SoundSaw vs broohahaizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SoundSaw
This app offers advanced sound processing for musical instruments and voice, enabling users to create noise, lo-fi, chiptune, and experimental audio aesthetics. It features a variety of distortion, bitcrushing, and filtering effects with a user-friendly interface.
- Simulates electronic circuit signal processing
- Maximizer with feedback and hold modes
- Overload effect for harmonic saturation
- Decimator and Bitcrusher for digital artifacts
- Controllable Feedback effect
- 4-pole filter with envelope generator
- Output filter and signal mixing
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SoundSaw is a complex sound processing app with easy-to-use controls designed to distort the sound of musical instruments or voice, and give the sound the aesthetics and atmosphere of noise, lo-fi, chiptune and experimental music scene. Depending on the settings, it can add light distortion and saturation to the sound for a more natural and lively sound, or drastically change the sound and make it as loud and harsh as possible, full of all kinds of harmonics, crackles and rattles. The settings of this app provide great opportunities for experiments with sound destruction. All controls are located on a single screen, grouped by function into six sections with a plain way of signal path from the first section "Input" to the last section "Output". The chain of individual effects in this app is designed in such a way as to get the most interesting result for any parameter values in the widest possible range. App features: - Simulates different types of signal processing electronic circuits and their typical harmonic saturation and noise (static and dynamic). - The Maximizer keeps the maximum signal level for more noticeable distortions and feedback effects, and has a mode for hold the maximum volume when the input signal decays. - The Overload effect works like an electronic circuit when the signal is much higher than the maximum allowable level and oversaturated the signal various kinds of harmonics. - The Decimator and Bitcrusher effects produce very noticeable digital artifacts typical of cheap devices with simple DACs / ADCs, and add various kinds of crackles and rattles. - The Feedback effect is similar to acoustic feedback, but more controllable, with the resonant frequency varying in accordance with the harmonics of the input signal. - The 4-pole filter controlled by the envelope generator can be used after distortion effects. Filter types: Low pass, High pass, Band pass and Notch. - The envelope generator is controlled by the input signal and can generate a single cycle of envelope, repeat cycles or work continuously. - At the output there is a filter that can cut the high or low range of the original signal and mix it with the processed signal. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGtCRrqSqwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr12DJTWRmI SoundSaw is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). SoundSaw works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, and supports Audiobus and Ableton Link. On macOS, SoundSaw can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and audio unit hosts like Ableton Live, Logic Pro, GarageBand, MainStage, Cockos Reaper, Plogue Bidule, Hosting AU, and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. SoundSaw has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on application site. You can find more information on SoundSaw and other experimental and audio processing apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com
broohahaizer
This experimental music app functions as an AUv3 effect and standalone application. It offers two sound sources, a ring modulator, and a switchable filter for creating unique noise and tones. Gesture recording and playback are also supported.
- Two sound sources (synth, modulator)
- Ring modulator
- Switchable filter unit
- Audio effect functionality
- XY control pads with sustain
- Parameter automation
- Gesture recording and playback
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"no humans were involved in the making of the title" broohahaizer is an experimental noise machine AUv3 effect and standalone app. it features: • two sound sources, "synth" and "modulator" with various noise & tone making settings. • the sound of these two sources is passed to the ring modulator and then goes to a switchable "filter" unit • the app works as an audio effect and the input goes to both “synth” and “modulator” sections • when modulator is inactive it passes audio input (if available) • all XY control pads have sustain switches • all plugin parameters can be automated in AUv3 host and can be controlled / recorded • [hold / loop] switch: enables gesture recording / playback / display
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SoundSaw at 100% against broohahaizer's 67%. SoundSaw also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). broohahaizer's advantage is chart position (#182 vs unranked) and price ($4.99 vs $5.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
SoundSaw costs $5.99 and broohahaizer $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SoundSaw holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of SoundSaw's written reviews are positive against 67% of broohahaizer's.
SoundSaw ships an update every 2 months, broohahaizer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoundSaw | broohahaizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.7 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #182 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Igor Vasiliev | Alexey Nadzharov |
Customer experience
SoundSaw
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In-app purchases
SoundSaw
No in-app purchases
broohahaizer
No in-app purchases









