Comparison

Limiter vs ChannelStrip

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • AudioUnit V3, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio support
  • Brickwall Limiter
  • Live Normalizer
  • Built-in Stereo Sampler
  • Control Manager LFO
  • MIDI controllers
  • Presets Morphing Pad
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Limiter4 screens
ChannelStrip2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Limiter costs $2.99 and ChannelStrip $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Limiter versus ChannelStrip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimiterChannelStrip
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (29 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews — better38.9% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 66 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmazing NoisesAudio Damage, Inc.

Customer experience

Limiter

All ratings29 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative37.5%

ChannelStrip

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive38.9%
Neutral16.7%
Negative44.4%

In-app purchases

None

Limiter

No in-app purchases

None

ChannelStrip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Limiter free?
Limiter costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChannelStrip free?
ChannelStrip costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Limiter or ChannelStrip?
ChannelStrip is rated higher. Limiter averages 4.4 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while ChannelStrip averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Limiter or ChannelStrip have ads?
Neither Limiter nor ChannelStrip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Limiter or ChannelStrip?
Limiter ships an update every 5 months, and ChannelStrip every 66 months. Most recently, Limiter was updated on November 1, 2026 and ChannelStrip on November 3, 2026.

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