Tambu vs Partner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tambu
This app serves as a digital notebook for musicians to store practice materials, record sessions, and monitor progress. It allows users to plan practice routines, organize their music library, and review past sessions to identify areas for improvement.
- Digital practice notebook
- Record audio clips
- Track practice progress
- Plan practice sessions
- Organize music library
- Log session details
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Tambu is your digital practice notebook. Store the exercises and pieces you are practicing, record your practice sessions and track your progress. - Track your practice: easily see notes and details from past practice sessions and track your progress - Record audio clips: listen back to spot issues and improve - Choose what to track: only jot down a quick note about the session, or log everything you practiced and how it went - it’s up to you - Plan your sessions: easily get sidetracked? Structure your session at the start, then work your way through it - Organise your practice library: keep notes and easily see what you haven’t practiced in a while Terms of Use: https://www.tambu.fm/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.tambu.fm/privacy-policy
Partner
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Most drum apps hand you a pile of exercises and hope you stick with them. Partner works the other way round: it remembers what you actually played, and builds around you. At the heart of it is Riley, your practice partner. She remembers every session you log, the songs you're chasing, the tempos you've reached, the things that still feel hard, and she uses all of it to shape tomorrow's practice around what you did today rather than a plan pulled from thin air. — HOW IT WORKS — You start a session and just play. There's nothing to fill in before you begin, so you practise for as long as you've got and log things as you go: what you're working on, the tempo you reach, how it feels. When you finish, Riley reflects it all back in your own words, and after a few sessions she starts noticing the shape of your practice, where you're growing and where you've levelled off. She never nags, never scores you and never guilt-trips you for a missed day, because she's on your side, not on your case. — WHAT RILEY REMEMBERS — • What you worked on, and how it actually felt • The tempos you've genuinely hit, never a made-up number • Your breakthroughs, and the bits that still feel hard • When you've sat at the same tempo for a couple of weeks • Everything, so tomorrow's session is built from today's — A PARTNER, NOT A COACH — Riley doesn't drill you or hand you a lesson plan. She sits beside you, remembers what you did and reflects it back, so you're the one who decides what comes next. A hard session isn't a failure here, it's just part of it, and turning up at all is worth something on its own. — BUILT BY A WORKING DRUM TEACHER — Hi, I'm Harry. After six years of teaching I kept seeing the same thing: my students didn't need more practice time, they needed something beside them between lessons. Partner is the practice partner I always wished they had. — WHO IT'S FOR — Any drummer who wants to keep track of their practice and actually get somewhere with it. Whether you're going in circles and can't tell if you're improving, you're self-taught and have never had much direction, you're fitting practice around a busy life, or you're working toward an exam and want every session to count, Riley keeps the thread. — TIERS — LITE (free): your practice journal, session logging and Riley every third session. PRO (£7.99/month, one month free): everything in Lite, plus Riley after every session and your full practice history. Pricing may vary by region. Terms: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/5c06b8e4-28bd-40e4-9a85-2a0bba58f250 Privacy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/e467ec04-7277-41fa-9b5e-ccf0532c6e34
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Verdict
Tambu and Partner are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Tambu sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.00 per month and Partner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tambu ships an update every 9 days, Partner every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Tambu | Partner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tambu Ltd | Mentora AI Limited |
In-app purchases
Tambu
- Early Adopter - Monthly7 Days trial$1.001 Month
Partner
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Pro Annual1 Month trial$59.991 Year









