Play Drums! vs Exciting Drum Kit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Drums!
Experience a futuristic rhythm game inspired by 80s electronic drum kits and EDM. Tap colorful hexagons in time with the music to score points and improve your rhythmic abilities. Choose from various difficulty levels, songs, and drum kits.
- Rhythm game with EDM music
- Beginner and advanced difficulty levels
- Multiple drum kits and songs
- Professionally recorded stereo sounds
- Hi-resolution graphics
- Lefty mode for reversed layout
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Play Drums! is an exciting and unique rhythm game based on the electronic drum kits of the 1980s. Combined with electronic dance music (EDM), this fast-paced and futuristic game is not only fun and challenging, but actually improves your rhythmic abilities! When you start a song, choosing from either beginner or advanced levels, colorful concentric hexagons converge onto the drum pad that should be tapped. If you hit it right on time, you score 50 points; almost in rhythm, 25 points. And if you miss, 10 points are deducted from your score. With 10 songs and 6 different drum kits to choose from, you'll be rockin' like a real drummer in no time! Play Drums! is the most fun way ever to learn to Play Drums! FEATURES: * 5 free EDM beginner songs and 5 free EDM advanced songs to choose from * 6 free amazing drum kits to choose from......play to songs, or play drums without music * Professionally recorded stereo sounds * Beautiful hi-resolution retina graphics * Game Center integration * Lefty mode: reverse the drum layout PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html
Exciting Drum Kit
Experience a realistic drumming simulation with responsive touch controls and high-quality sound. Play along to your favorite music or create original beats with various drum kit types and a built-in metronome.
- Realistic sound and touch response
- Multiple drum kit types
- High-quality recorded sounds
- Multi-touch enabled
- Adjustable metronome
- Customizable background color
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*** One of the most realistic drum app! ** Enjoy playing drums on your device! The main feature of this app is the realistic sound and the touch response. The time lag until the sound after you touch the finger was reduced to limit. Thus, it is now possible to be like playing the rhythm just like a real drum. User friendly simple screen is the ideal for finger play. Enjoy playing along to your favorite songs, or creating your original beat. FEATURES: -> 4 types of drum kit (classic, electronic, rock, vintage) -> Components: hi-hat (open, closed), snare, bass, tom 3 (floor 1 & Tom Tom 2), crash cymbal, ride cymbal -> High quality sound professionally recorded -> Multi-touch enabled: Play multiple drum heads simultaneously -> Metronome that can be freely set the speed -> Change the background color
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Play Drums! at 3.7 against Exciting Drum Kit's 3.5. Play Drums! also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). Exciting Drum Kit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Play Drums! sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Exciting Drum Kit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Play Drums! holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Play Drums! has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Play Drums! ships an update every 4 months, Exciting Drum Kit every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Drums! | Exciting Drum Kit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (13 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drum Starz | Quantis,Inc. |
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In-app purchases
Play Drums!
- Remove Ads$0.99
- London House$0.99
- Rocket$0.99
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Exciting Drum Kit
- Remove Ads$4.99









