AudioEffX vs Enso Looper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AudioEffX
This app offers seven studio-quality audio effect modules for live use and enhancing music libraries. Effects can be chained in any order to create rich, modulated, or distorted sounds. It simulates room acoustics with adjustable reverb parameters for a customized listening experience.
- Seven studio-quality effect modules
- Live usage and music library enrichment
- Chained effect modules in any order
- Chorus, Delay, Drive, ParaEQ, Flanger, Phaser, Reverb effects
- Adjustable reverb parameters (tail, time, room size, diffusion, absorption, stereo)
- Sync mode for delay effects
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Multieffect Audioprocessor Seven studio quality effect modules for live usage and to enrich your iTunes music library. All effect modules can be used together chained in any order you like. The Chorus effect is a modulation effect used used to create a richer, thicker sound and add subtle movement. The effect roughly simulates the slight variations in pitch and timing that occur when multiple performers sing or play the same part. The Delay effect provides you with two different types of delay effects using two delay lines. With Sync mode the delay times can be set by note lengths and are then relative to the currently set tempo. The delayed signal can be feed back to the input for echo effects. You can select between a stereo delay and a ping-pong delay where the echoes bounces across the stereo field. The Drive effect provides you with different types of distortion from hard clipping to soft distortion simulating analog tube amplifiers and tape machines. The sound balance can be adjusted using a combined High/Lowpass filter. The distortion algorithm uses oversampling to reduce aliasing artefacts. The ParaEQ effect is a parametric equalizer with optional graphic editing of Lowpass/Highpass and Bandpass equalizer stage. The Flanger is composed of two independent delay lines with feedback for the left and the right channel respectively. The delay time of both delays is modulated by one LFO with adjustable frequency. For typical flanging effects the delay time should be below 5 milliseconds. The Phaser is built from an 8-pole allpass filter, which gives you a very short and frequency dependent delay time. This delay time is modulated by an LFO. The Reverb effect is used to simulate the sound reflections off walls in different kind of rooms. This reflections disperse the sound, enriching it by overlapping the sound with its reflection. This reverb parameter are accessible by the user: • Tail delay - Sets the amount of time that elapses between the direct sound and the reverberation tail. This time correlates with the perceived size of the simulated room. The adjustable range is from 0 ms to 300 ms. • Reverb time - The time the reverb takes to die away by 60dB after the end of the initial sound. This parameter correlates with the perceived size of the simulated room. The adjustable range is from 50 ms to 100 seconds. • Room size - The room size parameter sets the average distance between the reflecting walls. • Diffusion - The Diffusion parameter controls the echo density of the resulting reverberant sound. A higher value corresponds to a higher echo density which is in most cases more natural sounding. • Absorption - The Absorption parameter simulates the surface and air absorption of high frequencies. Due to absorption the reverberation time is shorter for high frequencies than for low frequencies. With higher absorption high frequencies will decay much faster. • Tail stereo - Adjusts the stereo image width of the reverberation tail. • Tail cutoff / tone - Lowpass and Highpass filter for the reverb tail. Summary of features: • Seven studio quality audio effects • AudioUnit for AUv3 compatible hosts. • AudioUnit full parameter automation. • Inter-app audio compatible effect. • Audiobus 3 compatible with state saving. • Apply multi effect to any song in your iTunes library. • Low latency live usage with mic and headphones. • Audio recorder • Ableton Link compatible.
Enso Looper
This real-time audio looper plugin offers a unique and characterful toolkit for producers and live performers. It combines intuitive design with deep features for creating layered grooves, complex textures, and evolving soundscapes. Advanced controls allow for independent speed and direction manipulation, tape-style effects, and MIDI integration.
- Real-time audio looping
- Overdub modes (conventional and dual tape)
- Up to four definable Sectors
- Independent speed and direction control
- Onboard tape-style saturation, filtering, and chorus
- Comprehensive MIDI assignment system
- Animated waveform display
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Enso is a looper. Not a phrase sampler, not a beat slicer: a real looper, built in the image of the pedal loopers and reel-to-reel tape systems that defined the form, then extended well past what hardware can do. Press one button and it records; press it again and you are looping. Up to five minutes of stereo audio, host-synced or free-running. The play and record heads are completely decoupled, each with its own through-zero speed control from -4x to +4x. Play backwards at half speed while overdubbing forwards at double, and things get strange in the best way. Four sectors give you separate loop regions to crossfade between and overdub within, and a built-in effects section (tape-style saturation and hiss, filters, and chorus) can sit in the feedback path so your loop ages like tape with every pass. Enso runs as an AUv3 plugin in your favorite host, and includes a standalone mode for sketching. FEATURES - Full automatic looping engine: simple to learn, exceedingly powerful, with one-button looping control, both host-synced and free time. - Independent play and record heads: through-zero speed from -4x to +4x on each, with selectable increment and decrement values. - Dub In Place: work like a traditional digital looper, or like a tape looper with the effects and speed changes in the feedback path. - Sector crossfading: define four start and end points, crossfade between them, and overdub or re-record within them. - Effects section: tape-style saturation and hiss, high- and low-pass filters, and a stereo chorus. - MIDI Slice mode: play your loop from a MIDI controller, automatically sliced into 4 to 16 equal pieces. - Full MIDI CC implementation: an assignable MIDI CC page covers most of the looping engine, tuned for foot control. - Auto RTZ: automatically return to zero at a chosen interval to keep loose material in sync. - Cross-platform preset format: XML presets that can store the buffer, compatible with the desktop version of Enso. No subscriptions and no nonsense. Buy it once and it is yours, with free updates. Enso is also available for Mac, Windows, and Linux at audiodamage.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AudioEffX at every 5 days against Enso Looper's every 3 months. AudioEffX also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 49%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). 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
AudioEffX costs $4.99 and Enso Looper $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AudioEffX holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of AudioEffX's written reviews are positive against 49% of Enso Looper's.
AudioEffX ships an update every 5 days, Enso Looper every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AudioEffX | Enso Looper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better | 4.5 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better | 48.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harry Gohs | Audio Damage, Inc. |
Customer experience
AudioEffX
Enso Looper
Bugs and requests
AudioEffX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Enso Looper
Reported bugs
15 issues- Hit record and it won't record
- Audio popping/clicking when switching sectors or playback modes
- Timing is off after playing a while when reopening sessions
- Crashes before saving, losing all work
- Crashes when trying to control via MIDI
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- Stopped loading/functioning
- Does not connect to GarageBand
- Does not go past initial message screen
- Does not register as an audio unit extension in GarageBand
- Does not show up in GarageBand's 'External' app list
- Does not show up in DAWs (AUM, Beatmaker, Auria)
- Buttons do not work (cannot activate recording/playback)
- Loop still plays even when channel fader is down
- Instance crashes when routing audio to AudioShare
- Loses all ENSO instances in a project when one crashes
Requested features
13 requests- Fix recording issues
- Fix audio popping/clicking
- Implement Undo/Redo functionality
- Improve stability and fix crashes
- Respond to tech support queries
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- Make a standalone version
- Add threshold auto-start
- Render loops as uncompressed audio files
- Allow loading pre-existing loops
- Save INIT setups for automatic loading
- Add MIDI version
- Add an Undo button as a failsafe
- Improve color coding or button size
In-app purchases
AudioEffX
No in-app purchases
Enso Looper
No in-app purchases









