RDM Playalongs vs Rudimo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RDM Playalongs
This app offers three practice tools for drummers, including a metronome with advanced features, a sight-reading generator, and a library of exercises. It helps improve hand speed, accuracy, and reading skills with customizable tempos and rhythms. Track your practice time and engage with a community for support.
- 500+ practice exercises
- Customizable metronome with unique subdivisions
- Generates unique sight-reading exercises
- Tempo control with range and climbing options
- Practice time tracking and streaks
- Community support from developer
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Three practice tools for rudimental drummers, built to get your hands clean and fast. PLAYALONGS 500+ exercises. Press play and it loops until you stop it. Set the tempo to bounce around inside a range so you can't settle in, or have it climb every few reps until you find where you break. Twelve ready-made playlists too, or build your own. METRONOME Any time signature. Any subdivision, including the ones normal metronome apps don't have: 7-lets, 9-lets, ratio rhythms. Accent, diddle, buzz or mute any beat, any partial. Chain different rhythms into a sequence and save it. SIGHT-READING LAB Hit generate, get a page you've never seen. Set the tempo, the rests, the stickings, the syncopation, the time signature. Set the difficulty to your level. Notation on screen while it plays, so you're reading and hearing at the same time. Practice time tracked. Streaks. Leaderboard. Stuck on something? Post it in the community and I'll answer it myself. Built by Anthony Steller, a gigging drummer and snare instructor, for marching snare drummers and drumlines. Start free. You get all three tools with limits, no card needed. RDM Playalongs Monthly is an auto-renewing subscription, $12.99 per month. It unlocks all 500+ exercises and every control in all three tools. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rudimentaldrummingmastery.com/privacy-policy.html
Rudimo
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Rudimo is a practice app for drummers. Work through the 40 PAS International Drum Rudiments plus warm-ups and accent studies with a sample-accurate metronome and drum guide. Practice • Three views: sticking, standard notation and a falling-notes highway • 20–240 BPM, tap tempo, last and best tempo remembered per rudiment • Switch hands, auto switch, hear one hand only • Speed builder, random rudiments, gap click • Rock, funk, shuffle, hip-hop and marching backing grooves • Routines: chain rudiments with set repetitions and tempos Challenges • A rhythm-game stage that starts with a countdown and GO! • Play on-screen pads (timing and sticking scored) or a real practice pad via the microphone • Perfect/Good/OK judging with FAST/SLOW, combo multipliers up to ×4 and Fever • S–D ranks, up to 3 stars and a speed ladder • Timing analysis: early/late spread, per-hand offset and your weakest note Motivation • Levels and XP, 17 badges and a daily challenge • Practice streaks and daily reminders Works on iPhone and iPad, with a split view and keyboard shortcuts on iPad. Everything stays on your device; microphone audio never leaves it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rudimo at none against RDM Playalongs's 1. RDM Playalongs's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. RDM Playalongs sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.99 per month. Rudimo asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | RDM Playalongs | Rudimo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anthony Steller | sungmin park |
In-app purchases
RDM Playalongs
- RDM Playalongs$12.991 Month
Rudimo
No in-app purchases





