Christmas vs Drum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Christmas
Experience the holiday spirit with festive music and a countdown to Christmas. Enjoy beautiful carols performed by real musicians, set a sleep timer, and wake up to holiday cheer. Keep the Christmas spirit alive all year round with this immersive experience.
- Christmas carols by real musicians
- Countdown to Christmas
- Sleep timer
- Wake up alarm
- Background audio
- Fading imagery
- Rearrange song order
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Excited??? We certainly are! Our favorite holiday is coming so join in he excitement as we count the moments in style! ** Featured By Apple Several Times! - - Enjoy beautiful Holiday music on your beautiful new device! - - Keep the Christmas Spirit All Year Round With The Christmas App! - - Plug in some speakers or headphones and the Christmas App will take you away. * Features: Christmas Carols performed by REAL musicians and artist, Countdown-To-Christmas & a Sleep Timer so you can go to sleep listening to your favorite Christmas Music. All for One Low Price!! * Tis The Season! So Break Away; Listen, Relax & Sing Along with the Christmas app. ------------------------------------------- -Have you ever just needed a break from your day? Well, this is an incredible way to wind down and relax. - Enjoy a variety of many of your Favorite Christmas songs as you shop or relax. Enjoy these beautiful vocal and instrumental performances. ***FEATURES*** - Variety of Beautiful Soothing Christmas Music - Beautiful Countdown to Christmas - Sleep Timer - Wake Up Alarm - Background Audio - Beautful Fading Imagery - Rearrange Song in your desired order. ------------------------------------------- The AppStore Christmas App Has to be Heard and Experienced in person so... * BUY NOW! and enjoy! --Updates Are ALWAYS Free-- ------------------------------------------- Check out XME's MUSIC HEALING too! Video provided by Videezy.com
Drum
This app recreates the distinctive sound of early 1980s electronic drum modules combined with sampled real cymbal sounds. It offers a virtual analog engine for drum synthesis and a separate engine for realistic cymbal playback, providing a unique sonic palette for music production.
- Virtual analog engine for 80s drum sounds
- Sampled real cymbal sounds
- Dual sound engines for drums and cymbals
- Multiple output options
- Built-in effects (limiter, delay, reverb)
- Unlimited program storage
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Please note: 1) This App comes with an AUv3 plugin extension. 2) To play the cymbal samples, a separate download (free, in-app) of ~180 MB is required. The App also works without the cymbal samples. INSTRUMENT BACKGROUND We all know and use electronic drums today, but at the beginning of the 80's the first electronic drums were a real novelty that revolutionized not only the sound of music of those years, but also the workflow in the recording studio. Many producers preferred to record the sound of electronic drums rather than acoustic drums because it saved time and money, avoiding having to mount microphones, find the right positions, spend hours equalizing and correcting the recorded material. With an electronic drum set it was quicker: it was enough to connect the cables and maybe find the right sound for the song, which was a perfect scenario especially for many low-cost productions, for example those of pop music. The first electronic drums were completely analog, they generated the sounds of the drums using only a few elements such as an oscillator and a white noise generator, plus a couple of envelopes and a filter. The sound wasn't exactly realistic but it was peculiar, and perfect for creating certain sounds never heard before. The downside was that electronic drums could only generate the sound of drums but not cymbals. For this reason, the sound of real cymbals was recorded alongside the sound of electronic drums. This kind of setup was also used live quite often. It was common to see a drummer on stage playing the typical hexagonal pads but combined with a set of real cymbals. GSi Drum-80 reproduces that exact scenario. It contains two separate sound engines that can play at the same time. One engine recreates the sounds of the famous electronic drum module known as the Simmons SDS-V (very similar to the later SDS-8 model); at the same time, the exclusive GSi WLF Engine plays a multi-sample of real cymbals recorded exclusively for Drum-80. Main features - Virtual Analog Engine based on the famous SDS-V drum module - Optional VCO phase reset - Supports multiple outputs (one stereo mix, six individual drum synth channels, one stereo channel for Cymbals) - Sampled Cymbal sounds (Hi-Hat, Ride, 4 Crashes, 3 Splashes) provided by the exclusive GSi WLF Engine - Full Polyphony - Separate section with adjustments for Cymbal sounds (tuning, leveling and EQ) - Stereo 1176-Style Limiter - Stereo Delay effect - Stereo Reverb effect - Built-in programmer with unlimited Programs - Embedded user's manual - Available as Stand-alone application and audio plugin (AUv3 for iPad) - Very low CPU and RAM usage Visit home page for audio and video demos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Christmas at $0.99 against Drum's $14.99. Christmas also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (50 vs 5). Drum's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 44%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Christmas costs $0.99 and Drum $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Christmas against 4.8 for Drum. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Christmas has 50 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 44% of Christmas's written reviews are positive against 80% of Drum's.
Christmas ships an update monthly, Drum every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Christmas | Drum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (50 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XME Inc. | Genuine Soundware |
Customer experience
Christmas
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In-app purchases
Christmas
No in-app purchases
Drum
No in-app purchases









