Comparison

iFretless Guitar vs DrumPerfect Pro

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

Head to head
About

iFretless Guitar

This app offers a unique, touch-optimized guitar fretboard for iOS devices. It allows for expressive, one-touch note playing with real-time pitch control, enabling fast melodies, scales, and arpeggios. It's a powerful new instrument for making music, not just a simulation.

Highlights
  • One-touch-per-note design
  • Real-time pitch control
  • Audio unit support
  • Fretless note bending
  • Velocity sensitive instruments
  • MIDI input and output
  • Built-in reverb and EQ
Features
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iFretless is a guitar fretboard re-designed for maximum playability on iOS devices. It replaces two handed playing and strumming with a one-touch-per-note design that enables fast, precise playing of melodies, scales, and arpeggios and real-time control over the pitch of each individual note. iFretless is not an imitation guitar for your iPhone; it's a powerful new way to make music. FEATURES 1) Audio unit support allows you to connect to a software effects chain or record directly in DAW apps 2) Fretless note bending 3) Velocity sensitive multi-sampled instruments 4) 10 different velocity sensitive guitar sounds 5) MIDI input and output 6) built-in reverb and Eq Sounds: 1) Nylon String Folk 2) Picked Steel String 3) Grunge Telecaster 4) Snarling Synth 5) Bridge-Mid Pickup Bright Strat 6) Blues Neck Pickup Strat 7) Hollow Body Electric 8) Classical 9) Clean bridge pickup 10) Clean neck pickup

About

DrumPerfect Pro

Create professional drum and percussion music with a highly programmable system. Emulate the feel of pro drummers across genres with advanced features for multitrack programming, multi-velocity sampling, and intricate pattern creation. Explore world rhythms and integrate your own MIDI files.

Highlights
  • Programmable drum/percussion system
  • Emulates human drummer feel
  • Multitrack/layer programming
  • Multi-velocity sampling
  • AUv3 player for live performance
  • MIDI file loading and playback
  • Massive collection of world rhythms
Features
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DrumPerfect Pro is without doubt the most complete, open, fully programmable drum/percussion music production system ever created for iPad. The wealth of professional features it offers is just astonishing. Yet its most distinguished quality is probably its confounding capacity to emulate so musically the human feel of pro drummers performances in any genre, as you will see. Here is what Gilbert Medam, professional composer and arranger, creator of the pack collection as well as designer of the new UI writes: In the musical consciousness, rhythm is without question a most fundamental element. Combining movement with numbers, it is found in music all around the world and at any period of human history. Musicians, particularly drummers and percussionists by nature excel in precise body movement, coordination and inevitably inspire listeners to join the dance. On the other hand computer systems excel, by design, in powerful processing of numbers. We are constantly, Marinus and I, attentive to this simple fact when refining and expanding DrumPerfect Pro. Because we want our app to excel in coming as close as it can be, to a perfect integration of both performances. In this new version, if you are passionate about rhythms, drums and beyond, you will find, we think, the best companion for your music adventure and production. Its flexibility will surprise you. Program on multitrack/layers, multi-velocity sampling, the most intricate patterns, improvising songs. Unleash your wildest experimentation in the creative and fun process. It is the high end app of choice for: - drums/percussions professional track production - live performance with the brand new AUv3 player - practice and training for musicians in any musical genre - easy loading and playing of your own library of midi files. - study, understanding and experimenting from the massive collection of world rhythms available in the packs. High-quality music packs available as IAP, in many different music styles and ready to be used in your own productions.

Screenshots

iFretless Guitar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iFretless Guitar at $9.99 against DrumPerfect Pro's $22.99. iFretless Guitar also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). DrumPerfect Pro's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 55%) and ratings volume (40 vs 11). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iFretless Guitar costs $9.99 and DrumPerfect Pro $22.99 up front. DrumPerfect Pro sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. iFretless Guitar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iFretless Guitar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 40 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of iFretless Guitar's written reviews are positive against 65% of DrumPerfect Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iFretless Guitar ships an update every 2 months, DrumPerfect Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iFretless Guitar versus DrumPerfect Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriFretless GuitarDrumPerfect Pro
Price$9.99 — better$22.99
Rating4.7 (11 ratings) — better4.0 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews64.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1140 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB563 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlue Mangoo Consulting Company LimitedMarinus J.G. van de Molengraft

Customer experience

iFretless Guitar

All ratings29 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral12.1%
Negative33.3%

DrumPerfect Pro

All ratings41 ratings
Positive70.7%
Neutral14.6%
Negative14.6%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral12.9%
Negative22.6%

User reviews

iFretless Guitar

From 11 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎸 Professional-grade electric guitar sound
  • 🎛️ Excellent MIDI controller capabilities
  • 🎶 Expressive and beautiful sounds
  • 💡 Innovative fretboard interface
  • 🎹 Playable without keyboard skills

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🔌 Issues with Audiobus/Auria Pro
  • 🔊 No sound issues reported
  • 📉 Sound quality not always convincing
  • 🤔 Strumming is tricky and unique

DrumPerfect Pro

From 40 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Realistic drum sounds
  • 🎛️ Powerful and flexible
  • 🎶 Great for serious musicians
  • 💡 Innovative features (Jam Mode)
  • 🌟 High quality app

Room to improve

  • 🤯 Steep learning curve
  • 😵‍💫 Confusing UI/UX
  • 📚 Lacks proper documentation
  • ❓ Hidden features
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes

Bugs and requests

iFretless Guitar

Reported bugs

37 issues
  • App keeps crashing
  • Crashes after 5 minutes in Audiobus3
  • Crashes with background audio
  • DSP jumps high
  • App crashes upon opening
Show 32 more
  • AUv3 not loading in AUM
  • No sound at all
  • Audio output muted when app starts
  • No sound on iPad Air
  • No sound on iPad Air with latest iOS
  • Reverb only sound
  • Crashes anytime (standalone or IAA)
  • Doesn't show in Audiobus anymore
  • IAA instrument loading error
  • Audiobus icon unresponsive
  • App falls immediately when standalone
  • No guitar presets, all bugged
  • DSP jumps high, trash
  • Update caused problems with Audiobus
  • Distorted graphics
  • No audio sometimes
  • App does not work well on iPad Pro / iOS14
  • Config right panel disappeared
  • No sound in Auria Pro
  • MIDI is broken in Auria Pro
  • App crashes on iPad 5th gen with iOS 12.4
  • App crashes on iPad Air 5
  • App crashes on iPad Pro 2022
  • App crashes on iPad Air, iOS 7.1.2
  • App crashes on iPad Air II
  • App crashes on iPad 2 iOS 7.1
  • App crashes on iPad 5th gen with iOS 12.4
  • App crashes on iPad Air 5
  • App crashes on iPad Pro 2022
  • App crashes on iPad Air, iOS 7.1.2
  • App crashes on iPad Air II
  • App crashes on iPad 2 iOS 7.1

Requested features

37 requests
  • AUv3 support
  • Strumming coordinates
  • Ability to play loose strings
  • Open tunings with extensions
  • Lap Steel / Dobro Tunings
Show 32 more
  • Fix guitar tuning wonkiness
  • Longer recording length
  • Scale overlay for learning
  • Ability to pick chords
  • MPE compatibility
  • Lock UI rotation for AUv3
  • Save presets
  • Adjustable attack and release times
  • Palm muting
  • Remember last session settings
  • Add drum machine beats
  • Improve sound quality
  • Add more presets
  • Scale selector with markers
  • Polyphonic mode
  • Customizable note range
  • Different MIDI channels for chords
  • Add violin or trumpet instruments
  • Make app compatible with latest iOS versions
  • Add advanced features like other apps in the suite
  • Make it compatible with iOS 17
  • Make it compatible with iOS 14
  • Make it compatible with iOS 8
  • Make it compatible with iOS 12.4
  • Make it compatible with iOS 7.1.2
  • Make it compatible with iOS 16
  • Make it compatible with iOS 17
  • Make it compatible with iOS 14
  • Make it compatible with iOS 8
  • Make it compatible with iOS 12.4
  • Make it compatible with iOS 7.1.2
  • Make it compatible with iOS 16

DrumPerfect Pro

Reported bugs

29 issues
  • Purchases not restoring
  • Restore purchases doesn't work
  • Restore all does nothing
  • All packs still show as purchase option
  • Glitches in AU3, Inter-App
Show 24 more
  • Demo beat only plays through with Logic
  • Crashing issue every time 'load' button is hit on song tab
  • MIDI defaults only to channel 10
  • Peaking at drum samples causes destructive edit
  • Crashes whenever going to settings
  • Not working right since last update
  • Crashing all the time
  • Pads don't play sounds and crash
  • Crashing in iOS 13.2
  • Won't load
  • Audio Unit Extension not working
  • Fails to load any presets as AU
  • Graphics blurred on top sections
  • Crashing on older iPad
  • Purchases disappear
  • App barely stays open
  • Sequences not saving drum kit used
  • Re-load all sequences, song, and drum sets needed
  • UI fluky
  • Cannot get closed hi-hat to choke open hi-hat
  • UX needs major overhaul
  • App stopped working after iOS 11 update
  • Needed delete/re-install after iOS 11 update
  • When saving sequences, drum kit is not saved

Requested features

30 requests
  • Add live MIDI OUT
  • Option to automatically have 'Fill' go to 'Ride'
  • Larger and more accessible Jam Screen section
  • Reduce Kits Section in Pattern Screen
  • Increase JAM section flexibility
Show 25 more
  • Select and export multiple MIDI patterns at once
  • More tutorial videos
  • More drum patterns
  • New upgrades with surprises
  • Add AU3 compatibility
  • Add MIDI OUT
  • Option for Center or Top velocity to the pads
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Beginner tutorials
  • Folder organization for samples and kits
  • Simplified mode for beginners
  • More MIDI pattern purchase options
  • Adjust pitch of drum samples
  • Choke open hi-hat with closed hi-hat
  • Import own MIDI drum loops
  • Option to change MIDI mappings
  • More kits available
  • Better sounding toms
  • More kick and snare options
  • More velocity layers
  • More drum packs
  • Blurb in manual for AUE functionality
  • More IAP loop sound packs
  • Spring sale on IAPs

In-app purchases

None

iFretless Guitar

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

DrumPerfect Pro

One-time10
  • GM Volume 1Free
  • Funky Breakbeats Volume 1$2.99
  • Funky Breakbeats Volume 2$2.99
Show 7 more
  • Afro Beats Volume 1$2.99
  • Heavy Metal Volume 1$3.99
  • Batucada Volume 1$3.99
  • Jazz Sessions Volume 1$4.99
  • Brazilian Rhythms Volume 1$4.99
  • Rock Drums Volume 1$4.99
  • Latin Percussion Volume 1$5.99

Questions

Is iFretless Guitar free?
iFretless Guitar costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DrumPerfect Pro free?
DrumPerfect Pro costs $22.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iFretless Guitar or DrumPerfect Pro?
iFretless Guitar is rated higher. iFretless Guitar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while DrumPerfect Pro averages 4.0 from 40 ratings.
Do iFretless Guitar or DrumPerfect Pro have ads?
Neither iFretless Guitar nor DrumPerfect Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iFretless Guitar or DrumPerfect Pro?
iFretless Guitar ships an update every 2 months, and DrumPerfect Pro every 3 months. Most recently, iFretless Guitar was updated on November 1, 2026 and DrumPerfect Pro on November 11, 2026.

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