Jazz Practice Journal vs Super Simple Drum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jazz Practice Journal
Log music practice sessions quickly, identify areas for improvement, and build motivation with streaks. Features include an AI coach, automatic routine generation, and multi-instrument support.
- Log practice sessions in 30 seconds
- AI practice coach identifies blind spots
- Automatic daily routine generation
- Multi-instrument support with presets
- Integrated metronome, tuner, and drone (Pro)
- Streak tracking for motivation
- Weekly and monthly practice reviews
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Jazz Practice Journal helps you work through your daily practice routine, log every session, and stay on track — in seconds. Start free. ◆ YOUR ROUTINE, TOP TO BOTTOM Line up the exercises you do every day, in the order you do them. They appear on Home with the next one highlighted, so you can start right away. Begin with a suggested routine for your instrument, or build your own. ◆ SAVE AND KEEP GOING Save one item and go straight to the next — no trip back to Home. Key and tempo carry over from last time. ◆ LOG A SESSION IN 30 SECONDS Practicing something outside your routine? Tap a preset and you're practicing. ◆ MULTI-INSTRUMENT Trumpet, Trombone, Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Piano, Bass, Drums, Guitar, and Vocal — each with its own presets. Key transposition (C / Bb / Eb) for horn players. ◆ METRONOME, TUNER & DRONE (Pro) All your practice tools, one tap from the practice screen. ◆ WEEKLY REVIEW See your practice time, top exercises, and how each session felt over the past week — in clear charts (monthly and all-time with Pro). ◆ SPACED REVIEW (Pro) Get reminded to revisit each piece at the right time, based on the forgetting curve. Make every session stick. ◆ PRO ($4.99/month) • Unlimited routine items (free plan: up to 5) • Spaced review (forgetting curve) • Metronome, tuner, drone, and recording while practicing • Monthly and all-time summaries, plus full practice history Terms of Use: https://music-practice-coach.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://music-practice-coach.vercel.app/privacy
Super Simple Drum
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A bar is a word. A phrase is a sentence. Super Simple Drum teaches the drums the way a good teacher does: one groove, one fill, one bar at a time, until you can play the whole song. GROOVES & FILLS FOR EVERY STYLE 2,035 grooves and fills in 62 styles: rock, metal, punk, funk, disco, Motown, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, neo soul, shuffle, jazz swing, big band, bossa nova, samba, salsa, reggae, ska, drum & bass, paradiddles on the kit, polyrhythms and more. Every bar opens in a practice room with a click, a count-in and a tempo trainer, and a 3D drum kit on iPad. Two grooves and two fills of every style are free, and one more bar of your genre opens every day you come in. SIGNATURE: THE BARS SONGS ARE KNOWN BY 993 signature grooves and fills in 13 genres: the part one song is known by, which hardly any other song plays. Hear every one for free, learn them to grow your drum vocabulary, and build songs out of them. SCAN YOUR OWN DRUM CHARTS Choose a PDF, pick a photo or point the camera at a printed drum chart. Every bar is read into a song you can hear, check against your page and put right where it needs it. Bring in MusicXML and MIDI files too, with the rest of the band playing underneath. PLAY ALONG WITH THE RECORD Find the song on YouTube and the AI lines your chart up with the drums in the recording, bar by bar, so the score follows the record while you play. PRACTICE A SONG PART BY PART Every song becomes a course: first the groove it is mostly made of, then the fills and the parts that change, each with easier versions, in the order a teacher would teach them. Then play it from top to bottom. A PRACTICE ROOM BUILT FOR DRUMMERS - Tempo steps from 60% to 110% of the target, and a speed trainer - Click on beats, eighths or sixteenths, a count-in, and silent bars to test your time - Drum sheet notation or a lane grid, with the count and the sticking under the notes - The app plays the whole kit, the hands, the feet, or nothing at all - GOT IT when you play a whole pass as written, and it is saved to your collection - Connect an electronic drum kit over USB MIDI and see how close every hit lands TAP PRACTICE, NO KIT NEEDED (iPhone) Train your left and right hands on the glass. Every note has its hand, the wrong hand counts as a miss, and four clean bars take the tempo up. Calibrated to your phone and timed to the millisecond. BUILD A SONG Turn a style, or the bars you have saved, into a full song with verses, choruses and fills, and practice it all the way through. YOUR PLAN FOR TODAY Three things to play every day, sized to the minutes you have, a weekly goal of four days, and a daily reminder. PAY ONCE, KEEP IT No subscription. Unlock what you want, once: - Grooves & Fills: every groove and fill in every style - Signature: all 993 signature grooves and fills - Add a Song: keep every chart you scan or import, each with its course - Everything: all three together, for less
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Verdict
Jazz Practice Journal and Super Simple Drum 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. Jazz Practice Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and Super Simple Drum sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Jazz Practice Journal ships an update weekly, Super Simple Drum every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jazz Practice Journal | Super Simple Drum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toshihiro Suzuki | Bizzon Company Limited |
In-app purchases
Jazz Practice Journal
- Pro - monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
Super Simple Drum
- Grooves & Fills$4.99
- Add a Song$6.99
- Signature Beats & Fills$9.99
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- Everything$12.99
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