Drumr Notate
Compose Drum Music Fast
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Drum notation software you'll love using. Get your ideas on the page faster, with less hassle. Write It. Hear It. Share It. Try editing free for 7 days.
Compose your own drum kit and drumline music, fast. Write your part, hear it back, and share or print a PDF.
Try editing free for 7 days. No account required.
Write It. Hear It. Share It.
Compose
- Note values from whole notes to 32nd notes
- Tuplets — triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and ninelets
- Dynamics from ppp to fff, crescendo and decrescendo hairpins, and score-wide Accent/Tap dynamics
- Accents, flams, diddles, tenuto, ghost notes, open hi-hat markings, and marcato
- Add sticking and text to explain how the part should be played.
- Per-measure tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm and time signatures from 2/4 to 13/8
- Beams group themselves from the meter, compound meters included, with manual override
- Rests consolidate automatically
- Duplicate measures, repeat notes, and copy and paste to build patterns fast
Four Complete Instrument Palettes
More than 100 sound and technique combinations across four instruments.
- Drum Kit — snare, bass drum, hi-hats, toms, and cymbals, plus cowbell, tambourine, clave, and gock block
- Marching Snare — rimshots, cross-sticks, buzz and press rolls, backsticks, stick shots, stick clicks, ping shots, gock blocks, cowbell, and ribbon crasher
- Marching Tenors — all six drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz and press rolls, crossovers, stick shots, stick clicks, and skank
- Marching Bassline — all five drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz rolls, stick clicks, and unison hits
Hear It Back
Play your score with built-in drum sounds — playback follows the tempo marks you write, from 30 to 300 bpm.
Share It
Share or print a PDF for the people who have to read it. Scores live in the Files app and iCloud Drive, and every score is a standard MusicXML file you can keep for the rest of your notation workflow.
Made for Speed
Tap, drag, or use full hardware keyboard shortcuts. Drag a note and Notate previews the valid placements before you drop it.
Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Apple silicon.
Appearance
Choose Light, Dark, or System to match your device.
Practice It in Drumr
Tap Open in Drumr to turn your score into an interactive practice tool — follow along note-for-note, slow the tempo, and loop the hard parts. Requires a Drumr Premium subscription. Free 7-day trial.
Compose in Notate. Practice in Drumr.
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- Fixed an issue where subscription options were not available.
Need help or have feedback? Visit support.drumr.app.
Now stop reading this and go write an awesome drum score!
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Drumr Inc.
- Size
- 41.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Annual $39.99
- Monthly $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Drumr Inc. All rights reserved.
