Piper's Metronome1.19 - App Store

The Piper's Metronome(TM) is easy-to-use. Achieve greater control and precision with your playing with this one-of-a-kind, totally intuitive metronome packed with powerful tools built all styles of bagpipe music. The easy-to-follow, ring-style display makes playing along easy and fun.

Smart Presets make it quick to get started with easy-to-understand, pre-programmed settings for every type of pipe tune and one-tap speed levels tailored for every tune type. Customize everything for your own personal look and feel.

Learn and master the expression of your tunes with the powerful Pulsing and Rhythm settings. These ground-breaking tools allow you to adjust and customize the pulsing, pointing, beat-emphasis, and rhythmic stress to achieve the perfect feel for pipe style tunes, such as 2/4 marches, strathspeys, reels and more.

Build, save and share custom sets. It’s easy to create sets for MSRs, Medleys, or any other combination of tunes with introductions, including pipe band style attacks. Add your tunes and customize the transitions with time signature and tempo changes, and any number of bars or beats. Save all of your sets and share with friends and bandmates in a single click.

It's easy and quick to get started:

. Press the button to choose your tune type (default is 4/4 March).
. Set your tempo quickly using one of these ways:
. Use the tempo adjustment slider. Make finer adjustments using the + and - buttons.
. Tap in your desired tempo using the Tap button.
. Choose a pre-set speed from the Level button (1: slowest, 5 is fastest)
. Tap the Rhythm button to add additional rhythmic patterns.
. Choose your Pulsing level to enhance your musical expression.
. Press the play button. Enjoy!

The Piper's Metronome(TM) is a powerful and full-featured metronome that will help you achieve better musicality and control. Try it out for free and then upgrade to the paid version to unleash all the super amazing features, including creating custom tune sets like MSRs and Medleys and sharing them with your friends.

Version History + Improved accessibility features 1.19 07/10/2023 + Fixed an issue where the title in menu screens could be hidden
+ The metronome will now keep playing if the app is moved to the background, or the phone screen turned off 1.16 04/28/2023 Updated for newer versions of iOs 1.15 09/19/2022 Fix an issue where the dot-cut percentage could not be updated in the settings 1.13 05/12/2021 Fixes an issue with the screen rotation on newer iPads 1.12 01/06/2021 Added a new metronome sound, and a few minor fixes. 1.10 03/27/2020 Fixed a bug where the BPM of a custom bar did not stay in keeping with the tune. 1.06 09/20/2019 Fixed a bug where the app would not start for some devices running iOs 11 1.05 08/22/2019 Minor tweaks to the introduction text 1.04 07/17/2019 1.02 07/10/2019