Metrodrummer vs Metro'n Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Metrodrummer
This app goes beyond a basic metronome, offering a drum machine with rhythm patterns and advanced tempo controls. It also allows users to import and link sheet music or documents, and includes a speed trainer for instrument practice.
- Metronome and drum machine with rhythm patterns
- PDF, Image, and Doc reader with style linking
- Camera function for capturing and editing scores
- Advanced rhythm and time functions (Intro, Variation, Ritardando, Accelerando)
- Customizable rhythm sections and drum part editor
- Speed Trainer for instrument practice
- Realistic drum sounds
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Metrodrummer is much more than a metronome ! - Metronome (metronome beats) and drum machine with rhythm patterns ( Rhythm machine, drum loops ) - Reader of PDF files, Images, Doc etc... with the possibility to link them with the style - Camera function for capturing images and scores with the possibility of cropping and editing - Rhythm functions: Start/Stop, Intro, Standard, Variation, Fill to Standard, Fill to Variation, Percussion, Ending - Time functions: Variation +/-, ritardando, accelerando, tempo lock, fade in/out - Ritardando and accelerando must be editing - 12 Sections of rhythms with possibility to upload up to 48 rhythms for each section - Drum part editor for each style with possibility to add a metronome - User section where to store your favorite rhythms with tempo change and drum parts edited for each style. You can also link your file (Picture, PDF, DOC, etc..) - Select any tempo from 40 (largo) to 300 beats per minute (prestissimo) as a real metronome. - Different types of metronome - Speed Trainer - Perfect for practicing any instruments much better then a simply metronome - Ideal also for solo and group music practice, teaching, live performances, recording session - Metro drummer with realistic drum sounds - A light, easy to use and fun application. Practicing with a metronome seems like a boring and useless thing to do, but with Metrodrummer it's a unique fun. Metrodrummer: train your sense of rhythm Video of Metrodrummer, metronome and drum machine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8OHZTqMNY www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQOevbIeN-8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zClPo3mEFbU
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: Metrodrummer at 4.7 against Metro'n Drums's 4.0. Metrodrummer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Metro'n Drums's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. Metrodrummer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Metro'n Drums asks for nothing beyond the download.
Metrodrummer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metrodrummer has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Metrodrummer | Metro'n Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francesco Acquafredda | Yasuto Saito |
Customer experience
Metrodrummer
Metro'n Drums
In-app purchases
Metrodrummer
- All Styles and all Functions$7.99
Metro'n Drums
No in-app purchases









