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BPM finder tempo of any song, free

By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026

Drop a track in and read its tempo — in about two seconds, free, no account. You get the musical key and its Camelot code from the same file.

What you get back

The tempo in beats per minute, read straight off the audio — no tapping along, no guessing. The same pass reads the tonality, so the key, its scale and the Camelot code come with it at no extra wait.

How to find the BPM of a song

  1. Drop your file in the box above (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC or a video file).
  2. Wait about two seconds while it's read.
  3. Read the tempo. Need the stems as well? The link under the result splits the same track.

When a tempo detector gets it wrong

This is an estimate off the audio, and it's honest about it. Where any detector, ours included, slips up:

On silence, or a clip too short to measure, you get a plain "couldn't read this" instead of a number — we'd rather show nothing than a confident wrong answer.

Why the key comes with it

For DJs the two numbers work together: tempos close enough to ride the pitch fader, keys that sit well on the Camelot wheel, and two tracks mix. Producers use the same pair to drop a sample into a project at the right speed and pitch. Since the file is already uploaded, StemGrab also hands you the acapella and the instrumentalkey, BPM and stems from one drop. Only after the key? The key finder is the same tool with the key up front.

Common questions

Is the BPM finder free?

Yes — no account, no e-mail, no daily cap, no watermark. It runs on our own hardware.

How long does it take?

About two seconds for a normal-length song. It doesn't queue behind the stem separation.

Why is the BPM double or half what I counted?

Tempo detection has to pick which pulse is the beat, and a half-time or double-time feel is genuinely ambiguous. Your own count wins.

Does it work on a video file?

Yes — drop in an MP4 and the audio is read out of it.

Is my upload stored?

No. Your upload is deleted the moment it's processed and the stems are wiped from the server within 45 minutes. Nothing is stored, shared or used to train anything — see privacy.