BLEASS Delay vs ChannelStrip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLEASS Delay
Enhance your audio mixes with a versatile delay and echo effect. This tool offers deep control over sound character with integrated frequency shifting and dual filters. Create dynamic soundscapes and classic modulation effects with its three LFOs.
- Adds depth and movement to mixes
- Integrated frequency shifter
- Dual filter for sound control
- Three LFOs for modulation
- Creates chorus and flanging effects
- Generates soundscapes and effects
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BLEASS Delay is the ideal tool for adding depth, movement and interest to your mixes. No matter what style of music you are producing and what instrumentation you are working with, the versatility and ease-of-use of BLEASS Delay helps you achieve perfect results with the minimal of fuss. Echoes are just the starting point for BLEASS Delay. The integrated frequency shifter and dual filter allow deep control over the character and sound of the generated repeats, allowing you to achieve with one plugin sound effects that may otherwise require a complete plugin stack and complex routing. BLEASS Delay also includes three LFOs, one each for the delay engine, the frequency shifter and the filter. As well as allowing the plugin to create classic modulation effects such as chorus and flanging, the dedicated LFOs are ideal for creating exciting sound effects and epic, constantly-shifting soundscapes. BLEASS Delay App is an AUv3 plugin. A Desktop compatible plugin (VST3 / AU / AAX) is also available for Windows and macOS. More information on https://www.bleass.com/delay/
ChannelStrip
This app provides essential audio processing tools for music production, including a noise gate, equalizer, and compressor. It offers smooth control for mixing and tonal shaping, with a characterful output stage for adding warmth.
- Noise gate with adjustable envelope
- PEV-modeled equalizer for tone shaping
- Rough Rider-based compressor
- Input/output gain control
- Mute and bypass functions
- AUv3 plugin support
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ChannelStrip is, as its name implies, a channel strip app and AUv3 plugin. With a gate, equalizer, and compressor, ChannelStrip can provide a solid and easy-to-use channel control for your iOS mixing needs. GATE: The gate is of our own design, and very smooth. With envelope that vary from nearly instantaneous to ludicrously long, you can use it for both basic noise control and more extreme tonal shaping. EQUALIZER: Modeled on the PEV, a famous German "cartridge" equalizer, the EQ in ChannelStrip is super useful for basic tone shaping. A very smooth and forgiving general-purpose EQ. COMPRESSOR: The compressor in ChannelStrip is, at its heart, our Rough Rider model. We removed all the filtering from Rough Rider to make it cleaner, and changed the times to be more appropriate to general mixing duties. I/O: ChannelStrip has positive gain on both the input and output, to get your levels right. It also has a bit of a personality on the output stage if you drive it hard (with either or both the input and output gains). Nominally very clean, it picks up a bit of dirt with high levels just like a hardware console. Along with that, both mute (which mutes the input entirely) and bypass (which sends the inputs right to the outputs without passing the DSP stages) are available as automatable parameters. In short, ChannelStrip is a general utility mixing tool, with a bit of character and a lot of usefulness. We _strongly_ recommend you use the AUv3 version. The standalone is provided as a courtesy, but ChannelStrip is designed as an AUv3 plugin, and prefers to be hosted in a DAW or modular host like GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, nanoStudio, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BLEASS Delay at 81% against ChannelStrip's 39%. BLEASS Delay also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 66 months) and ratings volume (50 vs 3). ChannelStrip's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($3.99 vs $6.99). 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
BLEASS Delay costs $6.99 and ChannelStrip $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChannelStrip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BLEASS Delay has 50 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of BLEASS Delay's written reviews are positive against 39% of ChannelStrip's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BLEASS Delay ships an update every 6 months, ChannelStrip every 66 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BLEASS Delay | ChannelStrip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (50 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better | 38.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 66 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BLEASS | Audio Damage, Inc. |
Customer experience
BLEASS Delay
ChannelStrip
In-app purchases
BLEASS Delay
No in-app purchases
ChannelStrip
No in-app purchases
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