Comparison

Custom Sound Box vs Orca

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Custom Sound Box

Design a personalized soundboard with audio clips from various sources. Record new sounds, upload existing files, and organize them for easy playback. Overlap sounds for unique audio experiences.

Highlights
  • Record custom sounds
  • Upload audio from device
  • Organize sounds with folders and tags
  • Search for sounds
  • Overlap audio playback
  • Share audio files
Features
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Create your own personal soundboard with audio clips from friends, family, your files, and the web. Record a sound, import audio from your device, or use the iOS share sheet to add supported audio files directly to Sound Box. Tap any sound to play it instantly, or play multiple sounds at once for layered reactions, effects, and voice clips. Keep your soundboard organized with folders, colorful tags, search, sorting, and drag-and-drop ordering. Customize tags with colors and images, sync your sounds with iCloud, and play favorites faster from Home Screen widgets or Shortcuts. Features: • Record custom audio clips • Import and share audio files into the app • Trim sounds and adjust volume • Play multiple sounds at once, or one at a time • Organize with folders and tags • Customize tags with colors and images • Search, sort, and reorder sounds • Sync with iCloud • Play sounds from Home Screen widgets • Use Shortcuts to record, play, and stop sounds • Remove ads with an optional in-app purchase Build a custom soundboard for jokes, games, reactions, podcasts, streams, classrooms, events, or anywhere you need the right sound at the right time.

About

Orca

Features
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Welcome to Orca — The Ultimate Synchronized Stadium Sound & Light Engine. Why just cheer when you can control the entire arena? Orca transforms thousands of smartphones into a single, massive, perfectly synced digital sound system and visual tifo. Whether you're a stadium Capo, a festival DJ, or throwing an epic party, Orca lets you drop the beat with atomic microsecond precision across every device in the room. No internet at the moment of the drop? No problem. EXPLOSIVE STADIUM-GRADE FEATURES: • ATOMIC TIME SYNC: Zero echo. Our advanced NTP true-time engine ensures every single phone drops the track at the exact same millisecond. • AGGRESSIVE HAPTICS: Don't just hear the bass—feel it! Phones physically thump and vibrate in your hands in perfect sync with the beat, turning the crowd into a living, shaking organism. • BLINDING STROBE & DIGITAL TIFO: Turn the dark stands into a breathtaking light show. Camera flashlights strobe automatically, and screens pulse with your team’s colors. • CUSTOM SPONSOR MOSAICS (Premium): Upload your club crest or sponsor logo, and watch it flash synchronously across thousands of screens in the dark. • OFFLINE SURVIVAL MODE: Stadium 5G networks always crash. Orca pre-loads the heavy audio files in advance. When the countdown hits zero, it plays flawlessly from local memory—requiring zero bandwidth! • MULTI-ROOM DASHBOARD: Manage permanent QR codes, monitor your live crowd capacity with the Pod Radar, and queue up multiple tracks like a pro DJ. HOW IT WORKS: 1. The Host creates a "Sonar Room" and shares the QR Code. 2. The Crowd scans to "Join the Pod". 3. The Host schedules the drop time. 4. When the countdown hits ZERO, the entire crowd erupts in perfect unison! Lead the crowd. Start a Sonar. Let the stadium ROAR! *Note: This app contains intense flashing lights and strobes. A photosensitivity toggle is available for listeners. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Custom Sound Box4 screens
Orca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Orca at none against Custom Sound Box's shown. Orca also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Custom Sound Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Orca sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Custom Sound Box ships an update weekly, Orca every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Custom Sound Box versus Orca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustom Sound BoxOrca
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (970 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings970 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam WilsonMeshal Alamri

Bugs and requests

Custom Sound Box

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Recording and editing sounds can be glitchy
  • Scrolling issues when tapping on buttons
  • Inconsistent behavior when playing overlapping sounds
  • Occasional crashes when deleting or rearranging sounds

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add equalizer and volume controls for individual sounds
  • Implement a repeat/loop function for sounds
  • Allow uploading of video clips as sound sources
  • Improve sorting and organization tools for sound libraries
  • Provide export/import options for soundboards

Orca

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Custom Sound Box

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.29
4 purchases

Orca

Subscriptions4
  • Wave$9.991 Month
  • Current$49.991 Month
  • Tsunami$199.991 Month
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  • Leviathan$999.991 Month

Questions

Is Custom Sound Box free?
Custom Sound Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orca free?
Orca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Custom Sound Box or Orca have ads?
Custom Sound Box shows ads; Orca does not.
Which is updated more often, Custom Sound Box or Orca?
Custom Sound Box ships an update weekly, and Orca every 9 days. Most recently, Custom Sound Box was updated on October 20, 2026 and Orca on October 7, 2026.

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