UE Custom vs ChannelEqualizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UE Custom
Tailor your listening experience with custom EQ settings for your Ultimate Ears earphones. Select from optimized presets or craft and save your unique sound profiles.
- Customizable EQ settings
- Preset sound profiles
- Save custom profiles
- Optimized for various audio types
- Works with Ultimate Ears custom fit earphones
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The UE Custom App allows you to customize the EQ settings of your Ultimate Ears custom fit earphones. Choose from presets optimized for different listening experiences from podcasts to heavy bass or create and save your own.
ChannelEqualizer
This audio plugin acts as a three-band equalizer for music production. It offers adjustable frequency ranges and gain levels for low, mid, and high frequencies, enhancing audio processing within compatible host applications.
- Three-band equalizer (Low, Mid, High)
- Adjustable frequency ranges
- Variable gain control
- High-pass and low-pass filters
- AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) format
- System audio input/output routing
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ChannelEqualizer is a three band EQ AudioUnit Extension plugin, developed as an add-on for VADrumSM. ChannelEQExtension (AUv3) Low Shelving - Frequency Range: 21Hz - 1092Hz - Gain -INF - +12dB - High Pass Filter response: 12dB / Oct Mid Peak / Notch - Frequency Range: 152Hz - 2409Hz - Gain -36dB - +24dB High Shelving - Frequency Range: 296Hz - 21096Hz - Gain -INF - +12dB - Low Pass Filter response: 12dB / Oct Host application uses system audio input as an audio source and processed audio signal is routed to the system audio output.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChannelEqualizer at 4.0 against UE Custom's 3.2. UE Custom's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChannelEqualizer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of UE Custom's written reviews are positive against 33% of ChannelEqualizer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
UE Custom ships an update every 6 weeks, ChannelEqualizer every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UE Custom | ChannelEqualizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (23 ratings) | 4.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Logitech Inc. | Ryo Togawa |
Customer experience
UE Custom
ChannelEqualizer
In-app purchases
UE Custom
No in-app purchases
ChannelEqualizer
No in-app purchases
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