Generator vs Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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;
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Generator | Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | $5.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 42 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Smith | 4Pockets.com |
Customer experience
Generator
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
In-app purchases
Generator
No in-app purchases
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
No in-app purchases
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