The practice metronome
A metronome that respects your practice.
A steady, even click, with every tempo, time signature and subdivision free. The trainers, the setlists and six more faces are one purchase, once.
- No ads
- No accounts
- No subscriptions
Have a go on the face: scrub the dial, tap the dots, or drum a tempo on the pad.
A sketch of Baton's face that your browser draws and clicks. The app's own click sounds ship inside it.
Practice · Groove · Build
What Baton is for
Three reasons it lives on the music stand.
Backgrounds are illustrations; the phone screens are the real app.
Free, and not a demo
The whole metronome, free
The practice tools other metronomes lock away are simply free here. There is no trial and no timer.
20 to 400 BPM
A dial you can scrub, steps of 1 and 5 either side, numeric entry, and a giant tap-tempo pad that settles on the number you meant.
Every time signature
One to sixteen beats, over halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths. 7/8 and 5/4 are as easy as 4/4.
All six subdivisions
Quarters, eighths, triplets, sixteenths, swing and offbeats, in every time signature.
Accents you set
Tap any dot to cycle it: accent, normal, ghost or off. Build the bar your piece actually needs.
See it three ways
A swinging pendulum, a row of beat dots and a full-screen flash, all on the audio clock, so what you see is what you hear.
Made for the stand
Big controls you can hit between phrases, and the screen stays awake while the click runs.
An illustration of Baton's TV screen, keeping time with the face at the top of this page.
Cast it
Send the beat to the room
Cast to a TV and the click plays there, with the beat dots and your face on the big screen, while your phone stays the remote. Cast to a speaker and it simply clicks, loud enough for band practice. Casting is free for everyone.
The click plays while Baton is on screen, and keeps going on your TV or speaker when you cast.
Casting uses Google's Cast framework and is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Seven faces
Dress it for the room
Baton ships in Mahogany. Pro adds six more, including Ivory and Glacier, two bright faces for sunlit rooms.
Mahogany, the face Baton ships in and the one everyone gets.
Captured from the app. Choosing a face here dresses the face at the top of the page too.
Eight click sounds
Classic and Beep are free; the other six come with Pro. Accent and beat are voiced separately in every pack.
- Classic Free
- Beep Free
- Woodblock Pro
- Sticks Pro
- Cowbell Pro
- Clave Pro
- Hi-hat Pro
- Marimba Pro
Baton Pro
The training room
Four practice tools that push you, and the rest of the faces and click sounds. One purchase, once.
Speed trainer
Ramps the tempo a few BPM every few bars. Set it from 80 to 160, chase it, then hold at the top.
Gap trainer
Mutes whole bars while the dots keep moving. Hold the time yourself, then check back in.
Polyrhythms
Three against four, or any pair up to twelve, with the counter-voice on its own sound so your ear learns to hold both.
Setlists
Save tempo, meter, subdivision and accents as a song. Name it, order it, and load it back with one tap. Up to fifty songs.
Baton
- Every tempo from 20 to 400 BPM, and tap tempo
- Every time signature and all six subdivisions
- Accents on every beat, the pendulum, the dots and the flash
- Casting to a TV or a speaker
- The Classic and Beep clicks, in Mahogany
Baton Pro one purchase
- The speed trainer and the gap trainer
- Polyrhythms, any pair up to twelve
- Setlists of up to fifty songs
- Six more faces and six more click sounds
- Every future tool, face and click pack
A single purchase through the store you installed Baton from, restored on any of your devices. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. Pay once, own it forever.
The film
Thirty seconds with Baton
The presenter is AI-generated; everything on the phone is the real app. Watch on YouTube
Every click sound ships inside the app.
Baton uses the network for the store's billing for the one-time purchase, and for casting to your TV if you use it. We receive anonymous usage stats. Read the privacy page
Get Baton
On Google Play, and on iPhone through TestFlight. The metronome is yours from the first tap, and Baton Pro is one purchase inside the app.