Tap tempo BPM counter

Tap along to any beat and read the tempo as you go. Free, in your browser, nothing to install.

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Click, tap or press the space bar. Four taps is usually enough.

BPMcountR for Android

Find tempos without tapping, practise at them, and keep them ready for the gig.

BPMcountR — Tap BPM & Metronome

Free to use. One purchase unlocks the rest — no subscription, no ads, no account, and it works offline.

Let it listenHold up your phone and BPMcountR picks the tempo out of the room through the microphone.
Play the tempo backA metronome with time signatures, accents, subdivisions and swing — and it keeps going with the screen off.
Readings you can trustSlipped and doubled taps are filtered out, and a stability indicator tells you the moment the tempo settles.
Keep every tempoName, comment and export your measurements. Setlists hold the tempo, time signature and accents for each song in the set.
See where your taps landA timing grid puts every tap against the beat, so you know whether you rush or drag.

Questions

How does tap tempo work?

You tap in time with the music, and the counter measures the gaps between your taps. Beats per minute is what those gaps work out to: half-second gaps mean 120 BPM. Four taps give you a usable number, and it steadies from there.

How many taps do I need?

Two taps already show a number, but it wanders. From about four the reading holds still, and by eight it only moves if you change tempo on purpose. Stop for three seconds and the next tap starts a fresh count.

How do I find the BPM of a song?

Play the track and tap along on the beat you would count out loud. If the number lands at half or double what you expected, you tapped a different pulse than the one you had in mind — both readings are correct, they just count the song differently.

The number keeps jumping. What now?

Tap on the beat you feel most clearly, usually the snare or the kick, and give it a few more taps before you trust it. The app goes further: it throws out taps that slipped, corrects a beat you accidentally counted at half or double speed, and tells you when the tempo has locked in.

Is there a metronome?

Not on this page — it only measures. The app has one, with time signatures, accent patterns, subdivisions, a count-in and background playback.