Decibel Shield User Reviews

Name: Decibel Shield - dB Meter
Rating: 4.7 (608 reviews)

Decibel Shield - dB Meter

APPSTACK LLC

🔧 Utilities

💪 Health & Fitness

Customer Experience

Positive experience75.0% of reviews

Neutral16.7% of reviews

Negative experience8.3% of reviews

~ Based on 12 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Decibel Shield Safe?

Decibel Shield - dB Meter appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Decibel Shield is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 608 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.6% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns

3.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 608 App Store ratings for Decibel Shield.

Is Decibel Shield Legit?

Decibel Shield - dB Meter appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Decibel Shield is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Doesn’t work as advertised

Update: still not responding to my review, but will respond to others. They still will not contact me back. At least say “I’m sorry, but we cannot refund you.” But no, just take my money and ignore me.

It is not worth the high price. Second time posting this. They won’t contact me back and apparently took my other review down.

Bakins100

2 months ago

IT ACTUALLY WORKS

Detects every noise.

Irene Veengs

4 months ago

Great app

I have some early signs of tinnitus due to over exposure from music. So I wanted to take my ear health more seriously. This app is great and free. You can pay for a premium version wich is great but even without it, there are a few extra little feature that are useful and cool to discover. TAKE CARE OF YOUR EARS PEOPLE. I’m only 25 and now have a constant ringing In my ear from wearing headphones all day at work at 80% volume all the time.

nickoj232

4 months ago

Measure stereo output

Works great. Found our stereo side had issue with output

Hitachi22

5 months ago

Good for quick measurements

Not a fan of the premium push everywhere but you can use this to judge if a band at a bar is playing louder than a jet engine.

3rd tour of Daulpheln island

6 months ago

Good best

Good and Really, really difficult

Y hmm phone

7 months ago

Deaf user

I got this so that way I could at least see when my fire alarm was going off because my fire alarm goes off every single time I cook being profoundly deaf. I currently don’t have anything debt flashes that indicates HEY. This is going on that being said wow, this is an absolutely really freaking cool device. My recommendation is every time something comes up like say you know you’ve got your speech or you got your laughter or you’ve got your alarm that you also list everything out as they come through Because I’m not able to go back and click on the high thing and see exactly what that red dust was, which would help me in the event of OK I’m distracted. I’m dealing with a client. I’m dealing with a person in front of me. Overall I love the concept of this

*update for suggestion or maybe another side of it I feel the words are sometimes small and would like my screen to flash with whatever important thing is going on like when the phone rings I miss it when I’m interacting with a customer. I really was searching for something that flashed like white and said telephone in it red for fire alarm since your reader is so functional to what most sounds are such as emergency vehicles n stuff blue for police red and white maybe for fire trucks so it’s more of that visual when it happens. It’s dumb but I was debating on making something like that myself but very unsure of how to create that tbh. Again thank you I use this at work since my implant broke. I have this and another phone to help with the captioning at the same time. It’s a bit much but at this time I’ll take anything that helps. I love the free feature and I hope this doesn’t change accessibility is important and finding apps that are truly accessible are one in a few.

Deaf wonderer

8 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this and for the 5-star review. We are really glad to hear that the app is already helping you stay aware of important sounds like fire alarms. Hearing how it supports real-world accessibility use cases means a lot to us. Your suggestion about listing and retaining detected sound events so you can go back and see what was identified is an excellent one. We understand how important this is when you are busy, distracted, or interacting with others, and we are actively evaluating this feature for an upcoming release. Thank you again for your thoughtful feedback and for trusting the app. It helps us prioritize improvements that truly matter.

Deaf user

Deaf wonderer

9 months ago

Response from developer

Please fix Game Center pop up

The decibel function itself is great. But idk if it is just me but it keeps popping up Game Center and it really disrupts using the decibel function. It is seriously annoying. I could watch an add but this one doesn’t even have an exit button and it is the most annoying thing in the world. People who use the app are not leisurely checking out some sound but are often under stress. The app developers should consider this

Ky873

a year ago

Response from developer

Hi, Could you please email us at myappstackdev@gmail.com with steps to reproduce the issue you see along with a screenshot. Thank You!

DX

Fun to use at stadiums

Who cares about this part?

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the great review! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed using our decibel meter at the stadium — it's a perfect way to test how loud things get in real time. Whether you're using it as a noise meter, sound level meter, or just curious about dB levels, we're glad it's been fun and easy to use. Stay tuned — more features are coming soon to make this the best free sound meter app experience out there!

FUN TO USE! And helpful!

Go ahead!!!
Wake the neighbors
I’m trying to get my voice back and I’m doing great using this as a voice measuring device.

Loud Johnson

2 years ago

Response from developer

We love your energy — thanks for the amazing review! We're so glad you're finding the decibel meter both fun and helpful as a voice measuring tool. Whether you're waking the neighbors or just keeping an eye on your dB levels, this sound meter is here to support you. Keep making noise (responsibly), and we’re cheering you on as you get your voice back!

Would be Five Stars if My History had not Disappeared

Hello Developers of DecibelX. This is a pretty decent app for everyday use. I don’t know how accurate it is with say a police officer’s decided reader, but I enjoy it nonetheless. The reason I’m not sure about your Db being that accurate is you all believe 30 Db’s is a soft whisper, could be, but not from 3 feet away as is explained on one of your other apps that is tied into this one. If I am standing 3 feet away from someone I am not whispering. I am having a somewhat difficult time conversing with someone and talking rather loudly. That’s not a whisper. A whisper is standing/sitting right next to someone and probably touching their ear with lips and their face with your hand to whisper sweet nothings in their ear. An impossible feat from three feat away. Don’t you all agree? So from there the Decibel chart is faulty. 60-70 decibels is quite loud. A loud rock concert is 120, bands have to use special equipment to reach “the average decibel” you are saying. This is ear splitting, shattering music. It be more accurate to say it’s similar to standing next to a building that just keeps being demolished for 2 hours. Other than that it is great. I don’t like that you took away features your faithful users could use for free. The users that downloaded an app because they read a blog post. Your price is also out of many people’s budget’s. I don’t know who you are catering too, but it is not the average user. That’s what developers do take a good app then ruin it. Why can’t they just leave the old app alone and make a different app from the original, like a spin-off? Pac-Man then, Miss Pac-Man. People still love those old games.

Enough about that, onward. Why did my entire history disappear in one of these updates? It is all gone. This is tragic. I need it back. THIS IS A BIG GLITCH IN YOUR SOFTWARE UPDATE! Please fix.

More is Not Less

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for letting us know about the disappearing history. We will be reviewing our upgrade logic to see if we can make the history items remain intact. Appreciate your review!