Comparison

SoundClass vs QuietTrace

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SoundClass

This app uses AI to detect and record various sounds in your environment, providing real-time alerts. It's particularly useful for nighttime awareness, sleep analysis, and documenting incidents.

Highlights
  • AI sound detection
  • Real-time alerts
  • Sleep quality analysis
  • Sound recording and playback
  • Mosquito and animal sound detection
  • Everyday sound identification
Features
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a personal AI sound detector. SoundClass recognizes important sounds around you, keeps a clear detection history, and helps its models adapt to your environment. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose a category: Animals, Baby, Health, Mosquitoes, or Security. 2. Start detection and select the sensitivity that fits your room. 3. Receive a local notification when SoundClass confirms a sound. 4. Review saved audio detections as correct, incorrect, or another sound. 5. Use those reviews to train improved models for your environment. SOUNDS SOUNDCLASS CAN RECOGNIZE • Cats, dogs, and mice • Baby crying and snoring • Coughing, sneezing, and snoring • Mosquito activity • Door knocks, glass breaking, gunshots, and alarm sirens FEATURES • Live AI sound recognition on your device • Adjustable sensitivity and fine-tuning controls • Detection history with audio clips and confidence details • Audio review and personalized model training • Local notifications for confirmed detections • Optional HomeKit light response • Multiple themes with light and dark appearance Recognition accuracy can vary with distance, background noise, device placement, microphone quality, and the sound itself. SoundClass is an assistive utility and must not be used as an emergency, medical, security, or safety-critical alert system. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ GoldTime Terms and Conditions: https://goldtime.com.ar/terms.html

About

QuietTrace

Features
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QuietTrace is a private sound journal for the moments you want to remember without recording audio. Turn listening on once and QuietTrace keeps listening — visibly, and entirely on your device — saving a simple, timestamped journal of what happened. Not an audio file. YOUR SOUNDS, KEPT PRIVATE • On-device sound classification • No audio recordings are kept, ever • No account and no subscription • Five ways to stop, always in reach: Settings, the Live Activity, Control Centre in iOS, the journal itself, and your Apple Watch ALWAYS ON, NEVER INVISIBLE You decide once. QuietTrace listens in the foreground, in the background, and on the Lock Screen, and re-arms every time you open it — until you turn it off. The system microphone indicator and a Live Activity stay on screen the whole time, so listening is impossible to miss. A JOURNAL, NOT A METER See a readable history of sound events with their time and day, one day at a time or across the whole archive. QuietTrace is made for people who want to understand a soundscape at home, while travelling, around pets, during quiet hours, or on a walk — without turning their microphone into a recorder. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch companion shows what your iPhone is hearing, and can pause or stop listening from your wrist. Sound names and times only — never audio. FREE FOREVER Always-on listening, live sound classification, the complete local journal, and the Apple Watch companion, at no cost. The journal is complete without a purchase. LIFETIME ACCESS One optional purchase unlocks archive search and filtering, CSV journal export, and iCloud sync so your journal travels between your own devices through your own private database. Sound names and times only — there is no audio to sync, because none is ever kept. One-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring fee. QuietTrace is not a calibrated decibel meter, a safety tool, or an audio recorder.

Screenshots

SoundClass4 screens
QuietTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QuietTrace at none against SoundClass's 7. QuietTrace also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SoundClass sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. QuietTrace asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SoundClass versus QuietTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoundClassQuietTrace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB11 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJavier Ariel BargasRemi Herbiet

In-app purchases

7 purchases

SoundClass

Subscriptions2
  • Gold Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Gold Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time5
  • Battery x 10$0.99
  • 100 Credits$0.99
  • Battery x 40$1.99
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  • 500 Credits$2.99
  • 1000 Credits$4.99
None

QuietTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SoundClass free?
SoundClass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QuietTrace free?
QuietTrace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SoundClass or QuietTrace have ads?
SoundClass shows ads; QuietTrace does not.

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