Comparison

DrumToolz vs Drumline Break Creator

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

Drumline Break Creator

Easily compose, edit, and share percussion notation for snare and tenor drums. This app offers a streamlined experience for creating custom drum breaks, cadences, and warmups, inspiring a new generation of music writers.

Highlights
  • Compose snare and tenor drum notation
  • Edit and playback percussion music
  • Save and share compositions
  • Includes common rudiments and articulations
  • Supports custom sticking and grace notes
  • Professionally recorded audio samples
Features
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Composing percussion notation for snare drum and tenors is finally fast, easy, and fun! No laptops, no expensive subscriptions, no extra plugins, and no 1990's music composition apps made for piano with 500 options that you'll never use. Whether you're in your bedroom or the band room, a bus, or the field, you now have full access to the specific notation you need to compose, edit, playback, save and share snare drum and tenor drum notation with your section, instructor, drumline, and band. All this for one price, forever in your pocket right next to your drum key. We spend our entire percussive careers playing other people's music. Isn't it time we start playing our own? This app is on a mission to inspire a new generation of music writers. It's time for YOU to write the next winning break, percussion feature, cadence, street beat, or drill. *Insert stick drop here* All audio samples were professionally recorded at NoiseFloor Ltd. in Chicago by DCI sound engineer Jamie Vanadia. The snare drum and tenors used were generously provided by Dynasty. The snare is Dynasty's MS-XD14 Marching Snare Drum on an Evans Hybrid drumhead. The tenor drums are Dynasty's MT-680234 Tenor Drums in Corps Configuration with 6 inch and 8 inch shot drums on Evans Corps Clear heads. Drum Break Creator includes a number of rudiments such as triplets, sextuplets, flams, single stroke 4s, etc. Plus place, accents, doubles, grace notes, buzz notes, rimshots, double stops, as well put in your preferred sticking. Use the app to create your next standout drum break. Create your drumline's next set of warmups. Write a few new cadences or street beats for that next parade. Use it to better understand the timing and voicing of your music. Play along on your drum pad. For beginners, use it to better understand how to read certain notations. Recreate some of the harder parts of your sheet music to help smooth out the tougher bits of your show. Every person who downloads this app will have ideas on ways to make it better or more awesome. Feedback is super welcome!! I will continue to add and support the apps into the years to come. Oh, and just to take out one of the more obvious requests, bass drums and cymbals are coming as the user base grows. Hi, I'm the developer of this app and I've been drumming for 32 years. (Woah, I never actually did the math on that) From playing along to records of drum battles of Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich when I was 7, to high school marching band, placing at WGI finals, sleeping on the floor at Glassmen (RIP) auditions, Michigan State's drumline, lessons, instruction, all the way to touring the U.S. several times with my indie-emo band backed by Truth Drums (sans black eyeliner). I've been surrounding myself with musicians who appreciate the sport and the art of marching percussion. I'm very fortunate enough to also know a thing or two about creating software – which somehow still leads me back to drumming. :-D Happy hacking, and thanks for downloading.

Screenshots

DrumToolz4 screens
Drumline Break Creator3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DrumToolz at Free against Drumline Break Creator's $4.99. DrumToolz also leads on rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (270 vs 40). Drumline Break Creator's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 58%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

DrumToolz is free to download; Drumline Break Creator costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DrumToolz holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 270 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of DrumToolz's written reviews are positive against 81% of Drumline Break Creator'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, Drumline Break Creator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DrumToolz versus Drumline Break Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumToolzDrumline Break Creator
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.2 (270 ratings) — better4.0 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings270 — better40
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared SimonJohn Ostler

Customer experience

DrumToolz

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

Drumline Break Creator

All ratings40 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative6.3%

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

Drumline Break Creator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

None

Drumline Break Creator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drumline Break Creator free?
Drumline Break Creator costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DrumToolz or Drumline Break Creator?
DrumToolz is rated higher. DrumToolz averages 4.2 out of 5 from 270 ratings, while Drumline Break Creator averages 4.0 from 40 ratings.
Do DrumToolz or Drumline Break Creator have ads?
Neither DrumToolz nor Drumline Break Creator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrumToolz or Drumline Break Creator?
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, and Drumline Break Creator every 3 weeks. Most recently, DrumToolz was updated on September 25, 2026 and Drumline Break Creator on August 19, 2026.

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