Music Strobe vs Bass Enhancer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music Strobe
Create a dynamic light show for your parties by syncing visual strobes with your music. Adjust frequencies and volume sensitivity for a personalized experience. Choose to use your device's camera flash or screen for illumination.
- Music-reactive strobe effects
- Adjustable frequency control
- Automatic volume adjustment
- Camera flash or screen illumination
- Customizable strobe patterns
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Light up your dance party with the Music Strobe app! Music Strobe works straight out of the box but also allows you to tweak frequencies and more to get it strobing just the way you like it. - Automatically adjusts for music of any volume. -Turn off frequencies so you can have strobe to bass, treble or something in between. -Can use the camera flash or the screen.
Bass Enhancer
Enhance your audio with a dedicated tool for generating lower, deeper bass frequencies through harmonic saturation. This plugin offers detailed control over harmonic balance and frequency processing, allowing for precise sound shaping. It's designed to add richness and impact to dull-sounding bass tracks.
- Harmonic saturation for deeper bass
- Control over odd/even harmonics
- Adjustable frequency processing start point
- Input and output level monitoring
- Mix control for enhancement amount
- Bypass for A/B comparison
- Scalable GUI
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Bass Enhancer AUv3 plug-in — comes as time-limited Demo-version for you to try. It gives you 5 minutes of Free play time. (You can reload the Bass Enhancer AUv3 plug-in as many times as you want, thereby you get the Demo period again and again.) Unlimited version of Bass Enhancer AUv3 plug-in comes as In-App Purchase. Does your bass sound dull and lifeless? Red Rock Sound Bass Enhancer will be your choice to correct this deficiency. Bass Enhancer designed for saturation harmonics of low-frequency, it creates the effect of lower, deeper frequencies. This effect can not be created with simple equalization. Features: • ON switch — allows the user to bypass the Bass Enhancer for before/after comparisons; • LEVEL — control knob for the Level of the Input Signal; • INPUT meter — lets You monitor the output level before Bass Enhancer processing; • TIMBRE — sets the balance between Odd and Even harmonics; • FREQ — this knob simply controls where the process begins in frequency domain (for example, with a setting of 85 Hz, all frequencies below 85 Hz will have Harmonics generated by the system); • LISTEN — mute the Mix signal and Listen to the Bass signal created by Bass Enhancer; • MIX — sets the amount of Bass Enhancer enhancement added to the original signal; • H.meter — the Level meter for the Harmonics that are created; • OUTPUT meter — lets You monitor the output level after Bass Enhancer processing; • Undo/Redo; • A/B comparison; • 2x/4x/8x Upsampling; • Macro controllers; • Built-in Gain Match; • Scalable GUI. To use Bass Enhancer as a plug-in, you need an AUv3-compatible host app like GarageBand, Auria, AUM, Cubasis and more — Bass Enhancer will appear in the list of Audio Unit extensions for effect plug-ins in the host app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Music Strobe at none against Bass Enhancer's 1. Music Strobe also leads on ratings volume (737 vs 37). Bass Enhancer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Bass Enhancer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Music Strobe asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Music Strobe against 4.5 for Bass Enhancer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Music Strobe has 737 ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Music Strobe's written reviews are positive against 89% of Bass Enhancer's.
Music Strobe ships an update every 4 months, Bass Enhancer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Strobe | Bass Enhancer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (737 ratings) | 4.5 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.7% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 737 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Kiddle | RRS, OOO |
Customer experience
Music Strobe
Bass Enhancer
Bugs and requests
Music Strobe
Reported bugs
3 issues- App doesn't work on iOS 18
- Volume gets reduced when app is open
- Strobe effect doesn't stop automatically
Requested features
3 requests- Add landscape mode support
- Improve flashlight brightness control
- Implement background playback
Bass Enhancer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Music Strobe
No in-app purchases
Bass Enhancer
- RRS Bass Enhancer Unlimited$4.99
Questions
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