Random muting trains your internal clock. Unlimited meter patterns. Gradual tempo changes. The metronome that makes you better.
**Strengthen your internal sense of rhythm.**
Time Guru is the only metronome that periodically goes silent—randomly, in patterns, or both—so you discover whether you rush, drag, or lose your place. It's like training wheels that lift off the ground.
**Random & Pattern Muting**
Set any percentage of random muting to test your timekeeping. Or create sequenced muting patterns. Or combine both. You'll quickly learn where your time falls apart—and strengthen it.
**Complex Meter Sequences**
Build unlimited chains of shifting meters: 4/4 → 7/8 → 3/4 → 11/16 → 4/4 → 3/8. Meters go up to 16/x, patterns have no length limit, and you can rearrange them with drag-and-drop.
**Gradual Tempo Changes**
Automatically speed up or slow down over time—perfect for building technique or working up to performance tempo.
**Practice Timer**
Set the metronome to stop after a specified duration. No more glancing at the clock during scale practice.
**Also includes:**
• 35 loud, clear sound sets with accent/unaccent balance control
• Drum machine-style rhythmic patterns
• Voice counting in English, Chinese, French, German & Russian
• Tap tempo (5–300 BPM) with improved responsiveness and accuracy
• iCloud backup and sync of presets across devices
• Light and dark themes
• Full VoiceOver accessibility
• Rock-solid timing via custom audio engine
• Can also be used on Mac (with Apple Silicon M series chips)
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**What the press says:**
*"This ingenious super metronome will leave out beats randomly to force you to strengthen your own inner time-keeping muscles... an awesome learning, grooving, solidifying tool."*
— Guitar Player Magazine
*"If you're looking for a flexible, powerful metronome app for your iOS devices, I highly recommend Time Guru... it really is highly functional for working on your groove and your rhythm."*
— Sweetwater
*"I love the aesthetic and layout of Time Guru. It's very simple and elegant... for testing your internal clock, this app will always live on my iPhone."*
— NoTreble.com
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Developed by Avi Bortnick, touring guitarist with John Scofield, and Adam Bellard
As a basic metronome this is sharply designed with a very good range of sounds. It is also a sophisticated device for training rhythm skills with some unique features such as mutable beats and measures, random muting and the ability to vary the beat length from minims to semi-quavers, including dotted crotchets and single, triplet quavers. What's not to like? :)
Great metronome.
man with the horn
Never had a problem with this app. It has been great to use. It even goes down to 5 bpm. It works well. I would like to have a softer blip sound. But cannot fault it otherwise.
Great design. Minimal yet feature rich
chiefpoppingfish
Works very well for practising rhythm. I like the random mute feature & flexibility of setting rhythms. Also works when app is minimised
My favourite metronome!
astrobic
Thank you for the update! I love Time Guru for the random mute function and the ability to build bars of odd rhythms I need to practise.
Time Guru can now play after starting a Voice Memo recording
Lock screen player reliability enhancements
Version 5.6.3
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Information
Seller
Avi Bortnick
Size
6.3 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
