Drum Set Pro vs Play 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.
Play Drums!
Experience a futuristic rhythm game inspired by 80s electronic drum kits and EDM. Tap colorful hexagons in time with the music to score points and improve your rhythmic abilities. Choose from various difficulty levels, songs, and drum kits.
- Rhythm game with EDM music
- Beginner and advanced difficulty levels
- Multiple drum kits and songs
- Professionally recorded stereo sounds
- Hi-resolution graphics
- Lefty mode for reversed layout
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Play Drums! is an exciting and unique rhythm game based on the electronic drum kits of the 1980s. Combined with electronic dance music (EDM), this fast-paced and futuristic game is not only fun and challenging, but actually improves your rhythmic abilities! When you start a song, choosing from either beginner or advanced levels, colorful concentric hexagons converge onto the drum pad that should be tapped. If you hit it right on time, you score 50 points; almost in rhythm, 25 points. And if you miss, 10 points are deducted from your score. With 10 songs and 6 different drum kits to choose from, you'll be rockin' like a real drummer in no time! Play Drums! is the most fun way ever to learn to Play Drums! FEATURES: * 5 free EDM beginner songs and 5 free EDM advanced songs to choose from * 6 free amazing drum kits to choose from......play to songs, or play drums without music * Professionally recorded stereo sounds * Beautiful hi-resolution retina graphics * Game Center integration * Lefty mode: reverse the drum layout PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drum Set Pro at none against Play Drums!'s 5. Drum Set Pro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.0 vs 3.7). Play Drums!'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 90 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price 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
Both are free to download. Play Drums! sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Drum Set Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drum Set Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Drum Set Pro's written reviews are positive against 40% of Play Drums!'s.
Drum Set Pro ships an update every 90 months, Play Drums! every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drum Set Pro | Play Drums! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.7 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 90 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jaxily LLC | Drum Starz |
Customer experience
Drum Set Pro
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