Comparison

Generator vs Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

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

Head to head
About

Generator

Generate professional-grade audio signals like sine waves, square waves, and various noise types. Offers precise frequency control and remote operation via WiFi. Ideal for audio testing and production.

Highlights
  • Sine, square, white noise, and pink noise generation
  • Precise frequency control (20Hz-20kHz)
  • Octave, 1/3 octave, and fine frequency resolution
  • Remote control over WiFi via AudioTools app
  • Warble-tone signal generation
  • Stereo or mono output options
Features
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A high-quality audio Signal Generator for the iPhone. Now you can have a professional grade signal generator for your iPhone. Create sine waves, square waves, white noise, and pink noise. Don't let the well-worn look of this classic audio must-have fool you, Generator is accurate, reliable, precise, and clean. ** NEW! Now supports remote control over WiFi from our AudioTools app. Connect an iOS device running Generator to your audio system, link to AudioTools on another device, and control Generator from AudioTools as you are free to move around. Requires that both devices be on the same LAN. In sine and square wave mode, you can select between 20Hz and 20kHz using a controller that has three resolutions: octave, 1/3 octave, and fine. Frequency selection is controlled by smooth-gliding interlocking control wheels. Just spin to change frequency, by octaves, 1/3 octaves, or select fine mode to sweep through any value. *** NEW: Tap the frequency screen to pop up a keyboard so that you can enter any exact frequency. *** NEW: Tap the Wobble button to create a warble-tone signal for acoustics work. Doubles as an emergency siren! When you are generating pink noise and white noise, you can select full band (20Hz-20kHz), or octave band limited noise for acoustical testing. All waveforms are laboratory accurate, and use ANSI / IEC spec filters where appropriate. The frequency sweeps smoothly, with no glitches. The mute is soft, to prevent loud impulses when mute or turning on a lower-frequency signal. This signal can be sent to both channels (stereo), just the right or left channel, or the right channel output phase can be inverted for pseudo-balanced mode. This mode can be used with our iPhone Balanced Cable Adapter to get a balanced signal from your iPhone. See our web site for more information. On an iPhone 3G, we have measured distortion at .006% THD at 1000Hz at full volume (+6.5dBu balanced). See our web site for more level details. Note that digital square waves suffer from aliasing problems, and sound very strange above about 1500Hz. Future versions will have options to select different skins. Check out out other great professional-grade audio and acoustics apps: SPL, the iPhone professional-grade sound level meter, SPL Graph, for recording SPL over time, RTA, a 1/3 octave real time analyzer, FFT, for detailed audio analysis, ETC, the iPhone energy-time curve and decay app, RT60, for automated octave-band decay measurement, and Speaker Pop, the speaker polarity tester. Email us within any questions, problems, or suggestions, we answer all emails promptly.

About

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

This audio plugin acts as a noise gate for digital audio workstations, allowing users to suppress unwanted background noise from microphones or instruments. It offers fine-grained control over attack, release, and hold times, along with filtering to remove hum and hiss, ensuring subtle sounds are preserved.

Highlights
  • AUv3 compatible plugin
  • Suppresses background noise
  • Controllable attack, release, and hold
  • High and low pass filtering
  • Preserves subtle sounds
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This is an AUv3 compatible noise gate which can be used as a plugin with your favourite DAW such as Cubasis, Meteor, GarageBand or Auria. Anyone working in a live recording environment whether that be with a microphone or a high gain guitar effects will feel the need to suppress unwanted noise. This gated noise gate allows you to suppress any background noise over a specified level by a chosen suppression amount. This allows subtle sounds to still be heard as opposed to the brick wall approach. The effect has controllable attack, release and hold times as well as high and low pass filtering to eliminate main hum and hiss. This is one of a series of AUv3 compatible plugins available from 4Pockets;

Screenshots

Generator2 screens
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin at 100% against Generator's 56%. Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.3) and price ($5.99 vs $8.99). Generator's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 42 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Generator costs $8.99 and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Generator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Generator ships an update every 5 months, Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin every 42 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Generator versus Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeneratorNoise Gate AUv3 Plugin
Price$8.99$5.99 — better
Rating3.3 (3 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 42 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew Smith4Pockets.com

Customer experience

Generator

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral22.2%
Negative22.2%

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Generator

No in-app purchases

None

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Generator free?
Generator costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin free?
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Generator or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin?
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin is rated higher. Generator averages 3.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Generator or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin have ads?
Neither Generator nor Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Generator or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin?
Generator ships an update every 5 months, and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin every 42 months. Most recently, Generator was updated on October 7, 2026 and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin on October 5, 2026.

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