Aux Control vs EQ Ear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aux Control
This app allows hosts to create a music voting system for parties and events, connecting to a music streaming service. Guests can join via a web browser to vote on songs, with the host managing playback and the queue. Sessions are temporary and designed for social gatherings.
- Create music voting rooms
- Guest song voting
- Host playback control
- Temporary event sessions
- QR code and room code entry
- Guest list management
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Aux Control is a party music jukebox for bars, cafes, and events. The host runs the iOS app on their iPhone, which connects to Apple Music and starts a room. Guests join by scanning a QR code or entering a room code at auxcontrol.live in any browser — no app download required. Guests set a screen name and vote on which song plays next. The host controls playback and manages the guest list. BUILT FOR REAL PARTIES • Works best with 5+ people — house parties, bars, weddings, DJs fielding requests, all of it • Sessions self-destruct after 24 hours — zero cleanup • Skip is host-first, always — you're never at the mercy of the crowd • Kick a guest, yeet a queued track, or seed the first song yourself before votes even start • Three play modes: Voting (the room picks what's next), Battle (two songs go head to head, and the winner stays on for up to three wins), or Jukebox (first come, first served) PARTY PASS Free sessions cap at 8 people. Party Pass is an auto-renewing annual subscription that bumps the cap to 150 guests — built for the bigger stuff: weddings, blowouts, hosts running it all year. Renews automatically each year unless you cancel at least 24 hours before renewal; manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Aux Control is built by Loophole, LLC - Garfield Heights, Ohio Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://auxcontrol.live/privacy.html
EQ Ear
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Most producers learn to see a mix before they can hear one. EQ Ear works the other way round. Every question is audio first. You hear a loop, you make a call, and you find out exactly how close you were — in hertz and decibels. FIVE WAYS TO LISTEN EQ — Move four faders until your curve locks onto the track. Bass, low-mid, high-mid, treble. Compare — Two mixes, one band moved. The sliders are locked, so you diagnose by ear alone: which band, and was it boosted or cut? Pinpoint — Forget four broad bands. Name the exact frequency, from 125 Hz to 8 kHz, on a logarithmic scale that shows you where each one really sits. Tempo — Drum loops from 60 to 200 BPM. Tap along, read your pulse, lock your internal clock before you open the DAW. Recall — Hear a take. Five seconds of silence. Hear it again. Did the tone change, or is your memory filling in the gaps? A PATH, NOT A QUIZ 900+ questions across nine categories of music. Every lesson mixes three of the five modes, so you never settle into one kind of listening. Start with First Training — four bands, no genre, nothing to memorise. Then move into vocals, guitar, piano, pop, electronic, rock, classical, jazz and hip-hop. Each one carries its own frequency problems: sibilance in a vocal, mud in a guitar, sub weight in an 808. SEE EXACTLY WHAT YOU MISSED Getting it wrong is the lesson. After every round you see your curve drawn against the track, band by band, with the hertz and decibels you were off by. Then you can play the loop again with the correct EQ applied and hear the difference you could not hear a minute ago. Retrying a lesson is always free. Take a level as many times as you need. SURVIVAL MODE When you want to stop studying and start competing: all five modes, every category, endless. Speed feeds your score, one miss ends the run, and your best resets every week. BUILT FOR EARS THAT WORK Four bands mapped to real ranges — 20-250 Hz, 250-500 Hz, 500 Hz-4 kHz, 4-20 kHz — colour-coded everywhere in the app so the map stays in your head. Clean filters, seamless A/B switching with no click, and loops that keep running while you decide. Practice mode lets you pull any single mode out of the lessons you have finished and drill it on its own. Weak on tempo? Run tempo only. Streaks, XP and ranks track the long game, from Tin Ear upward. WHO IT IS FOR Producers and mixing engineers who want faster decisions. Musicians who want to hear what an engineer hears. Anyone who has stared at an EQ curve wondering whether they are fixing the sound or just moving it. No theory. No notation. No prior training. PASSES AND PLUS Passes open new lessons. You start with ten and get more every day, so you can work through the app for free at a steady pace. EQ Ear Plus removes the limit: every category, every lesson, unlimited Survival runs, no waiting. The full tutorial is free and always will be. Headphones or monitors strongly recommended. Phone speakers cannot reproduce the low end, and the low end is half the training. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://eqear.candevecioglu.com/support.html Terms of Use: https://eqear.candevecioglu.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://eqear.candevecioglu.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
Aux Control and EQ Ear are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Aux Control sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year and EQ Ear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Aux Control ships an update every 6 days, EQ Ear every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Aux Control | EQ Ear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Loophole, LLC | Can Devecioglu |
In-app purchases
Aux Control
- Party Pass$19.991 Year
- Party Pass$2.99
EQ Ear
- Monthly Plus$7.991 Month
- Yearly Plus$34.991 Year








