# Melodics: Drum Lessons App — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Melodics by Melodics Limited, rated 4.70/5 from 587 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/melodics-drum-lessons-app/id6504540940/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/melodics-drum-lessons-app/id6504540940.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 485 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 15 ## What do users think of Melodics? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great for learning drums - 💡 Makes practice engaging - 🚀 Instant feedback on precision - 🎶 Fun way to learn - 🥁 Helps improve timing - 📱 Works with iPhone mic - 🎧 Practice pad mode available - 🎸 Similar to Guitar Hero curriculum - ✨ Real-time feedback is nice - 🎯 Good for increasing accuracy - 🕹️ Feels like playing a game - 👍 Straightforward and satisfying - 🌟 Helpful for learning - 🚀 Snappy and intuitive app **Cons** - 🐛 UI needs work - 🤔 Scoring system convoluted - 📉 Disincentivizes playing - 🚫 No songs available (premium) - 🔌 Drum connection issues - 📱 UI doesn't work at edges - 🧭 Menus confusing - 🟡 Color coding for drum parts missing - 🔄 App restarts mid-lesson - 🎛️ Inaccurate note recognition - 🎶 Half of songs/lessons don't work - 🎧 Microphone/earphone issues - 🐌 Slow app startup - 🎛️ Not precise enough - 🎵 Lacks music notation option - 📚 Limited song selection - ❓ No actual instruction - 🥁 Doesn't support pad/keyboard controllers - 🚫 Not enough instrument options - 🎛️ Not accurate for acoustic kits **Commonly reported bugs** - Explore section always resets to Grade 1 - MIDI device connection feedback needed - Snare drum not working - App restarts when in the middle of a lesson - App stops playing to headphones or won't pick up microphone - App reacts to ambient noise - Timing is off, missing notes even when calibrated - Inaccurate note recognition (e.g., kick vs. snare) - Half of the songs and lessons do not work - UI doesn't work near the edges of the screen - Menus are confusing and navigation is difficult **Most requested features** - Full iPad support - Add Donner Ded-80 support - Left-handed option - More well-known artists/songs - Chinese version of the app - Sheet music notations/tabs option - Setting for more demanding note precision - Auto BPM to go above lesson BPM - Tagging feature for skills - Easier way to heart songs - Path to learning regular drum notation - Consider dynamics in lessons - Allow users to enter and save own phrases - More instrument options (snare, bells) - Improve UI and menu navigation - Add more songs and lessons - Improve MIDI device connection feedback - Make scoring system more straightforward - Fix issues with Explore section resetting to Grade 1 ## Newest reviews (12 of 53) ### 4/5 — 4 stars *2026-07-21* Wish they had more songs like linkin park and three days grace otherwise really good app **Developer response:** Thanks for your review. We will pass on your feedback to our developers! ### 3/5 — uhm *2026-06-30* i put practice pad as the thingy magicy but the guide is asking me to play the kick nd stuff like broo i dont have that.. it had me hitting the drum pad again nd again acting like it was sum kind of real drumm but its a good app ngl **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for your feedback regarding our onboarding process. We'll pass the feedback on to our team to see how we can further improve the experience for everyone looking to practice across all kinds of set up. ### 3/5 — gave it another chance *2026-06-01* Making some progress in fixing what many of us saw as issues in the latest overhaul of the app. Long time subscriber that is considering giving it another chance. **Developer response:** Thanks for giving us another chance! It's feedback like yours that helps us address people's concerns, so we really appreciate it. If you have any specific requests for the team, please feel free to reach out. support.melodics.com ### 3/5 — So much fun *2026-04-21* I’m an absolute beginner. Been following tutorials on YT, reels etc and found it hard to mimic those things, and would struggle to keep myself entertained for more than half an hour. This app makes practicing much easier to stay engaged. The only negative which has come about after paying for 1 year standard subscription is that there were some songs available. Now there are no songs at all, unless you pay for the premium subscription. Like why take all songs away? **Developer response:** Thanks for leaving a review and it's so good to hear that you're loving our app! ### 4/5 — Great. Still being updated *2026-04-03* Would love full iPad support please! **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for your feedback. Could you please reach out to us at support.melodics.com regarding ipad support? Thanks! ### 4/5 — Needs a Left Handed Option *2026-03-06* My sons left handed so we’ve swapped the drums around so the Snare is on the right side. It would be nice if that was an option in the app. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review. We will pass on your feedback to our developers! ### 4/5 — Great - but app and interface need a lot of love *2026-03-05* So the app is great in the sense that it teaches you to pay the drums but the interface is really funky. It doesn’t work near the edges of the screen. The menus don’t make sense. You have to go to different places to go back to the same place depending on where you are. **Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for your feedback. Could you please reach out to us at support.melodics.com regarding those issues with parts of the interface not working? Our team will be able to help. Thanks. ### 3/5 — Needs different colors for each part of the drum *2026-02-08* The app is great, but I was expecting each part of the drum you hit to have a different color. Snare is blue and then everything else is yellow? That’s a huge miss. So eventually your screen is full of yellow blocks scrolling by but they each can mean a different thing. **Developer response:** Hey there, the blue and yellow colors actually signal which hands to play with: blue for left hand, yellow for right hand. Each component of the kit also has its own 'lane' which is shown on the left side of the screen when you play but we understand that it can seem like there's a lot of yellow. We will pass on your feedback to our developers! Thanks for the feedback! ### 3/5 — Snare doesn’t work *2025-12-18, version 1.2.281* Everything connects but the snare so I can’t use the app how do I fix this issue ### 3/5 — Helpful *2025-11-29* It’s the best way that I have found to help me learn drumming but there isn’t much free options past the first couple of lessons **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! ### 4/5 — Good app for learning drums *2025-10-10, version 1.1.1599* The app overall is pretty good but it should have more well known artists ### 3/5 — Good - but could be easier to use *2025-08-31* While I’ve given this 3 out of five, please do not take this that I am not enjoying using this app and would happily give this five out of five – if only it worked reliably enough. The issue is the relationship with the microphone and earphones on a regular basis, and I have tried a wide variety of earphones and microphones now The app will suddenly stop playing anything to the headphones or won’t pick up items from the microphone or or sometimes react to noise around it as if the stick restart when the stick restart sometimes not even turned on this can mean that I have to restart the app couple of times until this works. if the app was both faster starting and more reliable with its pick up and use of headphones and microphone this would be 5 out of 5. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! Sorry for the reliability issues you were having — we will look into the issues you described and making improvements in future updates. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Drums *2026-07-07* This app is good for like ten minutes and then you start to realize that to be able to do anything really at all you have to buy the premium which it isn’t super expensive but it’s just super annoying to have to spend money to do anything on the app. ### 1/5 — Monthly fee has increased dramatically for very little new content. *2026-05-23* I don’t have time to practice constantly and have no need of an annual plan. Since I last subscribed the stand-alone month by month fee has increased substantially. I assumed maybe a ton of new content or new features but it appears to be typical SaaS greed trying to get me to sign up for more and longer. I bought the premium version of koala sampler and all the packs for less than a single month of melodics. **Developer response:** Thanks for the honest feedback. Pricing is something we take seriously, and we understand monthly doesn't work for everyone. If you ever want to chat through your options, feel free to get in touch with our team. ### 1/5 — Does not have the Donner ded-80 *2026-04-12, version 2.0.95* I can’t do anything I don’t know if the drum itself won’t connect or the app but it is not an option for a drum to connect to can u guys add the Donner Ded-80 ### 1/5 — The last update is so counter-intuitive *2026-04-05* I used to like this app but the last update is so aweful and go against every human behavior intuition … First, make the score calculation so convoluted (instead of a straightfwd 100-score system) Second, hide the best score in the guided path page I understand the intention is try to gamify the practice to incentivize people to use it more so I can assure you what you did is the complete opposite of what you wanted to achieve Best making the scoring more convoluted and opaque, you are disincentivizing people to play more. Pls don’t destroy this app. Now seriously reconsider my subscription **Developer response:** Hey, thanks for your review, we're continuously working to improve the app so we appreciate your feedback. Please reach out to our team if you need any support. ### 1/5 — Amazing *2026-03-16* This is sooooooo good! Oh yeah,I love how you can do this cool feature and haha just kidding it sucks **Developer response:** Hey, thanks for your review, please reach out to our team if you need any support. ### 1/5 — Not good *2026-03-04, version 1.2.481* It keeps restarting over when I’m in the middle of my lesson!😡 ### 1/5 — App não faz login *2026-02-02* App não faz login, travando no iPhone 16 pro max , iPad e MacBook **Developer response:** Olá, obrigado pelo seu feedback. Você poderia entrar em contato com nossa equipe de suporte? Eles poderão ajudá-lo(a) com seus problemas. Obrigado! ### 1/5 — Doesn't support pad or keyboard controllers *2025-10-05* Downloaded this and bought a USB adapter in hopes of a more portable replacement for the desktop app, to use with the finger-drumming and keyboard modules I've already unlocked. But unlike the desktop app, which works with MIDI keys and pads, this one only works with drum sets. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review, sorry the app is just for drums for now! Your interest in learning other instruments on iPhone has been noted. ### 1/5 — Half of the songs don’t work *2025-09-15* Great app at first until third lesson didn’t work. I thought it was a fluke kept going to only find out half of the songs and lessons on the app. Don’t work. After I signed up for the subscription😔 not happy. **Developer response:** Hi there, sorry for the poor experience you've had. Sounds like an issue we should be able to resolve for you. Could you please reach out to us at support.melodics.com? Our team will be able to help. Thanks. ### 2/5 — Inaccurate *2025-12-20* It’s a cool app but it’s just reacts to anything like I play kick when it wants me to play snare and says it’s right if it was correct with what I’m doing I would of used it but it’s not but it’s still cool to learn ig **Developer response:** Hi there, sorry for the poor experience you've had. Could you please reach out to us at support.melodics.com? Our team will be able to help. Thanks. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — gave it another chance *2026-08-03* Making some progress in fixing what many of us saw as issues in the latest overhaul of the app. Long time subscriber that is considering giving it another chance. update(aug. 3) - the playing window, which comtained most of my main gripes with the recent major new version, seem to have all been addressed. i will go back to my annual subscription, thanks for listening to user feedback. **Developer response:** Thanks for giving us another chance! It's feedback like yours that helps us address people's concerns, so we really appreciate it. If you have any specific requests for the team, please feel free to reach out. support.melodics.com ### 5/5 — Drum heroooo *2026-07-20* I like it **Developer response:** Thanks for your review and rating! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-14* Im in middle school and I have had the app for 1 day and my band teacher is already congratulating me on improving so much **Developer response:** That's awesome to hear! Congrats and thanks for the review. ### 5/5 — very good app *2026-03-30, version 2.0.1* i use it every annd it help with my drums everyday awesome app ### 5/5 — So much fun *2026-03-13, version 1.2.481* I’m an absolute beginner. Been following tutorials on YT, reels etc and found it hard to mimic those things, and would struggle to keep myself entertained for more than half an hour. Using Melodics makes it feel like you are actually making music whilst practicing, kept me going for 1.5hrs before I started getting tired. Highly recommend ### 5/5 — Good but UI needs work *2026-03-09* It makes not sense that the Explore section always puts you back Grade 1 every time you open the app. Also, we need some feedback about whether the midi device is connected. It’s frustrating that the only way to tell is deep in a menu or just to start playing and find out nothing works. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review. We will pass on your feedback to our developers! ### 5/5 — Joe *2026-01-02* This has to be most straight forward and satisfying way to build your drum capability. I had to restrict myself to 2 hours a day to stop my kick leg seizing up but I wanted to keep going. Great app - Keep the new songs coming guys. **Developer response:** It's amazing to hear that you're loving our app! We will definitely keep adding new songs to our library! ### 5/5 — The feeling *2025-09-06* It feels like I’m actually doing good and playing the drums **Developer response:** That's great to hear! Thanks for your review. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-07-28* This app is awesome! It really helps me play and feel better about drumming! 👍 **Developer response:** Glad to hear it! Thanks for the review. :) ### 5/5 — The is the best lesson app *2025-05-17, version 1.1.576* This game helps me do different drumbeats. --- *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.*