AUFX vs Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AUFX
This app offers a versatile stereo dynamics processor with advanced features like a noise gate, compressor/expander, and limiter. It allows for a wide range of audio manipulation, from subtle adjustments to extreme effects, with external side-chain capabilities and high-quality DSP.
- Stereo dynamics processor
- Noise gate
- Compressor/expander
- External side-chain input
- Lookahead limiter
- High quality 32-bit DSP
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A highly tweakable stereo dynamics processor with noise gate, compressor/expander with external side-chain input, and limiter/clipper. From subtle compression, extreme pumping, to maximum loudness! This app is part of the AUFX series, a collection of simple and powerful audio effect apps. • High quality 32-bit DSP engine. • Compressor/expander with optional lookahead buffer. • Allows negative ratios for pumping/cancellation effects. • Hard or soft knee with adjustable radius. • Built-in side-chain low/high cut filters with monitor toggle. • External side-chain input through Inter-App Audio or Audiobus. • Built-in noise gate. • Brick-wall lookahead limiter. • Hard/soft clipper. • Supports "parallell compression". • RMS/Peak envelope followers with attack, release and hold time. • Switchable between Linear and Logarithmic mode. • Automatic makeup gain. • Stereo link on/off. • Process hardware input/output, or other apps through Inter-App Audio or Audiobus (input/filter/output slots supported). • Save, load and share user presets. • Supports Audiobus 2 state saving. • Comes with several bundled presets. • Fully MIDI controllable, including Virtual MIDI. • Background Audio. • Record the result directly in app. • Email recordings or export to AudioShare audio document manager app. • Access user presets and recordings through iTunes File Sharing.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
This audio plugin acts as a noise gate for digital audio workstations, allowing users to suppress unwanted background noise from microphones or instruments. It offers fine-grained control over attack, release, and hold times, along with filtering to remove hum and hiss, ensuring subtle sounds are preserved.
- AUv3 compatible plugin
- Suppresses background noise
- Controllable attack, release, and hold
- High and low pass filtering
- Preserves subtle sounds
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This is an AUv3 compatible noise gate which can be used as a plugin with your favourite DAW such as Cubasis, Meteor, GarageBand or Auria. Anyone working in a live recording environment whether that be with a microphone or a high gain guitar effects will feel the need to suppress unwanted noise. This gated noise gate allows you to suppress any background noise over a specified level by a chosen suppression amount. This allows subtle sounds to still be heard as opposed to the brick wall approach. The effect has controllable attack, release and hold times as well as high and low pass filtering to eliminate main hum and hiss. This is one of a series of AUv3 compatible plugins available from 4Pockets;
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Verdict
AUFX and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's written reviews are positive against 66% of AUFX's. Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin also leads on chart position (#195 vs unranked). AUFX's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 42 months) and ratings volume (32 vs 4). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
AUFX costs $4.99 and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AUFX has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of AUFX's written reviews are positive against 100% of Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's.
AUFX ships an update every 5 months, Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin every 42 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AUFX | Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 42 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #195 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 9.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kymatica AB | 4Pockets.com |
Customer experience
AUFX
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
In-app purchases
AUFX
No in-app purchases
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
No in-app purchases









