Jazz In NYC vs Drum Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jazz In NYC
Discover live jazz performances across New York City with a comprehensive daily updated calendar. Find shows by venue or artist, set reminders, and get alerts for your favorite musicians. Includes ticket links, maps, and festival information.
- Daily updated jazz venue schedules
- Artist and venue following
- Customizable show reminders
- New show announcements
- Ticket purchasing links
- Interactive venue maps
- Festival schedules
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New York has more live jazz than any city on earth. Jazz In NYC is how you find it. Every night, something worth hearing is happening somewhere in the city. The hard part is knowing where. We track the schedules of New York's best jazz venues and bring them into one calendar, updated daily, from the Village Vanguard to all the city's top rooms. What you get: • Tonight, this week, this month: see what's playing whenever you're free • 20+ venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn, including the Village Vanguard, Smalls, Mezzrow, Blue Note, Dizzy's, Birdland, Ornithology, and Smoke • Follow your favorite artists, save them with a tap • Show reminders: get notified before a saved artist plays, day-of, or up to a week ahead, your choice • New-show alerts: the moment a saved artist announces a show, you'll know • A weekly roundup of the city's best • Browse by venue, by artist, or by night, everything's connected and clickable • Tickets, calendar, and maps: buy tickets, add a show to your calendar, or find the venue • Festivals: dedicated pages, full schedules, and maps Built by a New York jazz musician to bring the scene to your fingertips.
Drum Lab
Practice with professionally recorded drum loops from various genres. Adjust tempo, loop sections, and utilize practice modes to improve your timing and feel. Export your work with studio effects for use in your own music.
- Professionally recorded drum loops
- Tempo adjustment without pitch change
- Practice Mode with tempo progression
- Built-in metronome
- Offline loop downloads
- Studio effects (Tape, Echo, Reverb)
- Export loops as WAV files
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Practice with real drums, not a drum machine. Drum Lab is a library of original, professionally recorded drum loops. Built for musicians who want to practice, play along, and get better, not just listen. Every loop is a real performance, seamlessly looped, organized by feel so you can find exactly the groove you need. Browse jazz, funk, R&B and hip hop, rock and pop, world rhythms grouped by region (Brazilian, Latin, African and more), and odd meters grouped by time signature. Tap a loop and it locks in at its tempo instantly - no setup, no syncing, just drums. **Built for practice, not just playback** - Slow a groove down or speed it up, from 0.5× to 1.5×, without changing its pitch - Tap the BPM to type an exact tempo - Loop just the bars you're working on, snapped to the bar lines - Practice Mode gradually raises the tempo as you play - +5 BPM every 4 bars by default, and you set the step and how often - Built-in metronome locked to each loop's grid, in quarter, eighth or sixteenth notes, or on beat 1 only - Optional two-bar count-in before the loop starts - Download loops for offline practice anywhere - no connection needed - Save favorites and build your own practice playlists - Light and dark mode **Producer Mode: make it sound like a record** - Tape, Punch, Echo and Reverb in a rack of classic studio gear - Start from a ready-made tape, or dial in your own sound and save it - Echo locks to the loop's tempo, and Blend sets how much of the effects you hear - Bounce (Pro): export exactly what you hear as a WAV that loops seamlessly in any DAW **Try it free** Pick 3 loops to keep, free forever, full length, with tempo control and Practice Mode. Every other loop plays a 10-second preview, so you can hear the whole library first. Unlock Drum Lab Pro with a one-time payment for every loop, every practice feature, Bounce, and the original WAV files to export, royalty-free, into your own music - no subscription, ever. Whether you're working on your time, your feel, or just want something real to play along to, Drum Lab gives you drums that sound like a drummer, because they are one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jazz In NYC at none against Drum Lab's 1. Jazz In NYC also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). Drum Lab's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (19 vs 6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Drum Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jazz In NYC asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Jazz In NYC against 5.0 for Drum Lab. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 19 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Jazz In NYC | Drum Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joyspring Media LLC | ALON BENJAMINI |
Customer experience
Jazz In NYC
Drum Lab
In-app purchases
Jazz In NYC
No in-app purchases
Drum Lab
- Drum Lab Pro$9.99









