Comparison

Real Drums! vs Drum Beat

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

Head to head
About

Real Drums!

Experience a realistic drumming environment with customizable drum kits and extensive sound options. Arrange components, edit layouts, and utilize features like auto-rolling and motion sensor integration for an immersive playing experience. Record your own beats or explore pre-recorded tracks.

Highlights
  • Customizable drum kit arrangement
  • Multiple drum kit sounds
  • Auto drum rolling
  • Motion sensor integration
  • Record and save beats
  • Pre-recorded beats library
  • 3-D sound positioning
Features
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Looking for a realistic drum playing application? Want to arrange drum components as you like? Want sliding and playing functions with great responsiveness? Meeting above needs all at the same time? Here is a perfect solution for your ideal drum. Real Drums will provide you with realistic drum playing environment at your fingertips. FEATURES: * 4 different drum kit sounds (rock, jazz, dance, electronic) * 10 basic drum components with 12 different sounds played simultaneously * 8 extra components (4 brushed, side-stick, 2 extra cymbals, and a cowbell) * Arrange drum components to make your fingers comfortable * Edit (Add / Remove / Resize) components * Auto drum rolling (4, 8, 12, 16, 32 beat) * Mixes high quality poly-phony sounds with no clipping at the end * 3-D Positioning sounds * A metronome with adjustable on/off, BPMs and beats * Open hihat features quick stop * Record and save your own beats * 40 pre-recorded beats (Rock, Hiphop, Jazz, Latin, Ballad, Dance, etc) * Slide and play * Activates motion sensor for playing bass drum and cymbals * Great responsiveness for double bass and fast beats * Animated visual effect * Velocity Control Turn on your favorate song and enjoy !!!

About

Drum Beat

Experience realistic drum sounds and responsive touch controls for creating original beats or playing along to music. Offers multiple drum kits and a metronome for practice.

Highlights
  • Realistic drum sounds
  • Responsive touch controls
  • Multiple drum kit types
  • High-quality recorded audio
  • Multi-touch support
  • Adjustable metronome
Features
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***Let's tap and play rhythm!*** Enjoy amazing drum sounds! The most powerful feature of this app is the realistic sound and the response of touch. The time delay until the sound after you touch the finger was reduced to limit. Thus, it is now possible to be like playing the rhythm just like a real drum.  The sound is high quality. Enjoy playing along to your favorite songs, or creating your original beat. FEATURES: -> 4 types of drum kit (classic, electronic, rock, vintage) -> Components: hi-hat (open, closed), snare, bass, tom 3 (floor 1 & Tom Tom 2), crash cymbal, ride cymbal -> High quality sound professionally recorded -> Multi-touch enabled: Play multiple drum heads simultaneously -> Metronome that can be freely set the speed -> Change the background color

Screenshots

Real Drums!3 screens
Drum Beat3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Real Drums! at 54% against Drum Beat's 0%. Real Drums! also leads on ads (none vs shown). Drum Beat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Real Drums! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Drum Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Real Drums! ships an update every 4 months, Drum Beat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Real Drums! versus Drum Beat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReal Drums!Drum Beat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMooseok BahngQuantis,Inc.

Customer experience

Real Drums!

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive53.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative42.9%

Drum Beat

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Real Drums!

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Drum Beat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Real Drums! free?
Real Drums! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drum Beat free?
Drum Beat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Real Drums! or Drum Beat have ads?
Drum Beat shows ads; Real Drums! does not.
Which is updated more often, Real Drums! or Drum Beat?
Real Drums! ships an update every 4 months, and Drum Beat every 2 months. Most recently, Real Drums! was updated on October 20, 2026 and Drum Beat on October 11, 2026.

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