# Tating > Drum notation editor for touchscreens with playback and practice tools. (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Crawford.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tating/id6802107801 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Robert Crawford](https://appshunter.io/developer/6802107803) - Category: Music, Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 56 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-26 - Data updated: 2026-09-11 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tating/id6802107801/reviews.md ## What is Tating? Tating is a drum notation editor built for a touchscreen and for drummers. Tap out a groove on the grid, hear it played back with real sounds, and read it as proper notation. No account, no sign-in, and no signal needed. BUILT FOR FINGERS Tap a cell to place a note. Press, hold and drag to paint a run of them. Flick up from a cell for that row's second sound — the open hat under the closed one, the ghost note under the backbeat. Press and hold a note for that drum's other sounds, with the full list one tap further. A DRUMMER'S VOCABULARY Ghost notes, accents, flams, drags, buzz strokes, cross stick, open, closed and tight hi-hats, hi-hat with the foot, ride and ride bell. Stickings are written under the staff and can be tapped in on a row of their own. Useful kit sounds, including hand percussion — congas, bongos, djembe, clave, woodblocks, shaker, tambourine and more — playable from the tom rows. EVERY METER, PROPERLY Time signatures from 4/4 to 7/8, 9/16 and 13/16, on straight or triplet grids, quarter notes down to 32nds. Odd meters are beamed and counted the way drummers group them, not the way a spreadsheet would. PLAY ALONG A click, a count-in, and swing. Mute the snare and play it yourself while the rest of the kit keeps time. PRACTICE PROPERLY Loop a couple of bars. Climb the tempo every few bars, or wind it down. Have the groove drop out for a bar or two and find out whether you are still with it when it comes back. Set the feel from straight to deep in the pocket and hear a laid-back backbeat before you try to play one. A counter tells you which bar you are on and how long you have played. WORK A RUDIMENT ROUND Write a paradiddle, then have Tating turn it over every 2, 4 or 8 bars while you keep playing — every inversion in one pass, without a hand leaving the sticks. Displace the whole groove instead and the backbeat moves against the barline. Fill a sticking row with all rights, all lefts or alternating hands in one press. WRITE THE SONG DOWN Gig charts: a song as its form — intro, verse, chorus, the repeats and the road map — for a music stand, beside your grooves. POCKETCHECK Play the groove on a real kit and see where every hit actually landed against the beat. It measures the speaker-to-microphone round trip first, so the reading is honest. It reports placement rather than marking you: sitting behind the beat is a feel, and what matters is how tight the cloud is. The microphone is used only while this screen is open. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent — the sound is analyzed completely on the phone. READ IT A real notation view: noteheads, stems, beams, cross noteheads for cymbals, stems up for hands and down for feet. The grid is for writing; the staff is for reading while you play. KEEP IT Save grooves to a library on the phone, with search, tags and favorites. Send a groove to another drummer as a link they can open straight into Tating, and open the links they send you. Import MIDI on the standard drum map, and export it with the unlock so grooves move out to a DAW. MAKE IT YOURS Point any drum at a recording of your own kit. Light or dark, and a choice of accent colors. FREE AND PAID The free version is a complete tool. Every meter, every grid, playback, the click, the count-in, the play-along mutes and the notation view all work without paying, and so do all forty standard rudiments. What the free version limits is how much you can keep — ten saved grooves — and PocketCheck, which is free for five takes so you can hear it work before deciding. One purchase unlocks everything, once, with no subscription: - An unlimited library, with folders - The full starter library — grooves, fills, exercises and the hybrid rudiments - PocketCheck with no take limit - Export sheet music as a PDF, a picture for a chat, or a MIDI file for a DAW - Every color theme ## Key features - Touchscreen drum groove creation - Real drum sound playback - Proper notation display - Extensive drum vocabulary support - Flexible time signature and grid options - Practice tools (looping, tempo changes, groove drop-out) - Gig chart creation ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Tating | $9.99 | one-time | | Holiday Pack | $4.99 | one-time | ## Frequently asked questions about Tating ### Does Tating have ads? No, Tating is ad-free. The app does not contain advertisements, allowing for an uninterrupted user experience. ### What devices does Tating support? Tating is available on iPhone and iPad devices, optimized for a touchscreen experience. ### How does Tating handle different time signatures? Tating supports a wide range of time signatures, from common ones like 4/4 to more complex meters such as 7/8, 9/16, and 13/16, on both straight and triplet grids. ### Can I practice rudiments with Tating? Yes, Tating includes a 'Rudiment Round' feature that allows you to set up paradiddles or other rudiments and have the app cycle through inversions or displacements while you play along. ### What is the Pocketcheck feature in Tating? Pocketcheck allows you to play a groove on a real kit and measures how accurately your hits land against the beat by analyzing sound input. It focuses on feel and tightness rather than strict marking. ### How often is Tating updated? The latest version of Tating is 1.3.0, and it was last updated on September 5, 2026. This indicates a relatively active development cycle. ### Can I share my Tating creations with others? Yes, you can save grooves to a library and send them to other drummers as links that open directly in Tating. You can also open links sent to you by others. ### What is the age rating for Tating? Tating has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-05 The drum names read as names Down the left of the grid, each row is now its initials beside a slim stripe of its color, instead of a filled block. A filled block is a solid shape sitting in a page of notation, which is exactly what a note looks like. The names are quieter now, and the notes are the only thing filled in. A Holidays filter The library's filter row has a Holidays chip, so the seasonal grooves are one tap away instead of somewhere inside the styles. Clearer about what you are buying On the purchase card, the unlock and the Holidays pack each sit above their own button. They used to be two descriptions above two buttons, which left you to work out which went with which. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-04 New: the Holidays pack Thirty grooves for the days a drummer actually gets called for — Christmas, Halloween, the Fourth of July, New Year, St Patrick's Day and Valentine's Day — filed by the occasion rather than by the feel, so one December gig is in one place. Sleigh-bell shuffles, a toy-drum march and a carol waltz; tom-driven horror and a 7/8 crawl; street beats, drumline cadences and a fife-and-drum with the flams written in. Three seasonal themes come with it: Holly, Pumpkin and Firework. Available as its own purchase. PocketCheck hears a kick drum properly One kick could be counted as two or three hits, and it got worse the more of them you played. It counts once now. Fixed against real recordings of a real kit rather than by guesswork. Keep a take's recording A new switch saves the audio of a PocketCheck take so you can share it. If the app ever mishears your kit, that recording is what makes it fixable. Trying colors on The theme picker stays open when you choose a color, so you can click through them and see each one instead of going back through the menu every time. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-26 No release notes. --- *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 2026-09-11.*