Comparison

Shedtracks vs PHASE Connect

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

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About

Shedtracks

Practice drums with premium, Grammy-produced drumless tracks. Explore over 600 songs across various genres to improve your timing, groove, and musicality. Ideal for home practice, content creation, and live performance preparation.

Highlights
  • Premium drumless tracks
  • 600+ songs across multiple genres
  • Improve timing, groove, and musicality
  • Build custom playlists
  • Search by BPM, genre, time signature
  • Content creation tools
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Play-along with premium drumless tracks created by Grammy Award-winning producers and musicians. Trusted by 100,000+ drummers worldwide. Just sit down and play along to premium drumless tracks. No setup. No Uploading. Simply grab your sticks, press play, and prepare to be inspired. Shedtracks is the ultimate drumming app designed to help you start practicing and playing with real musicians. Experience tracks that feel like you’re on stage at the biggest performances in the world, from Grammy-level productions to Super Bowl-style arrangements. These aren’t basic loops or generic karaoke tracks. Every track is crafted by real musicians and producers to sound like real songs, music you can feel, perform, and create with. What Makes Shedtracks Different • Play premium drumless tracks that feel like real performances • Improve timing, chops, groove, and musicality naturally • Use drumless backing tracks to create your own sound and identity • Experience Billboard-style arrangements—not generic practice loops • Built for drummers who want to sound like they’re on stage—not in a practice room Massive Library of Drumless Tracks Explore 600+ premium drumless practice tracks across multiple styles: Pop • R&B • Gospel • Funk • Hip Hop • Jazz • Fusion • Rock and more Build playlists. Save favorites. Search by BPM, genre, time signature, and more. Find the perfect play-along track for your style and skill level. Built For Real Drummers Everything You Need In One App • Drumless tracks • Play-along tracks • Loops and practice tools • New music added regularly Whether you're practicing at home, creating content, or preparing for live performance, Shedtracks helps you grow faster—and actually enjoy the process. Create Content with Shedtracks. The best drum videos all have one thing in common: great drumless tracks. With Shedtracks, you can create better content, grow your following, and open the door to new opportunities—just like thousands of drummers already are. What Producers Are Saying: "Shedtracks brings musicians together from all over the world through powerful playalongs. This platform will help develop some of the finest musicians globally." James Gabriel Multi-Platinum Producer — Meghan Trainor, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion "Shedtracks is a global platform I’m proud to be part of. It gives creatives the freedom to express themselves and grow at every level." Justin Raines 2x GRAMMY Award-Winning Bassist — Ne-Yo, Israel Houghton, Musiq Soulchild Download Shedtracks and start playing with premium drumless backing tracks today. https://www.shedtracks.com/policies/terms-of-service

About

PHASE Connect

Features
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PHASE Connect is the phone companion to PHASE, the TrevBeats Multimedia DAW for Mac - and a full pocket studio on its own. Run your Mac session from across the room, or make a whole beat on the phone and send it to PHASE when you get home. THE STUDIO - ONE SCREEN The recorder and the instruments are the same screen. One counter and one transport across the top - REC, PLAY, STOP, back to the top, and the click - then a single switch: TRACKS for the timeline, PLAY for the instrument. The lane you pick is the lane the keyboard plays, so you pick it once. Everything that isn't "make a sound" or "capture it" sits in two bars along the bottom - TRACK for the instrument, input, FX, quantize and pocket; SESSION for tempo, count-in, record mode and the mix. 8 audio + 8 MIDI tracks, growing to 16 + 16, no Mac required. ARM and REC with a count-in, overdub or replace, quantize with TIGHT or SOFT feel, and the POCKET - push or drag a track off the grid so the beat breathes. THE INSTRUMENTS THUMP bass, FINGAZ keys, TWANG guitars, TRAPS drums and FLIP the sampler, across eight MIDI tracks. Ember-lit pads on a charcoal deck that compress and glow on the hit, with the closed hat choking the open hat like real hardware. Play the pads, the keys, or any Bluetooth / USB-C MIDI controller. THE TREVBEATS KIT The stock kit is the TREVBEATS KIT - 16 signature drum sounds on the pads - plus three more built in: PHASE 808, PHASE LOFI and PHASE ACOUSTIC. Step through kits from the kit bar, trim any pad, save your own. SET TEMPO FROM THIS TAKE Tell PHASE Connect how many bars your take is and it sets the session tempo to the take's own tempo, to the hundredth of a BPM - so the click lands on the groove instead of walking off it a little more every bar. Tempo nudges in hundredths too. MIX - THE DESK IN YOUR POCKET Tap the AUDIO and MIDI bank chips to pull up every strip - faders, pan, mute/solo, three FX slots (comp, reverb, tempo-synced delay), live meters, and a MASTER with a safety limiter. STEMMINGWAY LITE exports a MIXDOWN or full STEMS in 24-bit/48k WAV, and SEND TO PHASE packs the whole session for the Mac. CONSOLE - RUN PHASE FROM YOUR PHONE Pair once with a six-digit code (Wi-Fi, or USB-C hotspot when Wi-Fi is flaky). Tape-style transport, bars/timecode, loop, click, count-in, tap tempo, undo/redo, save - plus banks of mixer strips with faders, pan, mute, solo, arm, and live meters. MIC THE KIT Turn the phone into a drum mic rig - room, overhead, kick - and fly real drums into the session. Everything travels to PHASE untouched. Made by TrevBeats Multimedia. PHASE CHART MAKR The band's charts, on your phone. Eight charts off one arrangement, drawn by the same engraver PHASE uses on the Mac: - ROAD MAP: the form, bar counts and cues. Free. - CHORD CHART: chord symbols over rhythm slashes. - NASHVILLE NUMBERS: the same chart in numbers, so it transposes to any key. - DRUM CHART: the groove written once, then only what changes. - BASS PART: real notation, because an 808 line is composed. - MELODY / HORN: the top line, written for concert, Bb, Eb or F. - SAMPLE CHOP CHART: the sample name sits where a chord symbol would. - MD CHART: every part braced on one page, barlines through the band. Three ways in. AUDIO → MIDI: pick a recording from Files, the song or the song plus its stems, and CHART MAKR hears it on the phone - tempo, bar 1, meter and parts - then writes the charts. Nothing is uploaded. Link to PHASE and GET FROM PHASE hands you the chart for the open session. Or PLAY IN a part against the click and BUILD CHART turns it into the chart. No Mac needed. ▶ PLAY runs the chart with the bar lit and the page turning itself; tap a bar to play from there. TRANSPOSE moves every chart up to 11 half steps. Every song you chart is kept in SONGS. Charts stay on the phone, so they work at rehearsal with the Mac off. The ROAD MAP is free; the seven notated charts and PLAY IN are one in-app purchase, no subscription.

Screenshots

Shedtracks4 screens
PHASE Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PHASE Connect at every 4 days against Shedtracks's every 11 days. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shedtracks sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and PHASE Connect sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shedtracks ships an update every 11 days, PHASE Connect every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shedtracks versus PHASE Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShedtracksPHASE Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShedtracks LLCTrevor Lawrence

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Shedtracks

Subscriptions4
  • Basic$10.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$15.991 Month
  • Basic Annual7 Days trial$109.001 Year
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  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$159.001 Year
1 purchases

PHASE Connect

One-time1
  • PHASE CHART MAKR$9.99

Questions

Is Shedtracks free?
Shedtracks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PHASE Connect free?
PHASE Connect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shedtracks or PHASE Connect have ads?
Neither Shedtracks nor PHASE Connect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shedtracks or PHASE Connect?
Shedtracks ships an update every 11 days, and PHASE Connect every 4 days. Most recently, Shedtracks was updated on October 31, 2026 and PHASE Connect on October 31, 2026.

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