Comparison

SIDEN vs AudioSpectrumWaterfall

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

Head to head
About

SIDEN

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SIDEN is a utility app for xSIID / NExT v2 users to manage NFC chip data quickly and safely. Key features: • Read NFC tags and view UID + NDEF records • Write links and payloads from customizable dashboard tiles • Scan QR codes to add or write URLs • Import links from Share Sheet (URL, text, or QR image) • Reorder, edit, and style tiles (icon, color, title) • Memory Dump tools for Sector 0 inspection • Initialize NDEF and Full Wipe tools for maintenance • Local-first design with iCloud sync • No tracking and no analytics collection SIDEN is designed for fast daily use, diagnostics, and demo/showcase workflows for xSIID/NExT v2.

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AudioSpectrumWaterfall

Features
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A real-time audio analyzer for iPhone and iPad. Five panes cover spectrum, waterfall, oscilloscope, peak list, and note/chord detection — pick any combination and arrange them in a custom layout. PANES Spectrum — live magnitude spectrum in three drawing styles (Trace, Line, Bars), peak-hold trace, peak markers, and a drag-anywhere cursor showing frequency, level, and nearest note. Waterfall — scrolling spectrogram with six color maps and adjustable scroll speed. Time Domain — oscilloscope with rising-edge trigger, automatic vertical gain, and min/max envelope drawing. Notes & Chords — detected fundamentals with cents-accurate tuning meters and chord name readout. Peak List — top N interpolated spectral peaks with frequency, level, nearest note, and cents offset. Panes stack vertically and split into two columns on wide, short windows (iPad landscape, phone landscape). Five built-in layout presets are included: Spectrum + Waterfall, Scope + Spectrum, Musician, Analyser, and Everything. ANALYSIS CONTROLS FFT size from 256 to 32768 points. Window functions: rectangular, Bartlett, Hann, Hamming, Blackman, Blackman-Harris, flat top, Kaiser. Exponential averaging and adjustable refresh rate. Live readout of frequency resolution (Hz/bin) and window length (ms). Amplitude scale: linear or dBFS, with adjustable level range. Frequency scale: linear or logarithmic, with adjustable frequency range. Spectrum style: Trace (every FFT bin plotted individually, no resampling) or Line/Bars (per-pixel peak or average detector). NOTE AND CHORD DETECTION Harmonic-comb analysis with iterative spectral subtraction identifies fundamental frequencies and matches them against 19 chord templates across all 12 roots, including slash-chord naming. A spectral-flatness gate skips pitch detection on broadband, non-tonal input (percussion, breath, room noise), with an adjustable sensitivity threshold. The spectrum, waterfall, and peak list always display the raw, unmodified spectrum — harmonic reduction is applied only to the note and chord readout. AUDIO INPUT Works with any input source exposed by the system: built-in microphone (including individual top/bottom/front/back elements where supported), wired headsets, USB audio interfaces, and Bluetooth headsets. Sample rate can follow the hardware or be fixed at 8, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz. Automatically handles route changes (headphones unplugged, Bluetooth reconnects) and interruptions (phone calls). SIGNAL GENERATOR Built-in generator produces sine, sawtooth, square, triangle, white noise, pink noise, a logarithmic sweep, or a major triad — useful for testing scale settings and window behavior without external audio. Nothing is routed to the speaker. DISPLAY CONTROLS Freeze the live display at any point, and start or stop capture manually. A status bar shows RMS/peak level with a clipping indicator, the current audio route, sample rate, FFT size, Hz/bin resolution, and window length. PRIVACY Audio is analyzed in real time on-device only. It is never recorded or transmitted. REQUIREMENTS iPhone and iPad, iOS 17.0 or later. Microphone access required for live audio capture. English only.

Screenshots

SIDEN4 screens
AudioSpectrumWaterfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

SIDEN and AudioSpectrumWaterfall are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SIDEN versus AudioSpectrumWaterfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSIDENAudioSpectrumWaterfall
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVivoKey Japan LLC晓坤 周

In-app purchases

None

SIDEN

No in-app purchases

None

AudioSpectrumWaterfall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SIDEN free?
SIDEN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AudioSpectrumWaterfall free?
AudioSpectrumWaterfall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SIDEN or AudioSpectrumWaterfall have ads?
Neither SIDEN nor AudioSpectrumWaterfall shows ads.

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