Comparison

AE975 vs SL Tune

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Fast pitch correction
  • Modern vocal tone shaping
  • Mix control
  • Factory and user presets
  • AUv3 support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

AE9754 screens
SL Tune3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

AE975 costs $19.99 and SL Tune $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AE975 versus SL Tune: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAE975SL Tune
Price$19.99$7.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian ThompsonVIACHESLAV ZHILTSOV

Customer experience

AE975

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SL Tune

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AE975

No in-app purchases

None

SL Tune

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AE975 free?
AE975 costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SL Tune free?
SL Tune costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AE975 or SL Tune?
AE975 and SL Tune are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do AE975 or SL Tune have ads?
Neither AE975 nor SL Tune shows ads.

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