RhythmForge vs Drumloom

Most metronomes just count. RhythmForge listens back. Play along to the beat and the app hears you in real time. Every hit is measured, every drift is shown, every session tells you exactly where your timing is strong and where it's not. Your phone becomes a practice coach. HOW IT WORKS Pick a challenge. Set your tempo. Play. RhythmForge scores every beat across six accuracy tiers — Perfect, Great, Good, Okay, Weak, Missed. Build combos with consecutive Perfects for bonus points. Beat your personal best. See exactly where you rushed or dragged. 63 built-in challenges spanning rudiments (singles, doubles, paradiddles, rolls, gallops), grooves, world rhythms (tresillo, son clave, rumba, cáscara, mozambique, bossa nova, samba, baião, bembé), compound and odd meters, and odd subdivisions. From first-week beginner to serious drummer. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Real-time onset detection — the app hears your strokes and scores them instantly • Six-tier accuracy grading based on millisecond timing • Combo multipliers and personal-best tracking that make practice addictive • Rushing / dragging analysis per session — know your tendencies • Timing precision scatter plot and beat distribution charts • Per-device latency calibration that auto-corrects AirPods drift • Works with drum pads, snare, hand percussion, claves, djembe • 20–360 BPM, all standard subdivisions, accents • True dark-first design, optimized for OLED FREE FOREVER • Full metronome — every subdivision, tempo ramp, ghost measures • Every click sound • Unlimited free practice with live timing feedback • Every analysis screen, unblurred — distribution, precision, rushing and dragging • Every challenge in the library, playable. Nothing is locked • 6 minutes of challenge time a day, spent on whatever you choose • Your last 7 sessions No challenge is behind the subscription. What's metered is time: 6 minutes a day, topping back up as the day goes — four times faster while you're practicing. Run out and any challenge still gives you a free 25-second run, as many as you like. Tempo ramp and ghost measures are premium features in competing apps. Here they're free, forever. The metronome you'd pay for, included. RHYTHMFORGE PRO Unlock everything with a 7-day free trial: • Unlimited challenge time — the meter disappears • Pattern builder — create your own rhythms, loop them, score them • Triplet and sixteenth targets — play any subdivision over any click • Per-beat pattern editing • Full session history, unlimited FOR WHO Drummers. Percussionists. Guitarists who play rhythmically. Music students. Teachers. Anyone who knows that timing is the foundation of everything musical — and wants to actually measure where theirs stands. Privacy: RhythmForge never uploads your audio. All timing detection runs on-device. Analytics are anonymous and aggregated. Requires iOS 17 or later. Microphone permission required for timing feedback. Terms of Service: https://rhythmforge.app/terms

Drumloom is a practice instrument for drummers. Start with a precise metronome. Open an exercise, hear the pattern and follow the notation. Build routines that run tempo changes, repeats and rests for you — every transition stays on the bar. Write your own patterns, or turn a screenshot, photo or PDF of a chart into playable notation What you get: - A focused drum metronome with meters, subdivisions, accents, separate levels and a live beat/count display - More than 1,000 exercises across singles, rudiments, stickings, left hand, kick patterns, grooves and fills - Cursor-synced notation and distinct right- and left-hand voices - Ghost notes, flams, drags, accents, swing and full-kit playback - Polyrhythms and polymeters with up to four layers - Bar-accurate routines with count-in, tempo steps, rests and voice cues - A notation editor and step sequencer to write your own patterns and fills, plus fresh random suggestions - Turn a screenshot, photo or PDF of a chart into playable notation - Import and export your patterns and fills as MIDI or MusicXML files - Record live from your MIDI drum kit - Sync tempo with other apps and gear over Ableton Link - Streaks, weekly goals, session history and tempo PRs - Private iCloud sync plus file backup - Dark and light appearance, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver The core stays free: the standard metronome, a playable exercise in every main category, a daily library rotation and one basic practice routine. Drumloom Pro unlocks everything with one lifetime purchase. No subscription. Ever. Your practice data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud container. Drumloom includes no advertising or tracking SDK.