Comparison

loudness CORRECT · Normalizer vs Burnish

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

Head to head
About

loudness CORRECT · Normalizer

Features
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loudness CORRECT measures, corrects and verifies your audio to any broadcast or streaming loudness spec — fully offline, on iPad and iPhone. Pick a file, pick a preset, correct. The two-pass pipeline measures the source to ITU-R BS.1770-4, plans the gain move, writes a new file and re-verifies the result — so what leaves the app is provably on target, not just close. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • Verified output: auto-verify and refine until the residual error is under 0.1 LU. No guessing, no manual re-check. • Transparent loudness range control: a continuous 3-band reshape (Linkwitz-Riley) works toward the programme level — it tightens loud passages and lifts quiet ones with no threshold and no pumping. • True-peak safe: 4× oversampled inter-sample peak limiter with 5 ms look-ahead keeps you under the ceiling on every platform. 14 DELIVERY PRESETS EBU R128, EBU R128 S1, ATSC A/85, ARIB TR-B32, AGCOM 219/09, FreeTV OP-59, DPP UK, Portaria 354, OTT -27 LUFS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, and a fully editable Custom preset. MULTICHANNEL From mono and stereo through 5.1 and 7.1 up to 9.1.6 Atmos bed layouts — BS.1770-correct per layout, with LFE exclude and proper surround weighting. FORMATS Input: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, MP3, M4A Output: WAV, AIFF, FLAC • K-weighted ITU-R BS.1770-4 measurement (integrated, range, true peak) • Dark, focused UI — German and English • No account, no login, no network calls — your files never leave your device MADE FOR Mastering engineers, broadcast and post editors, podcast and audiobook producers, sound designers — everyone who has to hit a delivery loudness target quickly, cleanly and provably.

About

Burnish

This app enhances AI-generated music by repairing common sonic issues like limited high frequencies, muddy mids, and narrow stereo imaging. It then masters tracks to streaming loudness, offering detailed control and genre-specific profiles. Users can also match their audio to reference tracks and export high-quality files.

Highlights
  • AI audio repair
  • Mastering to streaming loudness
  • Reference track matching
  • Detailed EQ and dynamics control
  • Genre-specific profiles
  • AUv3 plugin support
  • Before/after sharing
Features
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Burnish takes a song you made with an AI music tool and makes it sound finished. AI generators leave marks. The top end stops dead around 16 kHz. There is a haze in the mids and a lump of mud around 350 Hz. The stereo image is narrow. You can hear it on good headphones, and so can the people who decide what gets playlisted. Burnish finds those problems, fixes them, then masters the track to streaming loudness. All of it happens on your iPhone or iPad. No upload, no account, no waiting in a queue. WHAT YOU GET Repair first, then master. Burnish rebuilds the missing top end, clears the mud, and opens the stereo image before it touches loudness. Most mastering apps skip this part. Six dials. Intensity, tone, bass, width, dynamics, de-ess. Turn one and Burnish runs the full chain again in seconds. Free, as many times as you like. Reference match. Pick a song from Files. Burnish reads its tone and loudness and shapes your track to sit beside it. A fair A/B. Before and After play at the same loudness, so you judge the tone and not the volume. It shows its work. Every EQ move, every dB of compression, the limiter's numbers. You can read exactly what changed and why. No black box. Loudness targets that mean something. Streaming, YouTube, Dynamic, or Club. True peak held at -1 dBTP so nothing clips after upload. 18 genre profiles. R&B, hip-hop, pop, rock, house, techno, drum and bass, reggaeton, country, metal, ambient, jazz, classical and more. Each one tuned by ear, not by a preset name. Share the before and after. A 15 second vertical video with the spectrum, the score, and the numbers. Made for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Also a plugin. Burnish runs as an AUv3 effect inside GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad and other AUv3 hosts, so you can hear the master while you arrange. Export a 24-bit WAV, ready for any distributor. HOW IT IS PRICED Your first master is free, no card, no sign-up. After that, one purchase unlocks the app for good. No subscription. No monthly fee. No credits. PRIVACY Your music never leaves your device. Burnish does not upload audio, does not train on your songs, and does not need an account. Burnish is made by a musician who got tired of paying a subscription to master songs that still sounded like demos. It works on any track, AI-made or not.

Screenshots

loudness CORRECT · Normalizer4 screens
Burnish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Burnish at Free against loudness CORRECT · Normalizer's $17.99. Burnish also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). loudness CORRECT · Normalizer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, 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

Burnish is free to download; loudness CORRECT · Normalizer costs $17.99 up front. Burnish sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. loudness CORRECT · Normalizer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for loudness CORRECT · Normalizer against 5.0 for Burnish. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

loudness CORRECT · Normalizer ships an update every 2 weeks, Burnish weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
loudness CORRECT · Normalizer versus Burnish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterloudness CORRECT · NormalizerBurnish
Price$17.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSascha HoemskeSilk Creative Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

loudness CORRECT · Normalizer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Burnish

One-time1
  • Unlimited Mastering$24.99

Questions

Is loudness CORRECT · Normalizer free?
loudness CORRECT · Normalizer costs $17.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Burnish free?
Burnish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, loudness CORRECT · Normalizer or Burnish?
loudness CORRECT · Normalizer and Burnish are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do loudness CORRECT · Normalizer or Burnish have ads?
Neither loudness CORRECT · Normalizer nor Burnish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, loudness CORRECT · Normalizer or Burnish?
loudness CORRECT · Normalizer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Burnish weekly. Most recently, loudness CORRECT · Normalizer was updated on October 24, 2026 and Burnish on October 25, 2026.

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