Dring vs Volume Styles & Custom Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dring
Manage your alarms with a calendar view. Easily activate, deactivate, or adjust alarm times for specific dates without affecting your default settings. This app simplifies daily scheduling and ensures you wake up serenely.
- Calendar view for alarms
- Activate/deactivate alarms by date
- Modify alarm times for specific dates
- Multiple ringtones
- Adaptive interface
- Adjustable snooze duration
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Simplify your daily life by waking up with Dring. All alarm clocks for the coming month are displayed date by date. The calendar view allows you to activate, deactivate or change the time of alarm clocks on specific dates, without modifying the others. EXAMPLES: • A public holiday → Disable this alarm clock • Sports competition next Sunday → Activate only this Sunday • A business trip next week → Change the time on this date • A week of vacation → Disable all alarm clocks for the week With Dring, gain in ease of use and wake up serenely. HIGLIGHTS: • Several ringtones available • Adaptative interface for right-handed and left-handed people • Modifiable snooze duration IMPORTANT: Dring and its developer cannot be held responsible for the consequences of a missed alarm clock, including in the event of a malfunction of the application. For any questions, write to hello@simoningrand.com
Volume Styles & Custom Control
Customize your audio experience with a flexible volume and sound control app. Personalize volume panels, explore sound presets, and manage Bluetooth devices for a smooth, modern control experience. Enjoy music your way with fast, easy, and personalized settings.
- Personalized volume panels
- Preset equalizers for music genres
- Bluetooth device management
- Smart volume and playback tools
- Responsive, easy-to-use interface
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Take full control of your audio experience with the most flexible volume and sound control app on the App Store. Customize your volume interface, explore sound presets, and manage your connected Bluetooth audio devices – all in one place. Whether you’re adjusting volume, applying audio styles, or connecting to a speaker, this app gives you a smooth, modern control experience. Enjoy music the way you like it – fast, easy, and personalized. FEATURES • Personalized volume panels with modern visual styles • Preset equalizers for different music genres • Bluetooth device management and audio sync • Smart volume & playback tools • Clean, responsive, easy-to-use interface • Designed for performance and accessibility Premium Access: • To access all the premium features and content, you need to subscribe or pay once for lifetime access. The cost of the purchase is charged to your iTunes account. • Subscriptions automatically renew and are billed at the rate and period you choose based on your subscription plan. User accounts are charged for auto-renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. • Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off in iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/home-app-tt/privacy-policy Term Of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/home-app-tt/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Volume Styles & Custom Control at 100% against Dring's 50%. Volume Styles & Custom Control also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 months). Dring's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Dring sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Volume Styles & Custom Control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dring holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Dring's written reviews are positive against 100% of Volume Styles & Custom Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dring ships an update every 5 months, Volume Styles & Custom Control daily. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dring | Volume Styles & Custom Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Ingrand | Thien Thach Thach |
Customer experience
Dring
Volume Styles & Custom Control
In-app purchases
Dring
- Dring PRO$1.99
Volume Styles & Custom Control
- AudioControl Weekly Pass$4.997 Days
- AudioControl 6-Months Pass$29.996 Months
- AudioControl Lifetime Access$39.99
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