Drumline Designer vs Drumr Notate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drumline Designer
Create and edit drumline sheet music directly on your mobile device. This app offers an intuitive grid system for note entry, automatic beaming, and support for complex rhythms and articulations. Export your compositions as PDFs, audio, MusicXML, or animated videos.
- Intuitive grid-based note entry
- Automatic beaming and placement
- Support for tuplets and complex rhythms
- Add accents, staccatos, marcatos, and legatos
- Instant playback for review
- Export to PDF, Audio, MusicXML, and video
- Create animated video clips
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Notate sheet music for drumline directly from your phone! Drumline Designer is the app that lets you easily enter notes into a grid and have your sheet music automatically be created. Perfect for hobbyist and professionals! Export PDFs, Audio, MusicXML, and videos of your music! Drumline Designer uses an accessible grid design system, allowing you input notes easily. Each note is automatically beamed and placed inside of your sheet music. The grid can also work with tuplets, allowing you to write more complex rhythmic lines. Add accents, staccatos, marcatos, and legatos to your music, shaping the way everything plays and sounds. Playback is instant, allowing you to listen and make changes as you go. Each piece of music can be exported to other notation softwares, allowing you to easily implement your drumline music into Sibelius, MuseScore, Dorico and other notation software! Show off your music by exporting animated videos, making both portrait and landscape clips so you can share your work on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other social media.
Drumr Notate
Create, listen to, and share drum sheet music with this intuitive notation software. Features include a vast array of note values, dynamics, articulations, and instrument-specific palettes. Practice your compositions with playback and performance analysis tools.
- Intuitive note entry and editing
- Real-time audio playback with drum sounds
- Extensive notation symbols and articulations
- Multiple drum kit and marching percussion palettes
- Practice tools with looping and speed training
- Export to MusicXML and PDF
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Notation software made exclusively for drums. Write a groove, work out a fill, or build a part for the line. Write it. Hear it. Share it. Made for speed Drag a note over the score to see where it fits before you drop it. You can also tap notes into place or use keyboard shortcuts. Repeat notes, duplicate measures, and copy and paste to build the part fast. Notate handles beams and rests as you write. Hear it back Hit play to hear your part, accents and ghost notes included. Built-in drum sounds follow your tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm, with a metronome to keep the beat. Everything you need to compose. - Note values from whole notes to 32nd notes - Tuplets — triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and ninelets - Dynamics from ppp to fff, crescendo and decrescendo hairpins, and score-wide Accent/Tap dynamics - Accents, marcatos, tenutos, staccatos, flams, drags, ruffs, diddles, ghost notes, and open hi-hat markings - Add sticking and text to explain how the part should be played, or show sticking with Berger notation on Marching Snare - Per-measure tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm and time signatures from 2/4 to 13/8 - Beams group themselves from the meter, compound meters included, with manual override - Rests consolidate automatically Built for the whole drumline. Four complete instrument palettes, with more than 100 sound and technique combinations. - Drum Kit — snare, bass drum, hi-hats, toms, and cymbals, plus cowbell, tambourine, clave, and gock block - Marching Snare — rimshots, cross-sticks, buzz and press rolls, backsticks, stick shots, stick clicks, ping shots, gock blocks, cowbell, and ribbon crasher - Marching Tenors — all six drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz and press rolls, crossovers, stick shots, stick clicks, and skank - Marching Bassline — all five drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz rolls, stick clicks, and unison hits Wrote it? Now practice it. Take the part to the pad or kit. Tap Open in Drumr to follow every note, loop the hard bars, build the tempo with speed training, and get Performance Analysis on your own music. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Macs with Apple silicon. Requires Drumr Premium, with a free 7-day trial. PDF and MusicXML Your scores live in the Files app or iCloud Drive as standard MusicXML files. Send one to another drummer and they can open and play it free in Notate. You can also share or print a PDF. Appearance Choose Light, Dark, or System, with preset or custom theme colors. Start writing Try writing and editing free for 7 days, then subscribe to keep composing. Opening, playing, and printing scores is free. No account needed. — Help/feedback: https://support.drumr.app Privacy: https://privacy.drumr.app Terms: https://terms.drumr.app Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Drumr Notate at Free against Drumline Designer's $19.99. Drumr Notate also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.5) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 days). Drumline Designer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads 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
Drumr Notate is free to download; Drumline Designer costs $19.99 up front. Drumr Notate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Drumline Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drumr Notate holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Drumline Designer ships an update every 6 days, Drumr Notate daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drumline Designer | Drumr Notate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Price | Drumr Inc. |
Customer experience
Drumline Designer
Drumr Notate
In-app purchases
Drumline Designer
No in-app purchases
Drumr Notate
- Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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