Comparison

pocketOSC vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

pocketOSC

This versatile audio tool generates various waveforms like Sine, Square, Saw, and Noise. It includes an oscilloscope and controls for wave, frequency, and volume, functioning as a plug-in or standalone application.

Highlights
  • Stereo capable oscillator
  • Oscilloscope display
  • Waveform generation (Sine, Square, Saw, Noise)
  • Frequency and Volume control
  • VST3, AU, AUv3 support
  • Standalone operation
  • Resizable and automatable GUI
Features
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pocketOSC is a macOS, Windows, and now iOS compatible stereo capable oscillator. Designed for VST3, AU, AUv3, and stand-alone use. Complete with oscilloscope and controllable Wave, Frequency, & Volume. Test all your gear with  Sine, Square, Saw, and Noise, oscillators. Plug-in GUI resizable and automatable parameters designed to recall with your various sessions. *Stand-alone allows for external audio device.

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

pocketOSC4 screens
Stellarvox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: pocketOSC at $0.99 against Stellarvox's $11.99. pocketOSC also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Stellarvox's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On rating, 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

pocketOSC costs $0.99 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for pocketOSC against 5.0 for Stellarvox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stellarvox has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

pocketOSC ships an update every 12 months, Stellarvox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
pocketOSC versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterpocketOSCStellarvox
Price$0.99 — better$11.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOSC AudioIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

pocketOSC

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

pocketOSC

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is pocketOSC free?
pocketOSC costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, pocketOSC or Stellarvox?
pocketOSC and Stellarvox are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do pocketOSC or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither pocketOSC nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, pocketOSC or Stellarvox?
pocketOSC ships an update every 12 months, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, pocketOSC was updated on September 23, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 9, 2026.

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