Comparison

Lyrium vs SUS4 Drum Pad

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

Head to head
About

Lyrium

This app is a comprehensive music songwriting tool designed to spark creativity and refine lyrics. It offers AI-powered suggestions, rhyming dictionaries, and collaborative features to help users craft their songs. Users can also analyze their work, explore musical theory, and share their creations.

Highlights
  • AI-powered lyric suggestions
  • Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
  • Collaborative songwriting
  • Word cloud and concept generation
  • Meter and rhyme analysis
  • Chord progression composer
  • Sharable song pages
Features
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You won't find a lyrics app with more features on the App Store. Music tools are our passion and Lyrium is the best for this job. Get the lyrics app developed by ex-Apple engineers. Feature List • Collaboration - Lyrium is fully multiplayer. • Word Cloud - Tom Petty wrote an entire album looking at magnet words on a music stand. We put a galaxy of magnets right around your notepad. • Cloud Tags - type [word] in your lyrics and the cloud shows words that could go there • LyRhyme - smart songwriting dictionary and Roget-style thesaurus • Freestyle Drafting Engine - capture lyrics as you think out loud and get contextual suggestions • Rhyme Worksheets - seed inspiration by generating a tapestry of thematic words and rhymes to get lyrics flowing • Object Writing - utilize this powerful technique to capture your sense memories and transport your listeners into the world of your song • First Line Engine - offers suggestions that integrate your own meticulously curated ideas and words to get a first line on the page • Configurable Context - every suggestion generation feature has a configurable context that controls exactly what your inspiration should source • Song Palette - tweak the thematic and emotional energy you want to capture in your song • Meter Analysis - see the rhythm of your lines right in the editor • Rhyme Highlighting - automatically color code rhymes • Chord Annotations - add your chords and share them • Sharable Song Pages and Lyric Sheets - share your song via links hosted by Lyrium. Export social captions, HTML embeds, or bbcode for forum posts. Upload audio to share your entire complete work. • Collect Notes - capture inspiration in the form of journal entries, song concepts, or voice notes to tap for your songwriting • Journal Rewind - review your daily happenings for inspiration • Song Analysis - automatically detect narrative stagnation or cliches and get suggestions for improvement • Metaphor Explorer - get metaphor ideas as you work • Explore Feed - branch into related words and mull ideas • Song History - catalog the evolution of your song over time to revisit old threads or explore the origins of old ideas • Song Chat - when all else fails, you can interact with a generative model to get answers or inspiration from any prompt • Concept suggestions - source starting points for kicking off songs • Chords Playground - compose and preview chord progressions • Harmonic Vibe Dictionary - explore common chord movements and the theory behind them • Apple Intelligence - skip the data center and generate suggestions right on your phone • Writing Prompts • Writing Timer • Tuner Our AI philosophy in a letter A note to your other lyrics app: AI can't write lyrics. So many new songwriting apps don’t get this. AI just writes the song, and the output is derivative by design. Great art is a product of emotion and experience by the unconscious mind, not a rehash of unlicensed pop songs spewed by autocomplete matrix math in a data center on leveled farmland. Expediting the process while undermining the authenticity is futile. Lyrium is fundamentally different. It’s built from the ground up to cultivate connections and inspiration in *you*. We tap the best tools available to amplify your sparks at every songwriting stage: a powerful rhyme dictionary and Roget-style thesaurus, your sense memories, your journal, and creative interfaces that tap language models for their mastery of language, not lyrics. All this input is tied together in a first-of-its-kind workspace that exposes the power and flexibility you’d expect from the pro tools you use to make the rest of your music. Terms of use: https://lyrium.app/terms

About

SUS4 Drum Pad

Features
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Tap a groove on 16 pads or program it on a 16-step grid, then export it as audio. 25 synthesized kits, from acoustic and jazz to lo-fi, trap and Latin. Fully on-device: no cloud, no account. Play live on the 4x4 grid. Switch to the sequencer to build a pattern step by step, set the tempo, and save it. The looper records what you play and loops it. • 16 pads, each with level and pan • 25 kits: acoustic, electronic, hip-hop, trap, Latin, jazz, world percussion and more • 16-step sequencer with tempo, save and load • Looper for a pad performance • Export the beat as an audio file For beatmakers sketching on the bus, drummers working out a pattern, and producers who want a quick groove to write over. Two kits and the sequencer are open to everyone. Pro, or SUS4 All-Access across the whole range, adds all 25 kits and unlimited looper recording. Made in the UK by working musicians. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Lyrium4 screens
SUS4 Drum Pad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lyrium at weekly against SUS4 Drum Pad's fortnightly. SUS4 Drum Pad's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.4). 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. Lyrium sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and SUS4 Drum Pad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lyrium ships an update weekly, SUS4 Drum Pad fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lyrium versus SUS4 Drum Pad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLyriumSUS4 Drum Pad
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB44 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJake SpracherThePaulSmith

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Lyrium

Subscriptions2
  • Plus14 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Plus Annual — Early Adopter14 Days trial$49.991 Year
3 purchases

SUS4 Drum Pad

Subscriptions2
  • SUS4 Drum Pad Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • SUS4 All-Access7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • SUS4 Drum Pad Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Lyrium free?
Lyrium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SUS4 Drum Pad free?
SUS4 Drum Pad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lyrium or SUS4 Drum Pad have ads?
Neither Lyrium nor SUS4 Drum Pad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lyrium or SUS4 Drum Pad?
Lyrium ships an update weekly, and SUS4 Drum Pad fortnightly. Most recently, Lyrium was updated on October 31, 2026 and SUS4 Drum Pad on October 28, 2026.

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