Bematist

Bematist

Matches your local music's BPM to your running cadence in real time

pakeha-by Local Media Player

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Description

Bematist matches the music it plays to your running cadence. It reads your steps per minute from your phone's motion sensors and picks tracks whose tempo fits the pace you're actually running, switching automatically as your pace changes. Half- and double-tempo tracks count as a match too, so a 172 BPM track suits an 86 SPM pace and vice versa.

Every track is analysed for tempo on-device, directly from the audio files in your library, so matching works entirely offline once your library is scanned — no account, no network, no server.

Triage mode lets you rate tracks while you run — skip, keep or like, by an on-screen gesture or an earbud button — and sorts them into playlists afterward. Every run is logged with its cadence and track-matching detail, browsable afterward in session history.

Bematist collects nothing and has no servers. It plays music from files already on your device.

Free and open source, GPLv3 licensed.

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.0.6 current
52e959f6da8df4a1…
2026-10-15 5.1 MB API 33
1.0.5
7776104ab966d01c…
2026-10-08 4.5 MB API 33

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_HEALTH
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
  • ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
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  • public.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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