# the Clave — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of the Clave by Drew Milloy, rated 4.80/5 from 219 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-clave/id328220389/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-clave/id328220389.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 185 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of the Clave? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Great for practice - 👍 Simple and straightforward - 👍 Helps internalize clave - 👍 Good for beginners - 👍 Free app - 👍 Accurate clave patterns - 👍 Helpful for learning rhythms - 👍 Minimalist design - 👍 Shows notation - 👍 No ads **Cons** - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🐛 App crashes - 🐛 App disappears - 🐛 Sound quality issues - 🐛 Tempo slider difficult **Commonly reported bugs** - App disappears after a few months - App crashes when opened - App bombs out after clearing tempo adjustment screen - Battery draining quickly - App using high percentage of battery - Developer website disappeared - Adjusting volume causes app to shut down **Most requested features** - Customize claves with manual rhythms - Option to change metronome by one bpm - Type in tempo instead of slider - Add 2:3 Son Clave - Add 6/8 bell pattern - Add Afrobeat clave - Add 6/8 variations - Add cascara - Add downbeat tone - Add shaker - Add agogo bell - Add Abakua - Add cinquillo - Add more 6/8 patterns - Add tap tempo - Allow finer gradations of tempo (half-BPMs) - Set number of measures to play - Other instrument samples (woodblock, cowbell) - Sequence certain bars (e.g., 3:2/3:2/2:3/2:3) - Accent the first beat - Turn on a click track in the background - More Clave patterns - Rumba option for 6/8 clave - Adjust volume without app closing - Metronome that keeps quarters or 2 and 4 ## Newest reviews (15 of 66) ### 4/5 — Favorite met app except… *2024-09-13* I’ve been using this religiously for the past few weeeks but suddenly it has stopped working and crashes every time I open it ### 5/5 — At last! *2021-11-02, version 3.1* I’ve wanted a metronome that could help me with remembering the clave ever since I got back from Cuba (years ago!). I embarrassed myself back in teacher’s college when I thought I knew it. 🤭🤭🤭 Now I can play my bass with it every day and get it down for real. ### 4/5 — Need 6/8 bell and Afrobeat clave *2020-09-28* I like this app but would love it if the 6/8 bell pattern and Afrobeat clave were added for even more options! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-09-16, version 3.1* Easy to use excellent ### 5/5 — Helping master these grooves *2020-07-19, version 3.1* Easy to use and great for getting the accents right in these genres. ### 5/5 — Does what it says on the tin. Perfect! *2019-10-19, version 3.1* Does what says on the tin. Perfect! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2019-04-17* Great app! I use it to practice and warm up all the time. If your a musician it’s a most have! ### 4/5 — Nice and simple *2019-01-20, version 3.1* Too many apps add clutter. This sticks to the task of accurately playing the standard clave patterns. Very useful tool 🙂 ### 5/5 — Dopest app! *2018-05-24* The digital age has gone Latino. Or Latino has gone digital! Either way this is a dope app for practice! ### 5/5 — Awesome for Jazz Studies!!! *2017-11-29, version 3.1* I use this all the time for my classes! ### 5/5 — Clickers clack *2017-06-27, version 3.1* New to Latin Rhythm this app is awesome. ### 5/5 — Excellent tool! *2017-06-06* Simple and straight forward. My only request is to also include a downbeat tone (1,2,3,4;1,2,3;1,2,3,4,5,6) as an added tool for a more in depth experience. ### 5/5 — Clave App an Excellent Tool, whose time has come! *2017-04-22* Practice can now be even more involved with the clave app! Fantastic tool enabling the musician to do so much more with internalizing the clave while also revolving rhythmic synergistic patterns around the clave. Can also serve as the time keeper to your Bembe or Descarga ensemble! Get it and explore it for yourself! ### 5/5 — Great tool! *2017-04-16, version 3.1* A great tool! ### 5/5 — Fantastically simple *2017-03-30* What a great app! I love the interface. So simple. Exactly what I needed. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn't work for me *2016-12-12, version 3.1* Unfortunately it doesn't work on my iPad mini running 9.3.8. It loads up and tells me there are three ways to adjust the tempo. After I swipe to clear the third method - the screen goes blank and the app bombs out. I can't really give a star rating, as I haven't been able to try it... ### 1/5 — This is bad.... *2014-05-25, version 2.1* Did you listen to the Rumba clave 3/2...? This is such a bad sound and it 'feels' so off. You really need to work on the sound recording. ### 2/5 — Battery Hog *2019-10-22* While I like the function of this app - it plays the basic claves and their configuration at any tempo - the app uses most of my iphone and ipad power I think while running in the background. So far, I haven’t found any fixes for this. The first day I ran through most of my battery in12 hours. The Clave was by far the main culprit although it had only been in use for a few minutes. ### 2/5 — Thank you for making this *2011-06-21, version 2.1* This is a great app ..... BUT.. I'm not so sure u got the boss's nova clave perfect... (please fix this) I'd like to see the ability to accent the first beat or turn on a click track in the background. More Clave patterns would be great too. (yes there are more out there !!) How about an agogo bell, that would be sweet . ### 3/5 — Strangely limited *2023-04-13, version 3.1* This could be a great app but it doesn't contain very common patterns like the standard 6/8 bell, cascara etc. these are very common patterns. It seems very strange to miss them out. Would be 5 stars without these simple omissions. ### 3/5 — I Live this app, but... *2020-10-17* I love this app and wish I could give it five stars. But I recently started noticing the battery on my iPhone 8 draining much more quickly than usual. When checking battery usage in settings I discovered that the Clave app was for some reason using 51% of my battery! I only used it 15 or 20 minutes at a time for a couple of days. Something appears to be running in the background that’s causing a problem. I wanted to contact the developer before writing this review but could not find any way to do that, in part because his website seems to have disappeared. ### 3/5 — Great tool *2015-12-18, version 3.1* I could use it with abilities to co faster and a traditional 6/8 Afro Cuban pattern. ### 3/5 — A few issues *2010-07-25, version 0* When I try to adjust the volume either by side rocker or program screen the program shuts down. When I reopen it the volume is set higher or lower depending on what I was doing. Annoying but not a fatal flaw for me. I realize this program is made to be a clave metronome but I got it to start learning clave rhythms. In order to do that I need to have a metronome that would keep quarters or 2 and 4. ### 4/5 — App good… but *2025-06-03* 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! ### 4/5 — Comes and goes *2025-01-01* A fun app which disappears after a few months. Just reload and you’ll be fine. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Satisfecho 100% *2026-01-04, version 3.1* La unica applicacion que tuvo la clave Afro cuba buen trabajo! ### 5/5 — Almost perfect *2025-06-09, version 3.1* This app works great. I sort of wish you could customize the claves by inputting whichever rhythms you want, manually. That and maybe an option to change the metronome by one bpm at a time rather than sliding or typing one in, but now I’m really nitpicking. ### 5/5 — Efficace *2025-05-04, version 3.1* Correspond à mes attentes, ### 5/5 — Fenomenal *2024-06-12, version 3.1* No había estudiado con la clave y me parece interesante tocar así ! Ahora tengo más claro cuando me hablan de acompañar bien ### 5/5 — This is great *2024-02-20, version 3.1* Easy to use and perfect for what I wanted, highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Were I i *2023-08-22, version 3.1* You das ezf8? You are in a very uiLolorh g u this u ### 5/5 — Perfect for what it does! *2023-08-21* Great for practicing Afro-Cuban percussion over the constant rhythm. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2022-10-17* My only complaint is it doesn’t have a 2:3 Son Clave. Can this be added? ### 5/5 — Awesome tool *2022-07-28* Thank you so much for making this wonderful easy to use tool! ### 5/5 — Simple but perfect!!! *2022-02-19* This app is everything to me. You can switch from 2/3 or 3/2 clave as well as having control over the bpm. There are 4 clave patterns on there but it shows you the notation as it goes which is super helpful for a beginner. There are no ads so i can practice forever without getting disrupted by an obnoxious ad. Truly great app, Bravo. Thank you! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-19.*