PitchCenter vs Additive Drum Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PitchCenter
This application provides musicians with a powerful and customizable tuning tool. It offers a variety of visual feedback options, including standard tuner views, graphs, and a keyboard synthesizer, to help users refine their intonation. Advanced settings allow for deep customization to suit individual practice needs.
- Multiple tuning visualization panels
- Real-time waveform and spectrogram
- Adjustable intonation settings
- Built-in keyboard synthesizer
- Play-along feature
- Customizable graphs and colors
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PitchCenter is an innovative tuner that combines helpful visual feedback with a huge collection of adjustable settings to help you with your intonation. Use it as a simple tuner to check your intonation quickly, or dive into its extensive set of graphs and visualizations to work on your intonation in the practice room. PitchCenter is made up of 9 different "panels." Each panel displays tuning information in a different way and can be displayed or hidden in Settings. These panels include: - Tuner view: Standard tuner view including a needle, plus text with the note being played, the frequency of that note in Hz, and the difference between that frequency and what an "in-tune" note should be. - Notation View: The notation view displays the current note on a staff. - Difference Graph: displays pitch (measured in the difference in cents from "in-tune") over time. - Frequency Graph: shows the frequency of the pitch over time. - Waveform View: shows a real-time picture of the current sound wave. - Amplitude Graph: displays the amplitude (or volume) over time. - Spectrogram: displays a visual representation of the prevalence of certain frequencies in the sound wave. - Keyboard: allows you to play pitches using a built-in synthesizer. - Play-along: PitchCenter features a play-along feature that can generate sequences of notes that will be played by the built-in synthesizer. You can then play along with the synthesizer, trying to stay in-tune with the notes being played by the app. PitchCenter and its panels are highly customizable, including settings for: - Equal and just intonation - Frequency calibration (default is A=440) - Clef preference (treble, bass, alto, tenor) - Transposition (any arbitrary transposition -- not just the common C, Eb, Bb, and F) - Color and speed preferences for all the graphs - Note ranges for the tuner, graphs, and play-along - and more! PitchCenter comes with a full manual (accessible from the Settings screen) to help you use all of its features. Questions or comments about the app? Send an email to info@pitchcenterapp.com If you love the app, leave a review!
Additive Drum Machine
Create unique drum beats with additive rhythm and traditional drum machine functionality. Design sequences of any length and structure, easily switching steps on and off to craft complex patterns. Ideal for practicing odd meters and exploring diverse rhythmic structures.
- Additive rhythm concept
- Traditional drum machine interface
- Customizable sequence length
- Step sequencing
- Odd meter support
- Symmetrical and asymmetrical rhythms
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With Additive Drum Machine you can create drum beats using the concept of “additive rhythm” in combination with the sounds and ease of use of a traditional drum machine. Construct step sequences of any length and structure by the chaining of "long" and "short" beats. Then switch on and off individual steps to create a drum pattern. Whether used as a practice tool or composition sketchpad, its intuitive interface allows you to easily make drum patterns that use odd meters, symmetrical and asymmetrical rhythmic structures, and various subdivisions of the pulse. With Additive Drum Machine your musical imagination is the limit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PitchCenter at every 4 months against Additive Drum Machine's every 15 months. Additive Drum Machine's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
PitchCenter costs $2.99 and Additive Drum Machine $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Additive Drum Machine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PitchCenter ships an update every 4 months, Additive Drum Machine every 15 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | PitchCenter | Additive Drum Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Nastos | Giovanny Bermudez |
Customer experience
PitchCenter
Additive Drum Machine
In-app purchases
PitchCenter
No in-app purchases
Additive Drum Machine
No in-app purchases
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