Comparison

SoundScope vs Studio Acoustic Planner

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

Head to head
About

SoundScope

Features
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See your sound. SoundScope turns your iPhone and iPad into a complete audio analysis instrument — spectrum, loudness, stereo field, and dynamics, measured with broadcast-grade precision and rendered in a stunning brushed-metal interface. Whether you're mixing, mastering, running live sound, tuning a room, or you simply love watching music breathe, SoundScope shows you what your ears alone can't catch — and tells you how to fix it. — FOUR WAYS TO SEE YOUR SOUND — • SPECTRUM — high-resolution real-time analyzer with bars or silky line mode, animated peak hold, 20 to 120 bands, logarithmic or linear scaling • SPECTROGRAM — scrolling waterfall with a gorgeous inferno heat map, 20 Hz to 20 kHz • RADIAL BLOOM — an ambient circular analyzer with a core that pulses to the beat • RIBBON TUNNEL — a mirrored neon ribbon that turns your desk into mission control — BROADCAST-GRADE LOUDNESS — A full ITU-R BS.1770 loudness suite: Momentary, Short-term, and gated Integrated LUFS, Loudness Range (LRA), intersample True Peak (dBTP), and a DR dynamics score. Know exactly how loud you are before you upload — not after. — A MIX ENGINEER IN YOUR POCKET — The built-in diagnostics engine listens with you and speaks plain English: clipping alerts, loudness-war warnings, crushed dynamics, mono sub-bass cancellation, and frequency-balance issues — all judged against genre profiles for EDM, Hip-Hop, Rock, Classical, Acoustic, and Podcast. It even tells you how far streaming platforms like Spotify and YouTube will turn your track down. — READ THE STEREO FIELD — Stereo VU meters with peak hold, a live stereo-image scope, Mid/Side spectra, and a phase-correlation meter. Per-band RMS from sub to air, plus a mono-compatibility strip that shows exactly where your mix collapses in mono. — SURGICAL CONTROL — FFT sizes from 64 to 131,072 with TRANS / BAL / MASTR presets, overlap up to 93.75%, HOLD to freeze and inspect any moment, and input sensitivity from 0.1x to 4x. — ANY SOUND. ZERO SETUP. — Point it at your studio monitors, a live PA, an instrument, or a track playing back — through the built-in mic or any connected audio interface. Rotate to portrait for full metering, landscape for the analyzer. — DESIGNED TO BE LIVED IN — A luxurious brushed-metal instrument with tactile controls, haptic feedback, and eight accent themes — including a live per-frequency Spectrum rainbow. Full dark-mode and Reduce Motion support. — PERFECT FOR — • Studio engineers, producers, and mastering • Live sound and FOH engineers • Musicians, vocalists, and podcasters • Acousticians, installers, and educators • Anyone serious about sound No subscriptions. No accounts. No sign-in. No telemetry. Everything runs on-device and offline, with Apple-native engineering that stays silky-smooth on iPhone and iPad. Stop guessing. Start seeing. Download SoundScope and hear with your eyes.

About

Studio Acoustic Planner

This app creates an acoustic treatment plan for your room by scanning it with LiDAR or manual input. It prioritizes speaker and listener placement for optimal sound before suggesting panel designs and materials.

Highlights
  • LiDAR room scanning
  • Manual room input
  • 3D room visualization
  • Acoustic summary (decay time, modes)
  • Optimized listener and speaker placement
  • Customizable panel designs
  • REW import for advanced analysis
Features
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Studio Acoustic Planner turns a scan of your room into an acoustic treatment plan you can actually build. Walk around once with an iPhone Pro and the LiDAR maps every wall, the ceiling and your desk. No LiDAR? Type the room size or draw the floor plan. Either way the app computes your room's acoustics and hands you a plan in order of what matters most. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • The scan, and your room in 3D • The acoustic summary: decay time, proportions, and the room modes most likely to be audible as bass peaks and dips, with note names • Placement, in full: where to sit, monitor spacing, ear height, toe-in, and the subwoofer position chosen by physics • Two guided ear tests that find your listening spot and speaker positions by listening, no measurement microphone needed • Unlimited rooms THE FULL ROADMAP (one-time unlock per room, or Studio Pro) • Every treatment action for your room: first-reflection panels, corner bass traps, ceiling cloud, rear wall, each with exact placement, the size to build, and a materials list • Build specs and how-tos for each panel • REW import: bring in a measurement sweep and see predicted against measured. The plan sharpens against the real room, and a second sweep shows before and after • Exports: PDF, the materials list as a note, and a handoff to your AI PLACEMENT FIRST, PANELS SECOND Most of the improvement in a small room costs nothing: it's where you sit and where the speakers go. The plan puts those actions first and lets you check each one off. Panels come after, sized and placed for your walls, not a generic diagram. MADE FOR HOME STUDIOS Bedroom studios, mixing rooms, podcast rooms, practice spaces. Yamaha, Genelec, KRK, Adam, Neumann, Focal, Kali, PreSonus and 30 more monitor brands in the catalog, with true cabinet dimensions. PRIVACY Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no analytics, no tracking. The camera and LiDAR are used for the scan only; nothing is recorded or uploaded. Studio Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly) that unlocks every room while active. Rooms planned under Pro stay unlocked if it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SoundScope4 screens
Studio Acoustic Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Studio Acoustic Planner at Free against SoundScope's $3.99. Studio Acoustic Planner also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). SoundScope's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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

Studio Acoustic Planner is free to download; SoundScope costs $3.99 up front. Studio Acoustic Planner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. SoundScope asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SoundScope ships an update every 2 weeks, Studio Acoustic Planner every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SoundScope versus Studio Acoustic Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoundScopeStudio Acoustic Planner
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.118.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWaldemar Schneidernoam ben shabat

In-app purchases

None

SoundScope

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Studio Acoustic Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Studio Pro — Monthly$24.991 Month
  • Studio Pro — Yearly$179.991 Year
One-time2
  • Unlock Another Room$9.99
  • Unlock This Room$19.99

Questions

Is SoundScope free?
SoundScope costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Studio Acoustic Planner free?
Studio Acoustic Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SoundScope or Studio Acoustic Planner have ads?
Neither SoundScope nor Studio Acoustic Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SoundScope or Studio Acoustic Planner?
SoundScope ships an update every 2 weeks, and Studio Acoustic Planner every 2 days. Most recently, SoundScope was updated on October 25, 2026 and Studio Acoustic Planner on October 14, 2026.

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