Cue the Click

the metronome that speeds up
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A cycle plays its bars in order, then repeats. Each bar keeps its own time signature, accents and subdivision.

What you're hearing

Training tools

Tempo ramp

Speeds up toward a target tempo: a few BPM every few bars, always on a downbeat.
The tempo lifts on a downbeat, never mid-bar, so a run is never yanked forward halfway through. +2 every 8 bars is where the real accuracy work happens; the default is set for a warm-up. Changing any field here switches the ramp on. In a cycle of bars it counts whole cycles by default, so it only speeds up when the cycle starts again.
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Inner clock

Drops the click for whole bars or at random, so you find out whether your time drifts.
The pendulum fades out with the sound, so there's no reference to lean on. When the click returns, it tells you whether you drifted. This is the hardest and most useful thing here. Changing any field switches it on.
Measured in

Practice timer

Plays for a set time, then stops at the end of a bar (or cycle).
Only playing time counts, so stopping to fix something doesn't use it up: press Start and it carries on. When the time is up it finishes the bar you're in (with several bars, the cycle) and lands on the next downbeat, never cutting a phrase. Changing the minutes switches it on.
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Quick starts

Your presets

Settings

The click

Pick the click voice and its volume, and how else the beat reaches you: a screen flash or a vibration.
Each sound has a separate accent, beat and subdivision voice, so accents cut through whichever beats you put them on. Your choice stays put: no quick start and no reset will change it. The flash is capped at three a second. Vibrate is silent, for shared rooms. Single-key shortcuts (T, 1–9) can be turned off if they get in the way of a screen reader or voice control.

Drums

A synth kit that plays under the click, following your meter.
A groove plays under the click, not instead of it, so the click stays your reference. The pattern follows your meter: 3/4 lilts and 6/8 rolls.

The bar

Time signature, subdivision and swing, for one bar or a cycle of up to four. Accents live on the display: tap a beat.
Add bars to build a cycle (up to four), such as 6/8 then 3/4, or a two-bar clave: each bar keeps its own meter, accents and subdivision, and the count-in plays bar 1. Tap a beat on the display to change its weight. Each tap steps it on: normal → accent → soft → silent → normal. An accent sounds like an accent wherever you put it, so in odd meters you choose which beat carries the click. Swing needs an even division, so it's off on triplets and in compound time.
Bars in the cycle
Editing
Keep steady
Swing
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Space start / stop   ↑↓ ±1 bpm   Shift+↑↓ ±5 bpm   click the tempo to type one   Ctrl+Z undo   T tap tempo   1–9 load a preset

A metronome that speeds up as you play

Cue the Click is a free practice metronome built around one idea most metronomes miss: getting faster on purpose. Set a starting tempo, a target, and a step, and it lifts the tempo for you, a few BPM every few bars. It always moves on a downbeat, never mid-bar, so a run is never yanked forward halfway through. It’s the tempo ramp a lot of players build by hand, done automatically.

Train your inner clock

The hardest and most useful mode drops the click entirely, for whole bars or at random, and fades the pendulum with it, so there’s nothing to lean on. When the click comes back, you find out whether you drifted. It’s the closest a metronome gets to testing the time you actually keep, not the time you copy.

Correct meters, real accents

Compound time is handled properly: 6/8 is two dotted-quarter beats, not six, and the tempo is quoted in the beat’s true note value. Tap any beat to make it accented, soft or silent, so in 5/8 or 7/8 you choose which beat carries the weight. Swing is offered only where it’s defined (even subdivisions), with named ratios, and a small synth drum kit can play under the click to make practice less clinical.

Odd and mixed meters

Odd and mixed meters get their own practice: build a cycle of up to four bars, each with its own time signature and accents, such as 6/8 then 3/4, or a two-bar clave. The eighth note stays steady between bars the way a score reads, or you can keep the beat steady instead.

Cycles of bars

Add a bar under the beats, tap its time signature to change it, and tap its beats to set the accents. The tempo ramp and the inner clock can count bars or whole cycles.

Free, no sign-up, works offline

It runs in the browser and installs to your phone’s home screen as an app. No account, no ads, no download from a store, and once loaded it works with no signal: on a train, in a basement practice room, backstage. Just open it and play.

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Version 1.7.9

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