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Tempo - Metronome with Setlist
Frozen Ape Pte. Ltd. · 4,604 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 13 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.
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"tempo"
6 negative reviews mention this · 46% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was great now huge delay with Bluetooth. I really liked Tempo but with the last update both my iPhone and iPad are delayed by over a full quarter note if I use Bluetooth headphones. It’s fine if I use the iPhone speaker. Downloaded 3 other metronomes and they all work fine." - ttreit
2
"list"
5 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Major improvements needed!. BEWARE! NOT user friendly! Not intuitive. You must first set a BPM, then create your song title for a set list. If you forget to set the BPM, you have to delete the song and do it again. Also, you can’t edit the song title, BPM, or reorder …" - PDub-99
3
"save"
4 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst metronome app ever!. This app is more user unfriendly than the school bully. It is not intuitive, not easy to learn, and basically sucks at every level of frustration it engenders. I wish I could be paid for the hours I’ve wasted trying to figure out its arcane…" - timelyone
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"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst metronome app ever!. This app is more user unfriendly than the school bully. It is not intuitive, not easy to learn, and basically sucks at every level of frustration it engenders. I wish I could be paid for the hours I’ve wasted trying to figure out its arcane…" - timelyone
5
"song"
4 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Major improvements needed!. BEWARE! NOT user friendly! Not intuitive. You must first set a BPM, then create your song title for a set list. If you forget to set the BPM, you have to delete the song and do it again. Also, you can’t edit the song title, BPM, or reorder …" - PDub-99
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"intuitive"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst metronome app ever!. This app is more user unfriendly than the school bully. It is not intuitive, not easy to learn, and basically sucks at every level of frustration it engenders. I wish I could be paid for the hours I’ve wasted trying to figure out its arcane…" - timelyone
7
"save money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
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"edit"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Major improvements needed!. BEWARE! NOT user friendly! Not intuitive. You must first set a BPM, then create your song title for a set list. If you forget to set the BPM, you have to delete the song and do it again. Also, you can’t edit the song title, BPM, or reorder …" - PDub-99
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"lists"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashes when I try to share or export set lists. Everything works as advertised except the feature to export/share set lists which I need to be able to do." - cln1413
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"other"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worthless for IEM. Volume of clicks is impossible to hear over anything. What’s the use of this for anything other than acoustic, quiet music?" - Hallj78
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"tempos"
3 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Save your money. Unless you want a metronome for 4/4 time that is not very loud, even with your phone all the way up, don’t bother downloading. When I switched it to 6/8 time, I only get a click on 1 and 4, even on slow tempos. What good is that? I do not l…" - crQ12ndf
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Worst metronome app ever!
This app is more user unfriendly than the school bully. It is not intuitive, not easy to learn, and basically sucks at every level of frustration it engenders. I wish I could be paid for the hours I’ve wasted trying to figure out its arcane, ill-conceived architecture. Save your money and reject this horrible excuse for an app.
Major improvements needed!
BEWARE! NOT user friendly! Not intuitive. You must first set a BPM, then create your song title for a set list. If you forget to set the BPM, you have to delete the song and do it again. Also, you can’t edit the song title, BPM, or reorder the songs on your Setlist after you’ve created it. So if you need to move song # 5, for example, in your song list, or rename it, etc., you’re screwed. You must build a whole new playlist. Very disappointing, only finding out after paying for the app.
Worthless for IEM
Volume of clicks is impossible to hear over anything. What’s the use of this for anything other than acoustic, quiet music?
Save your money - needs a serious update!
This app hasn’t had an update in over a year, so if you try to email out your list(s) to share or for backup the app crashes! When you have multiple set lists consisting of hundreds of entries each, you’re screwed if you can’t have a back up!
Metrodome is off and sound Level goes up an Down
Tempo or click is off time
Garbage
All I wanted was a simple system to provide 4 bars of count so my band could get the correct tempo for each song we played. After figuring out the unintuitive, clumsy interface, I was technically able to do that. But once a song is entered in a set list, you can’t edit the tempo to fine tune it - you need to enter it all over again. And when you play the set list in gig mode, it won't stop at 4 bars, it only does that in preset mode. Nor will it advance to the next song. Plus the sounds available are really overblown. Worthless for what I needed, which was pretty simple actually.
Difficult to edit tempos after they are in set list
It is very difficult to figure out how to edit tempos once they are in a set list. The fact that you have to select a song, select new song, then overwrite it to change a tempo is not intuitive. It would be much better if you could simply select a song, press edit and change the tempo. Because of this, the app is very difficult to use
Doesn’t save tempos or time signatures on my 4 th generation iPad Air
Worked for hours creating a set list. Only to come back with everything in 4/4 and all the tempos different. I am really angry. Waste of money. AND MY TIME!
Crashes when I try to share or export set lists
Everything works as advertised except the feature to export/share set lists which I need to be able to do.
Was great now huge delay with Bluetooth
I really liked Tempo but with the last update both my iPhone and iPad are delayed by over a full quarter note if I use Bluetooth headphones. It’s fine if I use the iPhone speaker.
Downloaded 3 other metronomes and they all work fine.
Downloaded 3 other metronomes and they all work fine.
Save your money
Unless you want a metronome for 4/4 time that is not very loud, even with your phone all the way up, don’t bother downloading. When I switched it to 6/8 time, I only get a click on 1 and 4, even on slow tempos. What good is that? I do not like the sound of the click and can’t find a way to change it. Very disappointing.
Limited in a key way
Unless I am much mistaken, there's no way on this app to add a song to a playlist unless you have an MP3 of the song on your phone.
In other words, you want to create a playlist that contains your origianal song "Song X" with a bpm of 98. You simply can't do it.
The app won't let you type the name of the song and assign it a tempo. Instead, it goes looking through your phone by a song with that name, and if it can't find it, you can't add it to the playlist.
This is just insane to me.
In other words, you want to create a playlist that contains your origianal song "Song X" with a bpm of 98. You simply can't do it.
The app won't let you type the name of the song and assign it a tempo. Instead, it goes looking through your phone by a song with that name, and if it can't find it, you can't add it to the playlist.
This is just insane to me.
Pretty much unusable on a iPhone 13 mini
I can’t see or set important info, like the tempo in the set lists. The display is very wonky. I know they allow developers to visualize their apps on different screens but this paid app has a poor display scaling and it’s bad.
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)