EffectDeck
Effects for any player on your iPhone
Details
- External ID
- 1255229
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- EffectDeck
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- iOS, Music, Spotify, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Android has RootlessJamesDSP — system-wide audio effects without root. iOS had nothing. Not a worse version. Nothing. AUv3 only runs inside a DAW, EQ apps only touch their own player. iOS 27 cracked it open: an app can now present itself as an audio output device. Pick EffectDeck in Control Center and everything you play goes through your chain — Spotify, YouTube, podcasts, anything. 100+ effects from EffeTune's DSP core. IR reverb, analyzers, a 16x16 matrix. Free, no account, no ads.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sound and video effects board for iphone users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Intercepting system-wide iOS audio and processing it via a virtual audio device requires low-level CoreAudio, DriverKit programming, and restricted system entitlements.
What it would actually take: Building a system-level virtual audio device on iOS requires writing low-level C/C++ audio server plug-ins or DriverKit drivers that register as an audio output endpoint in the OS routing table. The architecture must handle real-time, zero-latency circular buffer DSP processing (EQ, compression, spatialization) without dropping audio frames or causing jitter. This demands specialized expertise in low-level digital signal processing, real-time operating systems, and private or highly restricted Apple DriverKit audio entitlements.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #16 of 95 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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