DrumToolz vs Simmons Drums 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Simmons Drums 2
Control your Simmons electronic drum kit with an expanded interface. Adjust sounds, effects, and mix settings. Learn new beats with a play-along tool, metronome, and practice features.
- Expanded drum module settings display
- Kit selection and sound/effect customization
- Mix and trigger setting adjustments
- Play-along tool with music library integration
- Tempo control and looping for practice
- Metronome
- Titan-series Practice tool control
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Simmons Drums 2 brings iOS control to Simmons electronic drum kits. The app provides a wider display of drum module settings to help you select kits, choose new sounds and effects, change the mix, adjust trigger settings and more. The play-along tool plays music from your library or Apple Music, slowing down or looping sections so you can learn new beats. Additional learning tools include a metronome and control over the Titan-series Practice tool. Compatible with Simmons Titan 70, Titan 50, Titan 20, SD200, SD300, SD350, SD500, SD550, and SD600 drum modules.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DrumToolz at 4.2 against Simmons Drums 2's 3.1. DrumToolz also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 30%) and ratings volume (313 vs 33). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DrumToolz holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 313 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of DrumToolz's written reviews are positive against 30% of Simmons Drums 2's.
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, Simmons Drums 2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DrumToolz | Simmons Drums 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (313 ratings) — better | 3.1 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 313 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Simon | Simmons Innovations Ltd |
Customer experience
DrumToolz
Simmons Drums 2
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
Simmons Drums 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DrumToolz
No in-app purchases
Simmons Drums 2
No in-app purchases
Questions
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