Comparison

Buzz Listen vs SonusQuest

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

Head to head
About

Buzz Listen

Enhance your audio experience with live listening capabilities for wired headphones. Adjust the volume of your surroundings with an intuitive wheel, offering professional-grade monitoring with minimal delay.

Highlights
  • Live audio monitoring
  • Transparency mode
  • Adjustable loudness control
  • Minimal latency
  • Wired headphone support
Features
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Transparency mode, or live listen, for wired headphone users. Control the loudness of the surrounding sound by simply turning up and down the wheel. With a pair of wired headphones, you will be able to monitor audio with minimal latency, as professionals.

About

SonusQuest

Features
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SonusQuest: Turn your phone into a real-time in-ear monitor — it captures the sound around you, removes noise, boosts your voice, and plays it back through your earphones so you can hear yourself while live streaming. It can be used to practice pronunciation, reading aloud, singing, aiding memorization, DAF (Delayed Auditory Feedback) therapy for stuttering, and more. Some users with hearing loss use it as a hearing aid; we suggest such users treat this app as an introduction to hearing aids rather than a replacement for one. 1. Supports both wired earphones and Bluetooth earphones 2. Supports the phone's built-in microphone, wired earphone microphones, and lavalier (clip-on) microphones 3. Hearing protection: automatically lowers output power when a sudden loud sound is detected 4. Long-duration loop recording, with recordings automatically split into multiple files of a fixed length 5. Audio noise reduction based on traditional signal-processing algorithms — simple and practical, effectively filtering steady background noise 6. AI-powered intelligent noise reduction that efficiently filters irregular background noise, such as the clatter of keyboard typing, footsteps, knocking, the hum of robot vacuum cleaners, and more 7. On-demand audio delay control: supports delay settings from 1 to 30 seconds, as well as millisecond-level delay settings to help friends correcting stuttering 8. Automatic gain control, making sound steadier and easier to understand 9. 10-band audio equalizer so users can customize their preferred tone. A default EQ preset for speech is built in and can be reset with one tap

Screenshots

Buzz Listen4 screens
SonusQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SonusQuest at Free against Buzz Listen's $0.99. Buzz Listen's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, ads 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

SonusQuest is free to download; Buzz Listen costs $0.99 up front. SonusQuest sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Buzz Listen asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buzz Listen ships an update every 2 weeks, SonusQuest every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Buzz Listen versus SonusQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuzz ListenSonusQuest
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鼎文 王素兰 李

In-app purchases

None

Buzz Listen

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SonusQuest

Subscriptions1
  • VIP$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Buzz Listen free?
Buzz Listen costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SonusQuest free?
SonusQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Buzz Listen or SonusQuest have ads?
Neither Buzz Listen nor SonusQuest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buzz Listen or SonusQuest?
Buzz Listen ships an update every 2 weeks, and SonusQuest every 3 weeks. Most recently, Buzz Listen was updated on November 3, 2026 and SonusQuest on October 31, 2026.

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