Find the tempo of any track by tapping along to the beat. Click the big tap button or press the spacebar in time with the music and this tool averages the gaps between your taps to report a live beats per minute reading. It uses a rolling average of your recent taps, so the number settles quickly and keeps refining as you keep the rhythm. Tapping tempo by ear is how producers, DJs and drummers estimate the speed of a song before setting a metronome or matching two tracks. There is nothing to install and no audio is recorded: every tap is timed with your browser clock alone. Reset at any time to start a fresh count, and read both the instant tempo and the rounded whole number that you would enter into a DAW or drum machine.
It measures the time between your taps and averages them, converting the beat spacing into beats per minute.
A handful of steady taps gives a rough reading, and more taps in time with the song average out timing wobble for a steadier BPM.
Yes, you can tap a key or the on screen button in time with any song to read the tempo.
Find the tempo of any track by tapping along to the beat. Click the big tap button or press the spacebar in time with the music and this tool averages the gaps between your taps to report a live beats per minute reading.
Yes. BPM Tap Counter is completely free, with no sign-up and no usage limits.
Yes. BPM Tap Counter runs in any modern web browser. There is nothing to download or install.
Yes. BPM Tap Counter runs entirely on your device in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded to a server.