Congas! vs Guiro
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
Guiro
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It isn't tapped. It's scraped. Run a finger along the ridges and a real guacharaca answers. Guiro turns your iPhone or iPad into a guacharaca, a metal güiro or a plastic güiro, with sound recorded from real instruments. Finger speed and direction change the sound, exactly like a real scraper, and you feel every ridge under your fingertip as you play. Tap the plate at the bottom for a hit. THREE INSTRUMENTS INCLUDED A wooden guacharaca, a metal güiro and a plastic güiro, each with its own 25 ridges and its own hit. Swipe sideways to switch. BUILD YOUR OWN Record your own instrument with the microphone, photograph it, and trim the audio — all inside the app. Your photo becomes the instrument you play. PLAY OVER YOUR MUSIC Load a backing track from your files and play along, with its own volume and a 0.5x-1.5x practice speed that never changes the pitch. RECORD YOURSELF Capture your playing — on its own, or mixed with the backing track — and share it. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET Guiro asks for no sign-up, needs no connection, and sends nothing anywhere. Your recordings, your photos and your instruments live only on your device. Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Congas! at Free against Guiro's $0.99. Congas! also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Guiro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Congas! is free to download; Guiro costs $0.99 up front. Congas! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Guiro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Congas! ships an update every 9 days, Guiro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Congas! | Guiro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #131 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drum Starz | Lucas Sanchez |
In-app purchases
Congas!
- Remove ads$0.99
Guiro
No in-app purchases









