Drum Set Pro vs Penguin Drums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drum Set Pro
Practice your drumming skills or create new beats with this virtual drum set. Enjoy a fun and interactive musical experience suitable for all ages.
- Virtual drum set
- Practice drumming skills
- Create new beats
- Interactive musical experience
- Suitable for all ages
- New color skin
- Improved user experience
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Open the app and you are already behind a kit. Kick, snare, hats, toms, crash, and ride — tap and play. No account. No ads. Works offline. PLAY INSTANTLY Your kit is the home screen. Multi-touch so you can hit two drums at once. Haptics on every hit. Left-handed layout if you want it. PLAY ALONG Press Play to run a groove behind you — rock, pop, funk, and more. Follow the pocket, or ignore it and just jam. GUIDED LESSONS Lessons light up the next drum and move you around the kit. Meet every pad, learn a first beat, then run fills and a daily groove. LOOP, RECORD, CLICK Capture a loop and let it repeat. Record a take and listen back. Turn on the metronome and set the tempo. AIRPLAY Route the kit to AirPlay or Bluetooth speakers when you want the room to hear it. BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Native audio engine — not a web view. Works in portrait or landscape. Respects Reduce Motion. Every feature works with the radio off. FREE TO PLAY No ads. No account. No subscription required to sit down and play.
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: Drum Set Pro at 50% against Penguin Drums's 0%. Drum Set Pro also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Penguin Drums's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 90 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drum Set Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Drum Set Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Penguin Drums's.
Drum Set Pro ships an update every 90 months, Penguin Drums every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drum Set Pro | Penguin Drums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 90 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaxily LLC | taisuke fujita |
Customer experience
Drum Set Pro
Penguin Drums
In-app purchases
Drum Set Pro
No in-app purchases
Penguin Drums
No in-app purchases
