AE975 vs SL Tune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AE975
Enhance audio tracks with presence, articulation, and density using a parallel processing path. This AUv3 audio effect offers subtle polish and detailed control for mixing and mastering.
- Parallel processing with sidechain
- Sound-shaping controls (Focus, Enhance, Texture, Saturation, Density)
- AUv3 compatibility for DAWs
- Standalone companion host app
- 92 categorized factory presets
- iCloud preset sync
- MIDI Learn for controller mapping
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Give tracks presence without flattening the source. Add air, articulation, and density through a tuned parallel path. AE975 is an AUv3 audio effect for subtle polish, forward detail, and playable control. AE975 keeps the dry signal as the foundation, listens to a Focus-controlled sidechain, generates source-derived harmonic texture, and blends the result back in parallel. The goal is mix-ready lift without treating brightness like a simple EQ boost. Sound-shaping controls: - Focus sets the responsive region from 600 Hz to 6 kHz, with 3 kHz at center. - Enhance controls the parallel return depth. - Texture changes harmonic color and complexity. - Saturation adds intensity inside the enhancement generator, not as a full-band clipper. - Density moves from clean transient sparkle to smoother sustained glow. - Mix, Output, and Bypass make level-matched comparison simple. Built for DAW workflows: - Use AE975 as an audio effect in compatible AUv3 hosts. - Open the standalone companion host app to audition the processor with generated test audio, or compatible hardware I/O. - Browse 92 categorized factory presets for mastering, mixing, buses, vocals, guitars, bass, drums, synths, strings, brass, woodwinds, and sound design. - Save user presets locally and mirror them with iCloud preset sync. - Map hardware controllers with MIDI Learn, direct CC assignment, reset-to-default controls, and feedback broadcast support. Use it when a vocal needs to read forward, drums need more snap, guitars need pick detail, synths need shine, strings need rosin, buses need polish, or a master needs a controlled final lift.
SL Tune
This app offers vocal pitch and tone effects for iPad, providing quick corrective or creative processing. It features fast pitch correction, modern vocal tone shaping, and mix control for flexible audio manipulation. It supports AUv3 for integration with compatible music hosts.
- Fast pitch correction
- Modern vocal tone shaping
- Mix control
- Factory and user presets
- AUv3 support
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SL Tune is a vocal pitch-correction and tone effect for iPhone and iPad. Insert it on a vocal track in a compatible AUv3 host. Choose a key and scale, or select the allowed notes yourself. Natural mode preserves small pitch movements, Hard gives faster correction, and Robot locks pitch to the selected root across octaves. Six controls shape the sound: Retune, Humanize, Formant, Snap, Echo and Mix. Formant changes the tonal balance. Mix blends processed and original audio. Start with one of six factory presets: Classic Hard, Trap Lock, Silk Vocal, Clean Fix, Robot Grid and Echo Adlib. Save and load your own presets locally. The resizable interface adapts to portrait, landscape and compact host windows. Use SL Tune as an AUv3 effect in a compatible music host, or open the standalone app to preview and adjust the controls. Pitch correction works best on a single vocal line. It is not designed to tune a complete mix or separate voices from background music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SL Tune at $7.99 against AE975's $19.99. SL Tune also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
AE975 costs $19.99 and SL Tune $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AE975 against 5.0 for SL Tune. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | AE975 | SL Tune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $7.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Thompson | VIACHESLAV ZHILTSOV |
Customer experience
AE975
SL Tune
In-app purchases
AE975
No in-app purchases
SL Tune
No in-app purchases









