Perfect Tempo Reviews

2022 review update: super bummer. It does still work with some of my songs but not my playlist that I built, paid for all the songs, and downloaded onto my phone. No longer useful for my running. 2019 review: Was delighted to find this super simple option for matching songs I love to my ideal running cadence. I am happy at 162 bpm but several of my favorite running songs are 158 bpm. After a few days playing with different software including GarageBand, I stumbled across PerfectTempo! You do have to do a little math but it seems that 2% increase from my playlist is perfect. The interface is simple and familiar, and lets me access my playlist, any of my purchased albums, and Apple Music. It lists everything by song title but you can filter a little. So I set like 9 songs on a playlist, with a mix of original tempo and +2% tempo. The songs keep the choice I made, and there’s a toggle button to “repeat” or “off” or “repeat section”, but even when it’s off it still just plays the same song again. If it would go forward to the next song on the playlist, I’d like it better. As it is, I’ll have to mess around with my phone to manually choose the next song. Luckily they’re each pretty long!

I love house & techno, sometimes the tempo they release the tracks is at a lower tempo so PerfectTempo was the “perfect” solution or so I thought it would be... PerfectTempo does not crash, I appreciate that. But when I increase the tempo, it distorts the track to the point I will not be using PerfectTempo , I only increased the tempo 5%. Very specific it is the drums that are being distorted. Fix this please and I will give 5 stars. A track to use as an example: Dennis Cruz - Save the Earth (Groove Mix)

PerfectTempo definitely looks nicer than Tempo Magic on an iPad, but it appears to lack a couple of features that I use of tempo magic.

I would like to know what PerfectTempo determines the bpm to be and then prefer to set PerfectTempo to a particular bpm rather than have to guess what the %change should be.

I would also like the ability to export an adjusted file to files so that I can play it on apps that do a better job with playlists. I mostly adjust tempos to match ice dance skating patterns.

Update: new update seems to have fixed the problem. Still singing because QA should have caught such an obvious problem.
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Seems like the author has moved on to other things. No updates in a year.

I used to love PerfectTempo but now it doesn’t respond to play/pause controls, gets them confused, starts on the middle, etc.

Quite a disappointment. It has been wonky for quite a while, gotten worse after 14.3.

I’m going back to amazing slowdowner which is more reliable and has more functions. ASD is having some oddities too but this is worse.

Maybe something wrong with the OS?

I like the sound quality of the faster tempo songs, but I am trying to listen to outlines that are broken into multiple tracks and PerfectTempo does not autoplay the next track, which is annoying. PerfectTempo needs to have autoplay next track at the same tempo option. I wish I had my money back.

Please add back the repeat whole song option. I really liked it when there was the option to have repeat whole song and a repeat section option. This way I can toggle between playing a whole song and just practicing one section of it. With the update I have to reset the section portion each time I want to just have the whole song repeated. And if I want to practice the section I have to set it up again which just takes way too much time.

I love PerfectTempo however it does not go to the next song in my playlist. I need to stop my class in order to play the next song . I would love if PerfectTempo could play the next songs on the playlist.

I am a ballet teacher and have been waiting for a music play solution with speed control that I can run from my iWatch. PerfectTempo is the closest I have found! The only issue is not being able to jump to another song in the playlist from my watch. I have to do that from my phone. Please please please consider adding this feature!

PerfectTempo is awesome for those songs that need to be sped up to fit a party type setting..However it would be perfect if the controls would be like Apple Music’s..It’s missing the Skip buttons and it would be great if you can have the “Play next” or “Play later” feature just like Apple Music has.

PerfectTempo does just what I need it to EXCEPT that it cannot move to the next song on the playlist. I use PerfectTempo to change the speed of the songs in the fitness class I teach and while I LOVE that it can change the tempo of Apple Music songs, it’s very frustrating to have to change to the next track manually each time. If that feature could be added this would be a five star app!

This is a highly functional, useful app for slowing down audio for music practice. Little to no artifacts, the audio stays remarkably clear.

The UI could use a LITTLE bit of work though—it’s a bit difficult to create and edit loop phrases, and I really wish there was a 15/30 second back button.

It’s still extremely useful, and with a few more functionality tweaks, it’ll be perfect.

I’m using PerfectTempo to casually listen to songs at a sped up tempo for workouts. It works but two things would make it an easy 5 star for me:
- Autoplay apple music playlists (not having to manually create a setlist from them, which is extra work to create and maintain)
- Default tempo for songs, I want to default to 20% instead of having to manually tweak every single one.
The apple music integration is otherwise great! Thank you for making!

I’m really enjoying the new set list options! I use PerfectTempo to practice music. A lot. I’ve found when trying to practice a song in a different key I’m having some issues in set list mode. When I change the pitch on a song I own, switch songs, then go back to the previous one, the pitch shift controls go away (and it’s stuck in the new pitch). The only work around I’ve found so far, is to pick a totally different tune, close PerfectTempo , reopen it, and then go back to the one with the pitch adjustment… Kind of a pain for now.

EDIT: I found a much better workaround to this little glitch… If a song you own is giving you trouble after you transpose it, open Apple Music, play that song for a split second… When you go back to Perfect Tempo, your transposition options magically reappear.

It would be great to have 10s back and forward buttons in the playback interface. Would also love an easy way to share feedback with developers. There is sometime a bug setting start and end times for a loop where you can’t set a start earlier than the current start or an end later than the current end. Overall is an amazing app for learning songs on guitar!

Been using PerfectTempo for about a year and never review anything. Just a perfect iPhone app for any musician who wants to improve. Beautiful, simple, elegant, gets out of your way. A model app - I wish more apps were this thoughtfully designed. Thank you developers!!

If you are from the era that liked music chopped and screwed you will play with this for hours. It does a great job of not just slowing down or speeding up but it seems to do it so smoothly it sounds as if that’s how it was recorded originally. I like this one. Don’t know exactly what it’s good for but it earned its spot on my phone.

Never do I really write reviews for app but this one is a little different. I listen to hundreds of different genres weekly to provide the most amount of variety. PerfectTempo adds an entirely new element to that. I’ve been listening to my RnB and Lo-Fi playlist now for HOURS because of PerfectTempo. Just buy it, oh my goodness

This is a jewel of a program. It’s the only app I’ve found that will easily speed up and preserve the sound integrity of songs in my Apple Music library. Unlike other programs, I don’t have to bother with all the fuss of downloading / importing songs into the program. Plus many programs I’ve used won’t work with DRM-protected files. I can’t express how useful all that makes PerfectTempo in practical terms.

PerfectTempo has given new life to so many of the “tired” songs in my library that seem to have lost their spark from repeated plays. I’ve been searching for an app like this for a long time and I’m so glad I found this. Kudos to the developers and a huge “thank you!” for your achievement!

I’ve been using perfect tempo for a few weeks to help my learn guitar songs. I follow the tab and slow down the songs on here and I’m able to figure it out. And it works with Apple Music 😁! Like a lot of others that don’t.

I’ve been looking for an app that would slow down Apple Music tracks for years. I use it to learn and transcribe music. PerfectTempo does it, and does it well. Buy it!