BeatBuddy

Cutting to music means finding the beats — and tapping the marker key a hundred times per song gets old fast. BeatBuddy listens to your track, detects every beat and drops color-coded markers straight onto your Premiere timeline. You just cut.

Free · macOS & Windows · Premiere Pro 25+ · UXP

What it does

Automatic beat detection powered by Essentia — the same audio analysis used in music research.
Markers on your timeline, exactly on the beat. No more eyeballing waveforms.
Four marker colors to tell downbeats, sections and accents apart at a glance.
Runs locally — your audio never leaves your machine.
Native UXP panel for Premiere Pro 25 and newer, Mac and Windows.
Free. No catch, no watermark, no trial timer.

How it works

Open the panel

Window → Extensions → BeatBuddy, right inside Premiere.

Pick your music

Select the track in your sequence or point BeatBuddy at the audio file.

Detect

BeatBuddy analyses the song locally and finds every beat in seconds.

Cut to the rhythm

Color-coded markers appear on your timeline — snap your cuts to them and feel the edit groove.

Download

Coke, the BeatBuddy bat mascot, singing along

Get BeatBuddy for free

Drop your email and the download link lands in your inbox — plus a heads-up when updates ship.

Check your inbox — the beat drops shortly.

Your email is only used to send this link — unless you tick the box above. See the privacy notes.

Easy install: BeatBuddy ships as a .ccx file — double-click it and the Creative Cloud app installs everything. No security warnings, works the same on Mac and Windows.