Comparison

Ticking vs Drum Practice App

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

Drum Practice App

This app helps drummers of all levels improve their skills with a professional exercise library, custom practice plans, and a digital journal. Track your progress with analytics and practice offline anywhere. It includes a metronome, timer, and support for music sheets and videos.

Highlights
  • Professional exercise library
  • Custom practice plans
  • Digital drum journal
  • Pro metronome & timer
  • Music sheet & video support
  • Progress analytics
  • Offline access
Features
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Practice drums with structure — and see the proof that you're getting better. Drumbitious is a practice planner and diary for drummers. Build your own exercises, put them into a plan, and start a focused session with one tap. Every session is logged automatically, so your progress stops being a feeling and becomes something you can look at. BUILT-IN METRONOME 30 to 300 BPM, time signatures from 1/4 to 8/4 plus 3/8, 6/8 and 7/8, subdivisions in quarters, eighths, triplets and sixteenths, tap tempo and its own volume. Start it and your practice timer starts with it. Switch on dynamic mode and the tempo climbs by itself — 80, 85, 90, and on. Set the step and how many bars you want at each speed, then take a rudiment or a fill from comfortable to fast without touching your phone in the middle of practice. Steps of 1 to 50 BPM, every 1 to 99 bars. (Premium) PRACTICE TIMER, TWO WAYS Count down from a target duration, or run a stopwatch and let it record what you actually played. Both keep running when you switch apps. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY A month heatmap colours every day you practised — the longer, the deeper. Your current and longest streak sit right above it, next to a weekly goal you set yourself: 30 minutes or three hours, your call. RECORDS AND TRENDS Longest session, best week, highest BPM, lifetime practice time. Plus charts of your top BPM and how practising felt, across your whole history — per exercise, per plan, over time. PRACTICE PLANS Combine rudiments, grooves, fills and independence drills into a routine that fits your goal. Start it with one tap and work through it exercise by exercise. YOUR OWN EXERCISE LIBRARY Create your own exercises or import ready-made ones from a growing shared library. Attach sheet music PDFs, audio, video and images — and mark up PDFs right inside a session, so your notes are there next time. 30 DAYS OF RUDIMENTS One tap builds a 30-day rudiment plan and drops five exercises into your library. A ready-made starting point if you don't know where to begin. PRACTICE ANYWHERE Works offline — your plans, exercises and the metronome need no connection. Your account syncs across iPhone, iPad and Android, and the app speaks English, German and Spanish. WHO IT'S FOR Drummers who take practice seriously, whether you just started or have been playing for years. If your drum lessons produce more loose paper than progress, this is where it all goes. Built by a drummer who needed exactly this. Have an idea that would make practising easier? I'm all ears. — Questions or found a bug? Write to support@drumbitious.com — I read and answer every message myself. More at https://drumbitious.com Monthly: €1.99 - First 3 days are free! Yearly: €16.99 (save 30%) - First 7 days are free! Payments and Renewal: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/16663907

Screenshots

Ticking4 screens
Drum Practice App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ticking at none against Drum Practice App's shown. Ticking also leads on ratings volume (151 vs 8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Drum Practice App's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Drum Practice App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drum Practice App holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ticking has 151 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Ticking's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drum Practice App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ticking ships an update every 3 months, Drum Practice App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Ticking versus Drum Practice App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickingDrum Practice App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (151 ratings)4.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings151 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDecent Labs Kft.Verena Zaiser

Customer experience

Ticking

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

Drum Practice App

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ticking

One-time1
  • Editor$4.99
2 purchases

Drum Practice App

Subscriptions2
  • Drumbitious Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Drumbitious Premium (annual)14 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Ticking free?
Ticking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drum Practice App free?
Drum Practice App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ticking or Drum Practice App?
Drum Practice App is rated higher. Ticking averages 4.6 out of 5 from 151 ratings, while Drum Practice App averages 4.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Ticking or Drum Practice App have ads?
Drum Practice App shows ads; Ticking does not.
Which is updated more often, Ticking or Drum Practice App?
Ticking ships an update every 3 months, and Drum Practice App every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ticking was updated on September 27, 2026 and Drum Practice App on September 6, 2026.

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