RTFactory Rudiments vs DrumToolz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RTFactory Rudiments
This app provides a comprehensive tool for drummers to practice all 40 essential snare drum rudiments. It includes a metronome, playback mode, and guided practice sessions with customizable settings to improve timing and performance.
- All 40 snare drum rudiments
- Adjustable metronome (40-220 bpm)
- Playback mode
- Guided practice sessions
- Performance rating
- Practice statistics
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The rudiment-trainer by rhythmtoolsfactory Practice all rudiments on your smartphone With the Rudiment app you always have all 40 snare drum rudiments in your pocket, allowing you to practice them and bring them to perfection. The app features a playback mode to play the rudiments and has a built-in metronome with which you can learn to control and improve your timing from 40 to 220 bpm. Rudiment, the new utility by rhythmtoolsfactory offers you: - all 40 essential rudiments from The Percussive Arts Society's Essential Snare Drum Rudiments - stepless adjustment of beats-per-minute - full playback mode - let the phone play the drums - pattern switching through shaking or flinging- automatized tempo trainer - guided practice mode with customizable settings of number of practice rounds, repetitions per round, automatic tempo change and breaks - rating of your performance - practice statistics for all rudiments
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DrumToolz at Free against RTFactory Rudiments's $0.99. DrumToolz also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (270 vs 19). RTFactory Rudiments's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 58%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On ads, in-app purchases 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
DrumToolz is free to download; RTFactory Rudiments costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RTFactory Rudiments holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrumToolz has 270 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of RTFactory Rudiments's written reviews are positive against 58% of DrumToolz's.
RTFactory Rudiments ships an update every 11 months, DrumToolz monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RTFactory Rudiments | DrumToolz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (19 ratings) — better | 4.2 (270 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better | 58.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 270 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | rhythmtoolsfactory | Jared Simon |
Customer experience
RTFactory Rudiments
DrumToolz
Bugs and requests
RTFactory Rudiments
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
RTFactory Rudiments
No in-app purchases
DrumToolz
No in-app purchases
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