Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin vs NoLimits2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
This audio plugin acts as a noise gate for digital audio workstations, allowing users to suppress unwanted background noise from microphones or instruments. It offers fine-grained control over attack, release, and hold times, along with filtering to remove hum and hiss, ensuring subtle sounds are preserved.
- AUv3 compatible plugin
- Suppresses background noise
- Controllable attack, release, and hold
- High and low pass filtering
- Preserves subtle sounds
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This is an AUv3 compatible noise gate which can be used as a plugin with your favourite DAW such as Cubasis, Meteor, GarageBand or Auria. Anyone working in a live recording environment whether that be with a microphone or a high gain guitar effects will feel the need to suppress unwanted noise. This gated noise gate allows you to suppress any background noise over a specified level by a chosen suppression amount. This allows subtle sounds to still be heard as opposed to the brick wall approach. The effect has controllable attack, release and hold times as well as high and low pass filtering to eliminate main hum and hiss. This is one of a series of AUv3 compatible plugins available from 4Pockets;
NoLimits2
This high-end audio plugin offers advanced limiting capabilities for music production. It provides multiple algorithms for diverse sounds, from clean to saturated, with fine-tuning controls and LUFS metering. Compatible with major iOS music hosts.
- 4 distinct limiting algorithms
- Clean to saturated sound options
- Adjustable attack, release, and lookahead
- Up to 8x oversampling
- Stereo channel linking
- LUFS loudness metering
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At the end of a long day at the mixing desk, when everything has finally fallen into place, comes the best moment (just before pouring that glass of whisky): load an instance of NoLimits2 at the end of the processing chain, turn that big gain knob, lean back and enjoy. Its predecessor, NoLimits, was certainly a highly acclaimed limiting plugin already and did a very good job for many years, but NoLimits2 definitely takes it to another level. From ultraclean to tastefully saturated, NoLimits2 will make your mixes louder in style. NoLimits2 is a highend audio limiting plugin featuring: - a comprehensive set of 4 different limiting algorithms - all of them follow entirely different limiting strategies, giving you a choice of really unique sounds - from clean to nicely saturated, it’s all there - further control over attack, release and lookahead times allow for even more finetuning - up to 8x oversampling to keep all harmonics of the more colourful modes in check - stereo channel linking - state-of-the-art LUFS loudness metering, compliant to all the latest standards NoLimits2 is an AUv3 plugin which is compatible with all relevant hosts on iOS, like Logic, Garageband, Cubasis,... you name it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NoLimits2 at 5.0 against Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's 4.5. Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $12.99) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 11). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin costs $5.99 and NoLimits2 $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NoLimits2 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin ships an update every 42 months, NoLimits2 every 26 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin | NoLimits2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 26 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 11 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4Pockets.com | Christian Siedschlag |
Customer experience
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
NoLimits2
In-app purchases
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
No in-app purchases
NoLimits2
No in-app purchases
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