Hear User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience68.6% of reviews
Neutral9.8% of reviews
Negative experience21.6% of reviews

~ Based on 51 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Hear Safe?

Hear - Advanced Listening appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hear is 70/100.

This assessment is based on 234 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.5/5.

Safety Analysis

57.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
33.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 234 App Store ratings for Hear.

Is Hear Legit?

Hear - Advanced Listening is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hear is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Wow! Amazing.

This is really cool. I’ve had inception app first then found RJDJ. This is the next step and it keeps getting better and better. I’m an old fart and I love opening this app and drowning out the drones in my life. They just keep talking and talking and I just keep nodding and smiling. Wish you guys could make it run with Bluetooth so I could use it with my hearing aids. That would be AWSOME. Also if it could run in the background with the screen off. Hopefully that’ll be an update soon. Anyway great app. Keep up the good work.
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Great app. Except it doesn’t work with AirPods Pro

Works well and is fun to use. Only downside is it doesn’t work with the mic if you have AirPods. Wish devs can fix that

No Bluetooth support?

I don’t have a headphone jack and only own Bluetooth headphones. The app doesn’t use them for what ever reason. I really want this to work as it is the only other option to the inception app.

Amazing! But Bluetooth…

I LOVE this app; honestly it’s THEE best hearing apps!
I just redownloaded it, but I’m sad to find out that it only supports plug-in headphones… my phone doesn’t even have a headphone port unless I buy an adapter.. I -only- listen to Bluetooth headphones, and it’s been that way for a good year now… I miss this app
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Inception app

I’m so happy to be able to somewhat come close to experience what i felt with the inception app. This is awesome and am grateful but am not able to accept we’ve lost the inception app to time…

We need that back. Please if anyone with the ability to help bring it back is reading this, make it happen.
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A travel essential for me.

I use this app when I travel to scramble the sound of conversations around me. “Relax” and “Sleep” create ambient soundscapes that scramble up sounds into music at a volume corresponding to the noise, the upshot being that you hear the music in place of the noise. It takes something stressful and makes it soothing. The add-on “Trippy” lives up to its name. It’s not soothing, but it definitely scrambles up your perceptions. I don’t recommend the add on “Upbeat”—it seems to prefer the left audio channel, which I find annoying. It also doesn’t have a way to reset, and since it creates an evolving soundscape out of audio samples, it can accumulate a lot of “junk” sounds.
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Not the same

As others have said, this is no RJDJ or it’s affiliated apps. I was hoping to find something similar to the experience of RJDJ and it’s audial-based augmented reality, but because those apps have been defunct for years, I picked this up. The soundscapes need some tweaking, as there’s just a baseline of harsh noise that was not present in RJDJ.

TL;DR: bring back RJDJ or Dimensions!
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It goes to eleven

It’s tripping without all the fuss and bother. Try playing/singing in the relax mode. Make some serious beats in Upbeat mode. Laugh yourself silly in other modes. Do it with a friend-if you can split the headphones, go for it. LOVE THIS!

Still supporting this app?

It’s been a year or more since I used it and this was the first thing I went to when I got my new AirPod pros today thinking this was going to be an amazing experience but it seems like only wired headphones are compatible?

Please tell me I’m wrong

LOVE THIS APP...but

Hi there! You made such a wonderful app that brings pure joy any time I’ve used it. The one thing that would make the app feel lovely and fresh again after what feels like over a year of being abandoned is if you would add wireless headphone support. I would pay extra for this feature.

I’ll still be giving a 4 star rating, but please if you could add this one feature that would just be so special. Thanks!
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No BT Support? In 2019?

I mean... come on. The iPhones have been without a headphone jack for far too long for this kind of lapse to be forgivable. If they had time to program In-App purchases, they had time to set up Blue Tooth compatibility. Feels greedy and lazy, which is a crying shame because I’ve had this app since it launched.
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Love this, but it needs accessibility

I was a huge fan of Inception and Dimensions, though I stepped away from them for a while for some reason. Searching around on the app store for something similar brought me to this app, and I was excited to see all that the app could do...and then dismayed to find that my totally blind partner can't even get past the opening headphone message because the gestures aren't compatible with the VoiceOver screen reader. So someone who should, by the app's very nature, be able to fully appreciate all this app has to offer actually *CAN't* because of the interface. Please work to fix this so that everyone can use the app, not just those of us with enough eyesight. Thanks!
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I hope there’ll be more

Either an update, making this app work more smoothly with bluetooth headsets or earbuds, or a new app in the same vein as this one and the inception app i loved so much but has been taken out of the app store.

Until then, I’ll keep searching for more like this.

Disappointing

This is the coolest concept ever. To add ambient noise that you can control is pretty cool. The things that kill this app are Bluetooth compatibility and UI issues.

With two generations of iPhones being totally wireless, this is a must have feature.

And the UI usually gets in its own way, sliders will overlap with text and it gets frustrating. And the iPhone platform keeps a red bar on top of your phone to let you know that the app is using your mic. That isn’t up to the app dev to control that but it’s still a gripe that affects functionality for me.
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Great for eliminating distractions

I love this app. Use it when I write in busy or noisy places.

I have to take off a star for the UI though, it's a bit clunky and doesn't fit right in the screen of my SE.

Wish I could include a screenshot.

Developer Desperately Needs To Change The UI

What a Sad Case This Is!

An App Which Could Be Something Has Been Reduced To Nothing By It’s Creator?!

First, You Cannot Even Attempt To Adjust The Settings Properly 99% Of The Time Because The ‘Layers’ Of The App Controls Overlap One Another!

Second, The Sliders You’re Supposed To Use To Adjust The Audio Settings Are Wonky. When You Slide To Adjust The Audio, What You See Does Not Correspond With What You Get.

For Example; Imagine Decreasing The Volume Of An App Using A Sliding Controller. You’d Touch, Then Slide Toward The Left Side Of Your Screen. In A Proper App, The Volume Would Drop. But In This App, What You See Is Not What You Get.

Touch, Then Slide Toward The Left Side Of Your Screen And What Happens Is Anybody’s Guess.

This App Worked Once And It SHOULD Be Updated To Work Correctly.

Until Then, Save Yourself The Frustration!
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A sad demise

This used to be one of my favorite apps. Let’s put aside the fact that it’s been abandoned. The last update came out of nowhere - a couple of extra in-app purchases that gave the impression the dev was on a midnight taco run and decided to hit up this old ATM account - a couple new filter thrown in, fishing for some loose change.
But I SWEAR something has changed with the old filters. They just don’t work the way they used to. Something changed in the algorithm and they don’t drown out sound they way they used, they don’t produce trippy musical feedback the way they used to. I used this app EVERY DAY when studying, but now I can’t use it because it’s cacophonous and ear splitting. Forget that I’ve tried it on different devices with different phones and buds. There was so much promise. :(
No one else has stumbled upon the ideas that drove this app initially.
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Wow! Amazing.

This is really cool. I’ve had inception app first then found RJDJ. This is the next step and it keeps getting better and better. I’m an old fart and I love opening this app and drowning out the drones in my life. They just keep talking and talking and I just keep nodding and smiling.

Wish you guys could make it run with Bluetooth so I could use it with my hearing aids. That would be AWSOME. Also if it could run in the background with the screen off. Hopefully that’ll be an update soon.
Anyway great app. Keep up the good work.
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Amazing!

A record button and the ability to download recordings would be great.

Doesn’t work with AirPods

Hear is a pretty neat experience, but it doesn’t seem to support Bluetooth headphones. I rarely have an adapter with wired headphones on me, as I usually travel with my airpods. The lack of Bluetooth support is sadly a pretty big dealbreaker, and I hope they are able to add support for them at some point.
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