BeatStride: Rhythm & Cadence

Your metronome should do more than click. BeatStride combines a professional music metronome with a running cadence trainer — two tools that serious musicians and runners need, in one lightweight app. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 MUSIC METRONOME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built for how musicians actually practice — not just a BPM slider: • Regular Metronome — precise timekeeping from 40 to 420 BPM • Practice Ramp — automatically increases tempo over time, the proven method for building speed on difficult passages • Countdown Ramp — gradually reduces tempo, perfect for warm-downs and controlled deceleration • Poly Rhythm — play two independent rhythmic layers simultaneously (e.g. 3 against 2), essential for drummers and jazz musicians • Loop with Fermata — play a phrase, pause, repeat — designed for focused, deliberate phrase practice Features: ✓ 18 instrument sounds synthesized in real time — woodblock, cowbell, clave, hi-hat, tambourine, bongo, rimshot, clap, bell, and more ✓ Tap Tempo — tap in rhythm with any song to instantly set the BPM ✓ Subdivisions — quarter, eighth, triplet, and sixteenth notes ✓ Custom accent patterns and adjustable measure counts ✓ Sample-accurate beat counter driven by the audio hardware clock ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏃 RUNNING CADENCE TRAINER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cadence — steps per minute — directly affects your running speed and efficiency. Most runners never train it deliberately. Elite coaches target 170-180 SPM. Most recreational runners stay at 150-160 SPM without realising it is costing them speed and increasing injury risk. BeatStride gives you five ways to train it: • Regular — free-run at your target cadence, no time limit • Timed Run — set cadence and duration, the app stops automatically • Fixed Interval — structured sets with configurable rest periods • Custom Interval — build sessions with different cadence and duration per set • Cadence Ramp — gradually shift your cadence up or down across a session, the safest way to retrain your natural stride No smartwatch required. No subscription. Just set your target and run. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 SESSION TRACKING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Every session is automatically recorded: • Complete session history with mode, duration, BPM and steps • Activity heatmap showing your consistency over time • Streak tracking and achievement badges • Personal bests — longest session, highest cadence, most beats • Built-in reflections journal — track how you felt, not just the numbers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY BEATSTRIDE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Under 5 MB — installs in seconds ✓ No account or login required ✓ Works offline — no internet connection needed ✓ All data stays on your device — nothing is uploaded or shared ✓ One app for musicians and runners — not two separate subscriptions Download BeatStride and start training your rhythm — whatever rhythm means to you.