DrumThings app icon

Free iPad app for drummers

Charts, books, setlists and a metronome for drummers

A free iPad app with no ads and no account.

Coming soon to the App Store Questions?

For iPad with iPadOS 26.5 or later. Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger.

The DrumThings chart editor with a hand-drawn drum groove for Superstition, a 100 BPM click, text notes, a clip from a drum book and a backing track on one page

Chart new songs

Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger. Add a click, notes and audio.

Draw by hand

Use blank, staff, drum-staff or bar-grid pages. A finger draws when the "Draw with Finger" switch is on.

Everything on one page

Put a click, text notes, clips from your books and a backing track beside the music.

Tempo, key and artist

Keep them with each song, and sort songs into folders.

Practice timing with the metronome

Set the tempo, meter, subdivision and accents.

5/4 · 7/8 · 12/8 Triplets & quintuplets Accent, ghost or mute any beat Gap click Tempo ramp Tap tempo
The DrumThings metronome screen in dark mode at 100 BPM with meter, subdivision, gap click and tempo ramp controls

Keep your drum books in one place

Import PDF books, mark up pages, and pick up where you left off.

  • One library. Reopen each book on the page you left.
  • Mark it up. Write on any page. The original PDF never changes.
  • Play along. Attach audio to charts, pages and clips, with A–B loop and slow-down that keeps the pitch.
The DrumThings library showing the book Basic Drum Patterns and Concepts for Beginners with its cover, beside eight other books

Clip exercises from your books

Tap a suggested line of music, or draw a box with Apple Pencil.

A drum book page being clipped, with one line of music picked and a Save clip button

Practice from clips

Save exercises as clips and file them in folders.

The DrumThings Clips screen listing backbeat exercises cut from a drum book, with Backbeats and Fills folders

Build setlists for gigs

Play charts and clips in order, full screen.

  • Swipe to the next song. One song at a time, with everything else out of the way.
  • Page-turn pedal. Turn pages hands-free with a Bluetooth pedal.
  • Edit lock. Stray touches can't change a chart, and the screen stays awake.
  • Offline-ready. Download a setlist before you leave for the venue.
DrumThings performance mode showing the first clip of a setlist full screen

Free · No ads · No account

Your data stays in your iCloud

DrumThings has no servers and collects no data.

  • Syncs across your iPads through iCloud.
  • Automatic backups you can roll back to.
  • Nothing locked. If it helps your playing, there's an optional tip jar.

A free book to start with

DrumThings includes Basic Drum Patterns & Concepts for Beginners, shared with permission by Richard Hemmings of Leicester Drum School. Thank you, Richard.