TG Audio Player vs EffectDeck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TG Audio Player
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TG Audio Player is an unofficial, independent audio player built on Telegram's public API (TDLib). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Telegram FZ-LLC. Telegram is a trademark of Telegram FZ-LLC and is named here only to identify the service you connect to with your own account. Turn your Telegram channels and chats into a podcast-like listening experience. TG Audio Player finds the audio files, voice notes, and podcast episodes shared in the conversations you already follow and presents them in a clean, podcast-style player. You sign in with your own account, entirely inside the app — nothing else to install. KEY FEATURES • Podcast-style player with a modern, fluid interface • Background playback — keep listening with the screen locked or while using other apps • Lock screen and Control Center controls — play, pause, skip, and scrub without opening the app • Resume where you left off — playback position is saved automatically for every track • Smart titles — untitled voice messages are transcribed on your device to generate meaningful titles; audio never leaves your phone • Set the transcription language app-wide, per channel, or per episode • Playback speed from 0.5× to 2× • Skip forward 30s / back 15s • Up Next queue — see what's coming and jump to any track • Download for offline listening • Search across channels, episodes, and generated titles • No ads, no analytics, no tracking HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign in with your own Telegram account, entirely inside this app — enter your phone number and the one-time code we send you by SMS. No other app or device is needed. 2. The app finds your channels, groups, and chats that contain audio. 3. Browse and listen like a podcast app. Great for educational courses, podcast channels, audiobooks, and long voice messages. PRIVACY The app talks only to Telegram's servers, using your own account — we run no servers of our own. Speech recognition for titles runs entirely on-device. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Full policy: [YOUR PRIVACY POLICY URL] ABOUT TG Audio Player is an independent, unofficial client that uses Telegram's public API under Telegram's API Terms of Service (https://core.telegram.org/api/terms). It uses no Telegram logo or artwork, and its name contains no third-party trademark. It never sends, edits, or deletes messages — it only plays audio you already have access to.
EffectDeck
Process audio from any app with a customizable chain of effects. Add built-in, AUv3, or custom JSFX plugins. Share your audio chains and scripts easily.
- 100+ built-in audio effects
- JSFX script support
- AUv3 plugin integration
- Custom impulse responses
- Audio analysis tools
- Preset management
- Chain and script sharing
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EffectDeck puts an effect chain on the audio other apps are already playing, and the effects you can put in it are not limited to the ones it ships with. Pick EffectDeck as the output in Control Center, then open the app and build a chain. No virtual cable, no routing to set up, nothing to configure first. Start from over 100 of EffeTune's effects, running unmodified: the same DSP code EffeTune runs on the desktop and on the web. Add the AUv3 plug-ins already on your device and your own impulse responses. When the effect you want does not exist, write it as a JSFX script, and it goes into the chain like any other effect. WHAT YOU GET - Over 100 built-in effects: EQ, dynamics, saturation, modulation, reverb, delay, spatial, lo-fi and restoration - JSFX effects: import a script from Files, a link or the clipboard. Each gets its own sliders and, if it draws, its own display - AUv3 effect plug-ins installed on your iPhone or iPad - Convolution reverb with your own impulse responses, and AutoEQ profiles for the 15-band EQ - Analyzers you can drop into the chain: spectrum, spectrogram, oscilloscope, level and stereo meters - Presets from EffeTune, plus your own presets in folders - Share a chain or a JSFX script as a link, and open the links others send you - A two-column layout on iPad - Oversampling at 48, 96 or 192 kHz, with latency and CPU shown while it runs HOW IT WORKS iOS 27 lets an app present itself as an audio output device. EffectDeck appears in Control Center next to your speaker and headphones. Choose it, and the audio from the player you are using is handed over, processed, and played back on the same device. Apps that never report themselves as playing, most games among them, keep going straight to the speaker. The audio never leaves the device, and nothing is collected. If you are signed in to iCloud, your presets and chain follow you to your other devices. The effects are EffeTune by Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (MIT). This app is a separate project and is not affiliated with EffeTune. The name was changed at the upstream author's request.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TG Audio Player at 17.0 against EffectDeck's 27.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | TG Audio Player | EffectDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Searcheva LLC | Masahiro Sato |
In-app purchases
TG Audio Player
No in-app purchases
EffectDeck
No in-app purchases









