Comparison

Speaker Box Lite vs Sweep

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

Head to head
About

Speaker Box Lite

Design and simulate custom speaker enclosures with detailed 3D models and blueprints. Access a vast database of speaker drivers and export designs for CNC or 3D printing.

Highlights
  • Multiple enclosure types (sealed, ported, bandpass)
  • 3D enclosure design and visualization
  • Extensive built-in speaker driver database
  • Simulation of frequency response and SPL
  • Automatic blueprint and cut sheet generation
  • Export for CNC and 3D printing (STL, STEP)
  • Cloud project synchronization
Features
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Design your perfect speaker box — skip the math and jump straight to building. Speaker Box Lite calculates subwoofer and speaker enclosures for you: sealed, ported (bass-reflex), 4th & 6th order bandpass, passive radiator, and transmission line. Get optimal volume and tuning recommendations, then see your box in full 3D with auto-generated blueprints and cut sheets. BUILT-IN SPEAKER DATABASE Search 5,000+ drivers from 300+ brands — Thiele-Small parameters load with one tap. Can't find yours? Add it manually in seconds. DESIGN IN 3D Place speakers and ports, add braces and dados, choose materials — and watch your enclosure come together. Design custom waveguides for tweeters and ports — conical, elliptical, hyperbolic and radial horn profiles included. SIMULATE BEFORE YOU BUILD Frequency response, phase, group delay, cone excursion and SPL plots. Compare enclosure variants side by side and pick the one that sounds right — before you cut a single board. COMPLETE SYSTEMS Multi-way boxes with subs, mids and tweeters. Full crossover designer: low-pass and high-pass filters (Butterworth, Linkwitz-Riley and more), series and parallel notch, Zobel, RC and RL contour networks, plus L-Pad attenuation. EXPORT & BUILD Export cut sheets and blueprints for every panel. 3D-print custom ports and waveguides via STL, or export the whole enclosure and its parts as STL. Send parts to CNC in STEP format for precision cutting. YOUR PROJECTS EVERYWHERE Free account keeps projects in the cloud — start on your phone, continue on the web at speakerboxlite.com. Upgrade to PRO for unlimited projects, offline database access and all advanced features. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Account Settings. Privacy Policy: https://speakerboxlite.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://speakerboxlite.com/terms-of-use

About

Sweep

Analyze your speaker's frequency response directly from your listening position. This app plays a log sweep and captures the sound with your iPhone's mic or a calibrated external mic, then displays the results. Easily compare multiple measurements to fine-tune your audio setup.

Highlights
  • Log sweep playback (20 Hz–20 kHz)
  • Frequency response plotting
  • Overlay up to 5 measurement runs
  • Frequency scrubbing with peak/trough snapping
  • Adjustable real-time smoothing
  • Built-in test tone and live meter
  • Export capture charts as images
Features
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See how your speakers really sound. Sweep plays a log sweep through your speaker and plots its frequency response — measured from your listening position. No laptop, no audio interface, no mic stand. Just your iPhone or iPad, a calibrated mic, and a clear picture of what you're hearing. The untethered scout between full bench sessions — the fast check from your chair you'll actually run. A minute, not an afternoon. SWEEP. CAPTURE. COMPARE. • Sweep — tap once and a 20 Hz–20 kHz log sweep plays through your speaker (the Farina ESS method the bench tools use). • Capture — a calibrated measurement mic (Dayton iMM-6C, miniDSP UMIK-1/UMIK-2/EARS, Behringer ECM8000, or any REW .cal file) or your device's built-in mic records it; on-device math extracts the impulse response and plots the curve. • Compare — overlay runs, each in its own color (twenty to choose from), to see exactly what a change did. Measure, adjust, measure again. TWO WAYS IN No audiophile experience required. Tune My Receiver runs a guided measurement, then hands back actual settings — "Bass +5, Treble +8" — instead of a chart to interpret. A plain-language results tour walks through what it found, and Balance Speakers checks your channels match before you start. Measure Again starts a new before-and-after round without losing the first. Prefer the full picture? Everything above is one tap away, from the same library. ALSO IN THE APP • Scrub any frequency — drag the cursor; it snaps to peaks and troughs and reads frequency · dB right where you need it. Pinch to zoom into any band; hold near the edge to pan. • Target curves — overlay Harman Room, B&K, a tilt, or Room Gain as a dashed reference so you know what "good" looks like, not just what you measured. • Aim at what you listen to — pick a listening style (Bass-forward, Warm, Bright, and more) and Tune My Receiver's recommendation steers toward it, not just flat. • Average or Difference — power-average two or more captures (walk the room, average the seats) or compute A − B to see exactly what a change did, both as new measurements you can keep comparing. • Real smoothing, applied after the fact — every capture keeps its full resolution; change 1/24 to 1/3-octave anytime and every trace redraws, no re-measuring. • Set levels with confidence — a built-in test tone and live meter get your output where it should be, and the sweep then plays at exactly that level. Each measurement mic keeps its own calibration file and trim, matched automatically when you plug it in. • Share your capture — export the chart as a labeled image card: color-coded traces, an optional cursor callout, one tap to send anywhere. From Tune My Receiver, the card carries your verdict and knob settings too. • Handoff to your Mac — pair once, and send a capture straight to Sweep for Mac's library: device to device, encrypted, no internet, no cable. Off by default; turn it on in Settings. • Open Sweep files — tap a .sweep file in Files, Mail or AirDrop to add its measurements to your library. HONEST BY DESIGN Sweep shows relative frequency response — the shape you need to tune speaker DSP and EQ. A time-gate isolates the direct sound; down low, the room is part of every measurement, so what you see there is speaker plus room, not the speaker alone — and wherever a reading can’t be fully trusted, low or high, the line turns dashed. Results are only as calibrated as the mic file you import; levels without a known mic sensitivity are marked ≈. Not an SPL meter, not a full bench replacement — it names its limits up front, so you can trust its strengths. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything runs on your device. No account, no signup, no cloud, no tracking, no analytics SDK. Your measurements are processed entirely on your device. They go only where you send them — a paired Mac in the same room, or a file you share. Free. No in-app purchases, no account. Sweep is part of a family of focused instruments alongside Pull, Grip, Lean, and Level.

Screenshots

Speaker Box Lite4 screens
Sweep4 screens

Verdict

The call

Speaker Box Lite and Sweep both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of Speaker Box Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sweep's. Speaker Box Lite also leads on ratings volume (339 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Sweep's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Speaker Box Lite sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per 7 days. Sweep asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Speaker Box Lite against 4.0 for Sweep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speaker Box Lite has 339 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Speaker Box Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sweep's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speaker Box Lite ships an update every 11 days, Sweep weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Speaker Box Lite versus Sweep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeaker Box LiteSweep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (339 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings339 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexey AbdulinCarl Sieber

Customer experience

Speaker Box Lite

All ratings339 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative17.1%
Written reviews139 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral2.9%
Negative35.3%

Sweep

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Speaker Box Lite

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes when adjusting VB/FB parameters
  • Crashes on certain parameter combinations requiring reinstall
  • Drawing/3D model generation hangs indefinitely
  • Subscription payment charged multiple times
  • Pro version access denied despite active payment
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  • Email registration validation errors
  • Parameters randomly change during design process
  • Incorrect TS parameter data from driver database
  • Incompatibility with latest iOS versions
  • Overlapping port and speaker placement in designs
  • Error messages about missing parameters with no input field
  • App freezes when entering box specifications

Requested features

13 requests
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Portuguese language support (PT-BR)
  • Air velocity graphs
  • Complete 3D model generation with final drawings
  • Bandpass 4th order enclosure support
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  • Tweeter/midrange enclosure design
  • Internal partition calculations
  • Impedance information in database
  • Video tutorials and glossary for technical terms
  • Dipole/ripole calculations
  • Passive radiator enclosure support
  • Better port visualization in cut sheets
  • Multi-sub application improvements

Sweep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Speaker Box Lite

Subscriptions3
  • Week PRO$4.497 Days
  • Month plan$7.991 Month
  • PRO Account$8.991 Month
None

Sweep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speaker Box Lite free?
Speaker Box Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sweep free?
Sweep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Speaker Box Lite or Sweep?
Speaker Box Lite is rated higher. Speaker Box Lite averages 4.1 out of 5 from 339 ratings, while Sweep averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Speaker Box Lite or Sweep have ads?
Speaker Box Lite shows ads; Sweep does not.
Which is updated more often, Speaker Box Lite or Sweep?
Speaker Box Lite ships an update every 11 days, and Sweep weekly. Most recently, Speaker Box Lite was updated on November 11, 2026 and Sweep on October 31, 2026.

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