Audio Editor vs QAudioEditor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Editor
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for editing and enhancing audio. Easily splice, mix, record, and manipulate audio with features like pitch shifting, reverb, and a 10-band equalizer. It also includes advanced functions like noise reduction and format conversion.
- Splicing and sound mixing
- Audio recording with accompaniment
- Playback speed adjustment
- Pitch and voice effects
- Reverb and distortion effects
- 10-band equalizer
- Noise reduction and vocal enhancement
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[Audio Editor] A simple and powerful audio editing tool. It can complete the professional audio clips work easily on iPhone and iPad [Edit] -「Splicing and sound mixing」: One-key switching; support free drag, easy to operate -「 Record 」: Support wired or wireless (AirPods and Pro) earphones and in-ear monitor; support accompaniment play; -「 Cut」: Cut the audio fast and freely -「 Rate 」: 0.2 times ~ 4 times, control the playback speed freely -「 Balance 」: Support R-CH and L-CH settings -「 Fade 」: 1s~5s, set the fade-in fade-out as one wishes -「Loop」: Extend the audio "tile" to any duration [Effects] -「Pitch」: Rising and falling, change the voice into that of "Lolita" and "uncle" and so on within one second -「Reverb」: Room, living room and church, etc., switch the scenario as one wishes -「Distortion」: Electronic, echo and metal, etc., feel different audio -「Delay」: Support max 2s delay special-effects; a single can also have chorus -「Equalizer」: Bass boost and human voice resonance, etc., custom equalizer with 10 sections of frequency. It makes your audio voice clear, high pitch transparent and low pitch "rhythmic" [Player] -「Streaming Playback」: Supports SMB, WebDAV, Navidrome, and Audio Station, letting you enjoy music from multiple sources anytime -「Synced Lyrics」: Supports synchronized line-by-line and word-by-word lyrics -「Multi-Source Music Library」: Manage music from NAS, servers, and local cache in one place -「Equalizer」: Includes multiple built-in EQ presets and a customizable 10-band equalizer -「Smart Caching」: Supports manual or automatic song caching, so you can keep listening without a network connection -「Play History」: Automatically records recently played and most-played songs, making your favorite music easy to find [Characteristics] -「Audio Toolbox」: Noise reduction, vocal enhancement, vocal/accompaniment separation... -「Setting as ringtone」: Set the audio as the phone ringtone -「Format conversion」: Support many audio formats with free conversion, such as mp3, m4a, m4r, wav, aiff, etc. -「Audio import」: Support more than 6 ways to import audio: Video extract, WiFi, UTI, Apple music, file and clipboard -「Auto-draft」: Autosave the draft with more efficient re-editing -「Undo/Redo」: Support unlimited times of undo and redo -「Tag group」: Set the color mark to group the audio easily -「Delete/Withdraw」: Provide "repentance" operation after the audio is deleted * The APP is carefully optimized to offer comprehensive features at just one-third the size of similar products. It also includes a built-in storage management feature, allowing efficient file management and maintaining minimal storage usage. [Contact us] Mail: contact@iuuapp.com Your suggestion is very important to me, you can contact me using the feedback in the app. Automatic renewal statement: 1. Payment: "Continuous monthly / year" products are auto-renewable products. After confirming the purchase, you will be charged from your Apple iTunes account; 2. Renewal: 24 hours before the expiration of your subscription period, Apple will automatically deduct the charge from your ITunes account, and the validity period of "Remove ads" will be automatically extended after success; 3. If you need to cancel the automatic renewal, please turn off the automatic renewal manually in the Apple ID account settings at least 24 hours before the subscription period expires. No charge will be made after closing. Terms of Service: http://common.iuuapp.com/terms_service_env1_audio.html Privacy Policy: http://common.iuuapp.com/privacypolicyv1_audio.html
QAudioEditor
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QAudioEditor is a lossless audio editor for iPhone (including iPhone Duo) and iPad. Open an MP3, AAC (.aac), M4A (.m4a), Apple Lossless, FLAC, or WAV file - or a video (MP4, MOV, M4V) to edit just its audio - see its waveform, and cut, crop, fade, normalize, copy/paste, or append audio - then save without re-encoding. Untouched audio is preserved byte-for-byte; only faded or normalized regions are adjusted, and always losslessly - MP3 and AAC by rewriting the codec's gain fields, and WAV, ALAC and FLAC in the sample domain - so there is no generation loss. SUPPORTED FORMATS - MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Layer III, constant or variable bitrate) - AAC - AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 - in ADTS (.aac) - AAC in MP4 (.m4a) - Apple Lossless / ALAC in M4A (.m4a) - FLAC (.flac), 16- and 24-bit - WAV / PCM (.wav), 8- to 32-bit and 32-bit float - Video (.mp4, .mov, .m4v) - the audio track is extracted losslessly for editing FEATURES - Frame-accurate cut, crop, and trim - Split markers - drop markers anywhere, drag them to fine-tune, and name them; split a long recording into files in one step, each named and tagged after its marker (Pro) - Markers at Silences - finds the pauses between the tracks of a recording, such as an album saved as one file, and drops a marker in each, ready to split (Pro) - Chapters (Pro) - save markers as chapters in MP3 and M4A/M4B, for podcasts and audiobooks; chapters in a file you open become named markers - ReplayGain tags - measure the loudness and tag the file so players level the volume, with no change to the audio (MP3, M4A, FLAC) - CUE sheets - import a .cue file as markers, or export your markers as .cue - Loudness - LUFS, peak and loudness range in File Details - Trim Silence (Pro) - cut the silence at the start and end in one step - Export Selection - save just the selected part as a new file - Very large recordings - multi-gigabyte WAV and FLAC files open, edit and save smoothly; the audio is kept on disk instead of in memory - Lossless fades and one-tap normalize - Pull the audio out of a video (MP4, MOV, M4V) - open it, or insert it at the playhead; AAC and ALAC tracks are extracted with no re-encoding - Cut, copy, paste, and insert or append other files of the same format - Hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad - Playback follows the view - scroll to another part while playing and it plays from there - Rich waveform with peak + RMS view, zoom that stays centered on the playhead, and an overview navigator - Spectrogram view - see the frequency content over time on a log scale; toggle it with the waveform - File details, unlimited undo, and crash-safe session restore - Edit tags - title, artist, album and cover artwork - saved losslessly (MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC) - Export raw AAC as a seekable .m4a - Record Stream (Pro) - record an internet audio stream (Icecast, SHOUTcast or HLS; MP3, AAC or FLAC) without re-encoding, until you stop it or for a set time, then edit the recording, with a marker named after each song - it keeps recording with the screen locked - Shortcuts actions - Normalize, Write ReplayGain Tags, Trim Silence, Split at Silences and Record Stream Free to edit and to save results up to 5 minutes long. QAudioEditor Pro (a one-time purchase) removes the length limit so you can save recordings of any length, and adds Split at Markers, Markers at Silences, Chapters, Trim Silence and Record Stream - and one purchase unlocks Pro on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: QAudioEditor at none against Audio Editor's shown. QAudioEditor also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Audio Editor's advantage is chart position (#164 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Audio Editor sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and QAudioEditor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Audio Editor ships an update monthly, QAudioEditor weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Editor | QAudioEditor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (31K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #164 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 苏娟 陈 | JAKUB KAPRZYK |
Bugs and requests
Audio Editor
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to save edited audio
- Audio playback issues after updates
- Freezing and crashing on certain devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add noise reduction and audio cleanup tools
- Improve export and save functionality
- Provide more precise audio controls
- Implement landscape mode
QAudioEditor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Audio Editor
- Audio Editor Cloud Monthly$0.991 Month
- Audio Editor Cloud Quarterly$1.993 Months
- Audio Editor Pro - 1 month$3.991 Month
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- Audio Editor Cloud Yearly$3.991 Year
- Audio Editor Pro - 1 year3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- One-time purchase$39.99
QAudioEditor
- QAudioEditor Pro$3.99
Questions
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