Imperial Drums Metronome vs Metro'n Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imperial Drums Metronome
A digital metronome designed for drummers, offering a full-featured and simple interface. Developed by a company with a long tradition in percussion, it celebrates their 75th anniversary.
- Full-featured metronome
- Simple and easy-to-use interface
- Designed for drummers
- Digital metronome functionality
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Imperial Drums of Switzerland has a long tradition in building drums and percussion. To its 75th anniversary it has created a full-featured digital metronome application for the modern drummers. The fully functional metronome is designed to simplicity with an easy to use interface.
Metro'n Drums
This app provides a metronome function combined with a drum set for music practice. Create custom rhythm patterns using drum sounds and save your settings. Pre-set rhythms are available, and it's controllable from Apple Watch.
- Basic metronome function
- Rhythm patterns with drum set sounds
- Save metronome settings and patterns
- Pre-set rhythm patterns
- Apple Watch control
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Metro'n Drums is a metronome app for music practice that combines a metronome and a drum set. *Basic metronome function *Rhythm patterns can be created with the sounds of drum sets *User memory function that can save your metronome settings and rhythm patterns *A simple rhythm pattern is prepared in advance in the preset memory. *It can also be controlled from your Apple Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Imperial Drums Metronome at 4.8 against Metro'n Drums's 4.0. Imperial Drums Metronome also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Metro'n Drums's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 54 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Imperial Drums Metronome holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Imperial Drums Metronome ships an update every 54 months, Metro'n Drums every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imperial Drums Metronome | Metro'n Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imperial Drums GmbH | Yasuto Saito |
Customer experience
Imperial Drums Metronome
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In-app purchases
Imperial Drums Metronome
No in-app purchases
Metro'n Drums
No in-app purchases
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