Comparison

BandPad vs DrumToolz

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

Head to head
About

BandPad

This app provides a practice and learning environment for wind instrument musicians. It offers music scores and play-along audio for various instruments, helping users learn and practice with interactive features.

Highlights
  • Music scores for wind instruments
  • Play-along audio tracks
  • Interactive LiveScore feature
  • Note and fingering information
  • Index of songs and etudes
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BandPad is a wind instruments practice and learning environment supplying music scores and play-alongs for students, teachers and bands. The application supports: Flute, Recoreder, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Euphonioum and Tuba. The Application contains an index of songs,compositions and etudes (tunes) and corresponding play-along audio files that can be served from your device. BandPad enable you to see musical score (depnding on your screen size) and controlling the corresponding play-anlongs. BandPad featuring LiveScore - An interactive score page. while playing the beat indicator will help you locate your location on the staff. Pressing the score will open an information dialog displaying the note name, note fingering and other helpfull informain.

About

DrumToolz

Compose and practice drum cadences and beats on your mobile device. This app allows manual input of exercises, generation of new ideas, and practice of rudiments. Share your creations and learn from a community of drummers.

Highlights
  • Compose drum cadences and beats
  • Manual exercise input
  • Generate new rhythmic ideas
  • Editable music score
  • Practice snare rudiments
  • Library of dynamic exercises
  • Social profile and sharing
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Compose cadences on the go! Choose from snares, tenors, bass drums, cymbals, and even drumset if you want. In a league of its own, DrumToolz also lets you manually input exercises for drum set, marching snare, tenors, and bass drums while generating new creative ideas using what you input, all shown on an editable music score. You can also upload your beats to your social profile, play what other users are playing, save rhythms, practice snare drum rudiments, and learn from a full library of dynamic exercises for both snare drum and drumset! It's perfect for all skill levels, from beginner to extremely advanced, drum wizards. Works great for sharing drum cadences with your drumline. Isolate individual snare, tenors, etc. parts. Practice the simplest to the most complex of beats and rhythms. If you can think of it, you can input it and practice it! Anything from beginner rock beats, to the most complex of jazz beats and fills. Lastly, top off the notes with ornaments: stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese. Input up to 50 measures. When practicing drum set beats, choose from a ride cymbal, hihat, hihat foot, kick drum, snare drum, and three toms. Input everything from whole notes to thirtysecond notes and tuplets. Also, for tenors, choose from four tenors and a spock. Bass drums - five bass drums. Marching snare - a realistic marching snare and a ping sound. Generate new ideas (modifications) using beats that you input into the score. Choose from several modification methods: Add, Shuffle, Substitute, Permutate, Repeat, and Random. Modify individual parts of the beat (ex: kick drum only) or the entire beat if desired. Custom snare exercises. Choose the time sig, subdivisons, tuplets, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, cheese, drags. Save the beat in the score for later practice, keeping the modifications if desired. If the modifications are kept, this turns the beat into an endless, dynamic exercise! Each time you generate an exercise, it uses the modifications to give you an entirely new beat. String together saved rhythms and practice them as one exercise, perfect for practicing beats followed by a drum fill. Upload your beats to your profile. Find and follow other drummers in the social network. Learn from them as you see and practice what they have uploaded to their profile. Share your beats through PDF links and files. Also, share your entire score with a link that pre-populates the score into the app. Learn from a full library of dynamic drum set and snare drum exercises, essential and hybrid rudiments included. For highlighted rhythms, shuffle around groups of notes, stickings, accents, flams, diddles, and cheese.

Screenshots

BandPad1 screens
DrumToolz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BandPad at 100% against DrumToolz's 58%. BandPad also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 14.0). DrumToolz's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (311 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DrumToolz holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 311 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of BandPad's written reviews are positive against 58% of DrumToolz's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BandPad versus DrumToolz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBandPadDrumToolz
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.2 (311 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better58.1% of reviews
Number of ratings3311 — better
Update frequency—Monthly
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmit GurJared Simon

Customer experience

BandPad

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DrumToolz

All ratings270 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral8.5%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive58.1%
Neutral25.6%
Negative16.3%

Bugs and requests

BandPad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

DrumToolz

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes and deletes progress
  • App won't open
  • Repeat function doesn't stop
  • Repeat save fails
  • Accents, diddles, flams added automatically
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  • Buzz roll cannot be removed
  • Font camouflages in dark mode
  • App crashes when opening after saving
  • App crashes when opening
  • App crashes when adding notes
  • App crashes after saving
  • App crashes when trying to reopen
  • App crashes a lot

Requested features

15 requests
  • Turn off metronome
  • Add rum shot for snare
  • Add rim shots for other drums
  • Add triplets, fivelets, sixlets
  • Add dynamics (forte, piano)
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  • Cymbals sizzle option
  • Add buzz roll for snares
  • Add diddle feature
  • More measures
  • Add bass drum notes
  • Add open hi-hat sound
  • Improve UI for tuplet measurement
  • Improve UI for measure change
  • Ability to hear multiple instruments simultaneously
  • Fix replace button for bass drums

In-app purchases

None

BandPad

No in-app purchases

None

DrumToolz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BandPad free?
BandPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DrumToolz free?
DrumToolz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BandPad or DrumToolz?
DrumToolz is rated higher. BandPad averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while DrumToolz averages 4.2 from 311 ratings.

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