Ghost Beat vs DrumShed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
DrumShed
This app helps drummers practice by providing tools to analyze songs, build beats, and follow structured practice plans. It offers features like song mapping, play-along tracks, and an AI co-pilot for personalized sessions. Users can also share their creations and explore content from other drummers.
- Song maps and drum charts
- Play along to songs with adjustable speed
- Guided beat and fill builder
- AI-powered practice sessions
- Free metronome with advanced features
- Export beats as video or sheet music
- Share and explore drummer creations
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Everything you practice, in one place. SONG MAPS & DRUM CHARTS (NEW) Upload a song and lay it out as a song map: every section with its bars, meter and click, and a note on each part. Loop any section to practice it with the song. Then let DrumShed write out the drums. Auto-detect gets you most of the way there, and you finish the chart by hand on your phone, tablet or the web. Drum charts are in beta. PLAY ALONG TO SONGS Upload a song — a rehearsal take, a demo, the track you're learning — and play along to the band without the drums, the drums alone, or the full mix. Slow it to half speed at the same pitch, with a click that follows the song bar by bar. Around 100 built-in play-alongs across 20 genres are included. BUILD BEATS, FILLS & EXERCISES A guided builder designed by drummers makes patterns that make sense on the kit, in seconds. Or write your own in the full pattern editor, in notation or on the grid, or describe what you want and let AI draft it (beta). Every AI draft opens in the editor, so you decide what's good. PRACTICE WITH DIRECTION Paths give you a plan for each day, built from real drills at real tempos and matched to your level. The AI co-pilot (beta) drafts a custom session around what you want to work on. Your history, streaks and achievements show the work adding up. METRONOME — FREE FOREVER Any time signature, any subdivision, polyrhythms and accent patterns, with no paywall. Run drills with automatic tempo steps, count-ins and voice cues, hands-free. SHARE & EXPLORE Export any beat or fill as a video or as sheet music with sticking. Send a link that opens your pattern in DrumShed, or post it to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Browse and play what other drummers share. ON THE WEB Your library, the editor, the song player, song maps and charts in a browser at create.drumshed.studio, on the same account. Works with any drum kit, acoustic or electronic. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DrumShed at daily against Ghost Beat's every 3 weeks. Ghost Beat's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Ghost Beat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DrumShed sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ghost Beat against 5.0 for DrumShed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ghost Beat ships an update every 3 weeks, DrumShed daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ghost Beat | DrumShed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LANCE LAVERNE PEDERSON | DrumShed LLC |
Customer experience
Ghost Beat
DrumShed
In-app purchases
Ghost Beat
- Ghost Beat Pro$4.99
DrumShed
- All Access$5.991 Month
- All Access Annual7 Days trial$47.991 Year
- 10 Drum Transcriptions$1.99
- 75 Drum Transcriptions$9.99
- AI Credit Top-Up$9.99
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- Founding Member Lifetime$179.99







