Comparison

livetoolkit vs SignalScope X

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

Head to head
About

livetoolkit

This app provides essential calculations for live event technicians, including PA system setup, lighting fixture addressing, and electrical measurements. It helps speed up on-site setup by offering quick conversions and calculations directly on a mobile device.

Highlights
  • PA system delay time calculations
  • Subwoofer stacking distance calculations
  • Q-Factor to Bandwidth conversion
  • Limiter calculations for speaker capacity
  • Tap Tempo calculation
  • DMX fixture addressing
  • Unit conversions (feet/meter, lbs/kg)
Features
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Everybody working in the live concert business has experienced situations like this: You've just arrived at the venue. According to the local promoter everything should have been put up before you arrived, but it hasn't. Now it'll take an hour or more to set up the PA-System and Lighting-gear before you can start to do your actual work. All has to be done as fast as possible. You don't have time to get your laptop out of the car and working just to do some necessary calculations. Now you can just take your iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad® and start doing your calculations with LiveToolkit. LiveToolkit helps audio technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Delay times for your PA-system: Conversion between time and distance. • Stacking distance of your subs: Conversion between frequency and wavelength. • Getting your PA-Settings into the controller: Conversion from Q-Factor to Bandwidth and back. • Setting up your controller: Limiter calculations depending on speaker capacity and amp output. • Getting the musicians tempo: Tap Tempo calculation with different note weightings. LiveToolkit helps lighting technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Getting the start address for multiple fixtures based on quantity, channels, and first address used. • Setting the DMX-address right using a DIP-Switch, or identifying the address value of a DIP-Switch. LiveToolkit helps any technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Universal useful conversion between feet and meter and lbs to kg. • Conversion between Watt, Ampere and Volt. • Calculate the voltage drop in your cable based on length and profile. • Trigonometric calculation on heights based on angle & distance. IMPORTANT NOTES: • Although good tested - this application remain a piece of Software: rockbaby engineering will not take any responsibility for any issues that may occur using LiveToolkit.

About

SignalScope X

This app provides powerful measurement and analysis tools for acoustics, audio, and electronics. It offers a free oscilloscope and subscription-based tool sets for basic, advanced, and professional needs, compatible across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Highlights
  • Oscilloscope
  • FFT Analyzer
  • Spectrogram Analyzer
  • Data Recorder
  • Sound Intensity Analyzer
  • Room Acoustics Analyzer
Features
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SignalScope X offers a range of powerful measurement and analysis tools to enhance your productivity in areas such as acoustics (sound and vibration), audio, electronics, and electroacoustics. SignalScope X includes a free oscilloscope tool. SignalScope X makes additional tools available via 3 tiers of subscription-based tool sets to meet your basic, advanced, and professional needs. Each subscription works on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Features: - Analyze signals coming from the Mac or iOS device’s current audio input device. - Assign engineering units to your input signals and calibrate external transducers for accurate measurements. - Assign input channel units and sensitivities for individual USB Audio devices. - Connect lab-grade microphones and sensors to your Mac, iPad, or iPhone with suitable interface hardware for precise measurements. - SignalScope offers enhanced support for select hardware from Digiducer, The Modal Shop, and miniDSP. - Nominal acoustic sensitivities included for iPhone and iPad built-in microphones, voltage sensitivities for headset input (including the standard Lightning-to-headset adapter). - Manually switch between available audio input and output sources. - Load microphone frequency response data (FRD) and apply frequency response correction (FRC) to FFT-based measurements. - Manually adjust audio sample rates, even up to 768 kHz, depending on hardware. - Save acquired measurement data to CSV, TXT (tab-delimited), or MAT files. - Save high-resolution analyzer display images to PDF files. - Retrieve your data files from your device via Files (iCloud Drive), iTunes File Sharing, or through a web browser on another device. Files may also be opened in other compatible apps (e.g. Mail, Notes, Numbers, Dropbox, etc). Basic Tools: - Oscilloscope - MultiTool - Powerful data monitoring and project management (Add up to 6 subtools and save configurations for easy recall at a later time.) - FFT Analyzer - Spectrum analyzer with user-settable frequency limits and input triggering - 2D Real-time Spectrogram Analyzer - XY Plotter - Create Lissajous curves or visualize your stereo mix - Stereo Signal Generator Advanced Tools: (Advanced Tool Set also includes basic tools) - 3D Real-time Spectrogram Analyzer - Stunning live visualization of incoming data - Octave-band Analyzer - Whole and 1/3-octave RTA - Level Meter - Overall signal level meter - Max Levels - Traffic-light-style monitoring - Noise Dosimeter - Data Recorder - Stream up to 8 channels to WAV, AIF, or CAF audio files - Multi-channel Audio File Player - Analyze pre-recorded data Pro Tools: (Pro Tool Set subscription includes all tools) - Dual-channel System Analyzer (Dual FFT analysis with support for Frequency Response Magnitude/Phase, Phase Delay, Group Delay, Coherence, Impulse Response and Cross-Correlation) - Sound Intensity Analyzer - With a suitable p-p probe, measure sound intensity and acoustic particle velocity spectra (narrowband and whole or 1/3-octave bands) and time waveforms. - Room Acoustics Analyzer (T20, T30, T60, nonlinearity, EDT, Early Decay Time, Center Time, Clarity, and Definition in various frequency bands, adjustable Schroeder integration limits) - Polar Plot - Generate beautiful high-resolution plots of polar data. - STI/PA Analyzer - Direct STI and STIPA measurements Additional Pro Features: - User-defined custom metadata in saved audio and data files - Data logging support in the Level Meter, Octave Analyzer, and Noise Dosimeter - Percentile exceeded sound levels in the Level Meter and Octave Analyzer - NC, RNC, and NR references curves, NC, SIL, and NR values in the Octave Analyzer - Voltage decibel levels can be displayed in dBV or dBu Subscription Terms: - https://www.faberacoustical.com/apps/subscriptions/terms.html Privacy Policy: - https://www.faberacoustical.com/about/privacy.html Terms and Conditions for FaberAcoustical.com: - https://www.faberacoustical.com/about/terms.html

Screenshots

livetoolkit4 screens
SignalScope X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: livetoolkit at 75% against SignalScope X's 10%. livetoolkit also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 18.6). SignalScope X's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (3.0 vs 2.0). On 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

SignalScope X is free to download; livetoolkit costs $3.99 up front. SignalScope X sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. livetoolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SignalScope X holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SignalScope X has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of livetoolkit's written reviews are positive against 10% of SignalScope X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, SignalScope X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
livetoolkit versus SignalScope X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlivetoolkitSignalScope X
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)3.0 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better10.2% of reviews
Number of ratings123 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas ZehFaber Acoustical, LLC

Customer experience

livetoolkit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

SignalScope X

All ratings23 ratings
Positive47.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative47.8%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive10.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative87.3%

Bugs and requests

livetoolkit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SignalScope X

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Recording starts and stops
  • App crashes on launch
  • Oscilloscope and FFT not functioning
  • SPL meter inaccurate/uncalibratable
  • App not working on older devices
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  • File type conflicts
  • Data scattered
  • App requires subscription for basic functionality
  • Old versions no longer supported/functional

Requested features

6 requests
  • Manual for better understanding
  • Ability to store and retrieve setups
  • One-off payment option
  • More intuitive user interface
  • Ability to change Y-axis scale
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  • Support for Audiobus output

In-app purchases

None

livetoolkit

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

SignalScope X

Subscriptions6
  • Basic Tool Set, 1 Month14 Days trial$3.491 Month
  • Advanced Tool Set, 1 Month14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Tool Set, 1 Month14 Days trial$24.991 Month
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  • Basic Tool Set, 1 Year14 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Advanced Tool Set, 1 Year14 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Pro Tool Set, 1 Year14 Days trial$249.991 Year
One-time4
  • 14-day Free Trial, Pro Tool SetFree
  • Basic Tool Set 2026$69.99
  • Advanced Tool Set 2026$199.99
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  • Pro Tool Set 2026 from Advanced$309.99

Questions

Is livetoolkit free?
livetoolkit costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SignalScope X free?
SignalScope X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, livetoolkit or SignalScope X?
SignalScope X is rated higher. livetoolkit averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while SignalScope X averages 3.0 from 23 ratings.
Do livetoolkit or SignalScope X have ads?
Neither livetoolkit nor SignalScope X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, livetoolkit or SignalScope X?
livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, and SignalScope X every 3 weeks. Most recently, livetoolkit was updated on October 31, 2026 and SignalScope X on November 6, 2026.

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