Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box vs DrumToolz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box
This app turns your phone into a foot-operated drum machine. Use your heel and toe taps to trigger different percussion sounds, adding a unique beat to your live music sessions. Customize sound assignments and enjoy a new way to create rhythm.
- Foot-controlled percussion
- Heel and toe tap detection
- Selectable drum sounds
- Customizable sound assignments
- Live music accompaniment
- Phone accelerometer integration
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Digital Guitarist Stomp Box with Dope Samples And Loops Add a kick to your live music session with Stompai on your foot. The app uses the phone’s accelerometer to detect the movements of the foot. It then plays one of two selectable drum sounds, depending on whether you tap your heel or toe. The Stompai app contains a selection of various drum and percussion sounds, which you can assign to your heel and toe. - Pick your option for heel and toe Change between sounds with just a swipe of your finger. Place the phone and the Stompai mount and on your foot, and simply kick - the phone will produce the beat. Our latest feature - is juice :) We loved is so much we called it after! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! We are excited to hear about your first stomp with stompai!
DrumToolz
Compose and practice drum cadences and beats on your mobile device. This app allows manual input of exercises, generation of new ideas, and practice of rudiments. Share your creations and learn from a community of drummers.
- Compose drum cadences and beats
- Manual exercise input
- Generate new rhythmic ideas
- Editable music score
- Practice snare rudiments
- Library of dynamic exercises
- Social profile and sharing
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Compose cadences on the go! Choose from snares, tenors, bass drums, cymbals, and even drumset if you want. In a league of its own, DrumToolz also lets you manually input exercises for drum set, marching snare, tenors, and bass drums while generating new creative ideas using what you input, all shown on an editable music score. You can also upload your beats to your social profile, play what other users are playing, save rhythms, practice snare drum rudiments, and learn from a full library of dynamic exercises for both snare drum and drumset! It's perfect for all skill levels, from beginner to extremely advanced, drum wizards. Works great for sharing drum cadences with your drumline. Isolate individual snare, tenors, etc. parts. Practice the simplest to the most complex of beats and rhythms. If you can think of it, you can input it and practice it! Anything from beginner rock beats, to the most complex of jazz beats and fills. Lastly, top off the notes with ornaments: stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese. Input up to 50 measures. When practicing drum set beats, choose from a ride cymbal, hihat, hihat foot, kick drum, snare drum, and three toms. Input everything from whole notes to thirtysecond notes and tuplets. Also, for tenors, choose from four tenors and a spock. Bass drums - five bass drums. Marching snare - a realistic marching snare and a ping sound. Generate new ideas (modifications) using beats that you input into the score. Choose from several modification methods: Add, Shuffle, Substitute, Permutate, Repeat, and Random. Modify individual parts of the beat (ex: kick drum only) or the entire beat if desired. Custom snare exercises. Choose the time sig, subdivisons, tuplets, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, cheese, drags. Save the beat in the score for later practice, keeping the modifications if desired. If the modifications are kept, this turns the beat into an endless, dynamic exercise! Each time you generate an exercise, it uses the modifications to give you an entirely new beat. String together saved rhythms and practice them as one exercise, perfect for practicing beats followed by a drum fill. Upload your beats to your profile. Find and follow other drummers in the social network. Learn from them as you see and practice what they have uploaded to their profile. Share your beats through PDF links and files. Also, share your entire score with a link that pre-populates the score into the app. Learn from a full library of dynamic drum set and snare drum exercises, essential and hybrid rudiments included. For highlighted rhythms, shuffle around groups of notes, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box at 100% against DrumToolz's 58%. Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). DrumToolz's advantage is ratings volume (270 vs 9). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 270 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box's written reviews are positive against 58% of DrumToolz's.
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box ships an update every 3 weeks, DrumToolz monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box | DrumToolz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better | 4.2 (270 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 58.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 270 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Siarhei Arenich | Jared Simon |
Customer experience
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box
DrumToolz
Bugs and requests
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DrumToolz
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes and deletes progress
- App won't open
- Repeat function doesn't stop
- Repeat save fails
- Accents, diddles, flams added automatically
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- Buzz roll cannot be removed
- Font camouflages in dark mode
- App crashes when opening after saving
- App crashes when opening
- App crashes when adding notes
- App crashes after saving
- App crashes when trying to reopen
- App crashes a lot
Requested features
15 requests- Turn off metronome
- Add rum shot for snare
- Add rim shots for other drums
- Add triplets, fivelets, sixlets
- Add dynamics (forte, piano)
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- Cymbals sizzle option
- Add buzz roll for snares
- Add diddle feature
- More measures
- Add bass drum notes
- Add open hi-hat sound
- Improve UI for tuplet measurement
- Improve UI for measure change
- Ability to hear multiple instruments simultaneously
- Fix replace button for bass drums
In-app purchases
Stompai Foot drum | Stomp box
No in-app purchases
DrumToolz
No in-app purchases
Questions
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