Comparison

ELEHEAR vs Y

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

Head to head
About

ELEHEAR

Enhance your hearing with features like real-time translation, environmental noise monitoring, and remote sound capture. It also offers tinnitus masking and personalized soundscapes to improve your auditory experience.

Highlights
  • Real-time translation
  • Environmental noise monitoring
  • Remote sound capture
  • Tinnitus masking
  • Personalized soundscapes
  • Sound quality settings
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ELEHEAR is an innovative hearing health app offering multiple features to enhance your hearing experience. For Beyond Device: - Translation Function: This feature allows you to communicate with someone who speaks a different language by using your phone's microphones to capture the conversation. - Environmental Noise monitor: This app turns your phone’s microphone into a sound level meter (SLM), providing a decibel (dB) reading of the noise levels in your environment and indicating whether they are safe or potentially hazardous for your hearing. - Remote Sound Capture : This feature turns your mobile device into a remote microphone, allowing you to bring desired sounds such as a person’s voice directly to your ears. - Settings: Settings tab allows you to adjust various elements of Beyond’s sound quality to improve comfort, speech clarity, and sound preferences. - Tinnitus:Tinnitus tab offers various maskers to help distract you from your tinnitus.S oundscape lets you craft personalized audio scenes by combining sounds from 16 environments and 4 noise types. For Alpha Pro Device: No change Always seek the advice of a doctor in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. The app is only available in countries where the compatible hearing instruments have received official approval for distribution.

About

Y

Features
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Connect to devices with a single click, supporting intelligent noise reduction, volume fine-tuning, and multi-scene sound effect optimization. Clearly reproduce human voices and ambient sounds; simple and easy to use, helping you easily hear conversations and enjoy life, making every listening experience more natural and comfortable.

Screenshots

ELEHEAR4 screens
Y4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Y at 13.0 against ELEHEAR's 15.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ELEHEAR ships an update fortnightly, Y every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ELEHEAR versus Y: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterELEHEARY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (136 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings136 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB32 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperELEHEAR INC.Ward Sound Medical Technology (qinghai) Co., Ltd

In-app purchases

None

ELEHEAR

No in-app purchases

None

Y

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ELEHEAR free?
ELEHEAR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Y free?
Y is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ELEHEAR or Y have ads?
Neither ELEHEAR nor Y shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ELEHEAR or Y?
ELEHEAR ships an update fortnightly, and Y every 2 weeks. Most recently, ELEHEAR was updated on November 7, 2026 and Y on October 25, 2026.

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