Comparison

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER vs Tails

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

Head to head
About

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER

Read full description

This is the free version. Having a good sense of rhythm is one of the most important aspects for a drummer and for any musician. This app helps you develop the ability to retain rhythmic musical ideas and reproduce them immediately. This is a specialized area of musical ear training that is often under-worked. Whether you play drums, guitar, piano, keyboards, flute, saxophone, trumpet, violin, bass or any other musical instrument, RHYTHM is the main element you must develop. This app is very useful to players of any musical instrument who want to play with a good sense of rhythm. Since we don't need any melodic or harmonic elements to work with the aspects of rhythm, we use the snare, bass drum and cymbal of a Drum Kit to perform the exercises. As you progress through the exercises you will verify that the results in the practice of your instrument are really very positive. This is an important app for musicians and music students involved in playing any instrument, composing, arranging, and other areas of musical practice.

About

Tails

This music app creates harmonic reverb using novel double-buffered technology and threshold swapping between two separate reverbs. It offers auto-ducking for cleaner sound and includes classic reverb algorithms with new modes. It's designed for performance with MIDI control and works as a standalone app or AUv3 plugin.

Highlights
  • Dual reverb buffers
  • Threshold swapping
  • Auto-ducking
  • Classic and new reverb algorithms
  • Spatial and Shimmer modes
  • Global Sample Rate control
  • MIDI performance control
Features
Read full description

Unfiltered Audio's Tails is now available on iOS as a Standalone app or AUv3 plugin! Unfiltered Audio joined forces with electronic music superstar BT to create Tails, the world's most harmonic reverb. Tails utilizes a novel double-buffered technology to create two separate reverbs in parallel. The twist comes with special threshold swapping: Whenever Tails detects a major change in amplitude or tone, it can smoothly swap between the two reverbs. Additionally, Tails can auto-duck on its inputs and outputs. This keeps your reverb as clean as possible. With auto-ducking on attacks, you can keep the metallic noise of percussive hits out of your reverbs. Alternatively, you can keep passing tones and blue notes out of your melodic echoes so that your reverb is free of dissonance. Even without its innovative ducking and swapping, Tails is the most flexible reverb in your arsenal. Two of Unfiltered Audio's classic BYOME reverb algorithms (Renoun and Deep) are available with a Spatial mode inspired by Silo and a brand new Shimmer mode designed to BT's exacting specifications. In true Unfiltered Audio fashion, a global Sample Rate knob affects the sampling rate of the entire DSP algorithm, stretching your reverb tails out into crispy, lo-fi oblivion. Finally, Tails is built to be performed. Your MIDI keyboard's Pitch and Mod wheels can be assigned quickly to a selection of key parameters, while Note messages can be used to manually duck or mute the reverb. As an AUv3 plugin, Tails has been tested to work perfectly with Garageband, Drambo, AUM, Cubasis, Beatmaker, Nanostudio, apeMatrix, Loopy Pro, and more! Additionally, with its clear layout and smart resizing, Tails can be used on tablets and phones with ease. (Note for Drambo users: Drambo does not yet have automatic Plugin Delay Compensation for managing plugins with latency. As a result, tracks with Tails will not line up properly with other tracks. An upcoming patch for Drambo will add this feature in.)

Screenshots

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER4 screens
Tails4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SUPER DRUMS PLAYER at Free against Tails's $9.99. SUPER DRUMS PLAYER also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months). Tails's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, 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

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER is free to download; Tails costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER ships an update every 4 months, Tails every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on November 24, 2025 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SUPER DRUMS PLAYER versus Tails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSUPER DRUMS PLAYERTails
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating—4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 14 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPablo PrietoUnfiltered Audio

In-app purchases

None

SUPER DRUMS PLAYER

No in-app purchases

None

Tails

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SUPER DRUMS PLAYER free?
SUPER DRUMS PLAYER is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tails free?
Tails costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SUPER DRUMS PLAYER or Tails have ads?
SUPER DRUMS PLAYER shows ads; Tails does not.
Which is updated more often, SUPER DRUMS PLAYER or Tails?
SUPER DRUMS PLAYER ships an update every 4 months, and Tails every 14 months. Most recently, SUPER DRUMS PLAYER was updated on November 24, 2025 and Tails on October 23, 2026.

Other comparisons