Attics vs WatchDrumSet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Attics
Access and stream thousands of live concert recordings from popular bands like the Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, and more. Easily find shows, enjoy gapless playback, and download your favorites for offline listening.
- Stream live concert recordings
- Download shows for offline listening
- Easy show navigation
- Gapless playback
- Share favorite shows
- Access 30+ bands and 20k+ shows
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Attics is a fast, simple, and reliable app that lets you stream and download thousands of live Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, Dead & Company, JRAD, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and many more concert recordings hosted on the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive. Features: - Easy to navigate: get right to the show you're looking for - 30+ bands, 20k+ shows, more being added regularly - Gapless playback - Share your favorite shows with your friends - Download and listen to your favorite shows offline
WatchDrumSet
Experience a simulated drum set directly on your Apple Watch. Play along using the watch's speaker or connected Bluetooth devices for a lag-free musical experience.
- Simulated drum set
- Apple Watch integration
- Uses watch speaker
- Supports Bluetooth devices
- Lag-free audio
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This is a simulated drum set for Apple watch. Ba-dum-chssss! It will work with the watch's speaker and bluetooth devices connected to the watch, but bluetooth audio devices connected through an iphone will be really laggy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Attics at Free against WatchDrumSet's $1.99. Attics also leads on ratings volume (465 vs 1). WatchDrumSet's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Attics is free to download; WatchDrumSet costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Attics against 5.0 for WatchDrumSet. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 465 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Attics's written reviews are positive against 100% of WatchDrumSet's.
| Parameter | Attics | WatchDrumSet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (465 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 465 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | Robert Linnemann |
Customer experience
Attics
WatchDrumSet
Bugs and requests
Attics
Reported bugs
2 issues- Network errors causing connectivity issues
- Inconsistent behavior between downloaded and streaming shows
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to create playlists or queue songs
- Implement offline listening/download option
- Add more artists beyond Grateful Dead
- Improve sorting/filtering options
WatchDrumSet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
WatchDrumSet
No in-app purchases
