Comparison

VoxSyn vs ChannelStrip

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

Head to head
About

VoxSyn

Transform your voice into a versatile vocal sound generator. This app captures your vocal modulations to create unique sounds beyond traditional vocoding, allowing you to trigger synthesizer sounds with your voice or a keyboard. Expand your sonic palette with a vast pool of presets and effects.

Highlights
  • Voice control of pitch and timbre
  • 22-channel vocoder
  • Integrated preset synthesizer engine
  • Hundreds of presets
  • Hi-end audio effects
  • Audiobus and Inter App Audio compatible
  • MIDI and background audio support
Features
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VoxSyn turns your voice into the most flexible vocal sound generator ever. Instantly following even subtle modulations of pitch and spectral changes of your voice VoxSyn creates signature vocal sounds far beyond traditional vocoding. Talk or sing into the microphone and you’ll trigger various synthesizer sounds following your voice pitch or the notes touched on the hexagonal keyboard / external MIDI Keyboard. The basic sounds are selected from a vast pool of predefined sounds from the famous TERA synthesis engine which can be further expanded by its unique random sound generator. The harmonic table note layout visualizes your voices pitch in realtime and also let you play notes for more traditional vocoder effects. VoxSyn is Audiobus compatible and can be used in the Input, Filter and Output slots in the Audiobus signal chain. The output can be recorded to an audio file which you can use with other Apps and programs for further processing. Features: - Voice control of pitch and timbre - 22-channel Vocoder - Integrated preset synthesizer engine - Hundreds of presets included - Hi-end Reverb and Chorus/Delay/Distortion/Phaser effects - Share/Export of audio recordings - CoreMIDI / Virtual MIDI and Background audio - Inter App Audio compatible - Audiobus 2 support (Input/Filter/Output) with state saving

About

ChannelStrip

This app provides essential audio processing tools for music production, including a noise gate, equalizer, and compressor. It offers smooth control for mixing and tonal shaping, with a characterful output stage for adding warmth.

Highlights
  • Noise gate with adjustable envelope
  • PEV-modeled equalizer for tone shaping
  • Rough Rider-based compressor
  • Input/output gain control
  • Mute and bypass functions
  • AUv3 plugin support
Features
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ChannelStrip is, as its name implies, a channel strip app and AUv3 plugin. With a gate, equalizer, and compressor, ChannelStrip can provide a solid and easy-to-use channel control for your iOS mixing needs. GATE: The gate is of our own design, and very smooth. With envelope that vary from nearly instantaneous to ludicrously long, you can use it for both basic noise control and more extreme tonal shaping. EQUALIZER: Modeled on the PEV, a famous German "cartridge" equalizer, the EQ in ChannelStrip is super useful for basic tone shaping. A very smooth and forgiving general-purpose EQ. COMPRESSOR: The compressor in ChannelStrip is, at its heart, our Rough Rider model. We removed all the filtering from Rough Rider to make it cleaner, and changed the times to be more appropriate to general mixing duties. I/O: ChannelStrip has positive gain on both the input and output, to get your levels right. It also has a bit of a personality on the output stage if you drive it hard (with either or both the input and output gains). Nominally very clean, it picks up a bit of dirt with high levels just like a hardware console. Along with that, both mute (which mutes the input entirely) and bypass (which sends the inputs right to the outputs without passing the DSP stages) are available as automatable parameters. In short, ChannelStrip is a general utility mixing tool, with a bit of character and a lot of usefulness. We _strongly_ recommend you use the AUv3 version. The standalone is provided as a courtesy, but ChannelStrip is designed as an AUv3 plugin, and prefers to be hosted in a DAW or modular host like GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, nanoStudio, etc.

Screenshots

VoxSyn3 screens
ChannelStrip2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ChannelStrip at 5.0 against VoxSyn's 3.1. VoxSyn's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 66 months) and price ($0.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

VoxSyn costs $0.99 and ChannelStrip $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ChannelStrip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VoxSyn has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of VoxSyn's written reviews are positive against 39% of ChannelStrip's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VoxSyn ships an update every 9 days, ChannelStrip every 66 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
VoxSyn versus ChannelStrip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoxSynChannelStrip
Price$0.99 — better$3.99
Rating3.1 (18 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.1% of reviews — better38.9% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 66 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHarry GohsAudio Damage, Inc.

Customer experience

VoxSyn

All ratings18 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative38.9%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive48.1%
Neutral14.8%
Negative37.0%

ChannelStrip

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive38.9%
Neutral16.7%
Negative44.4%

In-app purchases

None

VoxSyn

No in-app purchases

None

ChannelStrip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VoxSyn free?
VoxSyn costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChannelStrip free?
ChannelStrip costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, VoxSyn or ChannelStrip?
ChannelStrip is rated higher. VoxSyn averages 3.1 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while ChannelStrip averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do VoxSyn or ChannelStrip have ads?
Neither VoxSyn nor ChannelStrip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VoxSyn or ChannelStrip?
VoxSyn ships an update every 9 days, and ChannelStrip every 66 months. Most recently, VoxSyn was updated on October 24, 2026 and ChannelStrip on October 24, 2026.

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