Comparison

DrumToolz vs Drum Rudiments Trainer

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

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.

Highlights
  • Visual rudiment library
  • On/off metronome
  • Training time statistics
  • BPM constant and acceleration modes
  • Dark theme
  • Count-in option
Features
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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

Screenshots

DrumToolz4 screens
Drum Rudiments Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrumToolz at none against Drum Rudiments Trainer's 3. DrumToolz also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). Drum Rudiments Trainer's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (67% vs 58%). On price, 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. Drum Rudiments Trainer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. DrumToolz asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drum Rudiments Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 270 ratings behind it against 9, 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 67% of Drum Rudiments Trainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrumToolz ships an update monthly, Drum Rudiments Trainer every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
DrumToolz versus Drum Rudiments Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumToolzDrum Rudiments Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (270 ratings)4.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings270 — better9
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared SimonVladimir Persidskiy

Customer experience

DrumToolz

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

Drum Rudiments Trainer

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Drum Rudiments Trainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Drum Rudiments Trainer

One-time3
  • DRT Remove Ads$4.99
  • DRT Unlock Editor$4.99
  • DRT Bundle (Ads + Editor)$7.99

Questions

Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drum Rudiments Trainer free?
Drum Rudiments Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DrumToolz or Drum Rudiments Trainer?
Drum Rudiments Trainer is rated higher. DrumToolz averages 4.2 out of 5 from 270 ratings, while Drum Rudiments Trainer averages 4.4 from 9 ratings.
Do DrumToolz or Drum Rudiments Trainer have ads?
Drum Rudiments Trainer shows ads; DrumToolz does not.
Which is updated more often, DrumToolz or Drum Rudiments Trainer?
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, and Drum Rudiments Trainer every 10 months. Most recently, DrumToolz was updated on September 21, 2026 and Drum Rudiments Trainer on September 20, 2026.

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