Find the tempo
as the music plays.

No. Your audio is never recorded or uploaded. Tempo detection runs entirely on your device: audio is analyzed in real time and discarded. Song identification, when you use it, sends a compact acoustic fingerprint of the sound, never the audio itself, to Apple's Shazam service to name the track. See our Privacy Policy for details.

The microphone is the app's only input: it's how MagicBPM "hears" the music to measure its tempo. Your phone will ask for permission the first time you start detection.

Get the phone a bit closer to the source, reduce background noise, and switch the capture mode to "Best accuracy" in Settings. You can also narrow the tempo range if you know roughly what to expect.

Yes. Tap Identify during a listening session and MagicBPM names the track and artist using Apple's music recognition, alongside the BPM it measured. With MagicBPM Pro, songs are identified automatically as you listen and saved to your Detected Songs history with their BPM and links to your chosen music app. Song identification needs an internet connection.

No. Pro is a one-time purchase, handled by the App Store on iPhone and by Google Play on Android. If you reinstall or switch devices, use "Restore Purchases" to get it back.

The free iPhone and Android apps show occasional ads from Google AdMob, and never during live detection or while the metronome is playing. The Mac app is ad-free. A one-time MagicBPM Pro purchase removes ads on iPhone and Android. See our Privacy Policy for how advertising data is handled and how to manage your choices.

MagicBPM runs on Mac, on iPhone, on iPad, and on Android phones, the iPhone app includes a haptic metronome for Apple Watch, and the builds share the same detection engine. It needs iOS 18 or later on iPhone, iPadOS 18 or later on iPad, macOS 15 or later on a Mac, watchOS 11 or later on Apple Watch, and Android 9 or later. Get it from the App Store or from Google Play.

Yes, and you don't have to stop the music. Play the track out loud, from the same phone or from a speaker, and start listening in MagicBPM: it mixes in alongside whatever is already playing instead of taking the audio to itself, so Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Deezer and the rest carry on while the tempo locks in. For music playing only through headphones, use tap tempo instead: the microphone cannot hear that audio.

Some music can be counted in more than one way. For example, a 140 BPM track with a half-time feel may also be counted at 70 BPM. Tap Half or Double to choose the tempo that matches your count. Narrowing the tempo range in Settings helps too when you know roughly what to expect.

Tempo detection does. Bluetooth and car routes hand the app a lower capture rate than the built-in microphone, which MagicBPM handles properly. Song identification is switched off on CarPlay and Bluetooth hands-free routes: those microphones apply voice processing that music recognition can't see through, so it would fail rather than guess. Switch back to the phone's own microphone to name a track.

Not by importing it: MagicBPM listens through the microphone, so there is no file to load. Play the file out loud on any speaker and point the phone at it, and you get the same reading. For something you can't play out loud, tapping the beat on the metronome pad, or in the browser with tap tempo, is the fastest way to a number.

English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian. Pick one under App language in Settings, whatever language the phone itself is set to.