# InstaDrum - Be a Drummer Now — user reviews > 141 indexed App Store user reviews of InstaDrum by Xiaoyezi Beijing Technology Co., Ltd., rated 4.70/5 from 1,820 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instadrum-be-a-drummer-now/id1589890234/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instadrum-be-a-drummer-now/id1589890234.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,511 · 4★ 160 · 3★ 63 · 2★ 31 · 1★ 55 ## What do users think of InstaDrum? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Great fun and effective self learning app - 🚀 Friendly for drum beginners - 🚀 Awesome! - 🚀 Fantastic - Auto Adjusts to your speed!!! - 👍 Love this app - 👍 Best app yet! - 👍 brilliant app - 👍 Best Drumming App!!! - 👍 Great app to o learn drum **Cons** - 🐛 Doesn't work - 🐛 Connectivity issue - 🔒 No beat and no songs, useless. - 💰 I want to play without pay - 🐛 Average - 💰 Pay Walled - 💰 Sssssssssooooooooooooo gooooooooood - 🐛 80 - 2000 years of rock lacking - 🐛 Guess I thought something different? - 🐛 Decent - 🐛 Cannot map hi hat - 🐛 Insta drum - 🐛 Paid for plan but app doesnt work with all edrums - 🐛 Horrible song catalog. - 🐛 Closed Hi hat doesn't work - 💰 Shouldn't have a premium - 🐛 Wish I could play my real drums - 🐛 连不上电鼓 - 🐛 Need help with hi hat - 🐛 App not working - 🐛 Doesn't work - 🐛 Must buy Polaris eDtum - 🐛 It has only 7th stage opened, Not afterwards. - 🐛 Pizzaman - 🐛 Loading - 🐛 Failure to launch - 🐛 Not switchable - 🐛 Doesn't work with my new Roland kit, support lacking - 🐛 不能识别同时击打时的Hihat **Commonly reported bugs** - Doesn't work - Connectivity issue - Cannot map hi hat - Paid for plan but app doesnt work with all edrums - Need help with hi hat - App not working - Doesn't work - It has only 7th stage opened, Not afterwards. - Pizzaman - Loading - Failure to launch - Not switchable - Doesn't work with my new Roland kit, support lacking - 不能识别同时击打时的Hihat **Most requested features** - More songs pls - Needs more songs - there needs to be a way to slow down the tempo with the play alongs so someone can learn a new technique & get the muscle memory down, then can speed it back up - Needs more free music ## Newest reviews (15 of 141) ### 2/5 — I can't hear the metronome *2026-06-28, version 3.5.1* I’m happy playing drums with this APP. But I can’t hear the metronome in the play mode. The music is too loud. And the volume setting only affects the sheet mode. I hope you can fix this problem. ### 3/5 — A little too hard *2026-05-08* It isn’t accurate I got 0 right and it said I got 83% ### 3/5 — 譜面bug *2026-04-23, version 3.5.0* 近期更新的歌很多譜的呈現都有問題，請改善 ### 4/5 — 喜欢 *2026-02-06* 自从学鼓后，一直在用这个软件练习，但有个问题一直没解决，链接了电鼓，只显示踩镲，吊擦和强音擦，没有叮叮擦显示，软件显示只有3个擦片，需要开发人员解决一下叮叮擦的问题啊，另外很多耳熟能详的中文歌曲太少，比如战马，西游记、春节序曲这些老歌能补一下吗？ 感谢🙏 ### 4/5 — Songs *2026-01-31* Songs are added every 15 days. I already asked for about 10 songs (all classic rock or pop from 90s) and got not even one in 3 months. I paid the yearly subscription and I don't think after a year I will continue, since more than 80% of the songs are unknown. On top of that, some songs have very motonous scores or even half of the song is drumless (like recently one added "hello" from Adele). Besides that the app itself has a great product idea: score with different difficulty levels and e-drums connection to verify correct playing and real comercial songs. If they fix the songs thing (add more and faster) I wil stay. ### 3/5 — It’s good but… *2026-01-23* … could do with some polish. I like that it teaches you musical notation, and my Daughter loves to use the app but there are some pretty basic annoyances. Our setup: Alesis Nitro Ultimate edrum kit, usb connected to the iPad Air. Which is Bluetooth audio connected to the drums. Meaning that the audio from the iPad and tablet is mixed together and heard through headphones plugged into the Alesis “brain”. Firstly every time the app is started it turns the tablet volume to maximum! Makes my ears bleed! Then, because we want to use the edrums for sound we turn the volume of the apps virtual drums off. This is fine but during the part of the lesson where the app says “listen”, you hear nothing. Latency: there’s an onboard “latency tuner”, essential for Bluetooth audio, and it works… mostly… sometimes the initial parts of the lesson seem to be out of sync with the music. Some times the metronome is out of sync with what you’re expected to play, making the earlier parts of the lesson difficult or even pointless. The strange thing is that the “final part”/ play through of the lesson is always fine - so the latency setup does at least work some of the time. In the “play through”, it would be nice to have the option to either “keep going” (current behaviour) or “wait”. This would be advantageous when you mess up and just need a moment to recover. Overall, it’s a good app, but considering the requirement for precise timing, there’s much improvement that needs to be made. Some updates please! ### 2/5 — Great app! Behind iOS updates, bugs *2026-01-16* Amazing app, when and if it works. Great song choices with varying levels of many songs. However, it appears it was meant for iOS 18, not 26, and login is incredibly buggy and has not been working for me. Last update seems to be 1 year ago! Yikes. Kinda suspect for a paid subscription app. ### 4/5 — little bug *2026-01-04, version 3.4.1* Dear InstaDrum Support Team, I am writing to report an issue when using my Roland TD-17KVX2 electronic drum kit with your InstaDrum app. The TD-17KVX2 is equipped with two crash cymbals. However, when connected to the InstaDrum app, the app is unable to correctly distinguish which crash cymbal is being struck. Instead, the trigger signal often switches incorrectly to the ride cymbal. I have already tried resetting and reassigning the trigger settings within the app, but the same issue continues to occur. Could you please advise whether this is a known issue, or if there is a possibility to inspect or update the app to improve compatibility with the TD-17KVX2? Thank you very much for your time and assistance. I look forward to your reply. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-11-21, version 3.4.1* I have a real physical drum. The app is nice, but it doesn’t pick it up. I can only play by tapping on the on my screen and that is boring and doesn’t help me improve my drum ### 2/5 — Connectivity issue *2025-11-20* I can get a connection with my Alesis mesh with Nitro module but after a few seconds it still says connected but doesn’t recognize drum strikes. I messaged the app company about it but haven’t heard anything. Would love for this app to actually work cause the idea is awesome. ### 2/5 — I want to play without pay *2025-10-29, version 3.4.1* All of the good songs are locked behind a paywall ### 4/5 — Задумка отличная, но… *2025-09-20* Блютус часто отваливается, возможно, конечно, дело не в приложении, а в барабанах. По проводу не подключается, пишет, что законнекчено, но барабаны не видит. А уроки отличные, с самых азов. Я пользуюсь уже третий месяц, пока на 5 уровне, всего доступно 7. Пятый уже прямо сложный, скорость высокая и блютус не успевает за ударами и не засчитывает часть из них, из-за этого общий прогресс плохо считается. Но всё же приложение огонь, пока лучше я не нашла. ### 3/5 — Super app *2025-09-11* Super app, bonne tracklist. Malheureusement aucune nouvelle track en 1 an (j’avais l’abonnement 1 an). Ça ne justifie pas le modèle économique de l’abonnement si il n’y a aucune mise à jour. ### 3/5 — Average *2025-09-06* It seems like a great app but as someone who spent money to get a cord to hook my drums up to my iPad just for this app, I was disappointed to see that I could only play a couple songs and I couldn’t continue with the lessons without paying 20 dollars per month or 100 dollars for a year. I’m not old enough to have a steady job and I just want to be able to play drums for the worship team at my church ### 5/5 — Best app yet! *2025-08-28, version 3.4.1* This is the best app I got out of 6 drumming apps the best so far ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Premium is not available *2026-04-16* Really good app where my 8 year old is loving her electric drums. BUT membership / premium upgrade not possible as it fails to load up the upgrade element of app. Meaning my daughter is only playing ‘hit me baby one more time’ - quite annoying. Have left feedback 1 week ago and still waiting to hear back. ### 1/5 — Every song is incomplete *2026-03-08, version 3.4.1* I don’t understand why you charge so much to have each song cutoff ### 1/5 — No beat and no songs, useless. *2025-11-12* First of all, this app is useless without e-drums. Secondly, after paying a whopping $20 a month, you’ll find there is a very, VERY limited amount of songs to play along to. On top of that, if you do finally find one you like, you’ll find that the sheet music is completely different than the actual song, AND completely off from the songs Beat… It’s as if the developers slapped some beat along with a tempo (which is completely out of sync) over the downloaded song. This is without mentioning all the bugs and glitches not even allowing you to use the app. ### 1/5 — Is very cool tutorial *2025-08-27, version 3.4.1* Is very fun too ### 1/5 — Pay Walled *2025-08-17, version 3.4.1* This app is useless unless you spend money ### 1/5 — Won’t go back. *2025-01-16* I am a total novice, when starting it played a kick snare sequence, I was not prepared for it so wanted to go back and play again. It would not allow me, I could not find out how to start it again. ### 1/5 — Paid for plan but app doesnt work with all edrums *2024-12-02* Closed hi hat doesn’t recognize in app with edrums attached. So can’t play anything past second course in level three and had to buy plan to find that out. To play you have to tap screen not edrums so this app is more for using on a device not with edrums as I couldn’t find a set that the hi-hat would work with. (Had gone to 2 music stores and no edrums hi-hat worked with this app. Have sent multiple emails to tech and web with no response. Description says works with any edrums but that is clearly not true after trying with 12 different edrum sets. Hi-hat is not recognized in lessons or in songs of the app with edrums so you cannot learn anything or progress. Since I didn’t get a response; I have requested a refund. I wanted to enjoy this app and was looking forward to learning. If hi-hat actually worked with edrums I would try app again but for now I have refund and will try another app. ### 1/5 — 教學不齊全 不詳細 *2024-11-10, version 3.4.1* 其他全部要你付款先用到。 ### 1/5 — 唔知乜柒 *2024-10-04, version 3.4.0* 唔知乜柒 ### 1/5 — 太小歌 *2024-10-04, version 3.4.0* 要加入能讓玩家 自訂的歌及譜 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-07-23, version 3.5.2* Easy to play ### 5/5 — 初学 *2026-04-11, version 3.5.0* 👍 ### 5/5 — I love this game so much *2026-01-31* This app helps you become a better drummer. This is why I gave it a five star review. I used to be very bad at drumming, but then I got A in it. ### 5/5 — Aplicativo muito bom!!! *2026-01-03* O aplicativo é muito bom, tem tradução em português, uma ensinamento muito prático e é possível conectar a bateria eletrônica no iPhone pelo cabo. Agora para os desenvolvedores eu tenho 3 sugestões. A primeira seria colocar na música do treinamento a possibilidade de voltar a música com os dedos, sendo possível fazer isso arrastando os dedos e voltando na parte que você quer, pois o aplicativo só deixa reiniciar a música, fazendo com que ela comece sempre do início. A segunda seria a possibilidade de diminuir a velocidade da música do treinamento, pois as vezes tem algum parte difícil no meio da música e com o ajuste de velocidade podemos aprender o pedaço e depois voltar na velocidade normal. E por último, a possibilidade do microfone captar a bateria acústica, assim as pessoas que possuem esse tipo de bateria poderiam se beneficiar do aplicativo também e vocês ganhariam mais usuários. ### 5/5 — Great fun and effective self learning app *2025-11-12* As title. My son and I love it especially there are load of popular pop music to play with. Therefore I joined a year premium plan. However I found the top hat (close) doesn’t works for my drum pad (9 drums + 2 kicks) as it is same as the recommended drum pad from the app. I have no clue how to fix it and it is very frustrating. ### 5/5 — 就只有兩個字 *2025-10-21, version 3.4.1* 超讚!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — 这架子鼓还可以哈 *2025-10-05* 要是每天都能学就好了 ### 5/5 — Love this app *2025-09-10* There’s very little interactive drum apps and this one is great! I will say that it is a little glitchy at times but overall I don’t have any problems. My only criticism is that there needs to be more lessons. It says the next lesson is coming soon but when? I feel like I’m just sitting and waiting for a long time now! ### 5/5 — Why you should get this app *2025-09-06* You would think the hat playing and learning drums would be hard and take a long time but this app can teach you drums in like two seconds and makes jokes so it’s super fun you should get it for anything 🔥🔥🔥 ### 5/5 — 很用心的学鼓App *2025-09-05* 本来我是想下载一个鼓谱软件，然后才下了这个学鼓app。天知道我平时根本不会主动评价 但是app的用心程度让我必须上来好评一下 首先会根据你的实际阶段设置学鼓的课程，鼓谱的识谱完全不枯燥 非常游戏化，我让完全没有基础的朋友试听他也觉得完全能跟上 真的很棒！谢谢开发团队！！！ 怎么爱音乐的同时又会开发ui审美还这么在线！ --- *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 2026-09-10.*