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liveBPM - Beat Detector
Daniel Bach · 105 ratings · ★ 4.0
4.0
★★★★★
105 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"work"
9 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I just downloaded this and it was working and now it does not hear the music and stop working. How do I get it to work" - Edbb2
2
"iphone"
6 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes my iPhone. Had to delete. iPhone 13 Pro. 17.4.1" - GeetarFeller
3
"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Trash. This app will not work on my iPhone. It will open and not respond to anything and then you can’t close the app without rebooting your phone. I feel like I was scammed out of the few dollars that this app cost me. Don’t buy this app! It does…" - EvansGaListener
4
"money"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the money. Slow to register beats measurement. Consistently off the actual bpm being played. Not sure why this app costs a much as it does." - Firsttinenuser
5
"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I just downloaded this and it was working and now it does not hear the music and stop working. How do I get it to work" - Edbb2
6
"doesn work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
7
"bought"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t figure it out. I bought this app so I could find the BPM while listening and looking for music in my indoor cycle classes. I can’t figure out how to use it. Nothing ever shows and I have to keep doing a hard reset on my iPhone 11 to get out of the app." - amisbrooks
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"slow"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the money. Slow to register beats measurement. Consistently off the actual bpm being played. Not sure why this app costs a much as it does." - Firsttinenuser
📋 All 19 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Freezes my iPhone
Had to delete. iPhone 13 Pro. 17.4.1
I just downloaded this and it was working and now it does not hear the music and stop working
How do I get it to work
Trash
This app will not work on my iPhone. It will open and not respond to anything and then you can’t close the app without rebooting your phone. I feel like I was scammed out of the few dollars that this app cost me. Don’t buy this app! It doesn’t work.
Inconsistent
Doesn’t consistently register a beat. Especially when streaming a song on the IOS device. Only works in landscape mode on the iPhone.
App has stopped working
I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and it still doesn’t work.
Live BPM
I wish it would work with IOS 14. It was the best app fir a drummer
Does not work 🤦🏼♀️
Does not work properly
Doesn’t work for fast speed on piano
With fast piano speed, it doesn’t work at all
Can’t figure it out
I bought this app so I could find the BPM while listening and looking for music in my indoor cycle classes. I can’t figure out how to use it. Nothing ever shows and I have to keep doing a hard reset on my iPhone 11 to get out of the app.
What happened?
I’ve used this app for about 1 year. Love it. Out of the blue, it shows up as only a black screen. I reset my phone to factory settings. No go. Still a black screen. iPhone 7 current OS. Only writing here because cannot find a way to contact developer. Anyone else experiencing this issue? Might be a hardware problem. Frustrating nonetheless. Please advise.
I wish I could get a refund!
I bought this app thinking it would be more useful, faster to respond, and able to save tempos.
It’s super slow to pick up tempos, and the tempo range slider switch serves little purpose that I can see.
Another 4 bucks gone!
It’s super slow to pick up tempos, and the tempo range slider switch serves little purpose that I can see.
Another 4 bucks gone!
Didn’t work
Ok for one thing I am almost certain that the readings were way way way way way off. Two it was so slow that it was always changing and I couldn’t hardly read it. Plse fix!!
What a lousy piece of junk
This is the sorriest piece of jock I'm trying to say joke J you and KS only way you can get this thing to work it's a bad as big a piece of crap is this thing you sold me I hope to hell no one spends their money on this junk because it does not give you any any instructions I can yo fart and get 140 beats try it sometime hit for beach in front of your speaker and you'll get 104 beats
Crap!!!!
Crap. I hope to get my money back!
Nice
Nice enough on the ipad,
but VERY disappointed it did not load to my iphone, especially for $3.99!
but VERY disappointed it did not load to my iphone, especially for $3.99!
Io7 no longer works
I loved this, but not since change to io7. It no longer works at all. A bandmate bought with io7 and his doesn't work either. Or only at much higher db than before. But not with the graph function. Anyone else?
Blank Screen
I heard a lot about the accuracy of this app. Was exited to do a trail run. Paid my money. Then nothing but a blank screen. I've got a IPod touch running iOs 5.0.5. And would really like to have this app.
Not worth the money
Slow to register beats measurement. Consistently off the actual bpm being played. Not sure why this app costs a much as it does.
Not for real musicians.
This app seems nice in principle, but it can't count very high. It's counting every Coltrane tune I put on in halftime (160 vs. the actual quarter note speed of 320, etc.). If the developers are going to charge four dollars for this, you'd think they might have listened to a jazz album once or twice. If you play jazz, save your money.
Sentiment summary
72%
Positive (4-5★)
10%
Neutral (3★)
18%
Negative (1-2★)