Comparison

ADverb2 vs Set Clock

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ADverb2

This app emulates a vintage digital plate reverb unit from the 80s, offering a range of reverb effects from short and rich to long and ambient. It functions as a standalone effect, with Inter-App Audio, or as an AUv3 plugin for music production hosts.

Highlights
  • Vintage digital plate reverb emulation
  • Adjustable pre-delay, time, and size
  • Extensive filtering for reverb tail shaping
  • Logical vintage-style user interface
  • Cross-platform preset manager
  • Low CPU load optimized algorithm
Features
Currently charting
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ADverb2 is our love letter to the golden age of studio reverb: a small handful of controls, a big friendly panel, and a sound that flatters everything you run through it. Version 2.3 grows it from one algorithm into three. PLATE is the original ADverb algorithm, a classic digital plate with the fast build-up and silky decay that made these boxes famous. It remains untouched, and your old presets load exactly as before. AMBIENCE is a modern, airy space. It adds air and dimension around a source without an obvious tail at short settings, and blooms into a long, weightless wash when you push the time out. Time-varying early energy keeps it from ever sounding static. HALL is a large concert space, exceptionally smooth and very wide, with slow internal motion that keeps long decays lush instead of metallic. All three algorithms share the same simple control set: Pre-Delay, Reverb Time, Size, low and high Contour switches, Rolloff, and Diffusion, plus input level and output mix. The Input Mute and Reverb Stop kill switches let you perform with the reverb, choking the send or the tail on the beat. Mix Lock keeps your wet/dry setting pinned while you audition presets, ideal when ADverb2 sits on a send. Version 2.3 also brings our system-wide preset browser with folders and favorites, a hundred factory presets covering everything from drum plates to nine-second ambient washes, preset stepping right from the main panel, and presets that show up in your host's own preset menu. ADverb2 is an AUv3 Audio Unit and runs in any AUv3 host, including GarageBand and Logic Pro. The interface is fully resizable and scales to fit your device. No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases.

About

Set Clock

Features
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Set Clock combines your setlist with a clock and a metronome. For every song you enter its length, tempo and time signature. At the gig, the stage view shows the time left in the song, and the metronome switches to the new tempo with every song change. • Setlist with song lengths to the second, tempo and time signature. You can also tap the tempo in • Stage view with the time left in the song and whether the set is ahead of or behind schedule • Metronome with eighths, triplets, sixteenths, quintuplets, sextuplets and swing, sample-accurate • Bars of 1 to 16 beats over 2, 4, 8 or 16, odd metres in their usual groupings (7/8 as 2+2+3). Every beat can be accented, softened or muted • Separate sounds for click and accent, each with its own pitch: stick, wood, beep, cowbell, hi-hat • Song structure as a moving bar: intro, verse, chorus, counted in bars • One tap moves on to the next song. All other controls are hidden during the gig • Pause for announcements: clocks and click stop, and the break does not count as being late • If the iPhone restarts during the gig, the set continues in the right song once you open the app • Share the setlist as text, for example in the band chat • Dark backgrounds and a brightness below the iOS minimum. The click plays alongside backing tracks from other apps Free: one set with all features. One-time purchase "All Your Sets": as many sets as you like, and duplicating sets. No account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription. Works without an internet connection.

Screenshots

ADverb21 screens
Set Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Set Clock at Free against ADverb2's $2.99. Set Clock also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 50 months). ADverb2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#164 vs unranked). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Set Clock is free to download; ADverb2 costs $2.99 up front. Set Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ADverb2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ADverb2 ships an update every 50 months, Set Clock every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
ADverb2 versus Set Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADverb2Set Clock
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 50 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#164 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudio Damage, Inc.Christian-Conrad Knorr

In-app purchases

None

ADverb2

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Set Clock

One-time1
  • All Your Sets$5.99

Questions

Is ADverb2 free?
ADverb2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Set Clock free?
Set Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ADverb2 or Set Clock have ads?
Neither ADverb2 nor Set Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ADverb2 or Set Clock?
ADverb2 ships an update every 50 months, and Set Clock every 3 weeks. Most recently, ADverb2 was updated on November 13, 2026 and Set Clock on November 13, 2026.

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