PhonHear Smart Hearing vs Listening Device
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhonHear Smart Hearing
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Welcome to PhonHear – Your Smart Hearing Companion If you need a hearing aid, start here. PhonHear transforms your favorite Bluetooth listening devices—whether they’re earbuds, headphones, bone conduction, or even wired earphones—into smart, discreet, and customizable hearing aids. No medical appointments. No stigma. Just better hearing—your way. PhonHear: The hearing aid that lives inside your headphones. Free Plans: - Create Siri shortcuts Subscription Plans: - Annual Plan - $100.00/year (Cancel anytime & 7 days free trial) - Semiannual Plan - $60.00/6 months (Cancel anytime & 7 days free trial) - Quarterly Plan -$35.00/3 months (Cancel anytime & 7 days free trial) - Onetime Plan - $200.00/Lifetime access What is included: - Connect external devices - Record and play back your voice - Real-time speech-to-text in multiple languages - Customize your voice with an Equalizer You'll be charged to your Apple account upon purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled 24 hours before the next cycle. Manage in Account Settings. Access ends after cancellation but is restored upon renewal. Terms of Use - https://sites.google.com/view/phonhear-terms-of-service/home - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy - https://sites.google.com/view/privacypolicy-phonehear/home
Listening Device
This app amplifies sound and provides live captions, turning your iPhone into a hearing aid. It helps you clearly hear conversations and spoken words in various environments, with an option to read text instead of listening.
- Sound amplification
- Live captions
- Noise reduction
- Real-time audio processing
- Works with various headphones
- On-device processing for privacy
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Hear every word, clearly — wherever you are. Struggling to follow conversations in a noisy room? Wish people would just speak up? Listening Device: Clarive turns your iPhone into a powerful hearing aid and sound amplifier, so you catch every word — clearly and comfortably. Just connect your earphones and instantly amplify the world around you. No hearing-aid hardware. No appointments. No complicated setup. YOUR PERSONAL HEARING AID Turn up the voices that matter and soften the background noise that gets in the way. Clarive boosts quiet talkers so conversations feel effortless again — at home, in the car, at a restaurant, or across a crowded room. POWERFUL SOUND AMPLIFIER Fine-tune the volume to your comfort and hear the world the way it's meant to be heard, in real time — a soft-spoken friend, a lecture from the back row, or the TV across the room. Your iPhone's volume buttons set the level, so you can adjust without looking at the screen. ONE-TAP PRESETS FOR EVERY ROOM Switch between Conversation, Noisy Place, and TV & Media, and a six-band equalizer reshapes the sound for you — lifting the frequencies that carry speech and cutting the rumble that buries it. A live visualiser shows exactly what each preset is doing. BALANCE FOR EACH EAR Hear differently on one side? Set the left and right levels independently until both ears feel even. LIVE CAPTIONS WHEN YOU'D RATHER READ Too loud to listen? Switch on Live Captions to read real-time, on-screen text of what's being said — ideal for meetings, classrooms, and busy places. Choose the text size that's comfortable to read. CAPTIONS IN YOUR LANGUAGE Live Captions work in many languages. Download the one you need and switch between them any time. KEEP WHAT WAS SAID Save a transcript and come back to it later — useful for appointments, lectures, and conversations you'll want to remember. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN Use it with AirPods, wired earbuds, or any Bluetooth or wired headphones. No special hardware required. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your hearing is personal. Everything is processed entirely on your device — no account and no internet required. Audio is never recorded or uploaded, and any transcript you save stays on your iPhone. MADE FOR YOU Built for people who are hard of hearing or deaf, anyone who needs a little extra clarity, and everyone who simply wants to hear better in everyday life. FREE TO START Use the hearing-aid and Live Caption features free every day, then upgrade to Pro anytime for unlimited use. Hear better. Feel more connected. Download Clarive today. Privacy Policy: https://listeningdevice.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://listeningdevice.app/terms-of-service Contact: support@harshvatechnologies.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: PhonHear Smart Hearing at 3 against Listening Device's 1. PhonHear Smart Hearing also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. PhonHear Smart Hearing sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $35.00 per 3 months and Listening Device sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PhonHear Smart Hearing ships an update monthly, Listening Device every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhonHear Smart Hearing | Listening Device |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Salomon Ohayon | HARSHVA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED |
In-app purchases
PhonHear Smart Hearing
- Quarterly Plan7 Days trial$35.003 Months
- Semiannual Plan7 Days trial$60.006 Months
- Annual Plan7 Days trial$100.001 Year
- Onetime Plan$200.00
Listening Device
- Listening Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly Plan$5.991 Month
- Yearly Plan$14.991 Year
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- Yearly Offer$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$29.99
Questions
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