FingerDrumPad
Drumming at your fingertips.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Plug in headphones and drum with your fingertips.
No bulky kit — play real drums silently, even late at night.
Custom pads, a practice mode, and a pattern builder.
Become a drummer, just with your fingertips.
Plug in headphones and leave the bulky drum kit behind. Play real drums silently, even late at night. FingerDrumPad is a second drum kit that fits in the palm of your hand.
■ Total freedom in pad shape and placement
Pads are free-form polygons with 3 to 10 vertices, placeable anywhere on screen. Make the kick large and round, the snare wide and horizontal, the hi-hat small and compact. Create as many original kits as you like, tailored to your own hands.
■ A practice mode that accelerates your progress
Every hit is judged in real time. Detailed feedback — Perfect / Good / Early / Late — plus combos, scores, and ranks (S–D) turns daily practice into something you'll look forward to.
Your timing habits are visualized as a heatmap, with per-pad statistics and a "pad to focus on next" suggestion. Daily streaks and weekly summaries keep your motivation going.
Includes 100+ charts across 10 genres — rock, pop, funk, jazz, Latin, reggae, and more. Start free with the Basic charts.
■ A step sequencer that builds patterns and exports to your DAW
Assemble rhythm patterns on 16th- and 32nd-note grids. Odd time signatures like 3/4, 5/4, and 7/4 are supported too. Send your patterns to Practice mode to play them, or export them as MIDI files to take into your DAW.
■ Expand your sound endlessly
Load your favorite SF2 SoundFont and use it as an entire kit. Sounds matching the GM standard get the right colors and names automatically, so a brand-new kit takes seconds.
Assign any AUv3 instrument plugin to a pad to turn FingerDrumPad into the ultimate touch instrument. A built-in scanner detects which notes actually produce sound, so you'll never guess which note to pick.
■ Packed with thoughtful details
・Multi-touch for both hands at once, plus choke by holding a cymbal pad
・Touch velocity that senses how hard you hit (with per-finger calibration)
・Haptic feedback you can feel with every hit
・Metronome supporting 40–200 BPM and 1–12 beats per measure
・Ensemble mode that plays along to songs from your music library (change playback speed from 50–100% while preserving pitch)
・An interactive tutorial so you'll never feel lost
・Custom drum maps you can register for MIDI modules like Roland and Yamaha
・In-app help via the "?" button on every screen
■ Private by design
Crash reporting is off by default. Nothing is sent unless you explicitly opt in. Your practice history and settings stay on your device.
■ Unlock everything with Pro
A single one-time purchase lifts the limits on kits and patterns you can save, and unlocks all 100+ charts across 10 genres, SF2 SoundFont import, and AUv3 plugins. No subscription.
Plug in your headphones and start drumming with your fingertips today.
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Information
- Seller
- Toshihide Nakamura
- Size
- 37.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock Pro $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 FingerDrumPad Project