Comparison

ADverb2 vs Echo Cube

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

Head to head
About

ADverb2

This app emulates a vintage digital plate reverb unit from the 80s, offering a range of reverb effects from short and rich to long and ambient. It functions as a standalone effect, with Inter-App Audio, or as an AUv3 plugin for music production hosts.

Highlights
  • Vintage digital plate reverb emulation
  • Adjustable pre-delay, time, and size
  • Extensive filtering for reverb tail shaping
  • Logical vintage-style user interface
  • Cross-platform preset manager
  • Low CPU load optimized algorithm
Features
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ADverb2 is our love letter to the golden age of studio reverb: a small handful of controls, a big friendly panel, and a sound that flatters everything you run through it. Version 2.3 grows it from one algorithm into three. PLATE is the original ADverb algorithm, a classic digital plate with the fast build-up and silky decay that made these boxes famous. It remains untouched, and your old presets load exactly as before. AMBIENCE is a modern, airy space. It adds air and dimension around a source without an obvious tail at short settings, and blooms into a long, weightless wash when you push the time out. Time-varying early energy keeps it from ever sounding static. HALL is a large concert space, exceptionally smooth and very wide, with slow internal motion that keeps long decays lush instead of metallic. All three algorithms share the same simple control set: Pre-Delay, Reverb Time, Size, low and high Contour switches, Rolloff, and Diffusion, plus input level and output mix. The Input Mute and Reverb Stop kill switches let you perform with the reverb, choking the send or the tail on the beat. Mix Lock keeps your wet/dry setting pinned while you audition presets, ideal when ADverb2 sits on a send. Version 2.3 also brings our system-wide preset browser with folders and favorites, a hundred factory presets covering everything from drum plates to nine-second ambient washes, preset stepping right from the main panel, and presets that show up in your host's own preset menu. ADverb2 is an AUv3 Audio Unit and runs in any AUv3 host, including GarageBand and Logic Pro. The interface is fully resizable and scales to fit your device. No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases.

About

Echo Cube

This app offers a unique dual delay effect inspired by analog hardware. It features independent control over two delay lines with various sound models and flexible routing options for creative sound design.

Highlights
  • Dual independent delay lines
  • Time Cube, Garden Hose, Corrugated models
  • Adjustable time, feedback, and level
  • Serial, parallel, ping pong routing
  • Mono sum and mid-side processing
  • Stereo image shaping
Features
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Echo Cube is a dual delay inspired by the Cooper Time Cube, a rare analog unit that created echo using long coiled tubes instead of tape or electronic circuits. The delay time was defined by the physical travel of sound through air. Echo Cube recreates and expands this concept with two independent delay lines, each with time, feedback, and level controls. Choose between Time Cube for authentic hardware tone, or the experimental Garden Hose and Corrugated models for creative sound design. Flexible routing modes including serial, parallel, ping pong, mono sum, and mid side give you full control over delay interaction and stereo image shaping.

Screenshots

ADverb21 screens
Echo Cube1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ADverb2 at $2.99 against Echo Cube's $14.99. ADverb2 also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 3). Echo Cube's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ADverb2 costs $2.99 and Echo Cube $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echo Cube holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ADverb2 has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of ADverb2's written reviews are positive against 100% of Echo Cube's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ADverb2 versus Echo Cube: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADverb2Echo Cube
Price$2.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.6 (19 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 50 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudio Damage, Inc.AudioThing Ltd.

Customer experience

ADverb2

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Echo Cube

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ADverb2

No in-app purchases

None

Echo Cube

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ADverb2 free?
ADverb2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echo Cube free?
Echo Cube costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ADverb2 or Echo Cube?
Echo Cube is rated higher. ADverb2 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Echo Cube averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do ADverb2 or Echo Cube have ads?
Neither ADverb2 nor Echo Cube shows ads.

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