Comparison

DrumToolz vs TuneKit

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

TuneKit

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TuneKit is a drum tuner for players who want faster, more repeatable tuning with nothing but an iPhone. Use Live Mode to capture the pitch of a single hit, see the frequency in Hz, identify the nearest note, and compare each strike against a manual target. When you already have a drum where you want it, you can also turn the current reading into your target with one tap. Switch to Lug Match to work around the drum one tension rod at a time. TuneKit records each lug, uses lug 1 or your manual target as the reference, and shows how far each point is from the reference in cents so you can even out the head with confidence. Features: - Live pitch detection built for drum strikes - Large locked Hz readout with nearest-note display - Manual target entry for matching a specific pitch - One-tap set target from the current reading - Lug Match mode for 6-, 8-, 10-, and 12-lug drums - Progress, reference, average, and spread feedback for each pass - On-device processing with no account required - No audio recording, storage, or upload TuneKit is built for drummers, drum techs, rehearsal spaces, and practice rooms that need a fast, focused tuning tool without extra hardware or setup.

Screenshots

DrumToolz4 screens
TuneKit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DrumToolz at Free against TuneKit's $0.99. DrumToolz also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DrumToolz is free to download; TuneKit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrumToolz ships an update monthly, TuneKit every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DrumToolz versus TuneKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumToolzTuneKit
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (270 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings270 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared SimonTruck and Toolbox

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

TuneKit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

None

TuneKit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TuneKit free?
TuneKit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do DrumToolz or TuneKit have ads?
Neither DrumToolz nor TuneKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrumToolz or TuneKit?
DrumToolz ships an update monthly, and TuneKit every 5 months. Most recently, DrumToolz was updated on October 12, 2026 and TuneKit on October 6, 2026.

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