Metrognomicon · Coming 2026

A metronome that keeps time, even when it changes.

Build a sequence of tempo segments, each with its own speed and length, and let them play straight through. Hands‑free, end to end.

Download now on the App Store
Made by Rob & Brian · One musician, one nerd (and one gnome)
Metrognomicon home screen, light theme
A gnome holding a wind-up metronome in both hands
Most metronomes give you one tempo. This one gives you all the pieces.
— The thesis, in plain words
Chapter 01 · Sequences

Music that shifts gears.

Accelerandos, ritardandos, movements that move. Set a passage to run at 120 for sixteen bars, then 138 for the next thirty seconds, then ease back down and let it carry you through.

Each segment by beats or by time. As many as the piece needs. Loop the whole sequence, or play it once and stop.

Hands‑free, from the first downbeat to the last.
A two-segment tempo sequence — 120 then 160 BPM — set to loop
Chapter 02 · Edit segment

Fine control when you want it—feel when you don't.

A wide BPM slider. Tap tempo when you'd rather find the feel than dial it in. Length by minute and second, or by beat.

Manage segments from the play screen. Tap to edit. Hold to reorder. Swipe up to delete.

♪ Forty to two hundred forty BPM.
Edit segment screen with a BPM slider, tap tempo, and length by beats or time
Chapter 03 · Sound & cue

Six click sounds. Your count‑off.

Choose the click that carries in your room. A count‑off — any sound you pick — plays the last four beats before each tempo change, so the next tempo never sneaks up on you.

Or turn the count‑off off entirely. It's your practice room.

Configurable. Or none.
Settings panel showing click sound and count-off options
The full kit

Everything a serious metronome should have. Nothing it shouldn't.

A clean, distraction‑free face. Built for classical players, students drilling difficult passages, and anyone working on a piece that doesn't sit still at a single tempo.

No. 01 · Sequences

A chain of tempos. Played end to end.

120
1:00
160
2:00
120
2:00
No. 02 · Count‑off

Never caught off guard.

Four count‑off beats, in the sound you choose, before every tempo change.

4 · 3 · 2 · 1
No. 03 · Tap tempo

Find the feel.

Tap a tempo, or dial one in precisely.

Tap tempo
No. 04 · Sound

Six click sounds.

WoodblockRim / ClaveSoft tickDigital blipCowbellPitched click
No. 05 · Themes

Default.

Light & dark

Brushed Metal.

No. 06 · Privacy

Offline by design.

No servers, no accounts, no analytics. Your sequences live on your device — and only there.

The cast

A small consort of gnomes, somewhere.

There is, in fact, one. Four, if you're counting. They show up where you'd least expect them—and never where you'd be annoyed by them.

A green-hatted gnome holding a flute, waving
The Greeter
Opens the app
A green-hatted gnome walking with a violin
The Traveller
Counts off changes
A green-hatted gnome holding a metronome in both hands
The Tuner
Edits a segment
A green-hatted gnome holding a clarinet
The Soloist
Presses play
The privacy promise · Updated May 2026

Metrognomicon collects nothing.

The app runs entirely on your device. It makes no network connections and transmits no data anywhere. No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no third‑party tracking of any kind. Your sequences and preferences are saved locally so the app remembers them between sessions — and they leave with the app, if you do.

None
Data collected
None
Permissions
None
Trackers
Always
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