Comparison

Jazz Drum Loops vs Drum

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

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About

Jazz Drum Loops

An intuitive and efficient beat machine designed for musicians. It features high-definition jazz drum loops recorded by a professional drummer, offering a seamless and enjoyable experience for all skill levels. Easily adjust tempo and gain to play along with your music.

Highlights
  • HD jazz drum loops
  • Intuitive interface
  • Adjustable tempo and gain
  • Professional Mapex kit sounds
  • Audiobus and IAA enabled
  • Creative Commons licensed sounds
Features
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Jazz Beat Machine focused on intuition and efficiency. Featuring HD jazz drum loops . All types of musicians can play along along, regardless of digital proficiency Boutiqe beats The heart of jazz is the drums and this is the most efficient and intuitive boutique beat machine ever designed. It’s single touch polyphonic percussion soundboard seamlessly looping percussion recorded on a Mapex kit by a professional drummer. I put my heart and soul into making this the most enjoyable drum app that all musicians will enjoy playing. Designed to be effortless, coded to be capable. Jazz Drum Loops contains three main control buttons tempo, gain and stop. A web button to connect to my website for tips, tricks   Great tool for drummers to improve timing. Disclaimer: All sounds are licensed under creative commons license and are freely available to use for practice, performing and recording. All available free to download Audiobus enabled, and IAA allows you to make music with thousand of other instruments, record and remix. I don’t have a multi-million dollar marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, if you enjoy this app please share.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Jazz Drum Loops4 screens
Drum3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Jazz Drum Loops at $0.99 against Drum's $14.99. Drum's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (80% vs 44%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Jazz Drum Loops costs $0.99 and Drum $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drum holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Jazz Drum Loops's written reviews are positive against 80% of Drum's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jazz Drum Loops ships an update every 5 months, Drum every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Jazz Drum Loops versus Drum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJazz Drum LoopsDrum
Price$0.99 — better$14.99
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbu Studio IncGenuine Soundware

Customer experience

Jazz Drum Loops

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.6%

Drum

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Jazz Drum Loops

No in-app purchases

None

Drum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jazz Drum Loops free?
Jazz Drum Loops costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drum free?
Drum costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Jazz Drum Loops or Drum?
Drum is rated higher. Jazz Drum Loops averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Drum averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Jazz Drum Loops or Drum have ads?
Jazz Drum Loops shows ads; Drum does not.
Which is updated more often, Jazz Drum Loops or Drum?
Jazz Drum Loops ships an update every 5 months, and Drum every 7 months. Most recently, Jazz Drum Loops was updated on November 6, 2026 and Drum on November 11, 2026.

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