Comparison

Drums vs Ear Dojo

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

Head to head
About

Drums

Create personalized drum practice routines with a library of grooves. Follow along using grid or notation views, adjust tempo, and use the metronome to stay in rhythm.

Highlights
  • Practice routine creation
  • Library of drum grooves
  • Grid and notation views
  • Adjustable tempo
  • Built-in metronome
Features
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Create a practice routine with our library of drum grooves. Follow along while you play with either grid or notation view. Change the tempo and add a metronome to keep you on the beat!

About

Ear Dojo

This app offers focused ear-training exercises for musicians to improve pitch, rhythm, and harmony skills. It features a belt-based curriculum with guided feedback to help users progress through various musical concepts. Includes practice tools like a metronome and tuner.

Highlights
  • Belt-based ear-training curriculum
  • Sensei guidance system
  • Pitch, rhythm, and harmony exercises
  • Solfège, melody, interval, and chord recognition
  • Metronome, tuner, pitch pipe, and drone
  • Optional one-time purchases for advanced content
Features
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Ear Dojo is a focused ear-training app for musicians who want stronger pitch, rhythm, interval, harmony, and singing skills without subscriptions. Built around a belt-based curriculum, Ear Dojo guides you step by step through short, focused exercises that fit easily into daily practice. Instead of overwhelming you with random drills, Ear Dojo provides a clear path: learn, train, test your skills, and advance through the belts. At the center of the experience is the Sensei guidance system. Sensei Night Fox studies your training history, identifies developing strengths and weak concepts, and recommends what to practice next. Clear feedback and focused strategy help your training feel guided rather than scattered. Ear Dojo develops the listening skills musicians use in real music: recognizing pitch, hearing and singing intervals, identifying chords, following harmonic movement, improving rhythmic accuracy, strengthening musical memory, and developing steadier intonation. Core training areas include: Solfège Recognition Solfège Singing Melodic Memory Interval Recognition Interval Singing Chord Recognition Chord Progressions Rhythmic Tap Syncopation Rhythmic Dictation Each belt introduces new musical vocabulary and progressively more challenging material. Yellow Belt begins with accessible foundations, while Orange through Black Belt gradually expand the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and singing demands. Detailed instructions, real-time score and accuracy feedback, timing and pitch displays, progress history, concept mastery, belt tests, and shareable certificates help make improvement visible. The Learn section provides pressure-free references for scales, intervals, and chords. Tool Pack I adds a metronome, tuner, pitch pipe and drone, and tap tempo for daily practice, intonation work, rehearsals, and lessons. Optional specialty packs provide four additional trainings and a dedicated test: Polyrhythms Perfect Tempo Jazz Harmony Singing Camp The free download includes Learn, Sensei guidance, and the complete Yellow Belt training path and test. Optional one-time purchases can unlock Orange through Black Belt, Tool Pack I, individual specialty packs, or the complete Ear Dojo Pro experience. Ear Dojo is designed for music students, teachers, singers, instrumentalists, composers, producers, and anyone who wants to hear music more clearly. Train your ear. Sharpen your instincts. Earn your belt.

Screenshots

Drums4 screens
Ear Dojo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Drums and Ear Dojo are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drums sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Ear Dojo sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drums against 5.0 for Ear Dojo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drums ships an update every 10 days, Ear Dojo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Drums versus Ear Dojo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumsEar Dojo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETER ANTHONY SCHUSTERAngelo Milli

Customer experience

Drums

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ear Dojo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Drums

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
7 purchases

Ear Dojo

One-time7
  • Tool Pack I$3.99
  • Polyrhythms$3.99
  • Perfect Tempo$3.99
Show 4 more
  • Jazz Harmony$3.99
  • Singing Camp$3.99
  • Student$9.99
  • Ear Dojo Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Drums free?
Drums is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ear Dojo free?
Ear Dojo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drums or Ear Dojo?
Drums and Ear Dojo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Drums or Ear Dojo have ads?
Neither Drums nor Ear Dojo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drums or Ear Dojo?
Drums ships an update every 10 days, and Ear Dojo weekly. Most recently, Drums was updated on October 8, 2026 and Ear Dojo on October 10, 2026.

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