“To many ads — How do they make money from this if the ads are literally just 6 second videos repeating forever. Every time I leave the app I get a minute ad and it’s so annoying, so all these ads make the app unusable”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 503 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★49,197 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
98 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The Real Drum provides all the tools necessary to master the art of playing drums on your smartphone or tablet. Now you can easily play any music, anywhere! Experience the sensation of your fingers transforming into drumsticks and feel like part of a real band!
What is a drum set? A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other percussion musical instruments arranged for one person to play.
Why haven't you started learning to play the drums yet? The Real Drum offers various video lessons to assist you, along with a variety of loops to play along with.
Don't have access to an acoustic drum set or electronic drums? No problem! The Real Drum offers a diverse range of percussion musical instruments with high-quality sounds, allowing you to play any music you desire!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 10.21.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.21.4, updated 2026-09-23.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 64 distinct reviewers — 12.7% of the 503 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 1.99 to USD 99.99 — a 50x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 503 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“To many ads — Once i exit or change the kit i always get ads and it makes me wait an extra 11 seconds”
“Too many ads — Chill OUT WITH THE ADS VRO THIS APP SUCKS”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.21.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$1.99
Highest$99.99
Subscription monthly$3.99
Premium Version 12 months$12.99
Remove Ads$99.99
Premium Version$3.99
Premium Version - 3 Days Free$2.99
Show 4 more purchases
Version Premium$14.99
Premium version$1.99
Premium Version 6/months$17.99
Premium Version$6.99