An accurate click track with adjustable tempo and beats per bar — with an accented downbeat so you always feel the bar. Free — No Sign-Up
A simple, accurate click track (Web Audio scheduled). Set the tempo and beats per bar; the downbeat is accented. Press Start, then adjust the tempo live — nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
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The artefactFX Metronome is a free tool that keeps perfect time so you can practice, rehearse and record in the pocket. Drag the slider to set any tempo from 40 to 240 BPM, choose how many beats per bar you want, and press Start. The first beat of every bar is accented so you always know where the measure begins.
Because the clicks are scheduled with the Web Audio API, the timing is sample-accurate and never drifts — even over a long practice session. Everything runs locally in your browser: nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and there is nothing to install. Pair it with our Tap BPM and BPM & Key finder to lock in the exact tempo of any song.
Three steps. Instant click.
Drag the BPM slider to your target tempo, anywhere from 40 to 240 beats per minute. The big number shows it live.
Pick 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per bar. The first beat of each bar is accented so you can hear the downbeat.
Hit Start and play along. Adjust the tempo on the fly — the click updates the instant you move the slider.
Simple on the surface, precise under the hood.
Slide to any speed from a slow largo to a driving presto. The tempo updates live, even while the click is playing.
Practice in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8-style groupings, or a simple 1- or 2-beat count. The meter you pick shapes where the accent falls.
The first beat of each bar rings out at a higher pitch, so your ear locks to the top of the bar instead of counting blindly.
Web Audio scheduling keeps the pulse dead steady with no drift, and every click is generated in your browser — no upload, no sign-up.
Whoever needs to stay in time.
Guitarists, pianists and drummers can build clean technique by practicing scales, riffs and fills against a steady pulse.
Singers can drill phrasing, breath timing and rhythmic passages so their delivery sits perfectly in the groove.
Find and confirm a tempo before you commit it to a session, or count in a part you plan to record to the grid.
Music teachers can set a tempo for lessons and exercises, and students can practice at home with the exact same click.
A metronome is a device that produces a steady, evenly spaced pulse at a tempo you choose. It has been a cornerstone of music practice for two centuries because it does one thing exceptionally well: it tells the truth about your timing. Left to our own devices, most of us speed up during the exciting parts and drag during the hard ones. A metronome exposes those tendencies immediately — if your playing pulls away from the click, you can hear it and correct it in real time.
Practicing with a metronome builds an internal clock. Over weeks and months, the steadiness of the click starts to live inside you, so that even when the metronome is off your sense of time is more reliable. That internal clock is what separates a player who merely hits the right notes from one who grooves. It is also what makes you a better collaborator: musicians with solid time are a joy to play with, easy to record, and easy to edit. The artefactFX Metronome gives you that tool for free, in the browser, with none of the friction of buying or charging a physical unit.
Getting started takes seconds. Drag the slider to set your tempo in beats per minute (BPM) — the range runs from 40, a slow ballad crawl, up to 240, faster than most music you will ever play. The large number above the slider shows the current value, and because the click track re-reads the slider on every beat, you can move it while the metronome is running and the tempo changes smoothly with no restart.
Next, choose the beats per bar from the dropdown. This is the top number of a time signature: how many beats are grouped into a single measure before the count resets. Set it to 4 for standard common time (4/4), which covers the vast majority of pop, rock, and electronic music. Choose 3 for a waltz feel, 6 for a rolling compound meter, or 2 for a brisk march or cut-time count. If you want a bare, unaccented pulse with no bar grouping at all, set it to 1 and every click is identical. Whatever you pick, the metronome accents the first beat of each bar so the grouping is audible, not just theoretical.
Listen closely and you will notice that the first click of each bar sounds at a higher pitch than the rest. That is the downbeat accent, and it is more useful than it might seem. When every click is identical, it is surprisingly easy to lose your place — to think you are on beat one when you are really on beat three. The accent anchors your ear to the top of the bar, so you always know where the measure begins and can feel the natural push and pull of the meter.
This matters most in odd or compound meters. Counting three or six beats to a bar is far easier when the "one" jumps out, because it turns an abstract number into a physical, repeating landmark. The accent is what lets you internalize a groove rather than just tolerate a stream of ticks. It is the difference between counting and feeling.
The single most effective way to use any metronome is to practice slowly and speed up gradually. Set the tempo low enough that you can play a passage perfectly, cleanly, and relaxed. Only when it is effortless should you nudge the BPM up a few points and repeat. This inches your ceiling upward without letting mistakes calcify. A few practical habits pay off quickly:
Timing is not a fixed talent — it is a skill that responds to deliberate practice. The metronome is your feedback loop. When you play against a steady reference every day, even for ten focused minutes, your brain quietly recalibrates. Passages that once felt frantic settle into a comfortable pocket, and transitions that used to trip you up start to flow. The key is consistency: short, attentive sessions beat occasional marathons.
A powerful drill for advanced players is to practice around the click — deliberately playing slightly ahead ("on top of the beat") for urgency, or slightly behind ("laid back") for a relaxed feel, then returning to dead center. Being able to place a note exactly where you want relative to the pulse is the essence of great feel, and you can only develop it against a reference that never moves.
Tempo has a vocabulary worth knowing. Classical scores use Italian terms that map roughly onto BPM ranges, and modern genres cluster around familiar tempos. A rough guide:
To match your practice to a specific track, find its tempo first. Our Tap BPM tool lets you tap along and reads the average, while the BPM & Key finder detects tempo and key from an audio file automatically — and the Camelot wheel helps you find keys that mix well together for DJing and mashups.
In the studio, "recording to a click" means tracking a performance while a metronome plays in your headphones. The payoff is enormous: a take that locks to a steady tempo lines up perfectly with a DAW's grid, which makes editing, quantizing, comping, and adding programmed drums or loops dramatically easier. It also keeps a multi-day project consistent, so parts recorded a week apart still fit together.
For actual recording, you will usually run the click inside your DAW so it is sample-locked to the session timeline. Use this browser metronome to find and rehearse the tempo before you hit record — get comfortable playing at the target BPM here, then set the same tempo in your DAW and track. Once you have a keeper, our free browser tools help you finish the job: trim the take with the audio cutter, and when the mix is done, screen it and clean it before release.
Most "online" tools funnel your data through a server. A metronome doesn't need to — it simply generates click sounds on demand. The artefactFX Metronome uses the browser's built-in Web Audio API to synthesize each tick and schedule it slightly ahead of time, which is the trick that keeps the timing sample-accurate and free of the jitter you get from a naive timer. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is recorded, and no account is required, so it loads instantly and works even offline once the page is open.
It is free because it is part of a wider toolkit. artefactFX is built for musicians and producers, and alongside the metronome you'll find a whole set of privacy-first browser tools. When your track is finished, run it through our free AI Checker to detect AI-generated content, and the AI Cleaner to remove AI artifacts before you release — distributors and streaming platforms screen for them. If you go on to check and clean tracks at volume, our pricing plans cover higher limits, but the metronome will always be free.
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