the screen

Showing up already set

Metronome has one more trick: it can be opened already dialed to a specific tempo and handed off to another screen's control. That's exactly how it appears inside a loop player or as a routine step — it doesn't ask you to set a tempo, it quietly matches whatever the surrounding context is already using. Combined with the lack of persisted settings, this is really the whole point of the tool: Metronome isn't meant to hold state of its own. It's meant to borrow whatever tempo the moment calls for, give you a click, and get out of the way when you're done.