Comparison

AUFX vs Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Stereo dynamics processor
  • Noise gate
  • Compressor/expander
  • External side-chain input
  • Lookahead limiter
  • High quality 32-bit DSP
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • AUv3 compatible plugin
  • Suppresses background noise
  • Controllable attack, release, and hold
  • High and low pass filtering
  • Preserves subtle sounds
Currently charting
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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;

Screenshots

AUFX4 screens
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
AUFX versus Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAUFXNoise Gate AUv3 Plugin
Price$4.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.3 (32 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 42 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#195 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better9.3
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKymatica AB4Pockets.com

Customer experience

AUFX

All ratings32 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive65.8%
Neutral13.2%
Negative21.1%

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AUFX

No in-app purchases

None

Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AUFX free?
AUFX costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin free?
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AUFX or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin?
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin is rated higher. AUFX averages 4.3 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do AUFX or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin have ads?
Neither AUFX nor Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AUFX or Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin?
AUFX ships an update every 5 months, and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin every 42 months. Most recently, AUFX was updated on October 21, 2026 and Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin on October 16, 2026.

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