Comparison

Rhythm Lab vs Complete Rhythm Trainer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Complete Rhythm Trainer

Master musical rhythm with this comprehensive training app. It offers progressive drills, diverse rhythm exercises, and interactive modes designed to make learning enjoyable. Track your progress and compete with others.

Highlights
  • 252 progressive drills
  • Multiple time signatures and note values
  • 5 drill types (imitation, reading, dictation)
  • Arcade and polyrhythm modes
  • Custom drill creation
  • Teacher-student program features
  • Cloud sync
Features
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The ultimate rhythm training app for musicians. Learn to read, recognize, tap and write rhythms from simplest to most advanced. Rhythm is one of the most important aspects of music and one that every musician should become proficient with. Designed like a video game and with strong pedagogical concepts in mind, this app will make you master rhythm while rendering the learning process enjoyable. Features • 252 progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 30 chapters • Extensive content: from simple time signatures to compound and asymmetric time signatures, from half notes and quarter notes to thirty-second notes, triplets, swing eighths, double dotted notes, quintuplets, ... • 5 drill types: rhythm imitation drills, rhythm reading drills, rhythm dictations, two-voice reading drills and two-voice dictations • Play a selection of 11 drills in arcade mode • Play and practice polyrhythms in a dedicated polyrhythm section • Most of the drills are randomly generated, enabling you to practice the studied rhythms as many times as needed • 23 instrument sound banks with actual recorded sounds: piano, guitar, pizzicato violin, conga, bongo, djembe, darabuka, woodblock, ... • Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to complete it. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores? • Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience • Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards • Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices • 25 achievements to unlock • Leaderboards to compare arcade mode scores with other players worldwide • Nice and clean user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark • 4 sheet music display styles: modern, classic, handwritten and jazz • Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree Full Version • Download the app and try out the first two chapters for free • One-time in-app purchase to unlock the full version on all your devices Having a problem? Got a suggestion? You can reach us at hello@completerhythmtrainer.com Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Complete Rhythm Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Complete Rhythm Trainer at Free against Rhythm Lab's $5.99. Complete Rhythm Trainer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (88% vs 75%). Rhythm Lab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On update cadence, ads 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

Complete Rhythm Trainer is free to download; Rhythm Lab costs $5.99 up front. Complete Rhythm Trainer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Rhythm Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Complete Rhythm Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Complete Rhythm Trainer has 105 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Rhythm Lab's written reviews are positive against 88% of Complete Rhythm Trainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rhythm Lab ships an update every 10 days, Complete Rhythm Trainer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Rhythm Lab versus Complete Rhythm Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhythm LabComplete Rhythm Trainer
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (15 ratings)4.7 (105 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews88.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15105 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan EnsmingerBinary Guilt

Customer experience

Rhythm Lab

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative20.0%

Complete Rhythm Trainer

All ratings105 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral6.4%
Negative5.1%

In-app purchases

None

Rhythm Lab

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Complete Rhythm Trainer

Subscriptions2
  • Cloud Sync and Web access$0.991 Month
  • Cloud Sync and Web access$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Version$6.99

Questions

Is Rhythm Lab free?
Rhythm Lab costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Complete Rhythm Trainer free?
Complete Rhythm Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rhythm Lab or Complete Rhythm Trainer?
Complete Rhythm Trainer is rated higher. Rhythm Lab averages 3.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Complete Rhythm Trainer averages 4.7 from 105 ratings.
Do Rhythm Lab or Complete Rhythm Trainer have ads?
Neither Rhythm Lab nor Complete Rhythm Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rhythm Lab or Complete Rhythm Trainer?
Rhythm Lab ships an update every 10 days, and Complete Rhythm Trainer every 2 weeks. Most recently, Rhythm Lab was updated on October 5, 2026 and Complete Rhythm Trainer on October 17, 2026.

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