Comparison

livetoolkit vs M&K Professional

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

M&K Professional

Features
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The M&K Professional App is a high-performance way to unleash the full potential of your THX certified V+ Series subwoofers by offering advanced DSP functionality and acoustic optimization based on your room, speaker system and personal listening preferences. With the M&K app, you do can do simple things like control volume and use the custom presets to enable easy, one-touch DSP enhancement for music and movies. More advanced functionality of the M&K subwoofer app includes the ability to autocorrect room anomalies and fine tune bass response so you can enjoy the fullest, richest listening experience from the world’s best subwoofers. When used with your M&K V+ subwoofer, the app uses the power of subwoofer digital signal processing (DSP) to provide perfect control of every setting. By using your mobile device, this allows the convenience of previewing the performance of the subwoofer during adjustment from the comfort of your listening position. The app pages are arranged to provide simple step by step setup of each function with built in help files for each page. Also included is a built-in test tone generator and four band manual equalizer for the more advance Professional Custom installers to correct issues like sympathetic room vibrations. Using the M&K Professional App you can easily optimize settings for: • Volume Control • Night Mode • THX Mode • Music and Movie Modes Features accessible only by professional custom installers: • Low Pass Filter • Phase • Delay • Four band Parametric EQ • Auto Room Equalization • Power control settings

Screenshots

livetoolkit4 screens
M&K Professional4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: M&K Professional at Free against livetoolkit's $3.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

M&K Professional is free to download; livetoolkit costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, M&K Professional every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
livetoolkit versus M&K Professional: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlivetoolkitM&K Professional
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 9 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas ZehM&K Sound ApS

In-app purchases

None

livetoolkit

No in-app purchases

None

M&K Professional

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is livetoolkit free?
livetoolkit costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is M&K Professional free?
M&K Professional is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do livetoolkit or M&K Professional have ads?
Neither livetoolkit nor M&K Professional shows ads.
Which is updated more often, livetoolkit or M&K Professional?
livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, and M&K Professional every 9 months. Most recently, livetoolkit was updated on October 23, 2026 and M&K Professional on October 13, 2026.

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