Comparison

Drumloom vs TONAUT

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

Head to head
About

Drumloom

This app provides drummers with a comprehensive practice tool, featuring a precise metronome, over 1,000 exercises, and a notation editor. It allows users to create custom routines with tempo changes and rests, and even convert sheet music images into playable notation.

Highlights
  • Precise metronome with advanced settings
  • Over 1,000 drum exercises and grooves
  • Cursor-synced notation with distinct voices
  • Customizable practice routines with tempo changes
  • Notation editor for creating custom patterns
  • Convert sheet music images to playable notation
  • MIDI and MusicXML import/export
Features
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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.

About

TONAUT

Features
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Tonaut is a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape recorder in one instrument, made to be played rather than programmed. Pick a sound, tap out a pattern and record it to tape, all on one panel that feels more like hardware than an app. IPHONE DUO • Folded, one octave on the outer screen. Half folded, the screens above the keys. Open, the whole instrument. Folding never stops the music SOUNDS • Nine synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly and a sampler • Every engine has a 3D screen that moves with your playing, or a classic view • Over 500 sounds, from warm pads to glassy bells and growling bass, including 147 sampled instruments • Edit every sound in depth, save your own, and star your favorites • Load DX7-style SysEx banks into the FM engine • Four effects on every sound from sixteen types, from tape echo and huge reverb to distortion, pump, phaser and lo-fi • A master effect, a master EQ and an EQ on every lane DRUMS • 43 kits on three drum engines: kits made from real recorded drums, synthesized kits where every pad is its own drum, and slice kits • Knock and Cinder kits drawn in 3D, moving with every hit • A groove player: hold any pad and the whole kit plays one of sixteen grooves • Make kits from your own recordings or from audio files, one per pad KEYS AND CHORDS • Pick a key and scale and its keys light up; LOCK keeps every note in key, per lane • CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, and works with the arpeggiator and the sequencer • Chord pad: seven chords from your key and a stick that turns each into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more, with strum and bass, also from a MIDI keyboard SEQUENCER • Eight lanes, each with its own sound and sixteen patterns of up to 64 steps • Write step by step or record live, with chords, slides, ratchets and chance • STEP REC: each note or chord you play fills a step, with rest and tie, also from MIDI • Pattern Play: queue the next pattern and every lane moves on together • Copy, swap and transpose patterns, and reorder lanes • An arpeggiator on every synth lane PLAY IT LIVE • A Perform page with TONE and SPACE for every lane, which glide back when you stop • An X/Y pad that bends pitch and moves the sound under one finger • One-tap mutes, tap tempo, click and count-in TAPE • Eight tracks of 20 minutes each, or six tracks of 30 minutes, chosen per project • Record every lane to its own track, or several onto one • Loop, reverse, stutter, brake and catch the last 30 seconds you played • A tape mixer, and pinch to zoom from a few bars to the whole song SAMPLING • Sample with the microphone, a USB interface, or Tonaut itself • Link your sample folders once, tap a file to hear it, and load it onto a pad or into the sampler • Drag audio files in from other apps onto a drum pad or the sampler MIDI • Play Tonaut from USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboards and controllers, on the selected lane or with each lane on its own channel • Send any lane to your own synths and drum machines, with clock and start/stop SHARE AND EXPORT • Share a loop from the tape as a vertical video or as audio, ready to post • Send a whole song, samples and all, as one file a friend opens in Tonaut • Export a stereo mix, separate stems as WAV files, or MIDI files of every lane • Optional iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, each with its own layout, in six looks: Light, Dark, TN-1, TN-1 Dark, TN-XY and TN-SIGNAL. No subscription, no account, and Tonaut collects no data. Your music stays yours. REQUIREMENTS • An iPhone with an edge-to-edge screen: iPhone XS, XR or newer, iOS 17 or later. Not the iPhone SE (its screen is too small) • iPad (6th generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Pro (2017) or newer, iPadOS 17 or later Questions? Write to hello@coastcreative.studio or visit tonaut.app.

Screenshots

Drumloom4 screens
TONAUT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drumloom at Free against TONAUT's $14.99. TONAUT's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (daily vs every 11 days). On rating, 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

Drumloom is free to download; TONAUT costs $14.99 up front. Drumloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TONAUT asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drumloom against 5.0 for TONAUT. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drumloom ships an update every 11 days, TONAUT daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Drumloom versus TONAUT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrumloomTONAUT
PriceFree — better$14.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank—#67 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEugen SchottRichard Rogers

Customer experience

Drumloom

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TONAUT

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drumloom

One-time1
  • Drumloom Pro$3.99
None

TONAUT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drumloom free?
Drumloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TONAUT free?
TONAUT costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drumloom or TONAUT?
Drumloom and TONAUT are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Drumloom or TONAUT have ads?
Neither Drumloom nor TONAUT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drumloom or TONAUT?
Drumloom ships an update every 11 days, and TONAUT daily. Most recently, Drumloom was updated on October 31, 2026 and TONAUT on November 1, 2026.

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