CinemaTools by Studio Six Digital is the professional-grade sound analysis and calibration app built for home cinema installers and enthusiasts. Whether you're setting up a Dolby Atmos system or verifying speaker performance to industry standards, CinemaTools gives you the measurement tools you need right on your iPhone or iPad.
Core Tools (included free):
Full octave and 1/3 octave RTA (real-time analyzer), precision SPL meter, and speaker polarity tester — everything you need to get started with room measurements.
HAA CinemaTools — Advanced Home Cinema Calibration
The CinemaTools module is purpose-built for HAA-certified calibrators and serious home theater professionals. Validate your system against industry-standard performance thresholds with guided calibration workflows that measure each channel's level, delay, frequency response, and more.
HAA Link — Connected Calibration
HAA Link connects CinemaTools directly to supported DSP hardware over your network. Measure, compute correction filters, and push them to your processor — all from one app. No file exports, no manual entry.
Hyperion by AudioControl Integration
CinemaTools features deep integration with AudioControl's Hyperion processor. The app's automatic biquad filter engine analyzes your room's frequency response, computes up to 14 parametric EQ filters plus shelf filters to match your target curve, and sends them directly to Hyperion via HAA Link. Measure, correct, verify — in a single workflow.
SurroundPod Support
Pair CinemaTools with Studio Six Digital's SurroundPod HDMI signal generator for Dolby Atmos test signal generation up to 9.1.6 channels. SurroundPod provides precisely calibrated test tones through your AV processor or receiver, giving CinemaTools the signals it needs for accurate multi-channel measurement and delay alignment.
Additional Modules Available:
LARSA — Loudspeaker And Room Sound Analyzer for advanced system performance analysis
SoundScope — 1/48th octave FFT analyzer with spectrograph and dual plot windows
Great little app- I use it for polarity checks of individual drivers and checking that everything works. And making sure the crossover works- a crude check, but very helpful.
Great potential but buggy as hell
mm7cc
Really disappointed that such an expensive app is so buggy. I’ve lost hours of data in the RTA by pressing the wrong button in the wrong order. The new Notification feature (which one has to use for something as basic as setting a threshold to record audio events) makes no sense and doesn’t seem to work. Sure I could rtfm but the manual doesn’t work. Pressing Info just brings up a blank screen. The online manual is very old. I sent an email to the developer on all this but his response was basically, “well it works for me”. The last straw came after using the SPL graph. I froze it and saved the reading. Then upon doing another one, my first graph was overwritten! Save/Recall is completely unreliable. So I’m having to take screenshots and save them in the iPad Notes app. These are just the issues I’ve discovered with my limited use. Until they start fixing things I suggest you look elsewhere.
Powerful sound tools
auptown
Great set of tools, when used with iTestMic2 to solve a lot of common sound testing issues.
Inaccurate polarity tester
Tony Uncet
Not very good for polarity testing
HAA CinemaTools, #1 Home Cinema test and measurement app
** New in this release:
- Sub Alignment: LARSA sweeps set every sub's delay, level and polarity in the processor, with a Phase page and test reports
- Processor choice: Hyperion, miniDSP 2x4 HD, QSC Q-SYS or by hand, independent of the generator
- Q-SYS Core: channel map guessed from the design, confirmed by ear; delay, level, polarity and EQ set over the network
- miniDSP: subs set over the WI-DG; import and export the miniDSP app's config file
- Speaker Time and Level Alignment: one Auto run sets delays and levels; Auto polarity check
- Auto level calibration leaves headroom and verifies its result
- Sub Phase Alignment Auto: the optimiser finds the best sub delay
- HAA Link Controls on any processor: filters, level, delay and polarity; grouped subs share settings
- Filter plot shows the processor's crossover; Clear All for one channel or all
- Bass management and crossover setting on Project Setup
- Signal Generator tool: tap speakers to play, any number at once
- Transfer Function: streamed reference, sub and main muting
- Hyperion web pages open inside the app; a new project can be taken from the Hyperion
- Project backups: deleted projects can be restored, thirty backups kept
- Room setup: three subs, typed dimensions, virtual sub
- Several mics at once on a 3+ input interface, one seat per mic
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Version 5.12
In-App Purchases
SoundScope VR
FFT Analyzer with Spectrascope, VR features
$24.99
The developer, Andrew Smith, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Andrew Smith
Size
125 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 8 more
English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
