Rhythm Lab vs Flying Beat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rhythm Lab
This music tool helps users improve rhythmic accuracy and explore complex musical patterns. It offers features for creating, importing, and exporting rhythms, along with a metronome and playback controls. Ideal for musicians and educators, it supports external MIDI devices and Audiobus for expanded functionality.
- Rhythm accuracy testing
- On-screen and MIDI keyboard support
- Metronome and playback controls
- Rhythm creation and import/export
- Customizable rhythm patterns
- Worksheet generation for teachers
- Audiobus 3.0 integration
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Rhythm Lab 4.0 is the best rhythm trainer and rhythm tool for the iPad! New! On-screen keyboard. Play and improvise tunes and chords without being restricted to single tap notes. Integrates seamlessly with any external MIDI keyboard. Simple. Test, Playback, Metronome, Loop, and Audio controls are easy to access on the main screen. Flexible. Use Rhythm Lab to improve rhythmic accuracy, listen to new rhythms, create, copy, and import new rhythms, export rhythms, create rhythm worksheets, group rhythms into custom sets, and more! Use the iPad tap buttons or an external MIDI device to practice and test your accuracy. Many user features are highly customizable. Teachers can create customized student groups and import or export student results. Compatible with Audiobus 3.0 for expanded sound and recording possibilities. Comprehensive. Rhythm Lab patterns are not limited to single patterns, but also include double patterns, drum patterns (left/right snare exercises), or three-part drumkit patterns (hi hat, snare, kick). Patterns can range from very simple, such as whole notes, half notes, quarter notes in simple meters, to very complex - with nested tuplets, mixed and irregular time signatures. Rhythm Lab also allows incomplete (pick-up) measures. Worksheets. The worksheet feature is great for teachers who want to create printable, customized worksheets for students. You have the option of hiding time signatures and barlines, and including open space within measures. Files. Rhythm Lab allows you to import or export patterns and users in JSON format, a standard data format. Worksheets can be exported in PDF format. Individual rhythm patterns can be imported from MusicXML files. Soundfonts can be imported in .sf2 format. Documentation. Help documentation is now web-based, and will continue to expand to include video tutorials, FAQs and other documentation as needed.
Flying Beat
Develop your musical rhythm skills with a vast library of patterns. Practice at your own pace with real-time feedback and adjustable difficulty. Improve sight-reading and rhythmic recognition for any instrument.
- Thousands of rhythm patterns
- 26 time signatures
- 8 difficulty levels
- Adjustable speed
- Real-time performance feedback
- Look ahead mode
- Instrument selection
- Both Hands mode
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This app is to train and develop your ability to read and perform musical rhythms accurately. You can practice almost all the rhythm patterns you may encounter, no matter what level of your music skills are. These countless patterns are arranged in increasing difficulty levels. Simply follow the animation and metronome to tap, and you will see how well you are playing in real-time. Make good use of this app, you can definitely improve your ability of sight-reading and rhythmic recognition. Features: • Practice rhythm by playing a game—scores and performance feedback keep every session engaging • thousands of rhythm patterns to explore • 26 types of time signature and 8 difficulty levels for each • allow adjusting the speed to be at your comfortable pace and conquer difficult patterns • intuitive real-time response to show how well you play for each note • “Look ahead” mode makes your eyes always ahead of your hands • various instruments to select just in case you get bored with any of them • Challenge “Both Hands” mode if you play two-hand instruments such as piano • More features are coming…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rhythm Lab at 75% against Flying Beat's 22%. Rhythm Lab also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). Flying Beat's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Rhythm Lab costs $5.99 and Flying Beat $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rhythm Lab holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Rhythm Lab's written reviews are positive against 22% of Flying Beat's.
Rhythm Lab ships an update every 10 days, Flying Beat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rhythm Lab | Flying Beat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Ensminger | Plearn LLC |
Customer experience
Rhythm Lab
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In-app purchases
Rhythm Lab
No in-app purchases
Flying Beat
No in-app purchases
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