Chops vs Drum Rudiments Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chops
Master all 40 PAS rudiments with structured courses, dynamic exercises, and a smart metronome. Apply your skills on the kit with beautiful notation and full playback controls. Designed for drummers of all levels to practice with purpose and enhance their foundation.
- Master all 40 PAS rudiments
- Apply skills on the drum kit
- Dynamic exercises and workouts
- Structured courses for all levels
- Beautiful and readable notation
- Smart metronome with tempo adjustment
- Full playback controls
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A rudiment trainer built for drummers: workouts, exercises, courses, and progress tracking. MASTER ALL 40 PAS RUDIMENTS From the basics to advanced patterns, learn every rudiment and enhance your drumming foundation. KIT VARIATIONS Break out from your practise pad and apply your new skills on the kit. EXERCISES AND WORKOUTS Keep your practice sessions dynamic and engaging with a variety of exercises and workouts. COURSES Whether you're a beginner or an advanced drummer, follow structured courses designed for all skill levels. PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE Maximize your practice time with guided courses that keep you progressing and motivated. BEAUTIFUL NOTATION Beautiful and easy to read notation. SMART METRONOME Built-in smart metronome adjusts tempo and time signature for you, letting you focus on playing. FULL PLAYBACK CONTROLS Hear how each exercise should sound with full playback controls. Adjust the metronome and tempo. Download Chops today and unleash your full drumming potential! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Drum Rudiments Trainer
This app provides a visual library of drum rudiments with a metronome and training statistics. It's designed for drummers of all levels, offering intuitive controls and various practice modes.
- Visual rudiment library
- On/off metronome
- Training time statistics
- BPM constant and acceleration modes
- Dark theme
- Count-in option
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As a beginner drummer myself and having some programming skills I've decided to create mobile application, where I can get easy access to paradiddles and other rudiments in a library with clearly visual representation, on/off metronome and training time statistics for each rudiment in a set. App designed for both beginners and experienced drummers. Hope it will be useful to other people as well. Reasons to try: - Easy and intuitive controls - No need to know drum musical notation - Vertical musical tracker-type visual representation - Dark theme to save your device battery - BPM constant and acceleration modes - Prevention of display sleep mode when training - Slightly different snare sound samples for left and right hand strokes - Different normal, accents, flam and drag stroke sounds - Metronome sound and visual blink option with individual volume control - Time stats for every rudiments and overall training time - BPM from 10 for very beginners to 320 as hell - Count-in option - Metronome sound only mode - Drums sound only mode - Silent mode - Chance to training with no pad and sticks - just your hands and knees - Sufficient font size for people with eye issues
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chops at none against Drum Rudiments Trainer's shown. Chops also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). Drum Rudiments Trainer's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Chops sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Drum Rudiments Trainer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chops holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Chops's written reviews are positive against 67% of Drum Rudiments Trainer's.
Chops ships an update every 3 weeks, Drum Rudiments Trainer every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chops | Drum Rudiments Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | 4.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Staves | Vladimir Persidskiy |
Customer experience
Chops
Drum Rudiments Trainer
In-app purchases
Chops
- Chops Subscription (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Education Subscription (Yearly)$12.991 Year
- Chops Subscription (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$69.99
Drum Rudiments Trainer
- DRT Remove Ads$4.99
- DRT Unlock Editor$4.99
- DRT Bundle (Ads + Editor)$7.99
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