the Clave

Name: the Clave
Rating: 4.8 (216 reviews)
Author: Drew Milloy

By: Drew Milloy

Music

Features & Capabilities

the Clave is a dedicated clave pattern metronome and click-track app for Chrome. It features five selectable patterns—Son, Rumba, two Afro (6/8) styles, and Bossa Nova—with on-screen traditional notation that highlights each beat as it plays.

Tempo ranges from 40 to 200 BPM with rock-solid accuracy (nearest sample, about 22 microseconds). Drag to adjust tempo, tap tempo to set a rhythm, and switch between forward (3:2) and reverse (2:3) clave. Playback runs in the background, and you can customize sound with different pitches and a volume boost, making it a versatile practice aid for Latin music or to inject new flavor into other styles.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Music & Audio Education

By:

Drew Milloy

Rating:

4.80

(216)

Version:

3.1 Last updated: 2015-10-15

Version code:

841385708

Creation date:

2009-09-03

Compatible devices:

Size:

21.83MB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 109,155 ▲ 57

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Developed by:

Drew Milloy

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-clave/id328220389

Website:

http://www.marmadore.com

User Reviews

Users praise The Clave for its simple, intuitive interface and strong practice tool. They value the ability to switch between 2/3 and 3/2 claves, view notation while playing, and use it as a timekeeper, with additional rhythms like Bossa Nova and Afro-Cuban patterns. Recurrent downsides are battery drain and occasional crashes, plus frequent requests for more rhythms (6/8, Afrobeat, 2:3 Son Clave) and improved tempo input. Overall, it's a free, ad-free, highly usable practice companion that would benefit from stability and feature updates.

Pros

Easy to use / simple minimalist interface
Effective practice tool that helps improve technique and is great for warm-ups
Flexible clave options: switch between 2/3 and 3/2, multiple patterns, and notation display; useful as a timekeeper
Free to use and ad-free
Includes Afro-Cuban rhythms and Bossa Nova patterns; good variety

Cons

Battery drain / high power usage with background activity
Occasional crashes on open / reliability issues
Requests for more rhythm patterns and rhythms (6/8 variations, Afrobeat clave, 2:3 Son Clave) and related features like a downbeat tone
Tempo control could be improved (typing tempo instead of just a slider)

Recent reviews

Overall I really love the app and I have noticed my time improving so much as a horn player. That being said, I think there is some “quality of life” type of easy improvements that could be made. Most notably the way that you select tempos with only the slider is kind of annoying. If there was a way to just type the tempo that would make the app so much better for little effort. I use this app along with pro metronome and that app is much better quality of life, if only I could smoosh them into one app!