Limiter vs ChannelStrip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Limiter
This app provides advanced audio processing for complete volume control. It functions as a brickwall peak limiter and includes a standalone sampler. Offers extensive dynamic processing, from subtle attenuation to distortion.
- AudioUnit V3, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio support
- Brickwall Limiter
- Live Normalizer
- Built-in Stereo Sampler
- Control Manager LFO
- MIDI controllers
- Presets Morphing Pad
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Audiobus and Inter-App Audio Effect. A brickwall peak limiting app, for the complete control of your audio volume. New Sampler! Now you can use the app as a standalone. The Amazing Noises Limiter it has a wide range of dynamic processing: from very gentle volume attenuation to heavy distortion (if you want it!). Main Features: + AudioUnit V3, Audiobus and Inter-App Audio support + Brickwall Limiter + Live Normalizer + Built In Stereo Sampler with varispeed + Control Manager LFO for Parameters + Midibus, Virtual Midi and Network: 14 bit NRPN controllers + Snapshots Presets Morphing Pad
ChannelStrip
This app provides essential audio processing tools for music production, including a noise gate, equalizer, and compressor. It offers smooth control for mixing and tonal shaping, with a characterful output stage for adding warmth.
- Noise gate with adjustable envelope
- PEV-modeled equalizer for tone shaping
- Rough Rider-based compressor
- Input/output gain control
- Mute and bypass functions
- AUv3 plugin support
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ChannelStrip is, as its name implies, a channel strip app and AUv3 plugin. With a gate, equalizer, and compressor, ChannelStrip can provide a solid and easy-to-use channel control for your iOS mixing needs. GATE: The gate is of our own design, and very smooth. With envelope that vary from nearly instantaneous to ludicrously long, you can use it for both basic noise control and more extreme tonal shaping. EQUALIZER: Modeled on the PEV, a famous German "cartridge" equalizer, the EQ in ChannelStrip is super useful for basic tone shaping. A very smooth and forgiving general-purpose EQ. COMPRESSOR: The compressor in ChannelStrip is, at its heart, our Rough Rider model. We removed all the filtering from Rough Rider to make it cleaner, and changed the times to be more appropriate to general mixing duties. I/O: ChannelStrip has positive gain on both the input and output, to get your levels right. It also has a bit of a personality on the output stage if you drive it hard (with either or both the input and output gains). Nominally very clean, it picks up a bit of dirt with high levels just like a hardware console. Along with that, both mute (which mutes the input entirely) and bypass (which sends the inputs right to the outputs without passing the DSP stages) are available as automatable parameters. In short, ChannelStrip is a general utility mixing tool, with a bit of character and a lot of usefulness. We _strongly_ recommend you use the AUv3 version. The standalone is provided as a courtesy, but ChannelStrip is designed as an AUv3 plugin, and prefers to be hosted in a DAW or modular host like GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, nanoStudio, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChannelStrip at 5.0 against Limiter's 4.4. ChannelStrip also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Limiter's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 66 months) and review sentiment (58% vs 39%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Limiter costs $2.99 and ChannelStrip $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChannelStrip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Limiter has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Limiter's written reviews are positive against 39% of ChannelStrip's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Limiter ships an update every 5 months, ChannelStrip every 66 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Limiter | ChannelStrip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 38.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 66 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amazing Noises | Audio Damage, Inc. |
Customer experience
Limiter
ChannelStrip
In-app purchases
Limiter
No in-app purchases
ChannelStrip
No in-app purchases








