Both Krotos Studio and Artlist help you to create sound effects for your content, but how they go about it is very different.
When working with video, sound should never be an afterthought. It’s half the experience—often more. Everyone from editors to YouTubers need sound effects & music to maintain momentum.
Artlist has a huge library, so finding what you want is fairly straightforward. As long as you’re happy to work with static files.
Want to shape a custom ambience that shifts with your scene? Mix the layers in real time. Custom sounds, performed directly to your visuals.
Both platforms offer a familiar subscription model. Pay monthly or annually for access to both services catalogue. Once you have downloaded or created a sound effect, you’re free to use it under a broad, royalty-free license.
Artlist pricing starts around $9.99/month
Krotos Studio starts at $9.99/month too. With the Pro plan, you can add your own sound effects to perform with.
On the surface, the pricing looks similar—but the value you get depends on how you like to work.
Artlist has a broad sound library, with thousands of sound effect files covering everything from sci-fi to foley to UI clicks. If youre happy to search, audition and download individual files, you will have many high quality assets to work with.
in Krotos Studio, every sound effect that makes up a preset is professionally recorded and curated by the Krotos team. The sound effects are of professional-standard and are ready to be performed inside your project.
The real difference is that Krotos doesn’t give you simple recordings that you need to edit manually. It gives you powerful and performative tools to make them.
You can perform cloth rustles, vehicle pass-bys, fight sounds or ambiences , without digging through endless folders.
As with all things, your choice between these two is subjective.
Artlist is ideal if you want a pool of pre-made sounds to dip into. If your projects rely on lots of static, downloadable assets, it’ll do the job. While searching for sound files can be tedious, It’s simple, and useful for large teams or editors who prefer to work offline.
Krotos Studio is better suited to creators who enjoy exploring sound. You have total control to make any sound effect match your project, with a few simple gestures.
If you’re trying to match a sound to a visual cue, build something bespoke, or just save time searching, it's faster. It’s especially useful if you’re working across short-form content, trailers, commercials or sound design-heavy scenes.
Krotos Studio and Artlist aren’t direct replacements for each other. They serve different purposes and suit different styles of working. For many editors, both tools sit side by side in their workflow.
But if you’ve ever been stuck hunting for that one sound to finish a scene—and you’ve thought “I wish I could just make this”—then Krotos Studio is probably the one to try first.