Comparison

SoloTracks vs DrumClock

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

Head to head
About

SoloTracks

This app plays your owned music files, offering advanced controls for musicians. It supports Wi-Fi transfer, smart playlists, and offline playback without streaming or ads.

Highlights
  • Plays owned MP3, M4A, WAV files
  • Wi-Fi transfer from Mac
  • Full player controls
  • Smart playlists
  • A-B loop points
  • Variable playback speed
  • Layered stems
Features
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For musicians and music lovers. SoloTracks began with a simple idea: the music you own should be easy to listen to, and the music you’re learning should be easy to practice. It’s a versatile offline player for your MP3, M4A, and WAV files. Your library can hold favorite songs, full albums, demos, live takes, rehearsal recordings, backing tracks, or works in progress. Now, with a beautiful ground-up redesign and selectable themes, SoloTracks has never looked better. MAKE IT YOURS • A refreshed, modern design that’s cleaner, faster, and easier to navigate. • Choose from four hand-tuned themes (Aurora, Ember, Mint, and Ink) and recolor the entire app in a tap. • A redesigned Home that picks up right where you left off. A BETTER HOME FOR YOUR MUSIC • Keep the music you own together in one clean, organized library. • Import MP3, M4A, and WAV files, complete with embedded artwork and track information. • Transfer songs over Wi-Fi from your Mac using a web browser. No cables or iTunes required. • Sort your library your way, build your own playlists, or let smart playlists group your music automatically. • Enjoy shuffle, repeat, queues, precise scrubbing, and Lock Screen and Control Center playback. • Set a sleep timer for the end of a song or a chosen length of time. • Listen anywhere, without a connection. BUILT FOR PRACTICE SoloTracks gives singers and musicians practical tools for learning, rehearsing, and playing along. • Loop any passage with A-B markers. • Slow tricky sections down or speed them up without shifting the pitch. • Organize stems and alternate versions with Layers, then switch between them or play them together. • Follow synced lyrics, test yourself from memory, and repeat individual phrases until they feel natural. TRY EVERY PRO FEATURE FREE FOR 7 DAYS Take SoloTracks Pro for a seven-day test drive. After that, unlock the complete app with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring fees. No endless upsells. Prefer to keep things simple? SoloTracks is free for libraries of up to 50 songs. JUST YOU AND YOUR MUSIC There’s no streaming catalog, advertising, social feed, listening surveillance, or recommendation algorithm competing for your attention. SoloTracks plays the music you chose — and helps you hear it more closely. Made with care for listeners, singers, and musicians.

About

DrumClock

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Your drummer is the click. DrumClock listens to the drums and turns the groove into MIDI clock and tap-tempo CC, live. No click track, no count-in from a laptop, no tapping a pedal every song. The drummer plays, and your delays, arps and sequencers land on the beat. HOW IT WORKS Put an iPhone in the drum cage or clip it to a stand, or feed a kick/snare mic through a USB interface. DrumClock finds the tempo in a few bars, locks to it, and keeps following when the drummer pushes or pulls. Fills and ghost notes don't throw it. Breaks don't either: it holds the last tempo and picks the beat back up when the drums return. WHAT IT SENDS • MIDI clock (24 pulses per beat, Start/Stop) for anything that syncs to clock: Helix, Strymon, Ableton, MainStage, synth arpeggiators. • Tap-tempo CC: a controller message on every beat, for apps and pedals that can't read clock but can map a CC to Tap Tempo (Sunday Keys, many delays). • A click track, if that's how you roll: lock the tempo, switch on the metronome, and it clicks at exactly that tempo. It's silent unless the tempo is locked. Send it to headphones or an interface. • Any combination of the three. You pick. WHERE IT SENDS • Wired USB MIDI: the way to go for clock. A class-compliant interface into a powered hub, a 5-pin cable to the keys rig. Sub-millisecond jitter. • A virtual “DrumClock” port for apps on the same iPad. Zero latency, no hardware. • Network MIDI (RTP) over Ethernet or Wi-Fi, for a Mac running your DAW. • Bluetooth MIDI for cable-free rehearsals. Each output tells you what it's good for and where it falls short before you pick it. USING SUNDAY KEYS? Sunday Keys can't take MIDI clock, only a tap tempo you MIDI-Learn — so someone has had to tap it by hand, every song. DrumClock taps it for you on every beat, on the drummer's time. Map it once; the delays and arps are in time all service long. Works on the same iPad through the DrumClock port, or wired from a phone by the kit. (Sunday Keys is a product of Sunday Sounds; DrumClock is not affiliated.) SETLISTS AND IMPORTS Save tempos as presets in set order and step through them with the arrows on the main screen. Or bring a setlist in: • Planning Center Services: sign in and pull a plan's songs and BPMs straight into your setlist. • CSV and spreadsheets: choose a file, or paste cells from Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets. • OnSong, SongSelect and Setlist Helper: song titles and tempos from their text exports (ChordPro, .onsong). • Songs with no tempo are flagged. Type one in, or look it up in the tempos stored in your Music library, on the device. • Export your setlist as a CSV or a DrumClock file to share with the band or move to another device. DrumClock is not affiliated with Planning Center, OnSong, CCLI SongSelect, Setlist Helper, or Apple. BUILT FOR A STAGE • One screen: tempo, a pulse you can read from behind the kit, Tap, and a big Start/Stop. • Tap in a tempo yourself when you want to. ÷2 and ×2 when the tracker picks half-time. • Hold freezes the clock through a rubato bridge or a drum solo. • Gain control with a meter, because some drummers are loud. iOS automatic gain is off while DrumClock listens. • Keeps running with the screen locked or another app in front. Nothing is recorded. Audio is analysed on the device and never leaves it. Made by Creedy Solutions, the people behind Chartless. DRUMCLOCK PRO DrumClock is free to try: MIDI clock output runs 10 minutes a day on the free tier. DrumClock Pro removes the limit. Pro is $19.99/year (auto-renewing subscription) or $49.99 once for lifetime access. The yearly subscription is charged to your Apple Account, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://creedysolutions.com/drumclock-privacy

Screenshots

SoloTracks4 screens
DrumClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DrumClock at every 4 days against SoloTracks's every 2 weeks. SoloTracks's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. SoloTracks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DrumClock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SoloTracks ships an update every 2 weeks, DrumClock every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SoloTracks versus DrumClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoloTracksDrumClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWally Apps LLCCREEDYSOLUTIONS, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SoloTracks

One-time1
  • SoloTracks Pro$7.99
2 purchases

DrumClock

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is SoloTracks free?
SoloTracks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrumClock free?
DrumClock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SoloTracks or DrumClock have ads?
Neither SoloTracks nor DrumClock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SoloTracks or DrumClock?
SoloTracks ships an update every 2 weeks, and DrumClock every 4 days. Most recently, SoloTracks was updated on November 5, 2026 and DrumClock on November 10, 2026.

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