Comparison

Chops vs Ghost Beat

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Ghost Beat

This app challenges your internal rhythm by making metronome beats disappear. It helps you maintain tempo by ear and provides a score based on your accuracy. Features include customizable beat patterns, random mutes, and a speed trainer.

Highlights
  • Disappearing beat patterns
  • Random beat muting
  • Accurate timing score with deviation
  • Automatic speed trainer
  • Practice tracking and history
  • Multiple click sounds and pitch shifting
  • Support for various time signatures and subdivisions
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A metronome can keep time for you. Ghost Beat helps you learn to keep it yourself. Ghost Beat alternates between audible clicks and silent bars, giving you room to feel the tempo on your own. When the click comes back, you can hear how well you held it. Use it for drum practice, warm-ups, or working through a tricky rhythm. PRACTICE WITH AND WITHOUT THE CLICK Choose your tempo, time signature, subdivisions, and accents. Set how many bars play and how many stay silent, or use Random Mute to make individual beats disappear. Add spoken counts alongside the click and adjust their volumes separately. BUILD A PRACTICE HABIT Set a daily goal and follow your progress through the day. See your recent practice history, streaks, and weekly totals. Optional on-device detection can count your playing even when you don't need the metronome. Detection requires Ghost Beat to be open and active. START HANDS-FREE Use Start on Sound to begin without reaching for the screen. Calibrate microphone sensitivity for your room and playing, and choose whether silence should stop the metronome automatically. MAKE YOUR OWN ROUTINES Chain exercises with their own tempos, ghost patterns, and time signatures. Choose timed or bar-based steps, loop your routine, and save presets for setups you use often. Free tempo ladders help you work toward a target speed. CHECK YOUR TIMING Tap along in Tap Accuracy mode to see how consistently you land on the beat. Timing grades and deviation measurements give you something concrete to work on next time. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional private iCloud sync keeps your routines, presets, practice history, daily goal, and saved notes together across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You don't need a separate Ghost Beat account. FREE TO START The free app includes ghost bars, Random Mute, tempo ladders, daily goals, recent practice stats, up to 4 routines with 6 steps each, and 3 presets. GHOST BEAT PRO A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited routines, routine steps, and presets, plus adjustable click pitch, progressive fade, extended practice statistics, and notes for your routines and presets. No subscription. YOUR PLAYING STAYS YOURS Microphone audio is analyzed live on your device. It is never recorded or uploaded. There are no ads. Ghost Beat uses app-session analytics, separate from your practice content. See the privacy policy for details. Questions or feedback? Reach out at support@ghostbeat.cc.

Screenshots

Chops4 screens
Ghost Beat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Ghost Beat at free against Chops's freemium. Ghost Beat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Chops's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Chops sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Ghost Beat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ghost Beat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chops ships an update every 3 weeks, Ghost Beat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chops versus Ghost Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChopsGhost Beat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (15 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital StavesLANCE LAVERNE PEDERSON

Customer experience

Chops

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ghost Beat

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Chops

Subscriptions3
  • Chops Subscription (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Education Subscription (Yearly)$12.991 Year
  • Chops Subscription (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$69.99
1 purchases

Ghost Beat

One-time1
  • Ghost Beat Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Chops free?
Chops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Beat free?
Ghost Beat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chops or Ghost Beat?
Ghost Beat is rated higher. Chops averages 4.7 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Ghost Beat averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Chops or Ghost Beat have ads?
Neither Chops nor Ghost Beat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chops or Ghost Beat?
Chops ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ghost Beat every 3 months. Most recently, Chops was updated on October 11, 2026 and Ghost Beat on October 10, 2026.

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