Comparison

Studio Audience + vs Sound Effects Board

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

Head to head
About

Studio Audience +

Simulate a studio audience with a variety of reactions like booing, cheering, laughing, and clapping. This app allows you to trigger these sounds on demand for various purposes.

Highlights
  • Simulate studio audience
  • On-demand sound effects
  • Boo, cheer, laugh, clap sounds
  • Trigger sounds on cue
Features
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Studio Audience + is a great way for you to keep an entire studio audience in your pocket at all times... Use them to boo, cheer, laugh, clap, awe and oh on cue.

About

Sound Effects Board

Transform your phone into a versatile soundboard with a vast library of effects. Create custom boards, layer sounds, and even record your own audio. Control playback from your lock screen, widgets, or Siri.

Highlights
  • Instant sound playback
  • 6,000+ sound effects
  • Customizable sound boards
  • Record and import audio
  • Voice changer
  • Lock screen and widget control
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Sound Effects Board turns your phone into a real sound board. Tap a pad and the sound fires instantly — no loading, no delay — and it plays even on silent, so a prank never dies because your ringer switch was off. Meme, Prank & Funny Sounds are just the beginning. Browse 7,500+ professional sound effects across 20 categories — Comedy, Gaming, Podcast, Action, Voices, Animals, Engines, Sci-Fi, Sports, Cinematic, Ambiance, Music, DJ, Loops, Stream Alerts, Reactions, Transitions, Halloween, Christmas and New Year. Air horn blasts, cartoon boings, buzzers, applause, movie-style booms and stream alerts, all one tap away. Fire up to four sound buttons at once and layer them: an air horn over a drum loop, laughter under a rimshot. 100 NEW SOUNDS EVERY MONTH This soundboard app doesn't stand still. Every month has its own themed pack — Halloween Horror, Cinematic Trailer, Christmas, New Year Party, April Fools, Retro Arcade — 100 fresh sounds that open week by week, every Thursday. New sounds wear a NEW badge for a week, so you always know what just dropped. FULL SOUND CONTROL, FREE Every pad has real pitch and speed control, adjustable volume, loop and fade. No paywall on the fun part. LOOP STATION Build loops on the beat. Set a tempo, turn on the metronome and record 1, 2, 4 or 8 bars — recording starts on the next bar and every loop closes without a gap. Stack up to 8 layers, undo or mute any of them, and your pad hits snap to the grid. Save the loop to My Sounds and it lands on your board as a new pad. BUILD YOUR OWN BOARDS Be your own soundboard maker. Create boards with your own names, icons, colors and animated backgrounds. Give every button a label and an icon, drag pads into the order you want, and add pages as your board grows. Or start from a ready-made template for podcasting, streaming, theater or parties. RECORD, IMPORT, TRANSFORM Record your own audio, import files from your library, or run a clip through the built-in voice changer. Turn any sound into a custom ringtone in seconds. Record your board while you play it — every pad, every layer — and it lands in My Sounds as a new pad. Play it back, stack more pads on top and record again to build a full track. BUILT FOR YOUR WHOLE SETUP Control playback from the Lock Screen — free, always. Watch a loop run in Live Activity and Dynamic Island, trigger pads from a Home Screen widget without opening the app, or fire a sound with Siri. Plug into a TV or projector with HDMI or AirPlay and your board fills the screen, every hit lighting up as you play it from your phone. SHARE & SYNC Send any sound to a friend straight from the library or from a pad, export a board and share it, or sync every board across your devices with optional Apple sign-in. No account is ever required to use the app. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully localized in 35 languages — from English, German, French and Spanish to Turkish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Pro also unlocks performance recording and Big Screen. FREE VS PREMIUM Free gives you 2 boards, 9 sound buttons per board, 80 offline sounds, 2 simultaneous sounds and every sound control — with no ads, ever. Premium unlocks unlimited boards and buttons, the full 7,500+ library plus 100 new sounds every month, 4 simultaneous sounds, loop station, recording and import, voice changer, widgets, Siri, sound chaining, custom haptics, board sharing and device sync. No forced login. No ads. Just tap and it plays — even on silent. Build your first board free in under a minute. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rsndijital.com/link/sound/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Studio Audience +1 screens
Sound Effects Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Studio Audience + at 44% against Sound Effects Board's 0%. Studio Audience + also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (84 vs 8). Sound Effects Board's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 2.5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Sound Effects Board sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Studio Audience + asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sound Effects Board holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Studio Audience + has 84 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Studio Audience +'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Sound Effects Board's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Studio Audience + ships an update every 10 months, Sound Effects Board monthly. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Studio Audience + versus Sound Effects Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStudio Audience +Sound Effects Board
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (84 ratings)4.3 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings84 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB66 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPALIANTechAdem Uresin

Customer experience

Studio Audience +

All ratings84 ratings
Positive38.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative58.3%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive43.8%
Neutral11.0%
Negative45.2%

Sound Effects Board

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Studio Audience +

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App doesn't work
  • No sound
  • Issue detecting appropriate audio device
  • Sounds are too long
  • Clips are too long
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  • Audio only comes through headphones
  • App response very slowly or not at all
  • Sounds are not loops
  • Tapping another button shuts off current sound but doesn't play new one
  • App won't open

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add a stop button
  • Allow looping sounds
  • Make tracks shorter or add stop button
  • Update the app's look
  • Add a slider volume mechanism
Show 3 more
  • Ability to stop sound by pressing button twice
  • Quicker sounds
  • Better endings to sound (diminishing sound)

Sound Effects Board

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Studio Audience +

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Sound Effects Board

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99

Questions

Is Studio Audience + free?
Studio Audience + is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sound Effects Board free?
Sound Effects Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Studio Audience + or Sound Effects Board?
Sound Effects Board is rated higher. Studio Audience + averages 2.5 out of 5 from 84 ratings, while Sound Effects Board averages 4.3 from 8 ratings.
Do Studio Audience + or Sound Effects Board have ads?
Neither Studio Audience + nor Sound Effects Board shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Studio Audience + or Sound Effects Board?
Studio Audience + ships an update every 10 months, and Sound Effects Board monthly. Most recently, Studio Audience + was updated on October 19, 2026 and Sound Effects Board on October 19, 2026.

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