Real Drum vs DrumToolz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Real Drum
Learn to play drums on your smartphone or tablet with a realistic virtual drum set. Offers lessons, loops, and customizable kits for all skill levels. Practice quietly anywhere and share your performances.
- Over 100 drum lessons
- Realistic 3D drum kits
- Customizable drum set with custom images/sounds
- Studio-quality audio
- Export recordings to MP3
- Share performances on social media
- MIDI support
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The Real Drum provides all the tools necessary to master the art of playing drums on your smartphone or tablet. Now you can easily play any music, anywhere! Experience the sensation of your fingers transforming into drumsticks and feel like part of a real band! What is a drum set? A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other percussion musical instruments arranged for one person to play. Why haven't you started learning to play the drums yet? The Real Drum offers various video lessons to assist you, along with a variety of loops to play along with. Don't have access to an acoustic drum set or electronic drums? No problem! The Real Drum offers a diverse range of percussion musical instruments with high-quality sounds, allowing you to play any music you desire! You don't need an acoustic drum set or electronic drums to learn to play! The Real Drum is an excellent choice for practicing or playing drums quietly, without causing disruptions or requiring much space. Enjoy the freedom to play drums wherever you like! You can customize the drum set to your liking! With complete customization freedom, you can choose the number of drum pads and cymbals, their size, and their placement on the screen. This allows for a personalized drumming experience tailored to your preferences! Show your friends how good you are at playing drums! Share your drum kits and videos of your performances with friends and on social media! The Real Drum app allows children and adults to learn drumming while having fun, enhancing their cognitive and motor skills. This drum game will stimulate your musical talent, making it easy to learn drum beats as if using a real drum kit. So what are you waiting for to become a drummer? Explore Real Drum features: - Over 100 drum lessons to learn drumming - Various drum kits, including realistic 3D drums - Customize your drum set: upload your images and sounds and create your own drum set - Wide variety of drums, cymbals, and other musical percussion instruments - Loops for playing along - Studio-quality audio - Export your recordings to MP3 format - Share your recordings and custom drum sets on social media - New drum sets, drum lessons, and loops introduced weekly - Compatible with all screen resolutions – Phones and Tablets (HD images) - MIDI support - Free app The app contains the following subscription: - Premium Version (Remove ads; Unlock all loops; Unlock all lessons and Unlock Metronome) - Monthly payment ($3,90). - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - The subscription is automatically renewed unless cancelled 24 hours before the renewal. - The subsequent monthly subscriptions are automatically renewed unless cancelled 24 hours before the next renewal (considering the day of the effective monthly subscription). - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of use and Privacy Policy: http://www.kolbapps.com/privacy_policy_and_terms.pdf Designed for drummers, percussionists, professional musicians, enthusiasts, and beginners! Download the Real Drum app and turn your fingers into drumsticks right now! Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube for tips on using the app: @kolbapps Kolb Apps: Touch & Play!
DrumToolz
Compose and practice drum cadences and beats on your mobile device. This app allows manual input of exercises, generation of new ideas, and practice of rudiments. Share your creations and learn from a community of drummers.
- Compose drum cadences and beats
- Manual exercise input
- Generate new rhythmic ideas
- Editable music score
- Practice snare rudiments
- Library of dynamic exercises
- Social profile and sharing
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Compose cadences on the go! Choose from snares, tenors, bass drums, cymbals, and even drumset if you want. In a league of its own, DrumToolz also lets you manually input exercises for drum set, marching snare, tenors, and bass drums while generating new creative ideas using what you input, all shown on an editable music score. You can also upload your beats to your social profile, play what other users are playing, save rhythms, practice snare drum rudiments, and learn from a full library of dynamic exercises for both snare drum and drumset! It's perfect for all skill levels, from beginner to extremely advanced, drum wizards. Works great for sharing drum cadences with your drumline. Isolate individual snare, tenors, etc. parts. Practice the simplest to the most complex of beats and rhythms. If you can think of it, you can input it and practice it! Anything from beginner rock beats, to the most complex of jazz beats and fills. Lastly, top off the notes with ornaments: stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese. Input up to 50 measures. When practicing drum set beats, choose from a ride cymbal, hihat, hihat foot, kick drum, snare drum, and three toms. Input everything from whole notes to thirtysecond notes and tuplets. Also, for tenors, choose from four tenors and a spock. Bass drums - five bass drums. Marching snare - a realistic marching snare and a ping sound. Generate new ideas (modifications) using beats that you input into the score. Choose from several modification methods: Add, Shuffle, Substitute, Permutate, Repeat, and Random. Modify individual parts of the beat (ex: kick drum only) or the entire beat if desired. Custom snare exercises. Choose the time sig, subdivisons, tuplets, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, cheese, drags. Save the beat in the score for later practice, keeping the modifications if desired. If the modifications are kept, this turns the beat into an endless, dynamic exercise! Each time you generate an exercise, it uses the modifications to give you an entirely new beat. String together saved rhythms and practice them as one exercise, perfect for practicing beats followed by a drum fill. Upload your beats to your profile. Find and follow other drummers in the social network. Learn from them as you see and practice what they have uploaded to their profile. Share your beats through PDF links and files. Also, share your entire score with a link that pre-populates the score into the app. Learn from a full library of dynamic drum set and snare drum exercises, essential and hybrid rudiments included. For highlighted rhythms, shuffle around groups of notes, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrumToolz at none against Real Drum's 10. DrumToolz also leads on ads (none vs shown). Real Drum's advantage is ratings volume (49K vs 270) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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. Real Drum sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. DrumToolz asks for nothing beyond the download.
Real Drum holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Real Drum has 49K ratings behind it against 270, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Real Drum's written reviews are positive against 58% of DrumToolz's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Real Drum ships an update every 2 weeks, DrumToolz monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Drum | DrumToolz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (49K ratings) — better | 4.2 (270 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews | 58.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49K — better | 270 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #81 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KOLB SISTEMAS - EIRELI | Jared Simon |
Customer experience
Real Drum
DrumToolz
User reviews
Real Drum
From 49K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🥁 Great drum sounds
- 👍 Realistic drumming experience
- 💡 Ability to create custom drum kits
- 👍 Wide variety of drum kits
- 🥁 Useful for practicing and learning drums
Room to improve
- 🐛 Delay issues when playing
- 🔋 Battery drain when app is running
- 💰 Paywall for some features
- 📢 Too many ads
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
DrumToolz
From 270 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for writing music
- 👍 Helpful for drumline
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Good sounds
- 👍 Good for practice
Room to improve
- 🐛 Tutorial not helpful
- 🐛 Hard to find features
- 🐛 UI issues
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Saves progress poorly
Bugs and requests
Real Drum
Reported bugs
4 issues- Drum sounds cutting out
- Inability to change/save custom kits
- App freezing or becoming unresponsive
- Disappearance of purchased content
Requested features
5 requests- Add more drum kits from popular bands
- Implement a beat sequencer
- Allow adding own sound samples
- Improve ergonomics of drum layout
- Add dynamic playing capabilities
DrumToolz
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes and deletes progress
- App won't open
- Repeat function doesn't stop
- Repeat save fails
- Accents, diddles, flams added automatically
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- Buzz roll cannot be removed
- Font camouflages in dark mode
- App crashes when opening after saving
- App crashes when opening
- App crashes when adding notes
- App crashes after saving
- App crashes when trying to reopen
- App crashes a lot
Requested features
15 requests- Turn off metronome
- Add rum shot for snare
- Add rim shots for other drums
- Add triplets, fivelets, sixlets
- Add dynamics (forte, piano)
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- Cymbals sizzle option
- Add buzz roll for snares
- Add diddle feature
- More measures
- Add bass drum notes
- Add open hi-hat sound
- Improve UI for tuplet measurement
- Improve UI for measure change
- Ability to hear multiple instruments simultaneously
- Fix replace button for bass drums
In-app purchases
Real Drum
- Premium version$1.991 Month
- Premium Version - 3 Days Free3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium Version$3.991 Month
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- Subscription monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Version1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Version$6.997 Days
- Premium Version 12 months$12.991 Year
- Version Premium3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium Version 6/months$17.996 Months
- Remove Ads$99.99
DrumToolz
No in-app purchases









