/ Free online tool — Tap tempo
Tap the tempo.
Read the BPM.
Hit the spacebar in time with the music. Four taps for a reading, twelve to settle it. Runs in your browser. No upload. No sign-up.
Tap here.
Or hit the spacebar.
Any key works. Tap in time with the beat and the tempo appears after four taps.
/ Method
How the tap tempo
tool works.
Method: rolling average over the last 12 tap intervals · Built by Sample Vault · v1.0
A BPM tapper on one page: rolling average, steadiness readout, half and double time.
/ 01 — Rolling average
Every tap is timestamped to sub-millisecond precision. The BPM is 60,000 divided by the mean of your last twelve tap intervals, so one sloppy tap nudges the reading instead of wrecking it.
/ 02 — Steadiness readout
The ± figure is how far your taps stray from their own average interval. Under ±10 ms you're locked; above ±25 ms, keep tapping and the average will settle before you trust it.
/ 03 — Half / double time
A tapped tempo is octave-ambiguous: tap half notes on a 174 BPM roller and it reads 87. The ÷2 and ×2 buttons shift the reading without retapping, so you can land in the range your genre expects.
/ 04 — Keyboard-first
The spacebar, or almost any key, counts as a tap anywhere on the page; keys pressed inside a text field or on a button are ignored. Loads once, runs offline thereafter. No upload, no sign-up, no account.
/ Built by Sample Vault
Tap tempo is for the moment.
Sample Vault is for the library.
A sample browser that detects the key and tempo of every file you point it at, on your machine, and makes the whole collection searchable. No tapping involved: the tempo is read from the audio itself.
/ More free tools
All free tools →BPM detector.
Drop the file, read the tempo: transient tracking, confidence, and a loop check. The precise sibling of this page.
All free tools.
Key detection, Camelot wheel, mono compatibility, pitch shifting, time stretching, duplicate finding. One page each, all in the browser.
/ 09 — FAQ
Tap tempo — frequently asked questions
Tap tempo and BPM tapping questions, answered straight.