Comparison

NEXO NeMo vs MATRIX A8

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

Head to head
About

NEXO NeMo

This app allows remote control of NEXO audio devices via Wi-Fi or wired networks. Manage amplifier positioning, monitor parameters, and adjust settings like presets, volume, and EQ through an intuitive interface. It also features logging, alerting, and emailing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Remote control of NEXO devices
  • Monitor amplifier parameters
  • Adjust presets, volume, and EQ
  • Create and edit offline sessions
  • Visualize device positioning in 2D
  • Group devices for multi-control
  • Logging, alerting, and emailing
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NEXO NeMo is the remote control app of a set of NEXO products (NXAMP Powered TD-controllers, DTD Digital TD-controllers). It allows you to control from an Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch through a Wi-Fi network and from a Mac through a wired or Wi-Fi network one or many NEXO devices. Managing and positioning amplifiers, monitoring their parameters (levels, etc.), and setting new values (preset, volume, delay, EQ, etc.) is made possible thanks to an attractive and intuitive user interface. NEXO NeMo also comes with a powerful engine for logging, alerting and emailing. Its main functionalities include: • Creating and editing offline sessions and matching to real NEXO devices when going online (macOS only). • Intelligent matching of online and offline devices (macOS only), and a way of locating the online devices. • Visualizing and positioning the connected NEXO devices within a 2D space. • Adding custom background pictures and editing their brightness and blurriness. • Grouping devices or channels for multi-device control, and visualizing groups and zones on the 2D space. • Quickly muting, soloing, and monitoring the status of devices, groups or zones, including peak and protect, for the entire network. • Selecting setups from the standard library, and building custom setups. • Monitoring and controlling simultaneously parameters of several NEXO devices, among which mute-solo, input and output levels, and volume, delay, gain, array-EQ and headroom of each output channel. • Patching input channels to output channels. • Viewing and editing EQ and compressor. • Saving and recalling scenes (NXAMP only). • Undoing and redoing every control step. • Copying and pasting parameters and scenes from one to many NEXO devices. • Saving and sharing user configurations, thanks to Sessions (.nemo documents). • A configurable way of managing alerts of different levels. • Visualizing and exporting a log of all the values of the NEXO devices (including temperature, voltage, current…) that you can record when NeMo is online. • A fully configurable Live mode. • A Demo mode to test the app. • A use in portrait on iPhone and iPad, and in portrait or landscape mode on iPad. A use in full-screen on Mac. Requires NXDT104, NXAES104 or NXES104 remote control cards in the NXAMPs, or the Network version of the DTD. AVS-Service is required to remote control NXES104. No theoretical limit on the supported numbers of NEXO devices. Compatible with AVS-Monitor. A maximum of 3 NeMos or AVS-Monitor can be connected to an NXAMP. A maximum of 1 NeMo can be connected to a DTD. And for your Mac, check out NEXO NeMo for macOS on the Mac App Store!

About

MATRIX A8

Features
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MATRIX A8 device is dedicated music, paging, discussion and zone management solutions for Commercial Audio applications.
Easy to use and to implement, MATRIX-8 offers state-of-the-art signal processing in a cost effective package. Projects using DSP platforms usually require a minimum number of inputs and outputs. This determines the choice of dedicated matrix models. MATRIX-A8 offers a large choice of I/O options in order to cover most of applications: Open the app, it will display the IP Setup interface, and connect to the LAN via WIFI. It will automatically search for the devices that have connected to Matrix A8 in the LAN of this interface. If no device is found, click the Refresh button to manually search. Select the device and click the Connect button to connect the device. When the indicator lights green, it indicates that the device is successfully connected. The Volume interface displays the gain value and channel name of each channel. You can select and change the channel name, adjust the gain value, and mute the channel in this interface. The Routing interface displays and adjusts multiple input channels assigned to the output channel. Specifically, the output channel can be selected through the “routing to” button in this interface. Select the input channel by clicking on the buttons in the list below. The Scene interface can control the device to save, delete and read the corresponding presets. The preset contains all the settings of the device. You can determine the saving location of the preset by selecting Device or Local. Click Lock System to lock the device so that the app cannot change its parameters. If the device is locked, you can only unlock or change the password by entering the password already set or super password “MA88”.

Screenshots

NEXO NeMo3 screens
MATRIX A81 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NEXO NeMo at every 2 months against MATRIX A8's every 6 months. MATRIX A8's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NEXO NeMo ships an update every 2 months, MATRIX A8 every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
NEXO NeMo versus MATRIX A8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNEXO NeMoMATRIX A8
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNEXO SASEIKAKU

In-app purchases

None

NEXO NeMo

No in-app purchases

None

MATRIX A8

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NEXO NeMo free?
NEXO NeMo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MATRIX A8 free?
MATRIX A8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NEXO NeMo or MATRIX A8 have ads?
Neither NEXO NeMo nor MATRIX A8 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NEXO NeMo or MATRIX A8?
NEXO NeMo ships an update every 2 months, and MATRIX A8 every 6 months. Most recently, NEXO NeMo was updated on June 11, 2026 and MATRIX A8 on September 17, 2026.

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