Comparison

AudioSpectrumWaterfall vs RecoBooth

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

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About

AudioSpectrumWaterfall

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A real-time audio analyzer for iPhone and iPad. Five panes cover spectrum, waterfall, oscilloscope, peak list, and note/chord detection โ€” pick any combination and arrange them in a custom layout. PANES Spectrum โ€” live magnitude spectrum in three drawing styles (Trace, Line, Bars), peak-hold trace, peak markers, and a drag-anywhere cursor showing frequency, level, and nearest note. Waterfall โ€” scrolling spectrogram with six color maps and adjustable scroll speed. Time Domain โ€” oscilloscope with rising-edge trigger, automatic vertical gain, and min/max envelope drawing. Notes & Chords โ€” detected fundamentals with cents-accurate tuning meters and chord name readout. Peak List โ€” top N interpolated spectral peaks with frequency, level, nearest note, and cents offset. Panes stack vertically and split into two columns on wide, short windows (iPad landscape, phone landscape). Five built-in layout presets are included: Spectrum + Waterfall, Scope + Spectrum, Musician, Analyser, and Everything. ANALYSIS CONTROLS FFT size from 256 to 32768 points. Window functions: rectangular, Bartlett, Hann, Hamming, Blackman, Blackman-Harris, flat top, Kaiser. Exponential averaging and adjustable refresh rate. Live readout of frequency resolution (Hz/bin) and window length (ms). Amplitude scale: linear or dBFS, with adjustable level range. Frequency scale: linear or logarithmic, with adjustable frequency range. Spectrum style: Trace (every FFT bin plotted individually, no resampling) or Line/Bars (per-pixel peak or average detector). NOTE AND CHORD DETECTION Harmonic-comb analysis with iterative spectral subtraction identifies fundamental frequencies and matches them against 19 chord templates across all 12 roots, including slash-chord naming. A spectral-flatness gate skips pitch detection on broadband, non-tonal input (percussion, breath, room noise), with an adjustable sensitivity threshold. The spectrum, waterfall, and peak list always display the raw, unmodified spectrum โ€” harmonic reduction is applied only to the note and chord readout. AUDIO INPUT Works with any input source exposed by the system: built-in microphone (including individual top/bottom/front/back elements where supported), wired headsets, USB audio interfaces, and Bluetooth headsets. Sample rate can follow the hardware or be fixed at 8, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz. Automatically handles route changes (headphones unplugged, Bluetooth reconnects) and interruptions (phone calls). SIGNAL GENERATOR Built-in generator produces sine, sawtooth, square, triangle, white noise, pink noise, a logarithmic sweep, or a major triad โ€” useful for testing scale settings and window behavior without external audio. Nothing is routed to the speaker. DISPLAY CONTROLS Freeze the live display at any point, and start or stop capture manually. A status bar shows RMS/peak level with a clipping indicator, the current audio route, sample rate, FFT size, Hz/bin resolution, and window length. PRIVACY Audio is analyzed in real time on-device only. It is never recorded or transmitted. REQUIREMENTS iPhone and iPad, iOS 17.0 or later. Microphone access required for live audio capture. English only.

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RecoBooth

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RecoBooth is a voice recorder that removes room reverb and noise, making your voice sound like it was recorded in a studio. Voices recorded in ordinary rooms pick up reflections from walls and ceilings. The moment you stop recording, RecoBooth's on-device AI noise and reverb removal (DeepFilterNet3) turns it into a clean, dry voice in seconds. โ–  Great for - Narration, reading practice, voice memos - Cover songs and scratch takes - Voice tracks for videos and podcasts โ–  Features - All processing happens on your device, so it works offline - One-tap A/B comparison between original and studio sound - Mic characters (dynamic / condenser / ribbon) to shape the tone - Detects and suppresses room resonances automatically - Shows the microphone in use, including external mics and audio interfaces - Waveform trimming, with export levelled to around -14 LUFS - Import a video, clean up just its audio, and export it back (the video is never re-encoded) - Import audio files too, such as Voice Memos (m4a, mp3, wav and more) - Background recording โ€” keep recording with the screen off - iPad support. On a wide landscape screen your recordings stay in a list on the left while the studio fills the right - Five accent colours, light / dark appearance, and full text-size support โ–  RecoBooth Pro (one-time purchase) - Export lossless WAV โ€” the format to hand to your editing software - Record or import audio and video up to 2 hours at a time (5 minutes on the free version) - No more full-screen ad after each conversion - Future Pro features are included at no extra cost Recordings and imported audio or video are up to 5 minutes each (2 hours with Pro), captured at 48 kHz, exported as M4A or, with Pro, WAV.

Screenshots

AudioSpectrumWaterfall4 screens
RecoBooth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AudioSpectrumWaterfall at none against RecoBooth's 1. AudioSpectrumWaterfall also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. RecoBooth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AudioSpectrumWaterfall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
AudioSpectrumWaterfall versus RecoBooth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudioSpectrumWaterfallRecoBooth
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๆ™“ๅค ๅ‘จToshihiko Arai

In-app purchases

None

AudioSpectrumWaterfall

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

RecoBooth

One-time1
  • RecoBooth Pro$1.99

Questions

Is AudioSpectrumWaterfall free?
AudioSpectrumWaterfall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RecoBooth free?
RecoBooth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AudioSpectrumWaterfall or RecoBooth have ads?
RecoBooth shows ads; AudioSpectrumWaterfall does not.

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