Olive Smart Ear vs Soundbright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Olive Smart Ear
This companion app helps optimize your hearing experience with a smart ear device. It offers easy hearing calibration, customizable sound modes, and an equalizer for fine-tuning audio. Enjoy feedback cancellation and seamless music playback or phone calls.
- Easy hearing calibration
- Customizable sound modes
- Fine-tune audio with equalizer
- Feedback cancellation
- Music and phone call support
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【A whole new concept of sound optimizing experience】 This is the companion app for Olive Smart Ear. 【Main Features】 • Easy Hearing Calibration: The Olive app allows you to quickly calibrate your hearing level. Just find a quiet place and let the app do its thing! • Sound Mode: Choose between different sound modes for having a conversation with your loved ones or enjoy watching TV. • Equalizer: Use the equalizer to fine tune your Olive listening experience. • Feedback Cancellation: Reduce unwanted feedback noise with a single button. • Music/Phone Call: Enjoy listening to music or having a phone call with your Olive. 【Please visit our website if you have any inquiries about the device or app】 https://www.olive.store/en/ Email : support_us@oliveunion.com
Soundbright
This application allows users to connect with their hearing aids to adjust volume, select programs, and customize various settings for a personalized hearing experience.
- Connect to hearing aids
- Adjust volume
- Change programs
- Customize settings
- Personalize hearing experience
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App that connects to your Soundbright Discovery hearing aids. You have the ability to change volume, programs, and various other settings to fully customize your hearing experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Soundbright at 43% against Olive Smart Ear's 0%. Soundbright also leads on rating (3.4 vs 2.2). Olive Smart Ear's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Soundbright holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Olive Smart Ear's written reviews are positive against 43% of Soundbright's.
Olive Smart Ear ships an update every 11 days, Soundbright every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olive Smart Ear | Soundbright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (13 ratings) | 3.4 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olive Union Inc. | hear.com LLC |
Customer experience
Olive Smart Ear
Soundbright
In-app purchases
Olive Smart Ear
No in-app purchases
Soundbright
No in-app purchases
