SimpleBoard vs Drumline Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleBoard
Create custom soundboards with ease. Load sounds from your music library, arrange up to 8 per board, and play them simultaneously. Designed for reliable stage use, it offers an adaptive layout for optimal screen utilization.
- Load sounds from iTunes library
- Create and edit soundboards
- Up to 8 sounds per soundboard
- Adaptive layout
- Play multiple sounds simultaneously
- Loop sounds by holding button
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Get the simplest soundboard creation app : - Load sounds, samples or songs through your iTunes library - Create and edit soundboards quickly and easily - Up to 8 sounds per soundboard - Make the most of your screen thanks to the adaptive layout - Play multiple sounds simultaneously - Loop sounds by holding their button That's all. Simple means reliable, this app was built for stage use. I recommend using the excellent freesound.org website to get more sounds! Simply add your downloaded sounds to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using iTunes, and you'll be able to access them from SimpleBoard and easily add them to your soundboards. Note that you can't edit or delete the default soundboard.
Drumline Designer
Create and edit drumline sheet music directly on your mobile device. This app offers an intuitive grid system for note entry, automatic beaming, and support for complex rhythms and articulations. Export your compositions as PDFs, audio, MusicXML, or animated videos.
- Intuitive grid-based note entry
- Automatic beaming and placement
- Support for tuplets and complex rhythms
- Add accents, staccatos, marcatos, and legatos
- Instant playback for review
- Export to PDF, Audio, MusicXML, and video
- Create animated video clips
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Notate sheet music for drumline directly from your phone! Drumline Designer is the app that lets you easily enter notes into a grid and have your sheet music automatically be created. Perfect for hobbyist and professionals! Export PDFs, Audio, MusicXML, and videos of your music! Drumline Designer uses an accessible grid design system, allowing you input notes easily. Each note is automatically beamed and placed inside of your sheet music. The grid can also work with tuplets, allowing you to write more complex rhythmic lines. Add accents, staccatos, marcatos, and legatos to your music, shaping the way everything plays and sounds. Playback is instant, allowing you to listen and make changes as you go. Each piece of music can be exported to other notation softwares, allowing you to easily implement your drumline music into Sibelius, MuseScore, Dorico and other notation software! Show off your music by exporting animated videos, making both portrait and landscape clips so you can share your work on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other social media.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drumline Designer at 100% against SimpleBoard's 53%. Drumline Designer also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). SimpleBoard's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $19.99) and ratings volume (16 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
SimpleBoard costs $1.99 and Drumline Designer $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drumline Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleBoard has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of SimpleBoard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drumline Designer's.
SimpleBoard ships an update every 2 months, Drumline Designer every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleBoard | Drumline Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (16 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #183 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yvz Digital Lab | Christian Price |
Customer experience
SimpleBoard
Drumline Designer
In-app purchases
SimpleBoard
No in-app purchases
Drumline Designer
No in-app purchases





