Apogee Maestro vs Analog Rack Cleaner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apogee Maestro
Control and adjust all features and settings for MFi compliant audio interfaces. This application offers a hardware-based low latency mixer to significantly reduce recording delays.
- Control MFi compliant audio interfaces
- Access all features and settings
- Hardware-based low latency mixer
- Significantly improves recording latency
- Simple tab-based interface
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Apogee Maestro is the control application for MFi compliant Apogee audio interfaces. Maestro lets you access and adjust all features and settings from 5 simple tabs. Maestro also significantly improves latency (the delay that occurs during recording) with a hardware based low latency mixer.
Analog Rack Cleaner
This audio plugin provides high-pass and low-pass filters to remove unwanted low-end rumble and high-frequency noise. It offers a custom tube preamp for analog coloration and works as a standalone app or within other audio applications.
- High-pass filter
- Low-pass filter
- Tube preamp circuit
- Analog coloration
- Standalone app
- AudioUnit v3 effect
- Inter-App Audio effect
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The Analog Rack Cleaner plugin is high pass and low pass filters in a single rack Fx plugin to clear up low-end rumble and high frequency noise. Nembrini Audio has taken the guitarists most preferred analog and digital effect pedals and has repacked it in new rack style plugins easy to use and extremely powerful at the same time, with the addition of a custom design tube preamp virtual circuit which gives color to the signal in a very special way. Just insert the Analog Rack Cleaner plugin in your tracks to hear its beautiful analog tube coloration! Works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 effect, or Inter-App Audio effect
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Analog Rack Cleaner at 100% against Apogee Maestro's 24%. Analog Rack Cleaner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1). Apogee Maestro's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Analog Rack Cleaner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Apogee Maestro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Analog Rack Cleaner's.
Apogee Maestro ships an update every 4 months, Analog Rack Cleaner every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Apogee Maestro | Analog Rack Cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apogee Electronics Corp | Nembrini Audio |
Customer experience
Apogee Maestro
Analog Rack Cleaner
Bugs and requests
Apogee Maestro
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes frequently
- App does not recognize devices
- Gain settings are not remembered
- Phantom power control issues
- Meters freeze or show incorrect signals
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- App disconnects when minimized
- Registration process fails
- Software return not working for audio routing
- App hijacks headphones
- Interface is not recognized by the app
- Input levels max out unexpectedly
- Monitoring not working correctly
- App doesn't work with iPad Pro USB-C
- App doesn't work with iOS 15+
- App doesn't work with iOS 9.2
- App doesn't work with iOS 11
- App doesn't work with iOS 26
Requested features
7 requests- Update app for current iOS/iPadOS versions
- Support for USB-C connections on newer iPads
- Improve routing capabilities for apps
- Add retina icons
- Make Maestro useful for Symphony I/O
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- Fix phantom power button functionality
- Improve compatibility with newer iPhones
Analog Rack Cleaner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Apogee Maestro
No in-app purchases
Analog Rack Cleaner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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