Comparison

Fizzy Bacon 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

Fizzy Bacon

This app emulates the sound of analog tape saturation and compression, adding warmth and character to your audio. It offers intuitive controls for adjusting tape 'dirt,' 'age,' and 'noise,' along with dynamic compression and modulation effects. Achieve a polished, finished sound for individual tracks or your entire mix.

Highlights
  • Tape saturation emulation
  • Analog compressor
  • Adjustable 'Dirt' and 'Age' controls
  • Built-in noise and wow/flutter
  • Real flanging effect
  • Four compression ratios plus All-buttons mode
  • 51 presets
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Some tracks are perfect and still sound like a computer. Fizzy Bacon is the box that fixes that. A tape deck and its compressor, together, on your channel strip. Turn up Dirt. Keep going. You'll know when. PUT IT ON THE DRUM BUS Drive it until the kit stops being a grid and starts being a room. The compressor catches the whole thing on the way past, and the low end arrives on its own, without you touching an EQ. PUT IT ON A VOCAL A little Dirt for body, a little Age to take the glare off a bright mic, and the loud words sit down without you drawing a single automation line. PUT IT ON THE MIX Ease it in and everything moves a little closer together. Nothing sounds processed. It just sounds finished. PUT IT ON EVERYTHING Full wet, slow tape, wow and flutter up — and now you're listening to a cassette that's been in somebody's glovebox since 1982. FIVE KNOBS AND NO HOMEWORK Dirt is how hard you're hitting the tape. Age is how many miles are on the machine. Noise is the hiss and the hum, and it only shows up while the music does. Wow and Flutter are the drift and the shimmer — let them wander, or sync their rates to your tempo. Synced Wow lands on the beat; Flutter remains random. And Mix is hiding a flanger you didn't pay for: pull it back with the wobble running and the two sides sweep past each other. Real flanging, the two-tape-machines kind, free. A COMPRESSOR WITH NOTHING TO HUNT FOR No threshold to find. You just drive it harder until it's doing what you want. Four ratios, plus an All-buttons setting for when the whole track should be breathing rather than politely controlled. Two VU meters swing the way meters should — flip them to watch the gain reduction, or to check your width survives a mono fold-down. 51 PRESETS, ALL AT THE SAME LEVEL From a barely-there print to a completely melted reel, plus mastering and mixing banks. They all sit within a decibel of each other, so you can walk the whole bank without riding the fader and hear the difference instead of the volume. Save your own and they follow you to your other devices. NOTHING TO WATCH OUT FOR Latency never changes, your DAW compensates, bypass vanishes completely. Any hardware knob drives any control. Everything automates. An AUv3 plug-in in your DAW, or a standalone app on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Same engine either way. There's a full manual inside the window, if you're the type. Most people just turn Dirt up.

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 focused AUv3 vocal pitch and tone effect for quick corrective or creative processing on iPad. • Fast pitch correction controls • Modern vocal tone shaping • Mix control for flexible processing • Factory presets and local user presets • AUv3 support for compatible iPad music hosts Works as a standalone preview app and as an AUv3 effect in GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, BeatMaker 3 and other compatible hosts.

Screenshots

Fizzy Bacon4 screens
SL Tune3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SL Tune at $7.99 against Fizzy Bacon'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

Fizzy Bacon 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 Fizzy Bacon against 5.0 for SL Tune. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fizzy Bacon versus SL Tune: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFizzy BaconSL 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—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian ThompsonVIACHESLAV ZHILTSOV

Customer experience

Fizzy Bacon

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

Fizzy Bacon

No in-app purchases

None

SL Tune

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fizzy Bacon free?
Fizzy Bacon 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, Fizzy Bacon or SL Tune?
Fizzy Bacon and SL Tune are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Fizzy Bacon or SL Tune have ads?
Neither Fizzy Bacon nor SL Tune shows ads.

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