Esspresso vs Things
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Esspresso
This advanced audio effect offers professional de-essing with an intuitive interface. It functions as both a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin, allowing independent control over detection and suppression frequencies for precise sibilance management.
- Standalone app and AUv3 plugin
- Independent detection and suppression frequencies
- Visual frequency response view
- Detector sensitivity gain
- Visual reduction and detector RMS
- Load/save presets
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This audio effect is an advanced de-esser with an intuitive user interface, and works both as an AUv3 audio plugin, and as a standalone app. The uniqueness of Esspresso is that the detection frequency range isn’t coupled with the suppressors frequency range. That means you can listen to a specific frequency and compress another one, which is often what you’ll want from a professional de-esser. With a fast and accurate frequency response view, you will easily get full control over annoying S-sounds that ruin the mix. Noteworthy features: • Works both as a standalone app and as an Audio Unit Extension (AUv3) with compliant hosts • Detector sensitivity gain • Visual reduction RMS • Visual detector RMS • Suppressor can work as allpass, bandpass and highpass • Load / Save presets
Things
This audio plugin offers a unique tilting equalizer effect, allowing users to easily adjust the balance between highs and lows by turning a single knob. It also provides mid/side processing for enhanced stereo depth and adjustable cutoff frequencies.
- Tilting EQ with main knob control
- Mid/side processing for stereo depth
- Adjustable cutoff frequency
- Boost gain control
- Easy-to-use interface
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Things Flip EQ is an easy-to-use tilting EQ plugin with mid/side mode. Turn the main knob to the right, and you get more highs and less lows; turn it to the left, and lows are boosted while highs are attenuated. You can choose the cutoff frequency of the EQ with the Cutoff control, or increase the gain of the EQ with the Boost button. Things Flip EQ can also be applied to either the mid or side of a stereo signal to further enhance the stereo depth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Things at 100% against Esspresso's 40%. Things also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and price ($6.99 vs $9.99). Esspresso's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 28 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Esspresso costs $9.99 and Things $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Things holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Esspresso's written reviews are positive against 100% of Things's.
Esspresso ships an update every 9 months, Things every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Esspresso | Things |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $6.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (16 ratings) | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Klevgrand Produkter AB | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
Esspresso
Things
In-app purchases
Esspresso
No in-app purchases
Things
No in-app purchases









