# Drums XD FREE - Studio Quality Percussion Custom Built By You! — user reviews > 31 indexed App Store user reviews of Drums XD FREE by Ken Ludden, rated 4.22/5 from 18 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drums-xd-free-studio-quality-percussion-custom-built-by-you/id495679265/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drums-xd-free-studio-quality-percussion-custom-built-by-you/id495679265.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (10 of 31) ### 4/5 — Awesome app!! *2014-04-17* I've been looking for an app to act as a highly mobile drum brain and Drums HD is the most realistic I have found so far. Great samples and highly customizable with a lot of dynamics able to be played straight off the screen. A couple of features that I'd like to see: -The ability to place custom multiple sample zones to an instrument (more than two) for example change the scale on the steel drum or place a bell sound on the hihat. -Variable resistance hihat pedal support with multiple samples from open to closed. Great app!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2013-01-21, version 1.3.1* Fantabulous!!!! Get the xpac to, the chinas are KILLER! ### 5/5 — Best *2013-01-07, version 1.3.1* I have played drums for over 30 years. This is the best drum app I have found. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2012-12-27, version 1.3.1* This app is fantastic and much better than others I tried such as ratatap and drums! Customization options are awesome, including changing the types, size and layout of various drums. My only minor suggestion would be to make the drums more three dimensional - so that they lay on an angle instead of flat. ### 5/5 — Best free optional *2012-12-12, version 1.3.1* I'm rookie drummer, but I'm hanging on learning this free drum lesson for my pleasure. You ought try this one is recommended for everyone. Good job developer!! 👍👍🎶 thanks very much. It's worth it. ### 5/5 — Best frees *2012-12-01, version 1.3.1* A bit confusing if you don't want to put the time in. Even if you're not an instruction manual person, you can eventually figure how to paste a track into you recorder. ### 5/5 — Best free drum kits *2012-08-17, version 1.3.1* This is the best free drum kit for the iPad ### 5/5 — Crash Bang BURN *2012-08-04* This app is so awesome ... Channels your inner rockstar with panache and how. ### 5/5 — Awesome drums *2012-07-29* No lag, great sounds! ### 5/5 — Superb App *2012-07-04, version 1.3.1* This app feels more like a fully-featured computer application than an iPad app. There are lots of good sounding patches and they can be enhanced or controlled in a variety of ways. MIDI I/O is straightforward and allows easy mapping to pads and controllers (I find the iPad touch screen convenient but not great for real drumming). Most of the iPad drum apps are fun little toys but with an iPad, this app, and a small controller like a nanoPad you can make serious music anywhere. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Where is the pro version *2024-08-21* Upload the pro version please ### 2/5 — Great app but *2016-09-24, version 2.0* It's a great app, the customizable is amazing u do not find that in many apps. but the flashing lights are to much and it seems like there is no way to get rid of that which is pretty stupid if u ask me. ### 3/5 — its ok *2019-09-22* volume of individual drums depending on wair one hits the drum in combination with how hard one hits it might be nice ### 3/5 — Good but background activity battery hog *2017-09-23* Great and very intuitive drum kit simulator and beat maker. Requires iaps to get a fuller set of drum kits but this isn't always required. A big but is that it is a battery hog with lots of background battery activity. Why? What does the application need to do in the background? ### 3/5 — Ads screw up whole app *2016-02-08* This app would be five stars if it wasn't for the ads. When an ad pops up and I close it half the screen is black and you can't see or play that side of the drums. ### 3/5 — Headphones not working *2016-01-27, version 2.0* I'm using bluetooth headphones, and whenever I open the app they stop working. If you could fix it I would give a higher rating. ### 3/5 — make more like ratatap please *2015-11-17* ratatap is perfect except it has a bug whereby a cymbal placed in the top left of the screen will play when amdifferent drum center bottom is played occasionally - and it plays fairly loud even when a soft passage is being played center bottom - thing is the deceloper hasnt updated that app since 2012 so hoping that another app - maybe yours pops along to help things along - on your app i would have liked to have seen volume change determined on where one strikes the cymbal - on ratatap its possibke to program eaxh individual cymbal to be louder near the center of the drum and softer on the edges whilst also using the drum sensitivity of the harder one strikes the louder - the 2 work together on ratatap and i would have loved to have seen that implimented here - OH ALSO PLEASE ADD AN OPTION TO GET RID OF THE FLASHING WITH EVERY DRUM STRIKE ### 3/5 — Cool app *2015-10-04* Runs crap on iOS9 even on my Air 2. Hopefully this might get sorted soon. Drums XD is one of the essential parts of my creative process and I've bought all the additional content. ### 3/5 — Interapp and audiobus 2 non-functional *2015-02-15, version 1.5.2* I would love to give this app a 5-star rating, but the developers seem to be remiss about keeping up with the Audiobus 2 and Interapp updates. The functionality on both seems to have been crippled, as my Garageband does not detect it in Interapp, and Audiobus 2 does not detect it, even though the app claims it as iOS 8 ready. Once they fix these problems, they will really have something special in this app. ### 4/5 — It's the best... But... *2014-10-29, version 1.4.4* So far and away this is the best drumming app I have found to date. However, my only qualm at this point is after ios 8 updates with audiobus, it no longer detects drums xd as a compatible app. I so badly wish it would be compatible once again!! I love jamming with this thing and recording directly to my recorded riffs in GarageBand. Pleaaaase fix!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2015-07-31* I've used this drumming app for the better part of 9 months. I cannot express how much I love it. The pro version of this app is 100% worth your money. The only problem i have is that you can't more 50 songs in the library. Im a bit bummed by that because I have heaps of songs. Other than that its an easy 5 outta 5 from me. ### 5/5 — AMAZING! *2015-04-04, version 2.0* If you are looking for Studio Quality drum kits, this app is for you! It's one of the most advanced drum kits I've ever seen! You can even build your own if the presets don't kick it for you! 5 stars all the way! ### 5/5 — Love it *2015-01-03, version 1.4.4* Drum roll feature is awesome, you can mix sets as well. Great design! ### 5/5 — Incredibly Well Done !!! *2014-09-25, version 1.4.4* Great sounds, enormous flexibility, truly state-of-the-art !! Love this thing !! ### 5/5 — Absolutely great app *2014-09-15, version 1.4.4* U guys should make a guitar app ### 5/5 — Mr *2014-06-29* Awesome ! Going to buy the full version!! ### 5/5 — Superb!!! *2014-03-19, version 1.4.4* Real Sound... Setting.. Vellocity.. Play with mp3.. Its greater i ever had... ### 5/5 — Greatness! *2013-04-04, version 1.3.1* SO cool and intuitive I love the realism, as far as not actually carrying an acoustic set, of this tool! ### 5/5 — Love this thing... *2013-03-22, version 1.3.1* Sooo much fun! ### 5/5 — I have finally found the one!!! *2013-02-24, version 1.3.1* I a, a drummer and have never found an app this good. This is amazing. Best drum app ever. I don't see how this can be topped. It makes garage band look, feel and sound like crap! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*