FlexTune vs ChannelEqualizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlexTune
Personalize your car's audio system with this app. Easily adjust bass, clarity, and other sound settings using a five-band equalizer and create custom profiles for different music or moods. Enjoy wireless control of your KICKER audio system.
- Variable Five-Band Parametric Equalizer
- Multiple Custom Presets
- Remote KICKER Subwoofer Gain
- Adjustable Center-Image Control
- Bluetooth LE Enabled
- Wireless Control
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Congratulations on your new vehicle. Now it’s time to make your sound personal! KICKER® FlexTune™ works seamlessly with your phone, tablet and your new KICKER audio system to personalize your sound. Increase the clarity? No problem. Want more KICKER bass? Turn one knob. Easily tweak the audio with a touch of the graphic five-band equalizer, right from your phone or tablet screen. You’ll hear how much better it sounds from the very first touch! When your sound is perfect, save it as your own personal profile, or make multiple profiles to match your tunes, your spouse’s tunes, the kids’ tunes – or your mood! Features: • Variable Five-Band Parametric Equalizer • Multiple Custom Presets • Remote KICKER Subwoofer Gain • Adjustable Center-Image Control • Bluetooth LE® Enabled • Completely Wireless Control
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 FlexTune's 2.8. FlexTune's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (8.2 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 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of FlexTune'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.
FlexTune ships an update every 3 months, ChannelEqualizer every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlexTune | ChannelEqualizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kicker | Ryo Togawa |
Customer experience
FlexTune
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In-app purchases
FlexTune
No in-app purchases
ChannelEqualizer
No in-app purchases
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