[APP] Nuotit – iOS/iPadOS podcast & audio player with a 12-band PEQ – introducing it here

[petri]

Hi ASR,

I've been frustrated for years that iOS has no native way to properly EQ your headphones or fix uneven podcast production — you're stuck buying dongle hardware like a Qudelix if you want real PEQ on your phone. So I built my own player, Nuotit, to scratch that itch myself.

At its core it's a local-first podcast and audio player: RSS subscriptions plus imported local files (music, audiobooks, voice memos, lectures) sitting in one unified library, smart playlists, chapters, on-device transcription — the usual player fundamentals, all free, no accounts or tracking.

The part I think is relevant to this forum is the audio engine built into it:

* 12-band parametric EQ, each band independently configurable — center frequency, Q, gain, and filter type (peak, low shelf, high shelf, notch)
* Dedicated pre-gain stage to manage headroom before multiple boosted bands clip
* Compressor, limiter, expander (threshold/ratio/attack-release)
* Real-time spectrum analyzer, LUFS and True Peak metering
* PEQ import — reads standard ParametricEQ .txt files (AutoEQ, Roon OPRA, squig.link exports) and maps them directly onto the 12 bands, fully editable afterward
* Profiles: save/export/import EQ+dynamics settings, auto-apply per show, playlist, or file

The core EQ, dynamics, profiles, metering, and library are free. PEQ import, voice isolation (needs Neural Engine — iPhone 12+/M1 iPad+), PiP transcript captions, and unwatermarked clip export are behind a Premium IAP — wanted to state that split plainly.

App Store
Site: nuotit.org

Feedback's welcome if anyone has thoughts on the PEQ implementation, but mostly just wanted to put this in front of people who'd actually get why it exists.

PS. this isn't a system-wide EQ. iOS doesn't give sandboxed apps a CoreAudio-level hook the way something like BlackHole gets you on Mac, so it only processes audio played inside the app itself.

 

[LesterHiggins]

Tit

 

[petri]

Tit
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The other apps are called: Nootti and Lappaa

 

[LesterHiggins]

The other apps are called: Nootti and Lappaa

It may seem like I was being incredibly juvenile, but I'm not the one who put the word "tit" in my app's name. In all seriousness, thanks for rolling with it, I know that you're AGARdian for the reputation of your app and the culture surrounding it, but it's great to see that you've graduated to handling more than just dishing it out.

 

[DWPress]

Does this work with CarPlay? I never stream in the car, only local files on my phone and my head unit has terrible non-PEQ with only a few bands. Something like this app casting to CarPlay would solve a lot more problems for a lot more people I think.

I just downloaded the app but can't seem to figure out how to add the local music already on the phone....

 

[petri]

Does this work with CarPlay? I never stream in the car, only local files on my phone and my head unit has terrible non-PEQ with only a few bands. Something like this app casting to CarPlay would solve a lot more problems for a lot more people I think.

I just downloaded the app but can't seem to figure out how to add the local music already on the phone....

I haven't optimised it for CarPlay but there's a recent App store review comment that says it "works well".

Open the "Add" tab and either add from the Clipboard (+) or import from Files (see the image). Or you can directly import to a playlist (see the opened … menu in the screenshot). This covers the playlist addition (fast-paced).

 

[DWPress]

There seems to be no way for it to find or import the 15GB of music already on my phone. As a music playing app it needs work for users to more easily add local content or far better instructions.

It seems to be very good at finding books and blogs and such which I have no use for.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

Hi Petri. Looks interesting but has one major shortcoming: It does not appear to support use of streaming services like Qobuz and Tidal. My use case would be to have Nuotit on my Iphone 13 and have it accept streaming content to first EQ and then pass over Lightning to my dongle DAC Amp to play my Iems. I can do exactly that on my Android phone with USB Audio Player with Toneboosters Peq add on. I would like to be able to find an app for Iphone that does exactly the same thing.

 

[petri]

There seems to be no way for it to find or import the 15GB of music already on my phone. As a music playing app it needs work for users to more easily add local content or far better instructions.

It seems to be very good at finding books and blogs and such which I have no use for.

There’s an iOS limitation that means third-party apps like Nuotit can’t freely access music files stored elsewhere on your iPhone. But you can still import them into Nuotit through the Files app (including iCloud or other connected cloud storage like Google Drive), using the iOS Share Sheet or Clipboard, or by dragging and dropping them (mainly on iPad).

 

[petri]

Hi Petri. Looks interesting but has one major shortcoming: It does not appear to support use of streaming services like Qobuz and Tidal. My use case would be to have Nuotit on my Iphone 13 and have it accept streaming content to first EQ and then pass over Lightning to my dongle DAC Amp to play my Iems. I can do exactly that on my Android phone with USB Audio Player with Toneboosters Peq add on. I would like to be able to find an app for Iphone that does exactly the same thing.

This is one of the limitations imposed by iOS, and the reason I needed to build the app in the first place. Apps on iPhone can't directly intercept the audio being played by another app (such as Qobuz or Tidal), apply their own EQ, and then pass that modified audio back to the system output. Android allows this kind of system-level audio processing, which is why apps like USB Audio Player PRO can do it there. So unfortunately, this isn't something Nuotit can work around.