GrooveSmith vs Rimclick

You sit down at the kit — and play the same three beats you always play. GrooveSmith solves the hardest part of practising alone: deciding what to play. Tap once and you get a fresh practice sheet — a groove flowing into a fill — written out properly, with the audio to match. Not a random note generator: every combination is checked so it sounds like real drumming. YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MUSIC If you read charts, this is a chart. If you don't, turn on labels and the notes tell you which drum to hit — so you're learning real notation from day one, not a simplified version you'd have to unlearn later. IT GROWS WITH YOU Ten levels, from your very first beat to material you'll have to work at. Each one adds a single new idea instead of a wall, so the next level always feels like the next step — not a cliff. BUILT FOR PLAYING ALONG, NOT WATCHING Hit play and the drums, the click and a moving cursor stay locked together. Change tempo without stopping. Count yourself in. Mute the kit and keep the click, or the other way round. FILLS, AND THE RUDIMENTS YOU KEEP MEANING TO WORK ON Short pickups or a full bar, with the sticking written in so you're never guessing which hand leads. Paradiddles, flams, rolls — properly notated. FITS THE WAY YOU ALREADY PRACTISE Play something once or twenty times. Slow it right down, stop halfway, come back tomorrow. There's no course to work through and no streak to keep — you decide what counts as progress. Rock and pop, straight, half-time or shuffle — and 6/8 and 12/8 when you want them. Works offline. No account, no ads, nothing to sign up for. Made by a drummer who got bored of his own practice routine.

Rimclick is a metronome and drum machine in one, made for practicing drums. Instead of playing against a bare click, you program a groove on a step grid and practice along with it or switch the drums off and use it as a precise, no-nonsense metronome. METRONOME • 30–240 BPM, set by slider, +/– buttons or tap tempo • Time signatures 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4 and 8/8 • Accent on beat 1, on or off • Subdivision clicks: 8ths, triplets or 16ths • A beat strip and pulse ring you can read from the drum stool • Screen flash: the whole screen pulses on every beat, for when the kit drowns out the click DRUM SEQUENCER • A step grid one bar long in every time signature — 12 steps in 3/4, 16 in 4/4, 24 in 6/4 — with eight synthesized drums: kick, snare, closed and open hi-hat, crash, ride, high and low tom • Draw by tapping or dragging; a crosshair shows which cell is under your finger • A full-screen editor with big cells, for drawing comfortably on a phone • Four pattern slots (A–D) — chain them into a longer phrase and set how many times each one repeats; while the chain plays, the grid follows the pattern you hear • Swing from straight to a full triplet feel • Count-in of one or two bars before the drums start • Separate click and drum volume, and mute any track with a tap on its name TRAINERS • Tempo trainer: add N BPM every M bars until you reach your target tempo • Gap trainer: the click plays for a few bars, then drops out — keep time on your own until it comes back PRESETS • Save your grooves with their tempo and time signature and load them again in one tap • Your preset library syncs across your iPhone and iPad through iCloud BUILT FOR PRACTICE • Timing is sample-accurate: the whole clock runs inside the audio engine, not on a timer • Keeps playing in the background and with the screen locked; start and stop from the lock screen or your headphones • Designed for iPhone (landscape and portrait) and iPad, with a large layout for iPad on a music stand • Low latency on wired headphones and the built-in speaker; Bluetooth is supported PRIVATE AND FREE No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The app collects no data at all. It is free and stays free — if it helps your practice, there is an optional tip jar inside.