Comparison

mobileinearMix vs QUARK Play

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

Head to head
About

mobileinearMix

This app allows musicians to create their own individual sound mixes on stage using their mobile devices. It eliminates the need for traditional monitor boxes and complex routing by transferring front mixer sound over Wi-Fi for personalized adjustments via earbuds.

Highlights
  • Wireless sound transfer over Wi-Fi
  • Individual sound mix customization
  • Earbud monitoring
  • Rename audio channels
  • Create channel groups
  • Eliminates monitor boxes and cables
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The multichannel mixer sound from front mixer is transferred over Wifi/Ethernet to the musicians on stage and they customize their individuell sound mix by themselves and hear it over mobile devices earbuds. Connect your front mixer with mobile device via Connector/Adapter and send signal over Router Wifi5+ to stage. You need a wifi5+ Router connected with ethernet to mobile device and a multichannel audio usb-compliant interface on your stage mixer. The musicians need the mobileinearStage App to receive the sound from mobileinearMix. You can download mobileinearStage from Appstore. Do following steps on your device: -Connect your USB-Audio Interface with your mobile device/tablet with an usb cable -Connect your Wifi5 or Wifi6 Router with your device/tablet with an ethernet cable -Start mobileinearMix on your device/tablet -Rename the audio channels to real stage instrument titles or build channelgroups with one group name for several channels or use predefined Icons Thats all !!! -The musicians mobile devices can receive and mix individually their sound on stage with mobileinearStage-App. -No time consuming and boring stagemonitor soundcheck -No tons of stage monitor boxes -No tons of audio routing and sending equipment and cables -individual mixed digital sound quality for every musician easy to make by a fingertip on his mobile device -Use SOLO-Button for channel audio control -Use MUTE-Button for muting not used audio channels -Set Mastervolume for channel audiocontroll with earbuds

About

QUARK Play

Features
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QUARK Play easily transforms up to four iOS devices into a wireless, quadraphonic sound system. Place iPhones, iPads, and/or Macs around the space (or connect them to bluetooth speakers), hit play on the host device, and build a true, immersive surround sound environment anywhere. The Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit (QUARK) is open source software used in Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and similar platforms to encode four channels of discrete audio into two channel (standard stereo) audio, then back to four channels again. This allows for the distribution of four-channel spatial recordings via widely accessible two-channel formats such as vinyl, cassette, and radio, as well as digital platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, and Qobuz. QUARK is made possible by dublab & the National Endowment for the Arts.

Screenshots

mobileinearMix2 screens
QUARK Play4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: QUARK Play at every 6 days against mobileinearMix's every 16 months. mobileinearMix's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mobileinearMix ships an update every 16 months, QUARK Play every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
mobileinearMix versus QUARK Play: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermobileinearMixQUARK Play
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 6 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1716.6 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size43 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMario MaucherAKP Recordings LLC

In-app purchases

None

mobileinearMix

No in-app purchases

None

QUARK Play

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mobileinearMix free?
mobileinearMix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QUARK Play free?
QUARK Play is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do mobileinearMix or QUARK Play have ads?
Neither mobileinearMix nor QUARK Play shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mobileinearMix or QUARK Play?
mobileinearMix ships an update every 16 months, and QUARK Play every 6 days. Most recently, mobileinearMix was updated on October 24, 2026 and QUARK Play on October 8, 2026.

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