Comparison

NightShine AUv3 Compressor vs Data Tap

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

Head to head
About

NightShine AUv3 Compressor

This professional audio effect emulates the classic Alesis 3630 hardware compressor. It offers authentic analog modeling with advanced oversampling for pristine sound quality and musical compression. Features include dual detection modes, variable knee processing, and precise control over dynamics.

Highlights
  • Alesis 3630 hardware emulation
  • 16x oversampling for pristine audio
  • Dual Peak/RMS detection modes
  • Advanced knee processing with variable width
  • Authentic analog-style waveshaping
  • Brickwall limiter and auto makeup gain
  • 16 professional presets
Features
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Transform your audio with NightShine, a premium AUv3 compressor that captures the legendary warmth of the classic Alesis 3630 hardware compressor. This professional dynamics processor combines authentic analog modeling with cutting-edge 16x oversampling technology for pristine audio quality and musical compression characteristics. NightShine features dual detection modes (Peak/RMS), advanced knee processing (Hard/Soft with variable width), and authentic analog-style waveshaping for harmonic saturation. The 16x oversampling engine eliminate digital artifacts while maintaining automatic latency compensation, delivering pure analog-like sound quality. Controls include precise threshold (-40dB to 0dB), ratio (1:1 to 20:1), attack (0.1ms to 200ms), and release (50ms to 3000ms) settings. Additional features include an optional brickwall limiter and auto makeup gain. Ready to use with 16 professional presets covering vocals, drums, bass, mix bus compression, and mastering. Perfect for vocal processing, drum enhancement, mix bus compression, and mastering. NightShine delivers professional results with the perfect blend of vintage character and modern precision.

About

Data Tap

Features
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Your phone is full of sensors. Data Tap helps you put them to creative use. Connect Data Tap to a computer on the same network and use OSC to stream what your phone senses: tilt, rotation and acceleration, fingers on a pad, loudness and pitch from the microphone, brightness and movement from the camera, hand position and pinch, facial expression, distance, and even GPS speed, heading and altitude. Every value arrives the same way: a number from -1.0 to 1.0, on an address you can read and copy. Nothing needs to be guessed on the receiving end. WHAT IT SENDS Motion: tilt, rotation, acceleration Touch: three fingers, with latch Proximity: on or off, a hand's width away Microphone: loudness, pitch, timbre, onsets Camera: brightness, color, movement Hand pose: position, pinch, openness Face tracking: expression and head tilt, plus every ARKit blend shape Depth: continuous distance, out to three meters Stage position: where you have moved, within two meters GPS: speed, heading, altitude, position SHAPED BEFORE IT LEAVES Every value has its own smoothing to calm a busy signal, and jitter to excite a steady one. Two global sliders scale all of them at once. A graph on every row clearly displays the outbound signal. ONE PORT EACH, OR ALL TOGETHER Send everything to one port, or individual values to different ports, up to fifty above the main one, allowing different tools that bind their own port to each receive different signals from Data Tap at the same time. RECORD IT Start a recording and every value is written to a CSV file with an unbroken timeline, ready to open and reuse anywhere. Each CSV file lands in your Files app, yours to copy and use. BUILT FOR A STAGE Freeze holds every value where it is. Pocket mode blacks out the screen and keeps sending, so the phone can go in a pocket. Awake stops the screen locking in the middle of a performance. FREE OR PRO Motion, touch and proximity are free, with no time limit and nothing held back. Data Tap Pro is a single purchase, once, that adds every remaining sensor along with CSV recording, pocket mode, and global controls. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Data Tap has no accounts, no analytics and no third-party code. What it reads is only sent as the OSC on your own network or recorded as a CSV to your own files. The camera, position, and microphone are read only while you have those sources switched on with permissions granted, and what they see and hear never leaves the device beyond the raw OSC values you decide to send. Requires iOS 15 or later.

Screenshots

NightShine AUv3 Compressor1 screens
Data Tap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Data Tap at Free against NightShine AUv3 Compressor's $4.99. NightShine AUv3 Compressor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Data Tap is free to download; NightShine AUv3 Compressor costs $4.99 up front. Data Tap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NightShine AUv3 Compressor asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NightShine AUv3 Compressor versus Data Tap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNightShine AUv3 CompressorData Tap
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiscoDSP LLCManifest Audio LLC

In-app purchases

None

NightShine AUv3 Compressor

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Data Tap

One-time1
  • Data Tap Pro$6.99

Questions

Is NightShine AUv3 Compressor free?
NightShine AUv3 Compressor costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Data Tap free?
Data Tap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NightShine AUv3 Compressor or Data Tap have ads?
Neither NightShine AUv3 Compressor nor Data Tap shows ads.

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