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Free iPad app for drummers

Draw the chart in your head.

Charts, drum books, setlists and a click made for drummers, in one app. No ads, no account, nothing locked.

Coming soon to the App Store Questions?

For iPad with iPadOS 26.5 or later. Drawing and markup use Apple Pencil.

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

Click

A click that thinks like a drummer.

Odd meters, accents, gap click and tempo ramps, with four sounds to choose from.

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

Books & clips

Every groove, one tap away.

  • One library. Import PDF drum books and reopen each on the page you left.
  • Mark it up. Write on any page with Apple Pencil. The original PDF never changes.
  • Clip it. Crop a groove, file it in folders and drop it into a setlist.
  • Play along. Attach audio to charts, pages and clips, with A–B loop and slow-down that keeps the pitch.
The DrumThings Clips screen with a clip called Funk groove #4, cropped from a drum book page

Setlists

Ready for the gig.

Mix charts and clips into setlists, then play them 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.

The DrumThings Setlists screen with Warmups and Friday Jazz Night setlists in Gigs and Practice folders

Free · No ads · No account

Your music stays yours.

Everything syncs through your own 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.
The DrumThings Charts list with Funky Drummer, Take Five and Superstition, showing artist, BPM, key and date

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.