Listening Device vs Hear Through Walls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Hear Through Walls
This app transforms your iPhone into a live hearing amplifier and remote microphone. It allows you to listen to sounds from another room or through walls by streaming audio from your device's microphone to connected Bluetooth earbuds.
- Live hearing amplification
- Remote microphone functionality
- Listen through walls
- Audio baby monitoring
- TV listening device
- Bluetooth earbud integration
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Hear Through Walls app is a live hearing amplifier that helps you listen through walls and hear sounds from another room. Connect your AirPods or Bluetooth earbuds and place your iPhone/iPad near the sound source (such as in front of a TV, near a baby crib, etc), and listen through walls from another room as the live audio streams directly from your iPhone microphone to your wireless earbuds. The Hear Through Walls app turns your iPhone into a remote microphone, sound amplifier, TV listening device, and makeshift audio baby monitor. Place your phone near a television, speaker, conversation, baby crib area, or another sound source, then tap Listen to hear through walls and continue listening from another room. Hear Through Walls does not amplify sound through the wall itself. Instead, your iPhone captures sound from inside the room and streams it to your connected Bluetooth headphones. This allows you to listen through walls when your phone remains close to the sound you want to hear. Use Hear Through Walls when you want to continue listening while moving around your home. Leave your iPhone near the television or another sound source and listen through walls using your wireless earbuds while you cook, clean, work, do laundry, use the washroom, or move into another room. HEAR TV THROUGH WALLS Hear Through Walls is useful when you are watching television but need to step away for some time. Place your iPhone near the TV, connect your AirPods or Bluetooth headphones, and continue listening through walls while you move around the house or work in another room. Use Hear Through Walls to follow TV shows from another room. LISTEN THROUGH WALLS FROM ANOTHER ROOM Hear Through Walls lets you place your phone in one room and listen through walls from another nearby room. Your iPhone acts as a wireless remote microphone that captures live sound and sends it directly to your connected headphones. For clearer results, place your iPhone as close as safely possible to the television, speaker, conversation, baby crib area, or sound source. The closer the microphone is to the sound, the clearer and louder the sound will be. Connect your AirPods, Bluetooth earbuds, or wireless headphones, tap Listen, and leave your phone in the room containing the sound. You can then listen through walls while remaining within the supported wireless connection range. AUDIO BABY MONITORING AT HOME Hear Through Walls can also be used as a simple audio baby monitor at home. Place your iPhone safely near the baby’s crib area or inside the baby’s room, then listen through walls for baby sounds using your connected AirPods or Bluetooth headphones. Use Hear Through Walls to listen for crying, movement, soft noises, waking sounds, and other baby sounds while you are in the kitchen, living room, home office, bedroom, or another nearby part of the house. LIVE REMOTE MICROPHONE Hear Through Walls captures sound through your iPhone microphone and streams the live audio directly to your connected headphones. Your iPhone works like a wireless microphone, helping you listen through walls and hear sounds from another room in real time. Use Hear Through Walls to: • Hear TV through walls from another room • Listen for baby sounds from another nearby room. • Monitor your sleeping baby and know when they wake up. • Continue following TV dialogue while moving around the house • Hear better from the back row during a lecture PLACE YOUR IPHONE: • Near a television • Near a baby crib area • Close to a speaker • Inside the room containing the sound source Then connect your AirPods, Bluetooth earbuds, or wireless headphones to listen through walls from another room. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SOUND • Sound Boost — 25% free boost; Full Boost requires an upgrade • Noise Reduction — Free presets; Manual frequency adjustment requires an upgrade. • Audio Recording — requjres an upgrade
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hear Through Walls at none against Listening Device's 5. Hear Through Walls also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 10) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Listening Device's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Listening Device sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Hear Through Walls asks for nothing beyond the download.
Listening Device holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hear Through Walls has 62 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Listening Device ships an update every 3 weeks, Hear Through Walls every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Listening Device | Hear Through Walls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better | 4.4 (62 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARSHVA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED | Ronald Lumor |
Customer experience
Listening Device
Hear Through Walls
In-app purchases
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
Hear Through Walls
No in-app purchases
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