Comparison

Frame Drum! vs GoPiano

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

Head to head
About

Frame Drum!

Explore a variety of frame drums with realistic sound and touch sensitivity. Create music with multi-track recording, built-in beats, and metronome functions. Share and export your creations.

Highlights
  • Realistic touch sensitivity for volume control
  • Multiple frame drum types and layouts
  • Multi-track recording and playback
  • Built-in beats and metronome
  • Pitch, reverb, and delay adjustments
  • Share and export recordings
Features
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Frame Drum! Free is the fun and easy way to play many different types of frame drums, including Bendir, Duff, Tambourine, and many more. Perfect for both beginners and pros alike, Frame Drum! Free utilizes the latest technology and decades of real frame drum experience to create the ideal frame drum app for the iPhone or iPad. All of the features of the app combine to make you feel as if you are playing a real frame drum. There are 8 different single drum layouts to choose from- Bendir, Dirty Duff, Duff, Frame Drum, Large and Small Frame Drum, Tambourine, and Tambourine Jam. There are also 3 different 2 drum layouts- Small & Large Frame Drum, Bendir & Dirty Duff, and Tambourine & Frame Drum, with more to come. Featuring unique touch sensitivity, the sound volume varies according to how hard you hit it, just like a real drum. The pitch changes slightly depending on where you hit the drum as well, and realistic graphics and visual effects combine to enhance the experience. Playing realistic rolls is as easy as swirling your finger around, simply adjusting the roll speed by how fast or slow you swirl your finger. Other features include pitch, sensitivity, reverb, and delay adjustments, multi-track recording, ability to share and export your recordings (optional in-app purchase), and so much more. Frame Drum! Free also includes 16 PlayAlong Beats, 22 unique Percussion Beats and 10 Music Beats to play to, as well as 25 different metronome sounds to choose from. FEATURES: • Professionally recorded 44.1 khz high fidelity stereo sound • Touch sensitivity - 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 • Realistic visual effects - drums visually correspond to your every touch • Retina Display for both iPad and iPhone for incredibly crisp graphics • 22 Percussion Beats and 10 Music Beats to play along to, with more to come! • PlayAlong Beats: 16 new loops with basic bass drum, hi-hat or snare beats, to play along for added rhythmic expression! • Realistic Rolls - simply swirl your finger around to create slower or faster rolls • Double beat feature with slider adjustment • 25 Metronome Sounds and 4 Time Signatures, 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 (optional in-app purchase) • Lefty Mode - reverse the 2 drum layouts • Play along to the music on your iPod PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html

About

GoPiano

Easily record, loop, edit, and share your musical creations. This app, built with AudioKit, provides a straightforward platform for musicians on the go. Capture your ideas and refine them with intuitive editing tools.

Highlights
  • Record music
  • Loop audio
  • Edit tracks
  • Share creations
  • Built with AudioKit
Features
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A piano you can actually play with both hands. GoPiano opens straight onto the keyboard. No menu, no setup, no account — touch a key and it sounds. PLAY • Multi-touch keys: hold a chord, slide between notes, play with both hands • How hard a note sounds depends on where you strike the key • A sustain pedal, for letting notes ring • One to three octaves depending on your screen, and shift the range with a tap • Note names on the keys, until you no longer need them RECORD • Tap record and play. Tap again to stop. • Play it back on the keyboard itself and watch the keys light up exactly as you pressed them • Keep the take or scrub it and go again KEEP AND SHARE • Saved melodies stay on your device and show up in the Files app, under GoPiano • Share the audio anywhere — Messages, Mail, AirDrop, anything that takes a file • Or export a video of the keyboard playing your melody back, keys lighting up, audio underneath. It is drawn fresh rather than screen-recorded, so there is no status bar, no fingers in the way and nothing to crop. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics • No microphone access. GoPiano records its own sound from inside the app, so it never asks to listen to the room. • Nothing you play leaves your device unless you share it yourself Piano samples from the Piano FF pack by jobro on Freesound, used under CC BY 3.0 and modified.

Screenshots

Frame Drum!4 screens
GoPiano3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GoPiano at 100% against Frame Drum!'s 0%. GoPiano also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Frame Drum!'s advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 47 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Frame Drum! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. GoPiano asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GoPiano holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Frame Drum!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of GoPiano's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frame Drum! ships an update every 6 weeks, GoPiano every 47 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Frame Drum! versus GoPiano: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrame Drum!GoPiano
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 47 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDrum StarzElliott Griffin

Customer experience

Frame Drum!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

GoPiano

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Frame Drum!

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Exporting$0.99
None

GoPiano

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frame Drum! free?
Frame Drum! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoPiano free?
GoPiano is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Frame Drum! or GoPiano?
GoPiano is rated higher. Frame Drum! averages 2.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while GoPiano averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Frame Drum! or GoPiano have ads?
Frame Drum! shows ads; GoPiano does not.
Which is updated more often, Frame Drum! or GoPiano?
Frame Drum! ships an update every 6 weeks, and GoPiano every 47 months. Most recently, Frame Drum! was updated on October 29, 2026 and GoPiano on October 29, 2026.

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