Comparison

Bongos vs Bongos! Bongos!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bongos

Experience realistic bongo drumming with professionally recorded sounds that change based on where you strike the drums. This app offers high-quality samples, additional percussion, and low latency for an immersive musical experience on your iPhone or iPad.

Highlights
  • 18 high-quality bongo samples
  • Cowbell and sticks percussion
  • Professionally recorded & mastered sounds
  • No latency for precise playing
  • Multitasking support for playing along with music
  • Universal app for iPhone and iPad
Features
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The ultimate Bongos for your iPhone and iPad 18 with professionally recorded and mastered sounds: Depending where you hit the bongos sounds varies! It doesn’t matter if you are a professional musician, want to become a bongocero or just want to drum for fun - you should get this app! Features: ⇒ 18 high quality bongo samples ⇒ More percussion: Cowbell and sticks ⇒ Professionally recorded & mastered sounds ⇒ No latency for fast and exact playing! ⇒ Optimized for iPhone / iPad speakers, headphones and external speakers ⇒ Supports multitasking: Play along with your own music ⇒ HD Retina Graphics for iPhone, iPod touch and the new iPad ⇒ 2 Apps in 1: Universal App for iPhone AND iPad To play along with your own music, start the music on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad and start the app. Important: If you can't hear anything on your device, please make sure, you turned up the ringtone volume and enabled application sounds in the iPhone settings menu. --------- Make sure to leave a comment with ideas and wishes for future versions in your review!

About

Bongos! Bongos!

Experience realistic bongo drumming with this app, designed for all skill levels. Learn rhythms with interactive lessons and enjoy high-fidelity sounds and customizable controls. Record your sessions and share them easily.

Highlights
  • Realistic bongo simulation
  • LearnNPlay rhythm teaching feature
  • 10 diverse drum layouts
  • High-fidelity 44.1 kHz sound
  • Touch volume sensitivity
  • Multi-track recording
  • Play along to music
Features
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Bongos! Bongos! is the closest thing to playing the real bongos as you can get. Created with both beginners and pros in mind, Bongos! Bongos! combines the latest drum app technology available with decades of real percussion experience to create the most realistic bongo app available today for the iPhone or iPad. Bongos! Bongos! also teaches drum rhythm with our exclusive Learn'NPlay feature. 30 different percussion loops for both beginner and advanced will have you playing the Bongos and other percussion instruments in no time! When playing a Learn'NPlay loop, the drums light up and emits colorful musical notes when tapped simultaneously as the drum being played, which shows you are in rhythm. There are 10 different drum layouts, with different layouts and sizes of Bongos, Congas, and Timbale drums. The incredible 44.1 khz high fidelity sound, retina display for incredibly crisp graphics, as well as realistic features such as touch volume sensitivity, pitch, reverb and delay controls, combine to make you feel as if you are actually playing real drums. Other features include multi-track recording, and the ability to play along to music on your iPod, or to our 30 Drum, Music and Percussion Loops and 20 different metronome sounds. Bongos! Bongos! amazing sounds, graphics and features combine to provide drummers of all ages and levels a truly realistic percussion experience. Bongos! Bongos!........so good you have to say it twice! FEATURES: • 10 different drum layouts, including various combinations of large and small Bongos, Congas, Timbale, Cowbell and Woodblock • Professionally recorded 44.1 khz high fidelity sounds • Exclusive LearnNPlay feature teaches rhythm in a fun and easy way – each drum layout has 6 different loops to play along to, in beginner and advanced categories. A unique, fun, and easy way to learn rhythm! • Colorful graphics and animation- musical notes appear wherever/whenever drum is hit • Touch Sensitivity Volume Control-the volume responds to your touch: the harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound • Reverb and Delay Controls – slider adjustments allows limitless drum sounds • Pitch Control – lower or raise the pitch of the drums • Retina Display for both iPad and iPhone for incredibly crisp graphics • 10 each (30 total) Unique Percussion, Drum, and Music Loops to play along to • Realistic Rolls – simply swirl your finger around to create faster or slower realistic sounding rolls • 20 different Metronome Sounds and 4 Time Signatures to play to, with BPM adjustment • Multi-track recording – easily add or delete tracks, save and loop recordings • Share your recordings through email, Facebook, and Twitter • Export your recordings to your computer • Lefty Mode – reverse the entire drum layout • Play along to the music on your iPod, iPhone, or iPad PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Bongos2 screens
Bongos! Bongos!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bongos! Bongos! at 4.1 against Bongos's 3.3. Bongos! Bongos! also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Bongos's advantage is review sentiment (66% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. Bongos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bongos! Bongos! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bongos! Bongos! holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Bongos's written reviews are positive against 57% of Bongos! Bongos!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bongos ships an update every 2 months, Bongos! Bongos! every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bongos versus Bongos! Bongos!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBongosBongos! Bongos!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (24 ratings)4.1 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB51 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperSkunk Brothers GmbHDrum Starz

Customer experience

Bongos

All ratings24 ratings
Positive54.2%
Neutral8.3%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews849 reviews
Positive65.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative20.0%

Bongos! Bongos!

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Bugs and requests

Bongos

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sound not working on some devices
  • Rotation issues on certain phones
  • Ads covering up playing area

Requested features

4 requests
  • Record and playback feature
  • More instrument options
  • Ability to tune/adjust bongos
  • Integration with music apps

Bongos! Bongos!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bongos

One-time1
  • Bongos Ad-Free$1.99
1 purchases

Bongos! Bongos!

One-time1
  • Remove ads$0.99

Questions

Is Bongos free?
Bongos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bongos! Bongos! free?
Bongos! Bongos! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bongos or Bongos! Bongos!?
Bongos! Bongos! is rated higher. Bongos averages 3.3 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Bongos! Bongos! averages 4.1 from 14 ratings.
Do Bongos or Bongos! Bongos! have ads?
Both Bongos and Bongos! Bongos! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Bongos or Bongos! Bongos!?
Bongos ships an update every 2 months, and Bongos! Bongos! every 3 days. Most recently, Bongos was updated on November 1, 2026 and Bongos! Bongos! on November 1, 2026.

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