Making the invisible timing visible
Download: Time Feel beta for iOS
Time Feel is an interactive metronome that transforms the age-old musician’s question “Am I actually playing in time?” into objective visual feedback. Using real-time audio analysis, it listens to your performance while providing immediate visual confirmation of your timing accuracy, helping you develop the internal time feel that separates good musicians from great ones.
Traditional metronomes provide a reference beat but no feedback loop. Musicians can hear the click but can’t reliably judge their own timing accuracy in the moment. Time Feel closes this gap by showing your performance as a scrolling waveform aligned with metronome markers, making timing deviations immediately visible without disrupting your musical focus.
The app leverages a crucial insight: what you need isn’t just a steady beat—you need to know how accurately you’re playing relative to that beat. This creates a practice experience where every note contributes to measurable improvement, replacing guesswork with systematic timing development.
Time Feel’s elegant visual feedback system avoids the jarring audio announcements (“Early!” “Late!”) that other timing tools rely on. Instead, your performance appears as a scrolling waveform with metronome markers clearly visible, keeping your attention on the music while your timing sense develops naturally.
The real-time analysis shows not just whether you’re early or late, but by how much, helping you understand your timing patterns and make precise adjustments. This visual approach lets you see improvement over time and identify specific rhythmic challenges that need work.
Time Feel requires no setup: it works with your device’s built-in microphone and maintains broadcast-quality timing precision. Whether you’re practicing scales, working on chord changes, or developing groove patterns, the app provides consistent, accurate feedback that helps build the internal clock every musician needs.
The app transforms practice time into focused timing development, where each session builds upon the last to create measurable improvement in your rhythmic accuracy and internal time feel.
©2025 Maciej Bliziński