Comparison

DrumToolz vs Elysian Marching

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

Head to head
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

Elysian Marching

This platform empowers traditional show-style marching bands to exclusively license and monetize their content. It provides tools for building brands through social media, uploading performances for compensation, and creating podcasts or talk shows to engage with followers. The app also facilitates competition, scholarship opportunities, and student musician recruitment.

Highlights
  • Exclusive content licensing
  • Monetize performances
  • Brand building tools
  • Social media structured rubric
  • Podcast and talk show creation
  • Audition portal for musicians
Features
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ELYSIAN is a streaming and marketing tool made for Traditional Show-style marching bands. This application allows marching bands to exclusively license and monetize their content while building their brands through a social media structured rubric made for consumers to easily enjoy and navigate. ELYSIAN has created a structure that safely allows for marching bands to properly upload their performances and receive compensation. In addition to this function marching bands can also build their brands by creating their own podcasts or talk shows where they can take advantage of a space of addressing and interacting with their followers, sharing behind the scenes information, and promoting their involvement in events such as showcases, competitions and battles. ELYSIAN's structure enables marching bands to retain exclusivity of all of their content and likeness. This platform will increase the amount of competitions, scholarship opportunities and enable an audition portal for students musicians to be recruited.

Screenshots

DrumToolz4 screens
Elysian Marching4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DrumToolz at 4.2 against Elysian Marching's 3.0. DrumToolz also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (270 vs 4). Elysian Marching's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, ads, 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. Elysian Marching sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. DrumToolz asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DrumToolz holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 270 ratings behind it against 4, 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 50% of Elysian Marching's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrumToolz ships an update monthly, Elysian Marching every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DrumToolz versus Elysian Marching: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumToolzElysian Marching
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (270 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings270 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared SimonMeticulous analytic creative kingdom core l.l.c.

Customer experience

DrumToolz

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

Elysian Marching

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Elysian Marching

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Elysian Marching

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elysian Marching free?
Elysian Marching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DrumToolz or Elysian Marching?
DrumToolz is rated higher. DrumToolz averages 4.2 out of 5 from 270 ratings, while Elysian Marching averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do DrumToolz or Elysian Marching have ads?
Neither DrumToolz nor Elysian Marching shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrumToolz or Elysian Marching?
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, and Elysian Marching every 9 days. Most recently, DrumToolz was updated on September 25, 2026 and Elysian Marching on September 7, 2026.

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