Buzz Listen vs SonusQuest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Live audio monitoring
- Transparency mode
- Adjustable loudness control
- Minimal latency
- Wired headphone support
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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.
SonusQuest
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Buzz Listen | SonusQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鼎文 王 | 素兰 李 |
In-app purchases
Buzz Listen
No in-app purchases
SonusQuest
- VIP$1.991 Month







