Settings

Settings isn't a screen you navigate to — it's a sheet. Tap the avatar circle in Home's top-right corner and it slides up over whatever you were doing, holds everything, and dismisses back to exactly where you left off. Same shape as the sibling apps' Settings page, group for group, with a few rows that are Drum Buddha's own.

Appearance

One row: the theme picker, subtitled Choose your palette. Four themes to tap between — Strata, Terra, Obsidian, and Sand. Terra is the default.

Playing

One row: Skill level — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Returning, the same four options from onboarding. Changing it here doesn't lock anything in or out; it just changes what the app suggests.

Permissions

One row: Microphone, with a live status next to it — Allowed or Tap to allow. It reflects the real iOS permission state each time you open Settings, not a cached guess from onboarding. Microphone access is what capturing audio in Ideas and recording a Jam take both depend on, so if either one is greyed out elsewhere in the app, this is the row to check.

Recording

Four rows here, all tied to what happens when you actually capture something:

• Count-in before recording, a toggle. Subtitle: Play a 3-2-1 count-in before a Jam take starts. Turn it off and a take starts cold, on the downbeat, no warning.
• Audio quality, a static row reading High (256 kbps) — nothing to change here, just a statement of what you're getting.
• Storage used, a live figure computed from your takes and ideas — it grows and shrinks as you record and delete, rather than reporting the app's total footprint.
• Recently Deleted, a row that opens its own list.

Your data

Two rows, both entirely local. Back up your data writes a single file holding the things you've made that aren't recordings — your practice log, your routines, your favorite grooves and rudiments, and your saved loop and jam setups — and hands it to the share sheet, so you can drop it into Files, iCloud Drive, or wherever else you keep things. Restore from backup reads one of those files back in. No account is involved at any point, and nothing leaves your device unless you send it somewhere yourself.

Restoring adds; it never takes away. Anything already on this device is kept — a restore won't overwrite or delete what's there, only fill in what's missing. That makes restoring the same file twice harmless, and it means you can pull a backup onto a phone you're already practicing on without losing the work that's already there. Before it writes anything, the app tells you what the file holds; afterwards, it tells you what it actually added.

Accessibility

One toggle: Reduced motion, subtitled Minimize pulsing indicators and loading animations. Useful if the beat dots and loading states elsewhere in the app are more distraction than help.

Support

One row: Tip jar, subtitled Every feature is free — tips help keep it that way. Nothing in Drum Buddha is gated behind it; it's just there if you want to leave one.

Privacy

One toggle: Help improve Drum Buddha, off by default. Subtitle: Share anonymous usage analytics. Off by default. Leave it off and nothing about how the app behaves changes.

About

Four links: Website, Contact, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service — the standard set.

Credits

Scroll to the very bottom and there's a credits footer, easy to skip past but worth reading once. Drum Buddha's kit sounds come from two open sources: AVL Drumkits (CC-BY-SA 3.0) and FreePats Synthesizer Percussion (CC0). Real acknowledgment for real recordings, sitting right next to the app's version number.