TextMetronome is a fast, free metronome with a powerful text syntax. Type in rhythm chains – tuplets, dotted notes, accents, rests – and play them back instantly. iOS download.

This rhythm practice tool built around a simple idea: type a rhythm, hear and see it immediately. Try it in your browser: https://textmetronome.peckels.com/

Instead of building patterns through menus and clicking, you enter them as text. A syntax such as 4q 4e can be entered in seconds, while fraction-based polyrhythms such as 3:2, 5:3x, 4:7e, 14:3, and 16:3 are also supported. Visual feedback helps you follow the cycle, either as a single circular view or through individual rhythmic pairings.

This makes it fast to test note values, tuplets, dotted notes, rests, accents, and polyrhythmic relationships in a direct and flexible way. Whether you are practicing, teaching, composing, or checking an idea, TextMetronome helps you hear rhythmic structures quickly and clearly.

Features:

• Text-based rhythm input
• One single input field and one play button
• Pattern Orbit Visualisation
• Digital and sample based click sounds
• Fast syntax such as simple patterns 4q 4e (q-uarter e-ight notes) and tuplets. up to 9 (t-riplets, etc.)
• Support for fraction-based polyrhythms such as 3:2 14:3, and 16:3 but also precise ratios e.g.: 5:3t (5 clicks over 3 triplets)
• Circular visualisation of rhythmic cycles
• Alternative visualisation of individual rhythm pairs
• Presets save
• Built-in example presets
• Light and dark themes