AudioTheory Guitars vs FAC Clipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AudioTheory Guitars
This app serves as a comprehensive reference for guitarists, offering interactive chord and fretboard diagrams. It simplifies music theory by allowing seamless transcription between piano and guitar, with customizable tuning and note exclusion features.
- Interactive chord and fretboard diagrams
- Piano to guitar transcription
- Customizable tuning and capo settings
- Chord sheet playback
- Note exclusion for playing in key
- Left-handed mode
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AudioTheory Guitars is the ultimate reference tool for guitar notes and chords. Featuring a built-in keyboard, each note reacts to your input across the customisable chord and fretboard diagrams. For anyone who's ever wished music theory was that little bit more straightforward – this is the software you need. Features: –Seamlessly transcribe between piano and guitar using a straight-forward colour coding system and notation highlighting. Play a note on the keyboard, or directly from the chord and fretboard diagrams to see where it is across all formats. –Set your tuning and capo. Everything else adjusts accordingly – no need for a chord transposition chart. –Choose your chords with open, power, barre, sus2 and dim7 chord sheets with fullscreen diagrams and playback options. –Exclude notes and never play out of key again. Your fretboard diagram now only shows the notes you need and your keyboard doesn't play the ones you don't. –Full customisation. Select the chords you want. Left-handed mode for left-handed players. Set your fretboard size, number of strings, start fret and per-string tuning.
FAC Clipper
This audio plugin enhances mix loudness and adds harmonic warmth with flexible full-band and two-band clipping. It offers precise visual metering, adjustable knee curves, and a dry/wet mix for balanced sound. Designed for quick, intuitive peak control on iOS, macOS, and Vision Pro.
- Enhances mix loudness
- Adds harmonic warmth
- Full-band and two-band clipping
- Precise visual metering
- Adjustable knee curve
- Dry/wet mix control
- Low latency
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• Enhances Mix Loudness and Adds Harmonic Warmth • Full-Band and Two-Band Clipper in a Single Plugin • Quick, lightweight, and designed for effortless flexibility! • Precise Visual Metering for Fast Peak Control • Knee Curve Adjustment, from Super Soft to Hard • Shape Control of the Harmonic Profile • Dry/Wet Mix for a Natural, Balanced Sound • Low Latency with Optional Oversampling • Advanced Responsive Design, portrait and landscape views • Universal Purchase: AUv3 for iOS (iPad/iPhone), macOS and Vision Pro FAC Clipper is designed to enhance your mix's loudness and add signature harmonic warmth. While it is based on a similar DSP architecture to the Clip processor in FAC Punchlab, it takes a different approach to clipping control, featuring an advanced user interface with precise metering to track and manage the peaks of the audio signal. The plugin also includes both a full-band clipper that processes the entire spectrum and a multi-band clipper, allowing you to independently clip low, high, or both frequency bands. This provides the flexibility to maintain transparent processing or experiment with creative adjustments, depending on your needs. Built with simplicity and flexibility in mind, FAC Clipper is quick, lightweight, and highly intuitive. The clean, streamlined interface lets you focus on what matters most; controlling the peak levels to maximize loudness while preserving clarity and avoiding the pumping effects often associated with heavily limited signals. Thanks to its precise waveform and level meters, using FAC Clipper is a breeze. Simply add the plugin to your track and adjust the input gain until the waveform meter reaches 0 dB. This gives you a clear view of the signal's dynamic range, making it easier to identify peaks. Next, set the ceiling just below the peaks you wish to control. You can also adjust the Knee parameter for smoother clipping and fine-tune the saturation to achieve the perfect warmth and character. Use the Mix parameter to blend the clipped signal with the original audio, allowing you to control the amount of clipping applied. This helps preserve the natural character of the sound while enhancing loudness and harmonic warmth. This is an AUv3 Effect and requires a compatible host to work The documentation is available at fredantoncorvest.com/FAC_Clipper.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AudioTheory Guitars at none against FAC Clipper's 3. AudioTheory Guitars also leads on price ($6.99 vs $9.99). FAC Clipper's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, 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
AudioTheory Guitars costs $6.99 and FAC Clipper $9.99 up front. FAC Clipper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. AudioTheory Guitars asks for nothing beyond the download.
AudioTheory Guitars ships an update every 3 months, FAC Clipper every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AudioTheory Guitars | FAC Clipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #189 — better |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 412 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fraser Mackenzie | Frederic Corvest |
Customer experience
AudioTheory Guitars
FAC Clipper
In-app purchases
AudioTheory Guitars
No in-app purchases
FAC Clipper
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$14.99
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