Comparison

Ticking vs Drum Journal

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 Journal

This app provides real-time feedback on your drumming practice using your device's microphone. It allows you to slow down or loop sections of YouTube drum videos and automatically tracks your practice sessions to help you monitor progress.

Highlights
  • Microphone-based sticking feedback
  • YouTube video playback with speed control
  • Section looping for practice
  • Automatic practice session tracking
  • Community-shared exercises
  • Progress monitoring and streaks
Features
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Your exercises, your lessons, your rudiments: one list, ready to go. Drum Journal remembers where you left off, keeps the tempo, and gets out of your way. Press start, practice. YOUR ROUTINE, READY TO GO Open the app. The routine you built is queued, timed, and ready to run. Warm-up, rudiments, the YouTube lesson you're working on, laid out the way you want them. No deciding what to play tonight. REAL FEEDBACK ON YOUR TIMING The built-in sticking coach uses your device's microphone to hear you play on a practice pad. Real feedback on your timing, dynamics, and consistency, built into your routine, not a separate tool. PLAY TO A GROOVE, NOT JUST A CLICK Pick a mood and a backing track plays behind the metronome, automatically matched to your tempo. Rudiment practice stops feeling clinical and starts sounding like a room. LEARN ANY SONG AT YOUR OWN SPEED Drop any YouTube drum lesson into your routine. Slow it down, loop the hard bar, mark the section that's killing you. Drum Journal sits on your music stand and stays out of your way. SEE HOW YOU'RE GETTING BETTER Every session logs automatically. Streaks, time on each rudiment, whether your timing is tightening week over week. Show up daily and watch the data confirm what your hands already feel. EXERCISES FROM OTHER DRUMMERS Browse exercises shared by other drummers. Pick what fits your level, drop it into your routine. FREE TO PRACTICE. PRO TO SEE IF IT'S WORKING. Everything you need to build and run your routine is free: exercises, the sticking coach, YouTube practice, streaks, session logs, and background music in the Drift mood. Drum Journal Pro unlocks advanced analytics — see whether your timing is actually tightening, whether one hand plays inconsistent flams, whether your routine is moving the needle. Pro also unlocks the full background-music mood pack, per-exercise history, community sharing, and data export. The practice is simple. Showing up is hard. Drum Journal makes showing up the easy part. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Drum Journal Pro is available as a monthly, annual, or lifetime subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited upon purchasing a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://drumjournal.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://drumjournal.com/terms

Screenshots

Ticking4 screens
Drum Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Drum Journal at weekly against Ticking's every 3 months. Drum Journal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Ticking's advantage is ratings volume (166 vs 8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Journal sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drum Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ticking has 166 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 Journal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ticking ships an update every 3 months, Drum Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ticking versus Drum Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickingDrum Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (166 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings166 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB105 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDecent Labs Kft.Porath Consulting

Customer experience

Ticking

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

Drum Journal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ticking

One-time1
  • Editor$4.99
5 purchases

Drum Journal

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$34.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is Ticking free?
Ticking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drum Journal free?
Drum Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ticking or Drum Journal?
Drum Journal is rated higher. Ticking averages 4.6 out of 5 from 166 ratings, while Drum Journal averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Ticking or Drum Journal have ads?
Neither Ticking nor Drum Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ticking or Drum Journal?
Ticking ships an update every 3 months, and Drum Journal weekly. Most recently, Ticking was updated on October 20, 2026 and Drum Journal on October 16, 2026.

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