Comparison

DrumToolz vs Drums

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

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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.

About

Drums

Learn to play drums with a virtual drum set and engaging rhythm games. Explore various music genres and play along to famous hits, even without prior experience. Enjoy a stress-relieving and exciting musical journey.

Highlights
  • Virtual drum set
  • Rhythm games
  • Multiple music genres
  • Famous song collection
  • Solo play mode
  • Drum circles gameplay
Features
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Get drums into your pocket! Play world-famous hits in various music genres - Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Dance. No experience needed! Drums by Piano Band is a drum set simulator with extraordinary drum games. You can choose different drum sets to play tracks in your favorite music genre. The app offers a collection of famous classical music pieces, originally reworked and rearranged as contemporary compositions. Get very exciting experience of playing popular tunes in a new way on drums. And don’t miss our Rock category! Drums are the very first musical instrument invented by humanity. Hitting out powerful, punchy sounds in a certain rhythm makes us feel excited and uplifted. This is why playing drums is one of the best known stress relievers. Never tried playing any musical instrument? No worries, you can play drums in our app! Rock on and feel the beat power! App features: - Drums circles gameplay; - A collection of famous songs for drums in Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, and other styles; - Solo playmode. PREMIUM subscription Subscribe to Premium to enjoy exclusive content without ads! Unlimited access to our Premium features include: - All premium songs; - New songs regularly; - No ads. The app contains the following Premium options: - yearly auto-renewable subscription at $24.99; - weekly auto-renewable subscription at $4.99 (includes 7-day free trial). 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, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://simplepiano.co/policy.pdf Terms of Service: https://simplepiano.co/terms.pdf *Prices are equal to the value that ""Apple’s App Store Matrix"" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD.

Screenshots

DrumToolz4 screens
Drums4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrumToolz at none against Drums's 7. DrumToolz also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). Drums's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (2.2K vs 313). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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. Drums sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. DrumToolz asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drums holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drums has 2.2K ratings behind it against 313, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of DrumToolz's written reviews are positive against 52% of Drums's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrumToolz ships an update monthly, Drums every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DrumToolz versus Drums: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumToolzDrums
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (313 ratings)4.5 (2.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews — better52.1% of reviews
Number of ratings3132.2K — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB151 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared SimonAIHUNTERS, UAB

Customer experience

DrumToolz

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

Drums

All ratings2,199 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews234 reviews
Positive52.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative41.5%

User reviews

DrumToolz

From 313 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for writing music
  • 👍 Helpful for drumline
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Good sounds
  • 👍 Good for practice

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Tutorial not helpful
  • 🐛 Hard to find features
  • 🐛 UI issues
  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Saves progress poorly

Drums

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and creative game
  • 🥁 Helps improve drumming skills
  • 🎶 Enjoyable music selection
  • 💯 Great for beginners

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription-based model
  • 🎬 Too many ads
  • 🔒 Paywall for more content
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🎧 Limited song library

Bugs and 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

Drums

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Unresponsive controls
  • Sync issues with the beat
  • Subscription issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • More song variety and genres
  • Ability to play full songs
  • Option to disable ads
  • Offline mode
  • Customizable drum kit

In-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Drums

Subscriptions7
  • Drums Weekly Premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • All Access Pass7 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • All Access Pass$9.997 Days
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  • All Access Pass3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • All Access Pass7 Days trial$17.991 Year
  • All Access Pass$24.991 Year
  • All Access Pass7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drums free?
Drums is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DrumToolz or Drums?
Drums is rated higher. DrumToolz averages 4.2 out of 5 from 313 ratings, while Drums averages 4.5 from 2.2K ratings.
Do DrumToolz or Drums have ads?
Drums shows ads; DrumToolz does not.
Which is updated more often, DrumToolz or Drums?
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, and Drums every 8 months. Most recently, DrumToolz was updated on November 3, 2026 and Drums on November 3, 2026.

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