Comparison

Esspresso vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stellarvox at 100% against Esspresso's 40%. Stellarvox also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and device support (3 vs 1). Esspresso's advantage is price ($9.99 vs $11.99) and iOS requirement (13.6 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Esspresso costs $9.99 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stellarvox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Esspresso's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stellarvox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Esspresso ships an update every 9 months, Stellarvox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Esspresso versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEsspressoStellarvox
Price$9.99 — better$11.99
Rating3.5 (16 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.6 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKlevgrand Produkter ABIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

Esspresso

All ratings16 ratings
Positive56.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative31.3%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral13.3%
Negative46.7%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Esspresso

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Esspresso free?
Esspresso costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Esspresso or Stellarvox?
Stellarvox is rated higher. Esspresso averages 3.5 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Stellarvox averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Esspresso or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither Esspresso nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Esspresso or Stellarvox?
Esspresso ships an update every 9 months, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, Esspresso was updated on October 7, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 9, 2026.

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