Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Beats, a web-based drum machine
Hello all! I've been an avid fan of Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering since I found out about them. I even own an EP-133 K.O. II today, which I love. A couple of months ago, Reddit user andiam03 shared a Google Sheet with some drum patterns [1]. I thought it was a very cool way to share and understand beats. During the weekend I coded a basic version of this app I am sharing today. I iterated over it in my free time, and yesterday I felt like I had a pretty good version to share with y'all. It's not meant to be a sequencer but rather a way to experiment with beats and basic sounds,…
Beats is a web-based drum machine that lets users create, experiment with, and share drum patterns and basic sounds. Designed for anyone interested in beat-making, it offers a simple interface for building patterns… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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After two years of development, I'm super excited to release Beat Maker! This is my take on what I hope is the best free, web-based drum machine. My goal was to build something that was not only fun and easy to use for beginners but also powerful enough for serious producers. I did extensive research on existing drum machines, analyzed their UX, and tried to build something that adds something new. It's a nearly 100% client-side app, written in ClojureScript, and is a PWA so you can install it to your home screen for an app-like experience. Besides the standard grid editor, Beat Maker has…
2025 · dopeloop.ai · its alternatives →
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Originally started as a project to restore patterns from now defunct website 808.pixll.de just for myself, but eventually i decided to share it with others. I've seen this website mentioned a couple of times on HN:) Currently it only supports Roland TR-808, but there will be more.
2025 · drumpatterns.onether.com · its alternatives →
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Online drum machine and sequencer with Roland 808 style samples
2023 · peel.fm · its alternatives →
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Beatboxer is a drum machine in about 100 lines of html/js/css
2016 · sig.gy · its alternatives →
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Beat Generator▲123Randomly generated, royalty free Hip hop beats.
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there, my name is Jay. Making music and writing software have probably been the two biggest pleasures of my life -only after my family. My team and I recently started a long journey of trying to completely change the way people create music, and as it usually happens with any long journey, it all starts with small steps. One of those small steps was to build https://drummy.io, or "Dummy Drums," a very simple yet useful drum machine that stores the entire drum pattern in the hashtag of the URL. There is no backend. Fully served by a CDN. If you wanna learn how to build your own…
2022 · its alternatives →
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NoiseCraft is an open source, visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis and music making, with the goal of creating a community for the open exchange of musical ideas. The design is loosely inspired by PureData, Max/MSP as well as other visual programming languages. NoiseCraft is
2022 · noisecraft.app · its alternatives →
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Make simple 4-bar music loops in your browser using this simple online sequencer. A quick way to express your musical ideas and export them as MIDI.
2022 · muted.io · its alternatives →
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An intuitive 64-step drum sequencer progressive web app built using React, Redux, and Tone.js
2021 · sequencer64.com · its alternatives →
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A simple sequencer where you can create visual patterns and listen to them, with the ability to change the instrumentation, tempo, swing, and more.
2022 · drawbeats.com · its alternatives →
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loopclub▲85The shared drum machine to jam with strangers or with Claude
Jul 2026 · app.loopclub.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://www.beatsync.gg/ The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BAP Studio▲76An MPC-style drum machine that runs in a browser tab
Aug 2026 · bap.studio · its alternatives →
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Make a beat using sounds from the world
2016 · splice.com · its alternatives →
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io808▲122The classic drum machine synthesizer brought to the web.
2016 · io808.com · its alternatives →
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Jambl▲199Tap into your creativity, produce hit songs from your iPhone
2017 · jambl.app · its alternatives →
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Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth - kofigumbs/typebeat
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beat Lock▲117Discover who is using your beat in music streaming services
2021 · beatlock.io · its alternatives →
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A free online drum machine and beat maker based on a circular timeline. Creating drum loops and patterns and download your beats as MIDI.
2023 · muted.io · its alternatives →
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