Congas! vs Drum Solo Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Congas!
This app offers a realistic percussion experience with high-fidelity sounds and crisp graphics. It includes a learning feature to teach rhythm, multiple drum layouts, and multi-track recording capabilities.
- Realistic percussion sounds and graphics
- Learn'NPlay rhythm teaching feature
- Multiple drum layouts and kits
- Multi-track recording
- Touch sensitivity and pitch control
- Play along to music and loops
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Congas! is the most realistic sounding and looking percussion app available today! Created with both beginners and pros in mind, Congas! combines the latest drum app technology available with decades of real percussion experience to create the ideal conga app for the iPhone or iPad. Congas! also teaches drum rhythm with our exclusive Learn'NPlay feature. 40 different percussion loops for both beginner and advanced will have you playing the Congas and Bongos in no time! When a loop is selected, the drum lights up and emits colorful musical notes when tapped simultaneously as the drum being played. There are 10 different drum layouts, including Requinto, Quinto, Conga, Tumba, Super Tumba, Bongos and Djembe drums. 44.1 khz high fidelity sound, retina display for incredibly crisp graphics, as well as realistic features such as touch volume sensitivity, pitch, reverb and delay controls make you feel as if you are actually playing real drums! Other features include multi-track recording, and the ability to play along to music on your iPod, or to our 8 Drum, 7 Music and 10 Percussion Loops, and metronome sounds. Congas! amazing sounds, graphics and features combine to provide drummers of all ages and levels a truly realistic percussion experience! FEATURES: • 5 different drum layouts, each with 2 drum kits to choose from: 2, 3, and 4 Congas; Congas and Bongos; and Congas, Bongos and Djembe • 5 different conga drums: Requinto, Quinto, Conga, Tumba, and Super Tumba • Professionally recorded 44.1 khz high fidelity sounds • Exclusive LearnNPlay feature teaches rhythm in a fun and easy way - each drum layout has 8 different loops to play along to, in beginner and advanced categories. • Colorful graphics and animation- musical notes appear wherever drum is hit • Touch Sensitivity Volume Control-the volume responds to your touch: the harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound • Reverb and Delay Controls - slider adjustments allows limitless drum sounds • Pitch Control - lower or raise the pitch of the drums • Retina Display for both iPad and iPhone for incredibly crisp graphics • 10 Percussion Loops, 8 Drum Loops, and 7 Music Loops to play along to • Realistic Rolls - simply swirl your finger around to create slower or faster rolls • 10 Metronome Sounds and 4 Time Signatures to choose from, with BPM adjustment • Multi-track recording - easily add or delete tracks, save and loop recordings • Share your recordings through email, Facebook, and Twitter • Export your recordings to your computer • Lefty Mode - reverse the entire drum layout • Play along to the music on your iPod PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html
Drum Solo Studio
This app offers a realistic drumming experience with a multitouch acoustic drum kit simulator. It allows users to play along to their own songs, learn various drumming styles, and record their performances with studio-quality sound.
- AI-powered song lessons
- Multitouch acoustic drum kit simulator
- MIDI support
- Session recording and export
- Real-time effects
- Multiple audio kits
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Drum Solo Studio from Batalsoft unleashes an exceptional drumming experience, empowering you to have fun and become a skilled drummer. With the app's multitouch acoustic drum kit simulator, you can play drums on your iPhone or iPad with your fingers. The app is free and offers studio-quality sound banks with fast and precise response. Take your drumming skills to the next level! NEW: play any song on your drums. Pick a song from your phone and our AI removes the original drums and turns the drum part into a lesson. Play it with a guide on the drum kit, on a highway or as sheet music, slow it down and choose which pieces you play. It includes many incredible features such as MIDI support, recording your sessions, and exporting your compositions to different formats. With these powerful tools, you can create your own unique drumming experience. Play music loud with headset for a superior experience. Drum Solo Studio is designed for everyone who loves drums: beginners, percussionists, professional musicians, drummers... The main advanced features are: • Your songs, as lessons: AI removes the drums from the song you choose and writes the drum part for you. Your first 2 songs are free; with the subscription, 30 songs every month. • 6 complete audio kits: Standard, Heavy Metal, Modern Rock, Jazz, Pop and Synthesizer. • Drum lessons of all styles, from beginner to professional: learn them step by step, then play them in time to earn points and stars. Rock, blues, disco, dubstep, jazz, reggaeton, heavy metal, pop... • Play and record over the songs on your phone (MP3 tab), or jam over pre-recorded backing tracks of different styles. • Record your sessions and later play on top of your own loops, like a real drum machine. • Real-time effects: equalization, reverb, compression, delay and chorus, to fine-tune your live drumming sound and create your desired ambience. • MIDI: connect your electronic drum kit by USB or Bluetooth, assign each pad to the drum you want with "Learn", and send what you play to your computer as MIDI output. • Import the drums track from your favourite MIDI songs from your storage. • Export your loops to MP3, OGG, MIDI and PCM WAV, or share them as a video. Drum Solo Studio also includes these additional features to enhance your drumming experience: • Adjust individually the volume of each instrument and the background music, giving you complete control over the sound of your drumming. • Use the built-in metronome, up to 400 bpm, to stay in time. • Playback speed control for learning, and seekbar to find the preferred moment in the song. • Latency calibration, so the lessons follow your timing with any headphones or speaker. • Realistic HQ sampled stereo sounds, including double kick bass, two toms, floor, snare, hi-hat (two positions with the pedal), 2 crash, splash, ride and cowbell. • Awesome animations for each instrument. • Left-handed mode, and the button bar on the side you prefer. • Low latency for the beats. • 13 touch sensitive multitouch pads. Up to 200 fingers simultaneously. • Very fast loading time. Drum Solo Studio is free, but you can acquire a license to unlock some items and remove ads. Converting more songs needs a monthly or yearly subscription. Terms of Use: https://batalsoft.com/song-service-terms.htm
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Verdict
Congas! and Drum Solo Studio are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Congas! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drum Solo Studio sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Congas! against 4.2 for Drum Solo Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of Congas!'s written reviews are positive against 63% of Drum Solo Studio's.
Congas! ships an update every 9 days, Drum Solo Studio every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Congas! | Drum Solo Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better | 4.2 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 514 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drum Starz | Batalsoft |
Customer experience
Congas!
Drum Solo Studio
In-app purchases
Congas!
- Remove ads$0.99
Drum Solo Studio
- Monthly, Premium price$3.991 Month
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual, Premium price$24.991 Year
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- Annual$29.991 Year
- VIP Member$7.99









