Ticking vs Drum Rudiments Trainer
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!
Drum Rudiments Trainer
This app provides a visual library of drum rudiments with a metronome and training statistics. It's designed for drummers of all levels, offering intuitive controls and various practice modes.
- Visual rudiment library
- On/off metronome
- Training time statistics
- BPM constant and acceleration modes
- Dark theme
- Count-in option
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As a beginner drummer myself and having some programming skills I've decided to create mobile application, where I can get easy access to paradiddles and other rudiments in a library with clearly visual representation, on/off metronome and training time statistics for each rudiment in a set. App designed for both beginners and experienced drummers. Hope it will be useful to other people as well. Reasons to try: - Easy and intuitive controls - No need to know drum musical notation - Vertical musical tracker-type visual representation - Dark theme to save your device battery - BPM constant and acceleration modes - Prevention of display sleep mode when training - Slightly different snare sound samples for left and right hand strokes - Different normal, accents, flam and drag stroke sounds - Metronome sound and visual blink option with individual volume control - Time stats for every rudiments and overall training time - BPM from 10 for very beginners to 320 as hell - Count-in option - Metronome sound only mode - Drums sound only mode - Silent mode - Chance to training with no pad and sticks - just your hands and knees - Sufficient font size for people with eye issues
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ticking at none against Drum Rudiments Trainer's shown. Ticking also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (166 vs 10). Drum Rudiments Trainer's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Ticking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drum Rudiments Trainer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Ticking against 4.5 for Drum Rudiments Trainer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ticking has 166 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Ticking's written reviews are positive against 67% of Drum Rudiments Trainer's.
Ticking ships an update every 3 months, Drum Rudiments Trainer every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ticking | Drum Rudiments Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (166 ratings) — better | 4.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Decent Labs Kft. | Vladimir Persidskiy |
Customer experience
Ticking
Drum Rudiments Trainer
In-app purchases
Ticking
- Editor$4.99
Drum Rudiments Trainer
- DRT Remove Ads$4.99
- DRT Unlock Editor$4.99
- DRT Bundle (Ads + Editor)$7.99
Questions
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