Ticking vs Learn Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
Learn Drums
Master drumming with video-guided lessons designed for absolute beginners. Learn fundamental techniques, rhythm patterns, and various drumming styles at your own pace. This app provides a structured path to becoming a confident drummer, regardless of your equipment.
- Video-guided lessons
- Fundamental techniques
- Rhythm patterns and beats
- Multiple drumming styles
- Coordination exercises
- Structured learning path
- Practice routines
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Learn drums from your first beat to playing full songs -- step-by-step, at your own pace, no drum kit required. Tap on your phone or tablet to practice along with real drum beats across rock, pop, blues, and funk. WHAT YOU GET Step-by-step drum lessons that start with the basics: how to hold the sticks, posture at the kit, and stick control. From there you build into full drum beats -- rock grooves, pop backbeats, blues shuffles, funk patterns -- one skill at a time. Video lessons from drum instructors who teach beginners for a living. Each tutorial focuses on one idea so you can see the technique, hear how it should sound, and copy it without guesswork. Slow-motion replays for the parts that trip everyone up. Drop the tempo, watch where the sticks land, then bring it back up to speed when your hands are ready. A song library arranged for beginners. Pick a track, play along, and use the visual feedback to see whether your timing is on the beat or drifting. This is where drum practice stops feeling like homework and starts sounding like music. NO DRUM KIT? START ANYWAY You don't need a kit to begin. Practice the grip, the rhythms, and the song parts on a tabletop, a practice pad, or right on the screen. When you do sit at a real kit later, the patterns are already in your hands. HOW IT'S BUILT FOR BEGINNERS Plain-language teaching. No music theory jargon thrown at you before you've played a single beat. If a lesson uses a word, it explains the word. Short sessions that fit a real day. Five minutes between meetings, fifteen before dinner -- progress comes from showing up, not from hour-long blocks you can never find. Honest pacing. You repeat a beat until it locks in, then move on. Skip ahead any time, or go back and re-watch a lesson without losing your place. Every drummer started where you are now -- counting one beat at a time. Download Learn Drums and play your first rhythm today. Terms of use - http://thecookbk.com/terms.php?appname=learn.drums.beginners Privacy Policy - http://thecookbk.com/privacy.php?appname=learn.drums.beginners
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Learn Drums at every 2 weeks against Ticking's every 3 months. Ticking's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 55%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Ticking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Learn Drums sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ticking holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 151 and 120 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Ticking's written reviews are positive against 55% of Learn Drums's.
Ticking ships an update every 3 months, Learn Drums every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ticking | Learn Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (151 ratings) — better | 4.4 (120 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 151 — better | 120 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Decent Labs Kft. | Riafy Technologies Pvt. Ltd. |
Customer experience
Ticking
Learn Drums
In-app purchases
Ticking
- Editor$4.99
Learn Drums
- Learn Drums-Monthly Trial$8.991 Month
- drum+beats+bass$11.491 Month
- Learn to Play Drum$24.996 Months
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- Learn Drums-Yearly Trial$29.991 Year
- Drums- Easy Lessons6 Months trial$39.996 Months
- 7 days premium$2.99









