Drum Notation by Beat Note Downloads & RevenueDrum Notation by Beat Note · App Store
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperKick Snare Hat Apps, LLC
CategoryMusic
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (25)
Version5.8.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
28 Sep 2026
28 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Drum Notation by Beat Note update history & changes
Last change · 11 events since 3 Jun 2022Full timeline ↓📈Dropped out of every chart we track📈Entered the top 100📦Updated to version 5.8.1📦Updated to version 5.7.3🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 11 events
- 📈Drum Notation by Beat Note dropped out of every chart we trackLast seen 5 Nov
- 📈Drum Notation by Beat Note entered the top 100Top Grossing · Music · GB
- 📈Drum Notation by Beat Note charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📦Drum Notation by Beat Note updated to version 5.8.1Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
IMPROVEMENTS
- Exported videos now include the count-in clicks, even with Include Audio turned off. Lining up a video of your own performance with the export is easier: just match up the count-in clicks in the waveforms.
- Already subscribed? If you tap Subscribe by accident, Beat Note now recognizes your existing subscription and restores it, so there's no need to worry about being charged a second time.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed the count-in in Practice being invisible when notation is shown in black on a white background.
- Fixed duplicating the last measure while editing a beat leaving a repeat sign on the measure you duplicated as well as on the new last measure.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!… more - 📦Drum Notation by Beat Note updated to version 5.7.3Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
This version includes various under-the-hood technical and performance improvements.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!… more - 📈Drum Notation by Beat Note entered the top 100Top Grossing · Music · IN
- 📈Drum Notation by Beat Note charting in a new countryIndia
- 📦Drum Notation by Beat Note updated to version 5.7.1Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
IMPROVEMENTS
- Display settings: a new Display button on the Practice screen opens a popover that makes it clearer how to choose the app's color scheme.
- The Loop, Click, Tempo, Time Signature and Timer popovers have a cleaner, easier-to-read look, and the Timer picker is simpler to use.
- Measure numbers are now placed more consistently relative to the staff on screen, in exported PDFs and in videos, and repeated measures now show their number too.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed rhythm counts and sticking labels sitting slightly to the left of their notes.
- Fixed sticking marks below the staff sitting too close to the notes.
- Fixed beat titles and page numbers sometimes missing from exported PDFs.
- Fixed a crash when dismissing the Export MP4 paywall.
- Fixed a crash that could happen while an export finished.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!… more - 🆕Drum Notation by Beat Note first spotted by AppInsider#67 in Top Grossing · Music · France
- 📦Drum Notation by Beat Note version 5.7Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
NEW FEATURES
- Stacked articulations: add more than one articulation to a single note, so you can write flam accents, cheeses (flam diddles), accented diddles and ghosted diddles the way you actually play them. Tap a note in the beat editor, then pick the second articulation from the row that appears on top. Stacked notes play back and travel with your beat everywhere it goes: audio, PDF, image and video exports, and shared links. Available on snare, toms, hi-hat and ride, with the most combinations on the snare. Thanks to everyone who voted for this one on the roadmap!
IMPROVEMENTS
- Beats sync more reliably, especially after editing while offline.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed rhythm counts appearing in exported PDFs where there is no note. Thanks to Andi for reporting this!
- Fixed a triplet or other tuplet number overlapping a rest in exported PDFs.
- Fixed beats coming back after you deleted them.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when opening a beat in Practice right after the beat list refreshed.
- Fixed a crash that could happen while scrolling quickly through Discover.
- Fixed icons looking washed out or greyed, including the Play button, the tempo controls, the Edit Score menu and the My Beats card actions. This was most noticeable with Increase Contrast turned on in your iOS accessibility settings.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!… more - 🆕Drum Notation by Beat Note released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
25 ratings
Measured
Drum Notation by Beat Note on the App Store
App details
App ID
1539132475
Publisher
Kick Snare Hat Apps, LLC
On the store since
Jun 2022
4 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
85 MB
Also listed in
Education
Drum Notation by Beat Note downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
25 ratings
Measured
Ratings
25
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Music apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Drum Notation by Beat Note
Beat Note — Drum Notation for Drummers, Teachers, and Content Creators
The fastest way to write, hear, practice, and share drum notation. Built by a drummer, for drummers.
FOR DRUMMERS — FROM YOUR HEAD TO THE PAGE IN SECONDS
You have a groove idea. Beat Note gets it down before you lose it.
Tap the sequencer grid to build beats. Watch them turn into clean, professional drum notation in real time. Hit play and hear exactly what you wrote — at any tempo, with a click track, on loop.
- Transcribe songs to check your ear and lock in what you hear
- Compose your own grooves, fills, and exercises from scratch
- Count in with a visual on-screen "1, 2, 3, 4" so your eyes and ears are ready together
- Use Beat Note as your in-ear metronome during rehearsals — your beats, not just clicks
"Been waiting a long time for an app like this. Clearly built by a drummer." — App Store review
FOR TEACHERS — WRITE IT, PLAY IT, SEND IT
What used to take 30 minutes in a desktop notation program now takes 2 minutes on your phone or iPad.
Write exercises on the fly — during the lesson, not after it. Play back the notation so students hear exactly how it should sound. Share a link so they can listen at home. Export a PDF they can print and bring to the kit.
- Use the sequencer as a live music whiteboard, in person or online
- Build a library of exercises organized by tag, ready for any student
- Send a shareable link or export a high-quality PDF in one tap
"What would normally take 30 minutes on a computer has become 2 minutes from my mobile device. My students love it." — App Store review
FOR CONTENT CREATORS — PROFESSIONAL NOTATION VIDEOS, IN MINUTES
Export your beat as an animated MP4 — portrait for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, or landscape for YouTube and Vimeo. Choose 720p, 1080p, or 4K. Pick a color theme. Preview before you export.
PDF, PNG, WAV or AAC audio, shareable link, and animated MP4 — all from one app.
NOTATION THAT LOOKS RIGHT
Professional drum notation, consistent across every format you export. What you see on screen is what your students get in the PDF, what your followers see in the video, and what you hear in playback.
- All standard drums, cymbals, and articulations
- Subdivisions from 8th notes to 32nd notes, plus triplets, quintuplets (5s), and septuplets (7s)
- Common and compound time signatures, including 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8
- Linear, split hands/feet, or split drums/cymbals voicing
- Sticking annotations (R, L)
- Single-measure repeat symbol (%) — renders automatically when measures repeat
ORGANIZE AND DISCOVER
- Tags, search, and sort to manage your beat library
- Discover tab: curated educational beats for all skill levels
- Beat templates to get started fast
- Customize tempo, click track, count-in, and timer
MADE BY A DRUMMER, SHAPED BY THE COMMUNITY
Beat Note was built by me — an independent developer with 35+ years behind the kit. But the direction comes from the community. Every major feature on the ro
The fastest way to write, hear, practice, and share drum notation. Built by a drummer, for drummers.
FOR DRUMMERS — FROM YOUR HEAD TO THE PAGE IN SECONDS
You have a groove idea. Beat Note gets it down before you lose it.
Tap the sequencer grid to build beats. Watch them turn into clean, professional drum notation in real time. Hit play and hear exactly what you wrote — at any tempo, with a click track, on loop.
- Transcribe songs to check your ear and lock in what you hear
- Compose your own grooves, fills, and exercises from scratch
- Count in with a visual on-screen "1, 2, 3, 4" so your eyes and ears are ready together
- Use Beat Note as your in-ear metronome during rehearsals — your beats, not just clicks
"Been waiting a long time for an app like this. Clearly built by a drummer." — App Store review
FOR TEACHERS — WRITE IT, PLAY IT, SEND IT
What used to take 30 minutes in a desktop notation program now takes 2 minutes on your phone or iPad.
Write exercises on the fly — during the lesson, not after it. Play back the notation so students hear exactly how it should sound. Share a link so they can listen at home. Export a PDF they can print and bring to the kit.
- Use the sequencer as a live music whiteboard, in person or online
- Build a library of exercises organized by tag, ready for any student
- Send a shareable link or export a high-quality PDF in one tap
"What would normally take 30 minutes on a computer has become 2 minutes from my mobile device. My students love it." — App Store review
FOR CONTENT CREATORS — PROFESSIONAL NOTATION VIDEOS, IN MINUTES
Export your beat as an animated MP4 — portrait for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, or landscape for YouTube and Vimeo. Choose 720p, 1080p, or 4K. Pick a color theme. Preview before you export.
PDF, PNG, WAV or AAC audio, shareable link, and animated MP4 — all from one app.
NOTATION THAT LOOKS RIGHT
Professional drum notation, consistent across every format you export. What you see on screen is what your students get in the PDF, what your followers see in the video, and what you hear in playback.
- All standard drums, cymbals, and articulations
- Subdivisions from 8th notes to 32nd notes, plus triplets, quintuplets (5s), and septuplets (7s)
- Common and compound time signatures, including 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8
- Linear, split hands/feet, or split drums/cymbals voicing
- Sticking annotations (R, L)
- Single-measure repeat symbol (%) — renders automatically when measures repeat
ORGANIZE AND DISCOVER
- Tags, search, and sort to manage your beat library
- Discover tab: curated educational beats for all skill levels
- Beat templates to get started fast
- Customize tempo, click track, count-in, and timer
MADE BY A DRUMMER, SHAPED BY THE COMMUNITY
Beat Note was built by me — an independent developer with 35+ years behind the kit. But the direction comes from the community. Every major feature on the ro
Latest updates
5.8.1
Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
IMPROVEMENTS
- Exported videos now include the count-in clicks, even with Include Audio turned off. Lining up a video of your own performance with the export is easier: just match up the count-in clicks in the waveforms.
- Already subscribed? If you tap Subscribe by accident, Beat Note now recognizes your existing subscription and restores it, so there's no need to worry about being charged a second time.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed the count-in in Practice being invisible when notation is shown in black on a white background.
- Fixed duplicating the last measure while editing a beat leaving a repeat sign on the measure you duplicated as well as on the new last measure.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!
5.7.3
Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
This version includes various under-the-hood technical and performance improvements.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!
5.7.1
Thanks for using Drum Notation by Beat Note!
IMPROVEMENTS
- Display settings: a new Display button on the Practice screen opens a popover that makes it clearer how to choose the app's color scheme.
- The Loop, Click, Tempo, Time Signature and Timer popovers have a cleaner, easier-to-read look, and the Timer picker is simpler to use.
- Measure numbers are now placed more consistently relative to the staff on screen, in exported PDFs and in videos, and repeated measures now show their number too.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed rhythm counts and sticking labels sitting slightly to the left of their notes.
- Fixed sticking marks below the staff sitting too close to the notes.
- Fixed beat titles and page numbers sometimes missing from exported PDFs.
- Fixed a crash when dismissing the Export MP4 paywall.
- Fixed a crash that could happen while an export finished.
Remember to check out the Beat Note roadmap under the Settings screen to learn about upcoming features and vote on user-requested ones. As always, thank you for your support. This update also includes general bug fixes and performance improvements. Have feedback? Tap Settings → E-mail Derek. I'd love to hear from you!
