Musicality Training vs Ritmos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musicality Training
Learn to distinguish musical intervals through interactive exercises. Play along with melodies and track your progress daily. This app helps anyone develop their musical ear, even if they believe they are tone-deaf.
- Interval recognition exercises
- Play-along melodies
- Pitch and timing scoring
- Visual feedback on piano/guitar
- Two albums of original music
- Progressive interval unlocking
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Roughly one in six adults believe they are tone deaf. Measured, the real number is closer to one in sixty-five. Musicality is built for the gap between those numbers: for everyone who quietly decided music was not for them, based on nothing. You are not tone deaf. You are untrained. There is a difference, and you can hear it for yourself in three minutes a day. What an interval is An interval is the distance between two notes. The difference between a happy chord and a sad one is one semitone. There are thirteen of them, from the prime to the octave, and they are what Musicality teaches. You answer by playing Musicality plays a note and you play it back by ear, scored on pitch and timing, beat by beat. You are never asked to name what you heard. You need no instrument of your own. If you have a piano or a guitar, turn on the microphone and answer on that instead. Play along with the record Both albums play inside the app with the melody drawn as it sounds: on the page, on a piano keyboard, or on a guitar neck. Turn on the microphone and your own pitch appears beside the melody, so you can see where you landed. Training tracks play from half speed to one and a half. Two albums Basic Training and Sticky Tunes: twenty-six tracks composed for this app by Ruud Vleij. Every interval gets a Training that teaches the distance and a Tune that makes it stick. A tune never leaps further than the interval it teaches, so remembering the tune means remembering the interval. The tracks play like any album, lock screen and all: press play and simply listen, no instrument needed. It starts before the first lesson A four-chapter introduction builds music in front of you. A single pulse becomes time. Pulses fuse into frequency. Frequency becomes color and tone. Tones become music. No notation, no instrument, no experience needed. Then, three minutes a day Three minutes, every day. Your range grows only when your ear has earned it. The thirteen intervals The Prime you meet in the introduction; twelve more unlock as your ear proves itself, Minor Second to Octave. Real music for every interval: a Training to play along with, a Tune to remember it by. Thirteen rings, one per interval. They fill as you practice. Every interval's story: its waves, its ratio, the songs it lives in. Made by two people The app is by Jamal Vleij: design, code, words. The music is by his father, Ruud Vleij. Begun in the Netherlands in 2013, continued in Porto, Portugal, and still being made. The introduction is free, and three minutes of training a day. Pro removes the clock and opens all thirteen intervals. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://musicality.app/privacy/
Ritmos
This app provides a collection of authentic Latin rhythm loops for musicians of all levels. Easily adjust tempo, filter by genre and measure, and jam along to your own songs with a variety of instruments.
- Authentic Latin rhythm loops
- Adjustable tempo/BPM
- Genre and measure filtering
- Multi-instrument compatibility
- Multi-channel equalizer
- BPM Tapper tool
- Background playback
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Ritmos is a rhythm station app with great loops. Play different latin genres of rhythms and jam along! • Ritmos is designed for both amateurs and professionals. It helps you write your own song. • You can use it with drums, guitar, piano, darbuka, percussion, violin, strings and many other musical instruments. • You can set the tempo/BPM by tap the screen thanks to specially developed algorithms. • Jam along your songs with real rhythm tracks instead of boring metronome sounds. • You can filter the loops at whatever bpm, genre, and measure you want. Then reach the rhythm in the style that suits you best! • A cleverly designed drum engine lets you change the tempo/BPM of each beat. This makes practicing even more fun and you don't need your metronome or rhythm station. Multi-Channel Equalizer With the graphic-based equalizer, there are different tuning channels and scrolling arrows for you to make adjustments on these channels. When you pull the bar up on each channel, the signal is increased, while when you pull the bar down, the signals are decreased. With the help of the equalizer, you can make the best adjustment according to your own music taste. BPM Tapper Tap BPM tool allows you to calculate tempo and count Beats Per Minute (BPM) by tapping any key for rhythm or beat. Tap for a few seconds to quickly calculate BPM without waiting for the whole minute. It works equally well for RPM and RPS. Ritmos A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern or repeated rhythm played in drum kits and other percussion instruments, forming the measure and groove through the beat and subsection. This type of beat consists of multiple latin beats occurring in multiple musical beats, while drum beat can also refer to a single drum beat that may take more or less time than the current beat. Many drum beats describe or are characteristic of certain types of music. Many basic latin beats create the pulse with alternating bass and snare beats, while a ride cymbal or hihat creates a subdivision. Ritmos includes the following music genres: • Reggaeton Latin Loops • Gipsy Latin Loops • Cha Cha Latin Loops • Bachata Drum Loops • Meneaito Drum Loops • Tortura Drum Loops • Sambalegre Drum Loops • Mambo Drum Loops • Bossa Latin Beats • Andean Latin Beats • Bayon Drum Loops • Disco Samba Drum Loops • Limbo Latin Beats • Bamba Drum Loops • Bomba Latin Beats • Merengue Drum Beats • Sabor Drum Beats • 2/4 Drum Loops • 4/4 Drum Loops • Latin Drum Loops • Latin Dance Drum Loops • Limbo Drum Loops Features: - Adjustable tempo speed - Play in background - Tunes sorting - Many beats, tunes and drum backgrounds - Can be use as metronome and rhythm box - Çok kanallı equalizer - BPM Tapper Subscription: • Title: Ritmos Premium • Length of subscription: 1 year • Price of subscription: 19.99$ / Year • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Terms and conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.serkanmusic.com/drum-apps-privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Musicality Training at every 3 days against Ritmos's every 7 months. Ritmos's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Musicality Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Ritmos sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Musicality Training against 4.9 for Ritmos. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ritmos has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Musicality Training ships an update every 3 days, Ritmos every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Musicality Training | Ritmos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (16 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jamal Vleij | Serkan Seker |
Customer experience
Musicality Training
Ritmos
In-app purchases
Musicality Training
- Musicality Pro$1.991 Month
- Intervals$17.99
Ritmos
- Ritmos Premium$19.991 Year









