Comparison

Train Sounds Effects vs Speed Comp

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

Head to head
About

Train Sounds Effects

Enhance your model railway experience with a variety of realistic train sound effects. Control playback with switches for continuous loops or buttons for single plays, and adjust individual volumes. Import your own sounds to further personalize your setup.

Highlights
  • Expand model railway with sound effects
  • Use iPad or external speakers
  • Control playback with switches (loop) or buttons (once)
  • Individually adjust volume for each element
  • Import custom sound effects
Features
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With Train-Sounds you expand your model railway with additional sound effects. Thus the joy deepens around your model railway. Use your iPad speakers or external speakers to listen these effects. The combination of switches and buttons allow you to determine how these effects are to be played. With switches, the effects are playing in a continuous loop and with buttons only once. At each switching element, you can adjust the volume individually. Buy through the in-app you add value to your version of Train-Sounds, you can bring your own sound effects into the program.

About

Speed Comp

Features
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Volume that keeps up with the wind. Open the throttle and the wind takes your music with it. Speed Comp raises the volume as you speed up and eases it back as you slow — so you keep your hands where they belong instead of on the volume buttons. If it moves, it works — boats, jet skis, motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, snowmobiles, and whatever else you ride. Your iPhone drives the Bluetooth speaker, helmet headset or headphones; Speed Comp drives the volume. THREE MOVING PARTS Pick your range. Choose the speed where compensation should start and the speed where it should top out, in MPH or KM/H. Below your minimum, the app leaves your volume alone. Set your baseline. Tap Enable at a volume that sounds right while stopped. That level becomes the floor — Speed Comp only ever adds to it, and never turns you down below where you set it. Ride. GPS speed drives the volume continuously, screen off, app in the background. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen shows it running, with a Stop button one tap away. BUILT FOR THE WAY AUDIO ACTUALLY WORKS • Works with your player. Speed Comp adjusts the system volume, so Spotify, podcasts, audiobooks and everything else follow along. No per-app setup. • Try it parked. A built-in simulation ramps a fake speed from a standstill to your maximum through the same path as real GPS. Dial in your curve at the dock or in the garage, not at thirty knots. • Your speed stays yours. Location is read on your iPhone, turned into a volume level on your iPhone, and never leaves it. No account, no ads, no tracking, no location history. FREE, FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE Speed compensation itself is free and never expires. Without a subscription each session runs for up to two hours, then stops — start it again and you get another two. PLUS lifts the session limit and adds up to three saved profiles, so a bowrider and a motorcycle can each have their own curve. PRO adds unlimited profiles, Loudness Enhancer — a smooth glide between the volume steps instead of a jump — and a Now Playing card with transport controls for Apple Music. Subscriptions are billed through your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. WHERE IT WORKS, AND WHERE IT DOESN'T Built for your phone driving a speaker or headset in the open air, where wind is the noise you are fighting. Not really for newer cars: a modern stereo manages its own volume and often already compensates, so there is little left for Speed Comp to do. Privacy policy: https://speedcomp.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Train Sounds Effects3 screens
Speed Comp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Train Sounds Effects at 3 against Speed Comp's 1. Train Sounds Effects also leads on iOS requirement (12.3 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Train Sounds Effects sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Speed Comp sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Train Sounds Effects versus Speed Comp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrain Sounds EffectsSpeed Comp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanko EnkeEXPRESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Train Sounds Effects

One-time1
  • Extra Package$0.99
4 purchases

Speed Comp

Subscriptions4
  • Plus$1.991 Month
  • Pro$2.991 Month
  • Plus (Yearly)$14.991 Year
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  • Pro (Yearly)$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Train Sounds Effects free?
Train Sounds Effects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speed Comp free?
Speed Comp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Train Sounds Effects or Speed Comp have ads?
Neither Train Sounds Effects nor Speed Comp shows ads.

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