Comparison

Session Whistle vs Rudiment

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

Head to head
About

Session Whistle

Learn to play the tin whistle with interactive lessons, fingering guides, and a vast library of traditional tunes. Practice your pitch and rhythm with detailed feedback, and explore advanced techniques with optional Pro features.

Highlights
  • Interactive fingering illustrations
  • Reference notes for selected keys
  • Phrase and tune practice
  • 3,000+ offline traditional tunes
  • Pitch and rhythm feedback
  • Practice recap and sharing
  • Off the Page notation reduction
Features
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See the fingering. Hear the note. Try the phrase. Session Whistle brings tin-whistle practice and a free Irish traditional tune book together on iPhone. Start with three lower-register notes, then put them into a short phrase at your own pace. START FREE • Follow clear six-hole illustrations and written fingering instructions in First notes. • Hear reference notes for your selected whistle key, including Low D. • Try a five-note phrase and follow the free first-tune course. • Browse 3,000 community-sourced tunes offline, with staff notation, whistle tab and fingerings. • Slow playback, loop a passage and save session sets. KNOW WHAT YOUR TAKE SHOWS The practice recap separates your pitch score from the number of notes heard. An unfinished phrase leaves your saved full-phrase best unchanged. Unheard notes receive no grade. Pitch practice does not assess rhythm. Create a practice card from your take, preview it, and choose whether to share it. The card includes the pitch score and note coverage, with no microphone audio. GO FURTHER WITH OPTIONAL PRO • Continue into the second-tune course and guided technique exercises. • Use Off the Page to reduce the notation, then try an opening phrase from memory without note hints or reference cues. • Practice rhythm separately by tapping the phrase at your chosen tempo. The tapping drill checks timing, not pitch. • Get additional teaching tools, unlimited on-device tune identification and typed technique answers for signed-in subscribers. The 3,000-tune book stays free, with no ads or tune paywall. You can start without an app account. Existing Pro subscriptions remain supported; cancelling Pro does not remove the free tune book. Microphone analysis takes place on your device. Your whistle audio is not recorded or uploaded. The optional text coach requires sign-in and sends the question you type for an answer; the app does not attach microphone audio, tune notation or practice history. Avoid including personal details or tune content in your question. Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase or as monthly and yearly subscriptions. Lifetime unlocks every on-device Pro feature; typed technique answers come with the subscriptions. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account subscription settings. Local prices and any eligible introductory offer appear before purchase. Restore Purchases is available in Settings. Requires iPhone with iOS 18 or later. The app interface is in English. Support: https://playsoloist.com/support Privacy: https://sessionwhistle.keenshift.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://sessionwhistle.keenshift.ai/terms

About

Rudiment

Features
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Rudiment turns practice into a game; hit-by-hit judgement, real grading, and a curriculum that actually builds your timing. Built for iPad, with a streamlined layout optimized for iPhone. Play with your fingers on the built-in pad grid, plug in MIDI hardware (MPCs, drum machines, e-kits), or use Acoustic Mode to play your real acoustic kit near the mic (BETA). Every hit gets judged in real time, Perfect, Early, Late, or Miss and scored into a D-through-S grade based on your consistency, not just raw hits. WHAT'S INSIDE - Foundations: 16 focused drills building the fundamentals from the ground up - Lessons: 16 lessons layering real technique on top of those fundamentals - Patterns: a genre-spanning pattern library across Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty - Game Mode: a guided curriculum that only lets you advance once you're actually playing consistently, not just once - Genre Packs: 13 curated pattern collections spanning Trap, Drill, Boom Bap, Lofi, Jazz, Afrobeats, House, Jersey Club, Phonk, R&B, Reggaeton, and more - Personal Records: every pattern, lesson, and song keeps its own best score, grade, and streak PLAY YOUR WAY Rudiment adapts to how you actually play. No hardware? The on-screen pad grid works out of the box. Own an MPC, drum machine, or MIDI-capable e-kit? Rudiment learns its exact layout automatically, no manual setup, no guesswork. Prefer your real kit? Acoustic Mode listens for kick, snare, and hihat and judges you against them directly. Not happy with the built-in drum sounds? Load your own samples for any lane, swap in your own kicks, snares, and hats from your own audio library. BUILT FOR REAL PRACTICE, NOT JUST HIGH SCORES Rudiment's grading rewards consistency over time, not just a single lucky run, the same discipline a real drummer builds on a practice pad. Whether you're a finger-drummer refining your MPC chops, a producer wanting tighter programmed rhythm, or a drummer looking for a focused way to drill timing, Rudiment gives you honest, immediate feedback on every single hit. Free to start: play Foundations, Lessons, and Patterns right away, with Game Mode open through its early stops. Unlock the full curriculum and every genre pack as you're ready for more.

Screenshots

Session Whistle4 screens
Rudiment4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Session Whistle at 18.0 against Rudiment's 26.2. 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. Session Whistle sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Rudiment sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Session Whistle versus Rudiment: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSession WhistleRudiment
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMitaanshu AgarwalNathan small

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Session Whistle

Subscriptions4
  • Session Whistle Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Session Whistle Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Session Whistle Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Session Whistle Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
10 purchases

Rudiment

One-time10
  • Drill$3.99
  • House$3.99
  • Jersey Club$3.99
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  • Lofi Beats$3.99
  • Phonk$3.99
  • RnB$3.99
  • Reggaeton$3.99
  • Trap$3.99
  • All Base Content$12.99
  • All Packs Bundle$29.99

Questions

Is Session Whistle free?
Session Whistle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rudiment free?
Rudiment is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Session Whistle or Rudiment have ads?
Neither Session Whistle nor Rudiment shows ads.

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