Comparison

Pocket Drums vs DrumDummy

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Drums

This app serves as a portable drum trainer, offering structured lessons and visual aids to help users learn drumming techniques and practice rhythms. It features tempo control, diverse music styles, and progress tracking for aspiring drummers.

Highlights
  • Structured drum lessons
  • Visual drum kit maps
  • Adjustable tempo control
  • Premium drum tracks
  • Progress tracking
  • Practice anywhere
Features
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Pocket Drums is your ultimate portable drum trainer and practice studio. Learn drums, master rudiments, and practice anywhere — no full kit required. Download Pocket Drums and start drumming now! LEARN & PRACTICE ANYWHERE - Structured Lessons: Master beginner grooves, essential rudiments, drum fills, and advanced techniques. - Visual Drum Maps: See every hit in real time with an interactive visual kit map. - Total Tempo Control: Adjust the BPM, loop difficult bars, and practice at your own pace. - All Music Styles: Explore premium drum tracks across rock, jazz, funk, metal, hip-hop, and latin. - Track Your Progress: Save lessons to your library and log your daily practice time. Whether you are practicing on a drum pad or a full drum set, build real skills today.

About

DrumDummy

Features
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DrumDummy is the drummer who shows you how. A 3D drummer sits at a translucent kit and plays patterns for you to shadow. Watch from the front, from the side, from above — or through the drummer's own eyes. Slow it down, loop it, mirror it, and play along until it sits. WATCH Every limb is animated: sticking, crossovers, hi-hat work, pedals. Left and right hands are color-coded, and a Mirror mode flips the view so you can shadow movement for movement. LEARN 90 built-in patterns across rock, funk, blues, jazz, latin, reggae and electronic styles — plus all 40 PAS rudiments, shown as real drum notation with sticking and accents, ordered exactly like the official chart. PRACTISE Metronome with count-in and subdivisions, tap tempo from 20 to 200 bpm, tempo remembered per pattern. Loop any bars. Gap trainer drops the sound for a bar to test your inner clock; tempo trainer nudges the speed up as you loop. FOR TEACHERS DrumDummy doubles as a demonstration tool for lessons: show a pattern from the front, from the side, from above or through the player's own eyes — and mirror the view so your student can shadow the movement hand for hand. Slow it to talking speed, loop the tricky bar, let the count-in do the counting. Write an exercise in the editor and hand it to your student as a simple share link: it opens on their phone, no account, nothing to install. CREATE Build your own patterns in the step editor: any time signature, up to 32 bars, swing, flams, drags, ghost notes, rimclicks and more. Share any pattern as a link — no account needed, the pattern travels inside the link itself. SOUND A real sampled drum kit and a clean synthesized kit, with a per-drum mixer, pan and room reverb. Or build a kit from your own samples. FREE AND PRO DrumDummy is free to practise with: a starter set of patterns in every style, eight essential rudiments, the full 3D drummer, the sampled kit and the metronome. One single purchase unlocks everything for good — the full pattern library, all 40 rudiments, saving your own patterns, custom kits, MIDI/MusicXML import and export, and the practice trainers. No subscription. No account. No ads. No tracking. Works completely offline. The Salamander drum samples by Alexander Holm are used under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Screenshots

Pocket Drums3 screens
DrumDummy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Drums at none against DrumDummy's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. DrumDummy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pocket Drums asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Pocket Drums versus DrumDummy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket DrumsDrumDummy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmark AiAndrej Marffy

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Drums

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DrumDummy

One-time1
  • DrumDummy Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Pocket Drums free?
Pocket Drums is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DrumDummy free?
DrumDummy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pocket Drums or DrumDummy have ads?
Neither Pocket Drums nor DrumDummy shows ads.

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