Real Drums! vs Pellet Drum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 !!!
Pellet Drum
Create realistic drum beats by rotating your phone. Experience a classic way to make music.
- Realistic beat creation
- Phone rotation controls
- Classic music experience
- Intuitive interface
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Rotate your phone to make realistic beats.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pellet Drum at 5.0 against Real Drums!'s 4.5. Pellet Drum also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 54%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Real Drums!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Real Drums! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pellet Drum sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pellet Drum holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Real Drums!'s written reviews are positive against 70% of Pellet Drum's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Real Drums! | Pellet Drum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.6% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mooseok Bahng | 乃君 黄 |
Customer experience
Real Drums!
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In-app purchases
Real Drums!
- Remove Ads$1.99
Pellet Drum
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Support Developer$1.99
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