# SoundPrint, Find A Quiet Place — user reviews > 88 indexed App Store user reviews of SoundPrint, Find A Quiet Place by Soundprint LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 524 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/soundprint-find-a-quiet-place/id971189322/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/soundprint-find-a-quiet-place/id971189322.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 428 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of SoundPrint, Find A Quiet Place? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great way to evaluate restaurants - 👍 Easy and useful - 👍 Fantastic idea, a must have - 👍 Very helpful for finding quieter places - 👍 Wonderful! Tell everyone!! - 👍 Excellent idea! - 👍 Cool app - 👍 Brilliantly useful app for anyone interested in environmental noise level - 👍 Awesome way to check restaurants for toxic noise - 👍 Stellar app - correct levels, so easy to use - 👍 Very helpful app - 👍 Great app of a great idea! - 👍 Helping the community - 👍 Cool much needed app - 👍 Informative - 👍 Love it - 👍 Thank you - 👍 Much needed utility! - 👍 Good volume. Thanks - 👍 Great!!! - 👍 Brilliant. I hope it really catche on. - 👍 Fantastic idea **Cons** - 🐛 Disappointed!!! - 🐛 Not useful - 🐛 Bluetooth - 🐛 Wildly Inaccurate - 🐛 No mic accesss - 🐛 Fix your server please, I can't access my submissions even locally - 🐛 Too invasive and ignores your settings - 🐛 UI issue - Start Over button hidden by menu - 🐛 App doesnt work - 🐛 Dissapointed - 🐛 Great idea but.... - 🐛 Can't download it **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices - Doesn't seem to work on new iPhone Pro - The user interface doesn't fit the screen of my iPhone 8 - Buggy. - This app just sent me a hearing aid ad in the form of a system notification **Most requested features** - Add time stamp for readings - Peak vs. Non-peak times - Allow search by zip code - Add time stamp (particularly hour in the day) of sampling - Test it on an iPad - Request a top-10 list for another location than my current one - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (14 of 88) ### 2/5 — Disappointed!!! *2025-11-04, version 4.1* A lot of the restaurants posted are no longer in business while existing restaurants are not even listed. I’m not referring to new restaurants but like ones that have been around. Olive Garden? SIGH ### 4/5 — Easy and useful *2025-01-23, version 4.1* Love this app and look forward to more people using it so we can collectively advocate for restaurants where you can enjoy dinner and conversation. ### 4/5 — LOVE concept! Categories need clarification and user correction *2024-09-14, version 4.1* I’m enjoying the ability to find places near me where I can focus! Feedback: Some of your categories are too vague, such as “park and library”. Can you split these categories in two? Also, please give users the ability to submit something about a location in the wrong category. For example I found 2 restaurants under parks & library in my first 5 mins. ### 5/5 — Great idea, needs more participants! *2024-03-25, version 4.1* This app is such a great resource. I regularly eat with folks who are sensitive to loud spaces, so being able to search by noise level is a blessing. I try to make sure to take a sound check at every restaurant I visit to help expand the data, and I encourage everyone to do the same! ### 3/5 — Doesn't seem to work on new iPhone Pro *2023-10-04, version 4.1* I can't get the sound listening function to start on the app. Even trying to send an email to the helpdesk on their app. Doesn't want to activate. ### 5/5 — Fantastic idea *2023-07-29, version 4.1* I am hard of hearing and don’t go to restaurants much because they are loud and I can’t engage in conversation. Some places actually hurt. To have a guide that is created by users and real data is enormously helpful, particularly when traveling. I hope this will catch on to the point of getting restaurants and bars to reduce noise in their establishments. To do so, we need more adopters. ### 4/5 — Amazing idea, could be improved *2023-07-15, version 4.1* I really love that this app exists. The app now separated out decibel measurements by the time of day that they were taken, which is incredibly useful. Less helpfully, the search function is pretty dysfunctional. Finally, the actual sound measurement doesn’t always seem accurate (one time I was taking a measurement in a quiet coffee shop when a small child suddenly started screaming in delight – and there was no impact whatsoever on the decibels.) I think that that becomes less of an issue with more readings, as errors get averaged out, but heads up. ### 5/5 — Excellent idea! *2023-06-28, version 4.1* Such a fantastic idea - I hope this catches on and businesses start taking note. Searching for places and taking new recordings are both straightforward. So cool! ### 5/5 — It feels good to be heard *2023-06-19, version 4.1* Noise pollution is a well documented issue in today’s society. Prolonged exposure to 80 Decibels or higher can have lasting effects on the human nervous system. I’m glad this app allows people to find more noise conscious establishments to patronize. ### 2/5 — Wildly Inaccurate *2023-06-18, version 4.1* The idea behind this app is an excellent one, and desperately needed. But it doesn’t measure accurately. Either it’s programmed to ignore human voice frequencies, or smartphone microphones can’t do the job. SoundPrint consistently “measured” a man yelling at the top of his lungs into a loudspeaker as quieter than an air conditioner. It repeatedly told me that the inaudible click of my home button was TWICE as loud as the man yelling into the loudspeaker! It’s clearly drastically off and miscalibrated, to the point of uselessness. The submissions also only record average decibels, not the maximum. This can help if it recorded you sniffling or sneezing at 90 dB, but it makes records of loud but intermittent noise totally useless. The restaurant ratings are a perfect example: “quiet “ restaurants are still way too loud for anyone with a sensitivity disability, which are the people who need this app the most. I don’t expect miracles from a free app, but I expect SOME functionality. ### 5/5 — So useful! *2023-05-31, version 4.1* So useful for picking restaurants or places to eat or go out . Highly recommend ! ### 5/5 — Great idea *2023-04-27, version 4.1* This deserves to be successful. ### 5/5 — Citizen science at its best *2023-03-21, version 4.1* Fantastic app. Decibel meter functionality is super intuitive and search is also very user friendly. Hope more users will contribute data as we need more sound level data everywhere! Kudos to this brilliant developer and team ### 5/5 — Wonderful tool for hospitality concierge! *2023-01-17, version 4.1* SoundPrint is a fantastic go to source for a very important aspect of a wonderful guest experience. As an experienced hotel concierge I have learned that A list guests depend on my advice to match restaurant and other venues to the experience that will result in a great emotional stay. The sound level of a venue is an important aspect of a venue and SoundPrint is a great way to make a great match. Because I believe in giving back, SoundPrint also enables me to easily contribute to this valuable resource! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not useful *2025-10-15, version 4.1* The app hasn’t been updated in years. The location list has businesses that have closed for over 10 years and is missing popular destinations. Half have no noise information and those that do have 2 or less measurements over several years. This was great idea that just didn’t pan out. ### 1/5 — Wanted to love this *2025-03-05, version 4.1* Search function completely dysfunctional. ### 1/5 — Bluetooth *2024-12-18, version 4.1* Having to turn off Bluetooth and then back on is a non-starter to using the app! ### 1/5 — You're Using Notifications for ADS? *2023-12-01, version 4.1* This app just sent me a hearing aid ad in the form of a system notification. This is a breach of my trust, and may be a beach of the iOS developer guidelines, too, which I will research in a minute. Bad idea, folks. Really bad idea. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work well on iPhone 8 *2023-03-21, version 4.1* The user interface doesn’t fit the screen of my iPhone 8. Try it and you’ll see what I mean. I’ve deleted the app. Not much of a problem, though, because the app hasn’t caught on in Portland, Or. ### 1/5 — Buggy. *2023-03-08, version 4.1* Does not work well on an iPhone 6 because the stop button is almost completely hidden off the bottom of the screen. Trying to stop the recording almost always takes you to a marketing web page. This is a bug that needs fixing. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2022-12-19, version 4.1* Crashes every time I try to submit a sound check ### 1/5 — Too invasive and ignores your settings *2021-11-01, version 3.9* I wanted a basic db meter. Instead this thing acts like a combination of “big brother” and “Karen demanding to speak to the manager. The db meter reads a bit too loud when compared to an actual meter. And despite privacy and notification settings it keeps notifying me when it is “too loud”. Then there is this continual contest to rate and complain. SMH. Not a fan. ### 1/5 — App doesnt work *2020-02-22, version 3.0* This app doesn’t work and it wouldn’t tell me how loud things were in miles vs km. ### 1/5 — Dissapointed *2019-07-18, version 2.1* Found I needed to turn off my hearing aids to use the app. That killed my use of the app. Disappointed! Didn’t see any reason for them to require this. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2026-05-30, version 4.1* I suffer from severe tinnitus, and it’s always been a problem finding relatively quiet places to go out for meals. This app has been extremely helpful and easy to use. I’ve made several noise level submissions myself. ### 5/5 — Great way to evaluate restaurants *2025-05-12, version 4.1* I detest going into restaurants that are extremely noisy regardless of circumstances. It’s nice to be able to see other restaurants have been evaluated so you can know where to go and at least have a quiet evening. ### 5/5 — Didn't know I needed this *2025-04-25, version 4.1* This app is simple and fairly well streamlined. I've had no problems with it. It is easy to use and generates an accurate measurement of decibels in one's environment. You can also submit the results to SoundPrint. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2025-03-02, version 4.1* I’m so glad I found this app. It’s impossible to find this info on the usual restaurant apps (like Yelp or TripAdvisor) ### 5/5 — Good food. Great service *2025-02-05, version 4.1* My fav time is 9:30 weekdays. ### 5/5 — Fantastic Idea, a Must Have *2025-01-04, version 4.1* The creators of Soundprint have performed a huge public service — making dining out bearable. It may be the best restaurant-related app I have ever downloaded. I have others that help with reviews, reservations or takeout, but this is the first one to reliably tell me whether I am going to be able to have a civilized conversation over dinner. It enables you to spend your dining dollars wisely and not waste them on an expensive, cacophonous ordeal. It shows whether a restaurant will be quiet, moderately noisy, loud or very loud and has a “Quiet List” of the best places. I am weary of going out for what is supposed to be a pleasant meal but which ends up being an assault on the ear drums. These experiences leave me with laryngitis and a feeling of disappointment in humanity for putting up with such restaurants. With this app, it won’t happen again. It also allows users to use their phones to measure decibel levels at a venue, rate the ease of conversation, and submit this data. I’m hoping as many people as possible will sign up and submit noise ratings so I will know where to dine and so that the civilized restaurants in my area will enjoy more patronage. ### 5/5 — Very helpful for finding quieter places *2024-12-28, version 4.1* This app is helpful for finding quieter places to eat & drink, which makes it easier to have conversations with friends and family. And the more sound measurements people submit, the easier it gets. ### 5/5 — Unbelievably useful. Must have! *2024-11-10, version 4.1* As someone who no longer can stand extremely noisy pubs or restaurants which happens to be the case in really popular London venues...I am soo happy to find this app so I can go on a business meeting or with a friend or..a date, in a place where at least we don't have to shout at each other and we can relax our minds and thus bodies from the ever hectic life. Also for neuro divergent people who are just perceiving sounds differently, this is a game changer. UI and content needs to become a bit better but functionality is it there and that rocks💖 ### 5/5 — Wonderful! Tell everyone!! *2024-06-28, version 4.1* I LOVE SoundPrint!! I tell everyone about SoundPrint and share it all the time. The more people who know the calmer our world can be in the places where we socialize. SoundPrint has changed how I think about going out for food or drinks or even just shopping. It has helped me to make better connections with friends and family and even helped me select a place to have a job interview. THANK YOU for creating an app that does community sourced research on noise! ### 5/5 — Noise *2024-06-13, version 4.1* I hope this app and follow up to management helps to reduce the noise in restaurants. For me, it’s a big problem when I can’t converse with my wife over dinner out. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*