Comparison

Ticking vs DrumToolz

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ticking

Enhance your drumming precision with this app that listens to your practice pad strokes and offers visual feedback on your accuracy. Track your progress, identify mistakes, and improve your timing with various exercises or by creating your own.

Highlights
  • Listens to drum strokes
  • Visual accuracy feedback
  • Progress tracking
  • Pre-set and custom exercises
  • Tempo adjustment
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The app is designed to improve your timing on the drums. It listens to your strokes on the practice pad and provides visual feedback on your accuracy. Measure your accuracy and visually troubleshoot your mistakes, so you can track your progress and improve over time HOW TO USE TICKING? • Place your phone on your practice pad so it hears your drumsticks (or just clap). • Choose an exercise. • Tap to start the exercise. • Change tempo by tapping BPM. Exercises: • Basics (8th notes, triplets, 16th notes) • Rate changes • Permutations • ... or create your own in the editor!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Ticking4 screens
DrumToolz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrumToolz at none against Ticking's 1. DrumToolz also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Ticking's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (74% vs 58%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ticking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DrumToolz asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ticking holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 151 and 270 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Ticking's written reviews are positive against 58% of DrumToolz's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ticking ships an update every 3 months, DrumToolz monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ticking versus DrumToolz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickingDrumToolz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (151 ratings) — better4.2 (270 ratings)
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews — better58.1% of reviews
Number of ratings151270 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDecent Labs Kft.Jared Simon

Customer experience

Ticking

All ratings151 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative18.5%

DrumToolz

All ratings270 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral8.5%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive58.1%
Neutral25.6%
Negative16.3%

Bugs and requests

Ticking

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

1 purchases

Ticking

One-time1
  • Editor$4.99
None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ticking free?
Ticking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ticking or DrumToolz?
Ticking is rated higher. Ticking averages 4.6 out of 5 from 151 ratings, while DrumToolz averages 4.2 from 270 ratings.
Do Ticking or DrumToolz have ads?
Neither Ticking nor DrumToolz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ticking or DrumToolz?
Ticking ships an update every 3 months, and DrumToolz monthly. Most recently, Ticking was updated on September 22, 2026 and DrumToolz on September 21, 2026.

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