Comparison

Drum Set Pro vs DrumKick

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Virtual drum set
  • Practice drumming skills
  • Create new beats
  • Interactive musical experience
  • Suitable for all ages
  • New color skin
  • Improved user experience
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Drum Set Pro4 screens
DrumKick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drum Set Pro at Free against DrumKick's $3.99. DrumKick's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 90 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 50%). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Drum Set Pro is free to download; DrumKick costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DrumKick holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumKick has 40 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Drum Set Pro's written reviews are positive against 80% of DrumKick's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drum Set Pro ships an update every 90 months, DrumKick every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Drum Set Pro versus DrumKick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrum Set ProDrumKick
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.4 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews79.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings440 — better
Update frequencyEvery 90 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJaxily LLCMark Jeschke

Customer experience

Drum Set Pro

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

DrumKick

All ratings40 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive79.8%
Neutral7.1%
Negative13.1%

Bugs and requests

Drum Set Pro

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

None

Drum Set Pro

No in-app purchases

None

DrumKick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drum Set Pro free?
Drum Set Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DrumKick free?
DrumKick costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drum Set Pro or DrumKick?
DrumKick is rated higher. Drum Set Pro averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while DrumKick averages 4.4 from 40 ratings.
Do Drum Set Pro or DrumKick have ads?
Neither Drum Set Pro nor DrumKick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drum Set Pro or DrumKick?
Drum Set Pro ships an update every 90 months, and DrumKick every 6 weeks. Most recently, Drum Set Pro was updated on September 25, 2026 and DrumKick on October 5, 2026.

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