Comparison

RTFactory Rudiments vs Drummer ITP

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • All 40 snare drum rudiments
  • Adjustable metronome (40-220 bpm)
  • Playback mode
  • Guided practice sessions
  • Performance rating
  • Practice statistics
Features
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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

About

Drummer ITP

This intelligent metronome and rudiment trainer helps drummers improve timing and accuracy. It measures performance against a click, providing feedback scores to track progress and identify challenging patterns. Essential for developing precise stick technique.

Highlights
  • Intelligent metronome with listening feature
  • Rudiment pattern practice and scoring
  • Performance feedback and progress tracking
  • Accuracy indicator for timing
  • Manual and Rudiment modes
  • 68 practice patterns and exercises
Features
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Learn to play 'In The Pocket' with Drummer ITP: The World's only intelligent metronome and rudiment training tool! *Worldwide Number 1 iPhone Music App in over 70 countries!* Drummer ITP can help you to learn exceptionally accurate timing with your drum performances and become a true 'In The Pocket' player. The app is designed for practicing rudiment patterns with a drum practice pad - incorporating an intelligent listening feature, which allows your performance against a metronome click to be measured and given as feedback scores. You can therefore track your progress and identify what rudiment patterns and tempos cause you most trouble with staying in time. *Please note: as with all professional audio and recording systems, Drummer ITP requires you to use wired headphones to enable zero latency analysis and measurements. Bluetooth headphones do not allow zero latency data exchange. Drummer ITP helps to identify the key tempos where your technique changes from wrist-action stick hits to faster speeds which require you to control the bounce of the drumsticks. Finding your breaking points with different stick pad rudiments and practice exercises will enable you to focus on the most challenging aspects of your personal stick technique and will underpin your development in all areas of drumming. The main display shows both the rolling click waveform and the microphone readings from your performance on the practice pad, so you can easily see if you are playing ahead or behind the beat. There is also a unique accuracy indicator which shows how far ahead or behind the beat each of your hits is. Whilst performing rudiments and exercises on a practice pad, the app records an ongoing measurement of accuracy and consistency of the performance, so you can practice to keep the timing indicator right in the middle of the screen and achieve the highest possible scores. When playing an accented pattern, or an exercise with rests incorporated, the intelligent algorithm checks that the correct type of hits are performed at the right time. If you want to check how accurate the app is, just turn up the loudspeaker volume and you'll see it measure its own sounds to 100% accuracy - so you can see how close your own performance scores are to that of an electronic drum machine! Drummer ITP can be used in Manual Mode or Rudiment Mode. In Manual Mode the metronome runs freely, as a standard metronome whilst also keeping a measurement of the recent performance scores. With a rudiment pattern active (i.e. using the app's Rudiment Mode), a count in starts a 30, 60, 120 or 300 second rudiment test, the results of which become a benchmark for evaluating your performance progress over time, with all your best high scores being recorded. The app can also be used purely as a standalone high-precision metronome with advanced settings allowing you to choose different pitches, volumes and intervals for the click. Includes a total of 68 practice patterns and rudiment exercises for combinations of: - standard timing exercises (quarters, eighths, sixteenths) - triplet timing exercises - single, double and triple paradiddles (including inverted, reverse and offset) - single and double paradiddle-diddle patterns - rudimental drum rolls - accented patterns Additional features: - notation of all included rudiments and exercise patterns - real-time left/right hand pattern indicator - accent indicator and moving notation counter - tempo adjustment from 30-240 bpm - beat time intervals 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 - optional beat one accent for practicing specific time signatures - click designer with settings for pitch, tonality, click duration and volume - separate click design for the main beat and interval sounds - stick pad performance player, to hear what you are attempting to play - high scores chart for completed rudiments and exercises - preset click sounds - microphone sensitivity adjustment - intelligent 'learn latency' feature to ensure 100% accurate analysis

Screenshots

RTFactory Rudiments4 screens
Drummer ITP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RTFactory Rudiments at $0.99 against Drummer ITP's $9.99. RTFactory Rudiments also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). Drummer ITP's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (443 vs 19). On rating, ads, 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

RTFactory Rudiments costs $0.99 and Drummer ITP $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for RTFactory Rudiments against 4.7 for Drummer ITP. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drummer ITP has 443 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of RTFactory Rudiments's written reviews are positive against 64% of Drummer ITP's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RTFactory Rudiments ships an update every 11 months, Drummer ITP every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RTFactory Rudiments versus Drummer ITP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRTFactory RudimentsDrummer ITP
Price$0.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.6 (19 ratings)4.7 (443 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews — better64.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19443 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperrhythmtoolsfactoryRT Sixty Ltd

Customer experience

RTFactory Rudiments

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%

Drummer ITP

All ratings443 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral9.0%
Negative27.0%

Bugs and requests

RTFactory Rudiments

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Drummer ITP

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Screen placement crossed
  • Only 16th notes?

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add flam rudiments and sheet music on screen
  • a tap for tempo style metronome input and an option to play back the audio recorded by the metronome
  • more rudiments coming soon
  • Being able to have the rudiment mode analysis stuff run for longer than a minute
  • being able to adjust what factors are being analysed for instance when practicing paradiddles I don't really want my dynamics analysed as I'm aiming to miss ghost notes and accents so am getting a lower overall rating for an area I'm not concerned with
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  • PLEASE MAKE AVAILABLE FOR ANDROID

In-app purchases

None

RTFactory Rudiments

No in-app purchases

None

Drummer ITP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RTFactory Rudiments free?
RTFactory Rudiments costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drummer ITP free?
Drummer ITP costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RTFactory Rudiments or Drummer ITP?
Drummer ITP is rated higher. RTFactory Rudiments averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Drummer ITP averages 4.7 from 443 ratings.
Do RTFactory Rudiments or Drummer ITP have ads?
Neither RTFactory Rudiments nor Drummer ITP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RTFactory Rudiments or Drummer ITP?
RTFactory Rudiments ships an update every 11 months, and Drummer ITP every 3 weeks. Most recently, RTFactory Rudiments was updated on September 14, 2026 and Drummer ITP on September 26, 2026.

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