Compás Builder Lite vs Drum Loops & Metronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compás Builder Lite
This application provides a flamenco compás tool with an enhanced metronome and guitar tuner. It allows users to create custom accompaniments for guitar, dancing, and singing performances in high-fidelity audio.
- Solo compás playback
- Enhanced metronome
- Guitar tuner
- Custom accompaniment creation
- HiFi audio quality
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Flamenco tool to play solo compás, with enhanced metronome and guitar tuner. Create your own accompaniment for your guitar, dancing and singing concerts in HiFi quality.
Drum Loops & Metronome
Explore a vast library of over 500 drum grooves across various genres, featuring rhythms from renowned drummers and bands. This app offers offline access to high-quality drum kits, pitch accuracy at any tempo, and tools for practice and performance.
- Over 500 grooves from all genres
- Offline access to rhythms
- Search and filter backing tracks
- High-quality drum kits
- Pitch accuracy at different tempos
- Create and manage playlists
- Loops with fills and rolls
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• Over 500 grooves from all genres (Rock, Blues Jazz Shuffle, Latin, etc) and great bands. The app contains the greatest rhythms from the most famous drummers and the best bands such as GnR, Bonham, Berrett. It has the most extensive list of drum tracks in the market and reliable access to all rhythms is offline. • Find quickly your favourite backing track loops in the list with the search and filter. • Real quality drum kits makes app sound great for both private practice or when amplified for group performances. • No distortion of pitch at different tempos. • Ideal for session practice and gigs as you can create and manage playlists easily. • Each drum loop contains fills and rolls to add exciting variety and dynamics for regular practice. • Accurate BPM with animation to help anticipate on beat / on bar.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Drum Loops & Metronome at 4.5 against Compás Builder Lite's 3.0. Drum Loops & Metronome also leads on ratings volume (913 vs 4) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). Compás Builder Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (56% vs 45%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Compás Builder Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Drum Loops & Metronome sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drum Loops & Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drum Loops & Metronome has 913 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Compás Builder Lite's written reviews are positive against 45% of Drum Loops & Metronome's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Compás Builder Lite ships an update every 5 months, Drum Loops & Metronome every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Compás Builder Lite | Drum Loops & Metronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (913 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better | 45.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 913 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Herbert Dapper | Learn To Master Ltd |
Customer experience
Compás Builder Lite
Drum Loops & Metronome
Bugs and requests
Compás Builder Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Drum Loops & Metronome
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashing and freezing issues
- Sound cutting out or not working
- Inconsistent rhythm and timing
Requested features
5 requests- Volume control slider
- On-screen playlist page
- Time signature selection
- Ability to save favorite patterns
- Easier tempo changes
In-app purchases
Compás Builder Lite
- Compás Builder Play Version$8.99
- Compás Builder Upgrade$17.99
- Compás Builder Full Version$24.99
Drum Loops & Metronome
- Premium Version$3.991 Month
- Annual Premium Version3 Days trial$29.991 Year
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