Singing Fingers vs Penguin Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Singing Fingers
Create vibrant visual art by fingerpainting with sound. Touch the screen while making a noise, and watch colorful paint appear. Tap the paint to replay the original sound, turning your creations into interactive musical instruments.
- Fingerpaint with sound
- Colorful paint visualization
- Tap paint to replay sound
- Create musical instruments
- Experiment with sounds
- Voice interaction
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Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again! You can paint your own musical instrument and play it, play with your voice, experiment with sounds, or create whatever else you can imagine.
Penguin Drums
This app simulates a drum kit on your device, allowing kids to play along with rhythms or use it as a MIDI controller. It offers a variety of drum sounds and supports multitouch for an interactive drumming experience.
- Multitouch drum pads
- Variety of drum instruments
- 12 example rhythms
- MIDI over Bluetooth support
- Simulates drum kit sounds
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Penguin Drums is an application for Kids that simulates a drum on your device. To play it, just drumming your fingers on the pads of the drums and the sound is played simultaneously. A fun, light and easy to use application. Ideal for those who want to study or play drumming without making much noise or taking up much space. Features of Penguin Drums: * Multitouch * Instruments like kick, snare, tom, floor tom, hi-hat, ride, ride-bell, crash, tambourine. * 12 examples of rhythms. * Support MIDI over Bluetooth When you connect your iOS device to Mac using "MIDI over Bluetooth", Penguin Drums Become to the drum pad for MIDI Sequencer software, such as GarageBand. Made for Kids drummers, beginners!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Singing Fingers at 49% against Penguin Drums's 0%. Singing Fingers also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). Penguin Drums's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 96 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Penguin Drums is free to download; Singing Fingers costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Singing Fingers holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Singing Fingers has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Singing Fingers's written reviews are positive against 0% of Penguin Drums's.
Singing Fingers ships an update every 96 months, Penguin Drums every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Singing Fingers | Penguin Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 96 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beginner's Mind | taisuke fujita |
Customer experience
Singing Fingers
Penguin Drums
Bugs and requests
Singing Fingers
Reported bugs
32 issues- Black screen on open
- Crashes frequently
- Doesn't draw with finger
- Sound is intermittent
- Screwed up other phone things
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- No sound while drawing
- Playback is a mess
- Multitouch tracking worse
- Blank page, nothing happens
- Doesn't work on iPhone 6S
- Cannot get it to record
- Won't work for me
- Does not let me draw
- Records poorly
- Not customized for iPad
- Sound quality is awful
- Sound is fuzzy
- Makes voice annoying
- Sound not clear/muffled
- How to draw?
- Won't install
- Nothing happened when drawing/speaking
- Can't hear playback
- Fuzzy sound, doesn't recognize mic/fingers
- No sound out headphone jack
- Echo on playback
- Battery drainer
- Does not work with iPhone 2G
- Froze
- Doesn't recognize iTouch mic
- Crashing and freezing
- Doesn't recognize fingers
Requested features
3 requests- Higher quality setting
- Update to enhance mic sound
- Retina display support
Penguin Drums
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Singing Fingers
No in-app purchases
Penguin Drums
No in-app purchases
Questions
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