Windows
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. A small installer (under 2 MB) that needs no administrator rights.
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A RiverThought product
Pulse. Keep perfect time.
A professional metronome for musicians from the first lesson to the concert hall, free. Pulse Pro adds a tuner for orchestral and band instruments, song maps for pieces and movements, recital setlists and practice automation, with Carnatic and Hindustani rhythm as well, for one payment of US$5.
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On your computer, phone and tablet.
Android
Android 8 and newer, phones and tablets. Your browser will ask you to allow installing apps from it the first time. A Google Play edition is on the way.
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Open Pulse in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen (on a Mac: File, Add to Dock). It installs like an app, works offline and uses the microphone for the tuner. App Store and Mac App Store editions are on the way; your Pro key will work there too.
Open Pulse for Apple devices02 / Free and ProNo subscription
The metronome is free. Pro is US$5, once.
Pulse
Free
- Tempo from 10 to 600, tap tempo, one-tap Italian markings from Largo to Presto
- Any time signature, odd meters grouped 2+2+3 or 3+2+2
- Accents on every beat and every pulse, rests
- Subdivisions from eighths to nonuplets, gallops, shuffles, swing
- Polyrhythms such as 3 against 2 or 5 against 4
- Count-in, screen flash on the one, ten click sounds
Pulse Pro
US$5 one payment, all your devices
- Tuner for violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, guitar, bass and more, with A4 from Baroque 415 to modern 440 and orchestral 442
- Chord recognition for guitar, piano and keyboard
- Song maps for pieces and movements: tempo and meter changes, accelerando and ritardando, jump to any section
- Setlists for recitals, exams and gigs, with notes for every piece
- Tempo trainer to build up to performance tempo, silent bars and random silent beats
- Indian classical too: Carnatic and Hindustani tāḷa on Indian instruments, with a tanpura or shruti box
How buying works
- Tap Buy Pulse Pro. It opens an email to support@riverthought.com; send it as it is.
- We reply with how to pay US$5. Card checkout on this page is coming soon.
- You receive a key that starts with PL1-.
- In Pulse, tap Pro · US$5 at the top, paste the key and tap Unlock. Use the same key on all your own devices. It works offline and Pulse never needs an account.
