Music tempo control for dancers and teachers. Bring your own playable audio files, change the pace, and repeat a passage. Save speed and volume routines with Pro. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Get Accompanist on the App Store
Free live controls. Optional Pro subscription. For a first class, follow the dance-teacher rehearsal guide.
Accompanist plays compatible audio files you can access on your device with an interactive tempo chart and always-visible speed and volume bars (plus +/− buttons, presets, and a tap-to-type field) that change the playback tempo in real time — from a quarter-speed crawl to triple speed. A pitch-lock toggle keeps the music in its original key while you change tempo, so you can slow a tricky passage down to learn the choreography without it sounding like a record winding down. In dance, the accompanist is the rehearsal musician who flexes the tempo for the class — that’s exactly what this app does, on your phone.
Drag across the tempo chart to move to another point in the song. To change playback speed, use the controls below.
One toggle decides how the music responds:
Set the speed back to 1× to return to the original tempo. Your volume controls and any selected routine still apply.
While a song plays, tap Record and adjust speed and volume as you go. Tap Stop & Save and give it a name — for a teacher, usually a student’s name. Next time, tap Profiles, pick one, and the app drives the speed and volume for you, hands-free, so you can watch the floor. See the whole routine on a speed chart and a volume chart. Share a profile with another dancer and it reattaches to the same song on their device. With eligible iCloud sync enabled, saved profiles can be available on your other devices.
The Volume tab sets a per-song volume that’s independent of your phone’s volume — with a tap at 100%. Boost above 100% to lift a quiet recording, and set your own volume range. Smooth fade-in and fade-out ramp the level over a length you choose.
Save the music at your chosen speed — following a saved profile’s changing speed and volume — as an audio file. Pick the format (match the original, M4A, or WAV) and see the length and file size before you export. Check that your venue’s player supports the exported format before the performance.
Open the library and tap +. You can:
Imported local audio is copied into the app and can play offline. Before class, check that your selected songs are available on the device. Supported: MP3, M4A/AAC, WAV, AIFF and most common audio types. DRM-protected tracks (e.g. Apple Music streams) can’t be opened — you need a file you own.
Pick a colour theme in Settings › Style — Midnight, Rose, Ocean, Sunset, Forest, or Graphite — to restyle the chart, bars, and background.
Control the music from your wrist — play/pause, speed, volume, and skip — so you can run the class without reaching for your phone. The watch app mirrors what’s playing on your iPhone over a direct connection.
The app is free to use as a full live player. Accompanist Pro has monthly and yearly plans. The membership page shows the price for your region. Pro adds: saving & replaying named dancer profiles, the speed and volume charts, exporting your adjusted song, pulling audio out of a video, and full iCloud sync & folder sharing across devices and teachers. Open the Pro membership page in the app to see plans or manage your subscription. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account; payment is charged to your Apple ID.
Yes — the full live player is free, with no accounts. Ads are temporarily disabled in Accompanist 1.12.2. Advertising SDKs remain included; see the privacy policy. An optional Accompanist Pro subscription adds profiles, charts, export, video-audio import, and iCloud sync & sharing. See the privacy policy for information about the included advertising SDKs.
That’s an Apple limitation — cloud providers like Google Drive don’t allow apps to pick whole folders from them. To bring songs in from Google Drive or Dropbox, open that app, select the songs, tap Share, and choose Accompanist. The in-app “Import from Google Drive” button walks you through it. Local files and file servers (On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, Synology) can be folder-picked with “Add a folder”.
No. Streaming services protect their catalogue with DRM, which prevents third-party apps from reading the audio. Use compatible, unprotected audio files you have the right to use, such as purchased downloads or your own recordings. Accompanist does not include a music catalogue.
Your imported songs are stored in the app. Optional Pro iCloud sync can upload selected content to iCloud. Sharing or exporting sends the content you choose to the destinations or people you select. Advertising data is separate from your music; see the Privacy Policy for those disclosures.
Yes. Accompanist is a universal app with a full-screen layout on iPhone and iPad, plus an Apple Watch companion for hands-free control.
Check Count me in and Metronome in the Beat controls. Count me in adds beats before playback; the metronome clicks along with the music. Turn each off separately if you do not want it. Also check the song volume, your phone volume, and any selected saved routine.
Yes. Playback follows whatever route iOS is using — AirPods, headphones, the built-in speaker, AirPlay, or any Bluetooth audio device — and keeps playing in the background.
Please email mwsupplylimited@gmail.com with your iOS version, device, and steps to reproduce. We read every message.
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See the Accompanist Privacy Policy.