ALE Rainbow vs Dell Audio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ALE Rainbow
This app facilitates seamless collaboration through secure chat, voice, and video calls. It allows users to share screens and files easily, integrate with existing business processes, and manage communications efficiently. Connect with colleagues and external contacts to streamline workflows and enhance productivity.
- HD audio and video calls
- Group chats (bubbles)
- External guest access
- Large meeting capacity (120 participants)
- Content sharing (files, videos, etc.)
- Contact management with presence
- Calendar integration
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Rainbow by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a secure and relationship-building engine that facilitates quick, seamless collaboration between its users. It allows users to swiftly interact with each other through chat, voice or video and to share screens and files with astonishing ease. But Rainbow goes beyond simple messaging and sharing. Rainbow leverages the latest technologies to securely integrate into your organization’s existing business processes, applications, and workflows, while streamlining user adoption, minimizing user disruption, and solving customer challenges. Rainbow helps you connect to the future through optimized time-management, secure platform access, and strict data integrity. COMMUNICATE AND COLLABORATE - Initiate high-definition audio and video calls. - Start group chats (bubbles) to communicate with your teams and business contacts. - Add people from outside your organization (Guests) in your conversations. - Create or join audio and video meetings with up to 120 participants. - Use channels to broadcast information inside or outside your organization. - Always stay connected so you never miss messages, calls, meetings or any other event. - Manage your phone calls (via the cellular network or using Voice over IP) through your enterprise telephony system, access your voicemail and much more. ORGANIZE AND SHARE - Share contents you want in your conversations (pictures, files, videos, animated GIFs, voice memos, locations). - Search for people, bubbles, channels, files or text messages. - Manage your contact network, see presence of your colleagues or people outside your company. - Share you calendar information (free, busy, out of office) to let others know if you are available. DATA INTEGRITY AND PRIVACY We respect privacy. We don’t use data to monetize additional services and we respect international privacy laws and data privacy. Data of our partners and customers is private, safe and secure. Only our partners and customers process their own data. Transparency and traceability are critical elements of Rainbow and all regulatory requirements are respected.
Dell Audio
Enhance your Dell wireless audio devices with this companion app. Customize audio modes for calls or multimedia, manage noise cancellation, and control headset features like busy lights and automated actions. Track your earbuds and update firmware for an optimized listening experience.
- Personalize headset features
- Customize audio modes (Collaboration/Multimedia)
- Manage noise cancellation and transparency
- Automated actions (pause music, mute mic)
- Busy Light indicator
- Firmware updates
- Find My Earbuds feature
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Dell Audio app is a companion mobile app for Dell wireless audio devices that enables you to personalize and enable headset features. This app currently supports - 1) Dell Pro Premium Wireless ANC Headset - WL7024 2) Dell Pro Plus Wireless ANC Headset - WL5024 3) Dell Pro Wireless Headset - WL3024 4) Dell Pro 5 Wireless Speakerphone - SL525 5) Dell Pro 5 Earbuds - EB525 6) Dell Pro 5 Wireless ANC Headset-WL527 7) Dell Pro 3 Wireless ANC Headset-WL327 We have 2 Audio Modes to customize your settings based on your activity: • Collaboration Mode - Be heard clearly when you are on conference calls with Mic Noise Cancellation. Control noise from both outgoing and incoming audio*. Control the volume of your voice on a call with Sidetone slider. • Multimedia Mode - Set preset modes with Audio Preset. Create your own Custom preset using the Audio Equalizer, by adjusting settings for bass, mid-range, and treble levels. Or choose from predefined audio profiles: Default, Bass Boost, Speech Boost and Treble Boost In addition, the Dell Audio app allows you to do so much more: • Manage Noise lets you turn on noise cancellation or adjust the transparency level to decide how much surrounding sounds you want to hear*. • Automated Actions allow you to pause music or mute mic when you take off the headset or earbuds. With Quick Pause, you can even pause music or mute mic by taking off just the earcup of WL7024. • Busy Light turns on a red colored light on the headset when you are on call, indicating to people around you to leave you undisturbed, ideal for hot desking and hybrid work*. • Voice Guidance sets the amount of audio prompts user may need for device features. • Auto Off helps Dell wireless audio devices to automatically power off after a period of inactivity. • Battery Status indicator displays your audio devices battery status with a visual battery indicator. • You can also see the current firmware version and do firmware updates upon being notified. • ‘Find My Earbuds’* allows users to track the location of supported earbud devices. • Adaptive ANC-noise cancellation adjusts automatically to your surroundings. Available on Dell Pro 5 Wireless ANC Headset-WL527 only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ALE Rainbow at 4.5 against Dell Audio's 3.3. ALE Rainbow also leads on review sentiment (45% vs 13%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ALE Rainbow holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of ALE Rainbow's written reviews are positive against 13% of Dell Audio's.
ALE Rainbow ships an update fortnightly, Dell Audio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALE Rainbow | Dell Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (62 ratings) — better | 3.3 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews — better | 13.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALE International | Dell Inc. |
Customer experience
ALE Rainbow
Dell Audio
In-app purchases
ALE Rainbow
No in-app purchases
Dell Audio
No in-app purchases
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