Double Kick vs DrumKick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Double Kick
Transform your device into a professional drum kit. Create beats with high-quality audio and graphics, and customize the layout to match your style. Play along to your favorite music library.
- Studio quality drum kit
- Customizable layout
- High definition graphics
- High quality audio samples
- Excellent response times
- Play along to music library
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Double Kick Pro — the ultimate drum kit experience for iPhone and iPad. Turn your device into a full studio-quality drum kit. Double Kick Pro delivers realistic drum sounds, lightning-fast response times, and a fully customizable layout — so you can play exactly the way your style demands. Whether you're a beginner just discovering the drums or an experienced drummer looking for a mobile practice kit, Double Kick Pro puts the feel of a real drum set right in your pocket. FEATURES: • High-resolution, photorealistic graphics • Studio-quality audio samples • Lightning-fast response times — just like a real drum kit • Fully customizable drum kit layout • Double-kick pedal for demanding drummers • Play along with your favorite tracks from your music library • Optimized for iPhone and iPad • No ads, no distractions With a fully configurable pad layout, Double Kick Pro adapts to your playing style — not the other way around. Place your snare, hi-hats, toms, and kicks exactly where you want them. Perfect for rock, metal, jazz, pop, and everything in between. Work on your rhythms, compose new beats, or just jam out. Download Double Kick Pro now and discover the best mobile drum kit experience on the App Store.
DrumKick
This app allows users to play a high-quality drum kit on their mobile device, offering low latency and interactive 3D graphics. It uniquely enables kick drum playing with your foot using a second iOS device and Bluetooth connection.
- Foot-controlled kick drum via second iOS device
- High-quality stereo drum sounds
- Low-latency performance
- Interactive 3D animated drums
- MIDI over Bluetooth support
- Audiobus & Inter-App Audio support
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DrumKick is the ultimate live performance drum app on-the-go! It gives you the freedom to play a great-sounding, intuitively laid-out drum kit anywhere—without the hassle of lugging your entire acoustic set to the show. Simply plug into a P.A. system, headphones, a boombox, or an amplifier, and you're ready to rock! – Connect to your Bluetooth-enabled laptop or device with MIDI over Bluetooth. – Core and Virtual MIDI support. – Audiobus & Inter-App Audio support. – Featured in Apple's Music-Making Apps for "The Song." – Featured in Apple's Band In Your Hand showcase. Reviews: http://www.musicappblog.com/drumkick-music-app-review/ DrumKick is the only stereo drum app that allows you to play the kick drum with your foot! With DrumKick installed on two iOS devices, such as an iPad and an iPhone, you can use the iPhone as a Bluetooth remote to play the kick drum with your foot! It also works with two iPhones or iPod touches. Or, you can mix and match. How does it work? Playing the virtual kick drum pedal is achieved by inserting the iPhone (upside down) into a snug fitness band that's wrapped around your ankle, or the front tube of your relatively clean crew sock. Tap your toes with your heel down, and the iPhone's accelerometer will trigger the kick drum sound on the iPad via Bluetooth. Feature Highlights: • Play the kick drum sound with your foot, using a second iOS device via standard Bluetooth connection. • High-quality drum stereo sounds with independent control of their volume, pitch and pan levels. • Low-latency with drum taps and sounds. • Retina-enhanced, interactive, 3-D animated drums and cymbals. • Multiple tap regions for triggering different drum and cymbal sounds. • Ability to switch the drum kit's audio output from stereo to mono when connected to stereo speakers, such as a P.A. system. • Touch-hold on the crash cymbal for a choked cymbal* muting effect. • Audiobus & Inter-App Audio support (iOS7+) for adding effects apps to DrumKick's output and recording into to GarageBand, Loopy, or AudioShare. https://audiob.us • Audiobus Remote triggers for playing DrumKick's sounds via a secondary iOS Device with the Audiobus Remote app installed. Requires the Audiobus app, iOS 8.3 +, and a Bluetooth LE-enabled iOS device, such as an iPad 3, iPhone 4S & higher. https://audiob.us/remote. • Core MIDI IN & OUT support, thanks to Nic Grant of Audeonic Apps for his robust MidiBus Library (http://midib.us) and generous help. • MIDI over Bluetooth support. • Compatible with the iRig BlueBoard MIDI foot controller. Requires Bluetooth LE-enabled iOS device, such as an iPad 3, iPhone 4S & higher. The iRig BlueBoard does not work with iPad 2. • Jam along with music apps that run in the background, such as GarageBand, Pandora, or your iPod music library. • Minimum requirements: iPad 2, iPhone 4S and newer devices are recommended. * No cymbals were harmed during the making of this app. If you have an issue or find a bug within DrumKick, please do not inform me about it in an App Review, since that method doesn't provide your contact information. For help and support, please send an email to: feedback@drumkickapp.com Known issues: • Missing UI panel for controlling the playback and recording from an Inter-App Audio connected app.
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Verdict
Double Kick and DrumKick both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of DrumKick's written reviews are positive against 47% of Double Kick's. DrumKick also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (40 vs 12). Double Kick's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Double Kick costs $2.99 and DrumKick $3.99 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 — 4.3 for Double Kick against 4.4 for DrumKick. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 40 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Double Kick's written reviews are positive against 80% of DrumKick's.
Double Kick ships an update every 9 months, DrumKick every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Double Kick | DrumKick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 4.4 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews | 79.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 40 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foobar Creative | Mark Jeschke |
Customer experience
Double Kick
DrumKick
Bugs and requests
Double Kick
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DrumKick
Reported bugs
8 issues- Kick drum feature doesn't sync or has high latency
- App crashes on startup
- App drains battery in background
- Kick drum activates unexpectedly
- Rarely loads, long loading screen
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- Connection issues with remote kick between devices
- Overall volume not loud enough
- Sound of cymbals sometimes cuts out
Requested features
17 requests- Add left and right-handed orientation setting
- Allow changing kit layout and adding more drums/percussive instruments
- Ability to switch kits around
- Add more drums or different percussive instruments
- Add recording functionality
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- Add background track playback (drumless tracks)
- Option to add own kit sounds
- Full Chinese localization
- Support for iPhone 6/6+
- Simple mode for easier hitting
- More kit variations
- Option to change each sound and build/save custom kits
- Edit drum position button
- Make rolls continuous
- More drum kits
- More variation in samples and velocity changes
- Improve overall volume
In-app purchases
Double Kick
No in-app purchases
DrumKick
No in-app purchases









