Time Guru Metronome v4.5.12
Avi BortnickAbout this app
Developer Description
Time Guru will strengthen your internal sense of musical time via random muting.
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Guitar Player Magazine says: "This ingenious super metronome was developed by funky-as-hell Sco sideman Avi Bortnick. It will leave out beats randomly to force you to strengthen your own inner time-keeping muscles, and it has other cool features for odd meters, drum machine-style patterns, and more...this is an awesome learning, grooving, solidifying tool."
NoTreble.com says: "I love the aesthetic and layout of Time Guru. It’s very simple and elegant. Time Guru also offers ability to set randomness of your subdivisions (great for testing your internal clock)... There is one thing that Time Guru does that I absolutely love, and for which, this app will always live on my Phone – at the top of the screen, you will see a series of numbers (1-7). When you press a number, it is set first in a sequence and you can choose a subdivision that will then repeat that number of times (or set it to rest that number of times). Sound confusing? It isn’t, because the layout is so simple. Every time you press a new number, it is set next in the sequence and you choose your continue to choose your subdivisions."
Develop your inner sense of rhythm with Time Guru - the only metronome with the ability to mute its sound at random, in sequenced patterns, or both, so that you can assess whether you tend to rush or drag or lose your place with odd meters. Time Guru can periodically leave you on your own so that you strengthen your own internal sense of time, rather than relying on the constant, rigid, external time keeping of a metronome. It's like training wheels that sometimes come up off the ground.
Time Guru also features:
-the ability to play in different time signatures or sequences of time signatures (additive time signatures)
-create rhythmic drum-machine like patterns
-save presets for tempo, meter, sound and muting-
-35 loud sound sets;
-Human or robot voice counting in English, Chinese, French, German or Russian - great for teaching!
-tap tempo (5 to 300 BPM range)
-super accurate, rock-solid timing via a customized audio engine.
And of course it can function as a normal metronome. It is the ultimate tool for becoming a rock-steady, time guru.
See the instructional videos on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/SFBSZ47kP0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNG4SVnE9uQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uIMesacIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plyrsq25jkg
What's New
Version Information
- Version
- 4.5.12
- Downloads
- 10K+
- Updated on
- Aug 31, 2025
- Released
- Sep 30, 2011
- Requires
- Android 4.0
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Time Guru Metronome - Google Play Rankings
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#35 in Top Paid Music And Audio in United States
#24 in Top Paid Music And Audio in France
#32 in Top Paid Music And Audio in Brazil
Time Guru Metronome users say on Google Play
**Still waiting for a widget option!** One of the best practice tools I've bought from the Play Store. Highly recommended! I've been using his app for a few years now... My dream of having a widget still hasn't come true: The ability to create a widget for one of my home screens, so I don't have to navigate the app drawer every time I need to use time guru is the one thing that prevents me from using it more. where's the "clear all" button? its unnecessarily difficult to modify the rhythm
Very useful and powerful app! Only gets 4 stars though because it is tedious to modify patterns (i.e to change something at the beginning of a pattern, you have to delete the whole thing and completely reassemble it). Also, while 16 measures seems generous I feel limited by it. Some ideas to consider: -"Clear" button -"Undo" button -Some way to re-order entered measures (tap, hold, & drag?) -Some way to change the number of beats in a measure without deleting (scrub left/right?)
At last a metronome that gives you freedom and accuracy, with different sounds. More that suits my need. However it need a background controller. A play and stop button from the background or a widget and from the locked screen will be a huge help. Waiting for the update. 👍
I bought it... and refunded it 2 minutes later.... why? Simple...I use a tablet and use it landscape not portrait and this app forces you portrait. Seems like a basic design oversight for am app that looked to have promise for me. Definitely disappointed. If changed them I will reconsider.t
Well I'm sure the non-musician designers and programmers are beaming with pride but this is more like a game than a metronome. It is not intuitive and instructions are useless. ......... Edit 05/01/2021. No, "just start pushing buttons" is for gamers. I recommend a great book for "programmers", "Don't Make Me Think". What does the the row of numbered circles correspond to? Let's start there.