Drummer ITP vs Drum Practice App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drummer ITP
This intelligent metronome and rudiment trainer helps drummers improve timing and accuracy. It measures performance against a click, providing feedback scores to track progress and identify challenging patterns. Essential for developing precise stick technique.
- Intelligent metronome with listening feature
- Rudiment pattern practice and scoring
- Performance feedback and progress tracking
- Accuracy indicator for timing
- Manual and Rudiment modes
- 68 practice patterns and exercises
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Learn to play 'In The Pocket' with Drummer ITP: The World's only intelligent metronome and rudiment training tool! *Worldwide Number 1 iPhone Music App in over 70 countries!* Drummer ITP can help you to learn exceptionally accurate timing with your drum performances and become a true 'In The Pocket' player. The app is designed for practicing rudiment patterns with a drum practice pad - incorporating an intelligent listening feature, which allows your performance against a metronome click to be measured and given as feedback scores. You can therefore track your progress and identify what rudiment patterns and tempos cause you most trouble with staying in time. *Please note: as with all professional audio and recording systems, Drummer ITP requires you to use wired headphones to enable zero latency analysis and measurements. Bluetooth headphones do not allow zero latency data exchange. Drummer ITP helps to identify the key tempos where your technique changes from wrist-action stick hits to faster speeds which require you to control the bounce of the drumsticks. Finding your breaking points with different stick pad rudiments and practice exercises will enable you to focus on the most challenging aspects of your personal stick technique and will underpin your development in all areas of drumming. The main display shows both the rolling click waveform and the microphone readings from your performance on the practice pad, so you can easily see if you are playing ahead or behind the beat. There is also a unique accuracy indicator which shows how far ahead or behind the beat each of your hits is. Whilst performing rudiments and exercises on a practice pad, the app records an ongoing measurement of accuracy and consistency of the performance, so you can practice to keep the timing indicator right in the middle of the screen and achieve the highest possible scores. When playing an accented pattern, or an exercise with rests incorporated, the intelligent algorithm checks that the correct type of hits are performed at the right time. If you want to check how accurate the app is, just turn up the loudspeaker volume and you'll see it measure its own sounds to 100% accuracy - so you can see how close your own performance scores are to that of an electronic drum machine! Drummer ITP can be used in Manual Mode or Rudiment Mode. In Manual Mode the metronome runs freely, as a standard metronome whilst also keeping a measurement of the recent performance scores. With a rudiment pattern active (i.e. using the app's Rudiment Mode), a count in starts a 30, 60, 120 or 300 second rudiment test, the results of which become a benchmark for evaluating your performance progress over time, with all your best high scores being recorded. The app can also be used purely as a standalone high-precision metronome with advanced settings allowing you to choose different pitches, volumes and intervals for the click. Includes a total of 68 practice patterns and rudiment exercises for combinations of: - standard timing exercises (quarters, eighths, sixteenths) - triplet timing exercises - single, double and triple paradiddles (including inverted, reverse and offset) - single and double paradiddle-diddle patterns - rudimental drum rolls - accented patterns Additional features: - notation of all included rudiments and exercise patterns - real-time left/right hand pattern indicator - accent indicator and moving notation counter - tempo adjustment from 30-240 bpm - beat time intervals 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 - optional beat one accent for practicing specific time signatures - click designer with settings for pitch, tonality, click duration and volume - separate click design for the main beat and interval sounds - stick pad performance player, to hear what you are attempting to play - high scores chart for completed rudiments and exercises - preset click sounds - microphone sensitivity adjustment - intelligent 'learn latency' feature to ensure 100% accurate analysis
Drum Practice App
This app helps drummers of all levels improve their skills with a professional exercise library, custom practice plans, and a digital journal. Track your progress with analytics and practice offline anywhere. It includes a metronome, timer, and support for music sheets and videos.
- Professional exercise library
- Custom practice plans
- Digital drum journal
- Pro metronome & timer
- Music sheet & video support
- Progress analytics
- Offline access
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Practice drums with structure — and see the proof that you're getting better. Drumbitious is a practice planner and diary for drummers. Build your own exercises, put them into a plan, and start a focused session with one tap. Every session is logged automatically, so your progress stops being a feeling and becomes something you can look at. BUILT-IN METRONOME 30 to 300 BPM, time signatures from 1/4 to 8/4 plus 3/8, 6/8 and 7/8, subdivisions in quarters, eighths, triplets and sixteenths, tap tempo and its own volume. Start it and your practice timer starts with it. Switch on dynamic mode and the tempo climbs by itself — 80, 85, 90, and on. Set the step and how many bars you want at each speed, then take a rudiment or a fill from comfortable to fast without touching your phone in the middle of practice. Steps of 1 to 50 BPM, every 1 to 99 bars. (Premium) PRACTICE TIMER, TWO WAYS Count down from a target duration, or run a stopwatch and let it record what you actually played. Both keep running when you switch apps. SEE YOUR CONSISTENCY A month heatmap colours every day you practised — the longer, the deeper. Your current and longest streak sit right above it, next to a weekly goal you set yourself: 30 minutes or three hours, your call. RECORDS AND TRENDS Longest session, best week, highest BPM, lifetime practice time. Plus charts of your top BPM and how practising felt, across your whole history — per exercise, per plan, over time. PRACTICE PLANS Combine rudiments, grooves, fills and independence drills into a routine that fits your goal. Start it with one tap and work through it exercise by exercise. YOUR OWN EXERCISE LIBRARY Create your own exercises or import ready-made ones from a growing shared library. Attach sheet music PDFs, audio, video and images — and mark up PDFs right inside a session, so your notes are there next time. 30 DAYS OF RUDIMENTS One tap builds a 30-day rudiment plan and drops five exercises into your library. A ready-made starting point if you don't know where to begin. PRACTICE ANYWHERE Works offline — your plans, exercises and the metronome need no connection. Your account syncs across iPhone, iPad and Android, and the app speaks English, German and Spanish. WHO IT'S FOR Drummers who take practice seriously, whether you just started or have been playing for years. If your drum lessons produce more loose paper than progress, this is where it all goes. Built by a drummer who needed exactly this. Have an idea that would make practising easier? I'm all ears. — Questions or found a bug? Write to support@drumbitious.com — I read and answer every message myself. More at https://drumbitious.com Monthly: €1.99 - First 3 days are free! Yearly: €16.99 (save 30%) - First 7 days are free! Payments and Renewal: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/16663907
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Drum Practice App at Free against Drummer ITP's $9.99. Drum Practice App also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%). Drummer ITP's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence, 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
Drum Practice App is free to download; Drummer ITP costs $9.99 up front. Drum Practice App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Drummer ITP asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drum Practice App holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drummer ITP has 444 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Drummer ITP's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drum Practice App's.
Drummer ITP ships an update every 3 weeks, Drum Practice App every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Drummer ITP | Drum Practice App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (444 ratings) | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 444 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RT Sixty Ltd | Verena Zaiser |
Customer experience
Drummer ITP
Drum Practice App
Bugs and requests
Drummer ITP
Reported bugs
2 issues- Screen placement crossed
- Only 16th notes?
Requested features
6 requests- Add flam rudiments and sheet music on screen
- a tap for tempo style metronome input and an option to play back the audio recorded by the metronome
- more rudiments coming soon
- Being able to have the rudiment mode analysis stuff run for longer than a minute
- being able to adjust what factors are being analysed for instance when practicing paradiddles I don't really want my dynamics analysed as I'm aiming to miss ghost notes and accents so am getting a lower overall rating for an area I'm not concerned with
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- PLEASE MAKE AVAILABLE FOR ANDROID
Drum Practice App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drummer ITP
No in-app purchases
Drum Practice App
- Drumbitious Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Drumbitious Premium (annual)14 Days trial$14.991 Year
Questions
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