Comparison

Audio Toolbox vs pUnKGeN

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

Head to head
About

Audio Toolbox

This app provides a comprehensive suite of audio analysis tools, including a tone generator, oscilloscope, and FFT analysis engine. It allows users to create and analyze various waveforms, detect frequencies, and tune instruments with high accuracy.

Highlights
  • Tone Generator (20Hz-22KHz)
  • Multiple Waveform Options
  • Fast Fourier Analysis
  • Audio Oscilloscope
  • Frequency and Note Detection
  • SPL Meter with LEQ
  • CSV Data Export
Features
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Audio Toolbox is a suite of audio analysis tools for the iPhone and iPad. It comprises both audio waveform generators as well as a highly accurate Fast Fourier analysis engine, an audio oscilloscope and various frequency detection and tuning tools. The Tone Generator allows you to create anything from a simple sine, triangle, square, or sawtooth waveform as well as white and pink noise. It also supports log and linear sweep tones with definable range and level and complex wave construction using sine waves. The later is great for teaching audio theory with its DTMF and complex tone generation tools you can build complex waveforms and then analyse their component parts using FFT and the oscilloscope. Build DTMF, triangle, square or saw waves using multiple sine waves etc. The Audio Oscilloscope allows you to analyse directly from the tone generator or microphone. The scope features both free running and single shot modes with adjustable triggering options. The single shot mode automatically starts and stops capturing when short bursts of sound exceed a threshold. The oscilloscope also features a simple measuring tool to help measure duration and frequency of a waveform. The FFT Analysis section provides both Linear, Logarithmic as well as 1:1, 1:3 and 1:6 Octave modes. There is also an SPL meter complete with LEQ options and A/C weighting, log and linear Spectrograph and Mixer EQ modes for setting up audio mixers. All screens support 10x zoom, full screen and pause modes to aid analysis. There are also specific modes to detect peak frequencies, musical notes with cents offset, perfect for instrument tuning. Definable calibration tuning allows you to tune +/- 40Hz. Features: •20Hz-22KHz Tone Generator. •Sine, Square, Saw, Triangle, Sweep and MultiTone options. •Accurate 8K Fast Fourier Analysis. •32bit / 44KHz floating point audio sampling. •Standard ANSI/IEC A and C weighting curves. •Up to 64x oversampling. •Smoothing (alternative to averaging). •Automatic noise cancellation. •Automatic peak note / frequency and octave display. •Narrow band Linear and Logarithmic scalable displays. •Spectrogram display with Log and Linear Modes. •1:1, 1:3 and 1:6 octave display modes. •1:1, 1:3 and 1.6 Mixer tuning modes. •SPL (Sound Pressure Level) display. •Max, Min and Peak level capture. •LEQ Mode (Equivalent Continuous Sound Level). •Variable definable decibel scales. •Touch screen display of nearest point with frequency and decibel readout. •Audio Oscilloscope - Free Running and One Shot modes. •0.1 to 1000Hz timebase. •0.25-50x scope Magnification. •Definable trigger (leading and trailing edge). •10x zoom and full screen modes. •Pause facility freezes the live trace to aid analysis of data. •Camera Roll capture facility. •Export and Email CSV data from FFT or Scope. •Built in web server for transferring files. •Capture peaks over time facility. •Works on both iPhone and iPads.

About

pUnKGeN

Create heavy rock, thrash metal, punk, and goth style sequences and loops with a 6-channel pattern groovebox and guitar riff generator. Features independent effects, filters, tuning, and ducking for each track, with options to generate, modify, or manually enter riff patterns.

Highlights
  • 6-channel pattern groovebox
  • Guitar riff generator
  • Independent track effects
  • Manual note entry
  • Scale and shuffle patterns
  • Arpeggiate function
  • MIDI and Ableton Link support
Features
Currently charting
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Punk Syn Gen A 6 channel pattern groovebox and guitar riff generator for creating heavy rock, thrash metal, punk, and goth style sequences and loops. HEAVY METAL! Create mysterious 80s dark metal loops or create random riffs and drum loops with bass guitar licks. With 2 dedicated guitars, bass, synth and also drum tracks. Whether you play the guitar or not, use this app to come up with new ideas, ideas that you would never have dreamed of. ROCK ON! You can use this app as a guitar riff generator to make whole interesting goth or punk /thrash style sample loops. Every track has independent effects, filter, tuning and ducking ( similar to side chain compression) Generate, modify or manually enter riff patterns with "power" levels. Many different ways to generate or modify patterns that intelligently conform the patters for each instrument. Adding a note manually is easy. Place a note and adjust the power level from small strum, to powerchords for guitars. Power level in Guitar 1 allows you to add single note, single muted or power chords to create thrash riffs. Power level in synth gives you different pad type sounds. Two duplicate drum tracks with some basic drum kit sounds to give you some backing Bass Guitar power level goes from soft touch to slap bass. You can simply generate all day long with one button and it will create a scale, and riffs for every track. If you like the pattern but not the notes, choose your scale and rescale one or many tracks at the same time If you dont like the riff, shuffle it If you want an arpeggio but using a riff, make a riff pattern then press arpeggiate, cycles through arpeggio modes You can freely transpose the entire composition You can play one bar at a time or chain up to 4 bars Half or quarter the playback speed independently on each track so 64 steps plays slower equivalent to 256 steps. Thrash algorithm patterns have been influenced from bands like Metallica and Faith no More. In Fact Faith No More inspired us to use synth strings. Create ideas you wouldn't think of using scales and riffs. Whether you are a fan of Metallica riffs or punk, you can never tell what you'll get when it generates all tracks. Some chaos is also added to the generation of riffs. Many affects can be added from purposely adding bend, echo, reverb, extra distortion for even more thrash metal sound and resonating low pass filters to create mysterious and moody goth style patterns. This app is part of a family of apps: 6x808 - a drum sequencer, 2xb303 a TB303 sequencer, 7XdXfm - a 7 track-4 operator FM synth, 7XWave - a sample manipulation groovebox. Unique to this, the step edits are removed, and replaced with a dedicated piano roll for placing notes in a grid representing pitch and time. Like all the other apps, MIDI is included for sync as well as Ableton Link and Inter App Audio so you can route the audio to Audiobus/AUM Output note data on each channel too. You can sample whats playing anytime and it will record a sampled loop you can export to Audioshare or clipboard/email

Screenshots

Audio Toolbox4 screens
pUnKGeN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Audio Toolbox at 100% against pUnKGeN's 44%. Audio Toolbox also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.6). pUnKGeN's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months) and chart position (#176 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Audio Toolbox costs $3.99 and pUnKGeN $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Audio Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Audio Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 44% of pUnKGeN's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Audio Toolbox ships an update every 8 months, pUnKGeN every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Audio Toolbox versus pUnKGeN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudio ToolboxpUnKGeN
Price$3.99$2.99 — better
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better3.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#176 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer4Pockets.comRob Wilmot

Customer experience

Audio Toolbox

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

pUnKGeN

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral33.3%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Audio Toolbox

No in-app purchases

None

pUnKGeN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Audio Toolbox free?
Audio Toolbox costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is pUnKGeN free?
pUnKGeN costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Audio Toolbox or pUnKGeN?
Audio Toolbox is rated higher. Audio Toolbox averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while pUnKGeN averages 3.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Audio Toolbox or pUnKGeN have ads?
Neither Audio Toolbox nor pUnKGeN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Audio Toolbox or pUnKGeN?
Audio Toolbox ships an update every 8 months, and pUnKGeN every 3 days. Most recently, Audio Toolbox was updated on October 3, 2026 and pUnKGeN on October 11, 2026.

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