Comparison

Volume Booster vs Volta Audio

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

Head to head
About

Volume Booster

Enhance the volume of your personal audio files without compromising sound quality. This app offers advanced audio processing tools to make quiet recordings, voice notes, and films genuinely louder and more listenable.

Highlights
  • Volume boost up to +15 dB
  • Ten-band equalizer with presets
  • Bass boost control
  • Seven reverb spaces
  • Background playback
  • Lock screen and Control Center controls
  • Sleep timer
Features
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HyperVolume makes quiet audio you already own genuinely louder - quiet recordings, mumbled voice notes, films mixed for a cinema - without turning them to mush. Cranking the gain on a quiet track makes it loud and ugly. HyperVolume rebuilds the signal properly: a compressor lifts the quiet passages, up to +15 dB of gain raises the whole track, and a limiter sits at the end of the chain catching the peaks before they clip. You get volume that stays listenable. READ THIS BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD HyperVolume is a player for audio files you own. You add your files, and it plays them louder. It cannot boost other apps, and it cannot boost streaming. iOS does not let any third-party app touch protected or streaming audio - so no app on the App Store can raise the volume of a streaming service. Not this one, not any of them. What it does play: - Files you add from Files or iCloud Drive - MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF and FLAC - Songs already in your device's music library that aren't DRM-protected, which means your own imports and purchases If your library is all streaming, this app has nothing to work with. HEAR IT BEFORE YOU DECIDE There's a demo built into the app. One clip, boost on, boost off, switch between them as it plays. You'll know in ten seconds whether it does anything for you - no subscription needed. THE SOUND CONTROLS Volume - Up to +15 dB on a fader with a real level meter beside it. It reads the actual output signal, so when it runs into amber and red you can see you're pushing it. Equalizer - Ten bands as vertical faders, the way an EQ is meant to look. Drag a curve by hand or start from one of 22 presets covering Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Classical, Vocal, Podcast and more. Bass - A low shelf for weight underneath the track, without the boom that swallows everything else. Reverb - Seven spaces, from Small Room through Hall and Plate to Cathedral, with an amount dial so you can add air rather than drown in it. A PROPER PLAYER, NOT JUST A SLIDER - Background playback, so it keeps going when you leave the app - Lock screen and Control Center controls, including skip - A queue with shuffle and repeat that survives backgrounding - Sleep timer that fades out instead of stopping dead - Album artwork, search and sort across your library - AirPods, Bluetooth, wired headphones and CarPlay audio NO ACCOUNT. NO SIGN-UP. There is no login, because there's nothing to log into. Your files stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there's no analytics profile following you around. If you subscribe, the purchase lives on your Apple ID - tap Restore Purchases in Settings on a new device and it comes back. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT ISN'T Free, with no time limit: import your files, play them, and use the volume boost with its compressor and limiter. The core of the app works without paying. HyperVolume Premium unlocks the rest - a subscription is required for these: - The ten-band equalizer and all 22 presets - Bass boost - Reverb and all seven spaces - Everything added to Premium later Premium is available as an auto-renewing subscription. The price and length are shown in the app before you confirm, and payment is charged to your Apple ID. It renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your device Settings under your Apple ID. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/1c667847-6d5f-4fc3-9cf3-eac2d5946a66 Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/1c667847-6d5f-4fc3-9cf3-eac2d5946a66 ONE HONEST NOTE ON LOUDNESS +15 dB is a lot. Loud music through headphones damages hearing, and that damage doesn't come back. The meter turns amber then red for a reason - treat the top of the range as a warning, not a target. A track that won't import? There's a contact option in Settings.

About

Volta Audio

Customize the lighting and audio experience of your compatible headphones. Adjust LED colors, apply various animations, and fine-tune sound with a graphic equalizer and advanced parametric EQ. Control active noise cancellation modes and update headphone software.

Highlights
  • Basic and advanced LED color control
  • Spinning LED animations
  • Graphic equalizer with bass boost
  • 10-band parametric EQ
  • ANC modes (Transparency, Cancellation)
  • Headphone software updates
Features
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Change lighting settings and tune the audio of your Volta Audio Ferrofluid Headphones. Features include: * Basic LED color picker screen * Advanced LED color options - Addressable per-LED control - Various spinning animations * Graphic equalizer with additional bass boost dial * ANC modes (Transparency and Cancellation) * State-of-the-art 10-band parametric EQ - Gain (-6dB to +6dB per filter) - Frequency (20Hz to 20kHz) - Q-value (width of filter) - Filter types: Peak, High pass, Low pass - QR code sharing of your PEQ profile * Headphone Software Update

Screenshots

Volume Booster4 screens
Volta Audio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Volta Audio at none against Volume Booster's shown. Volta Audio also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). Volume Booster's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Volume Booster against 5.0 for Volta Audio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Volta Audio has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Volume Booster ships an update every 3 days, Volta Audio monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Volume Booster versus Volta Audio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVolume BoosterVolta Audio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDayo AkinkuowoVoltaAudio Inc.

Customer experience

Volume Booster

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Volta Audio

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Volume Booster

No in-app purchases

None

Volta Audio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Volume Booster free?
Volume Booster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Volta Audio free?
Volta Audio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Volume Booster or Volta Audio?
Volume Booster and Volta Audio are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Volume Booster or Volta Audio have ads?
Volume Booster shows ads; Volta Audio does not.
Which is updated more often, Volume Booster or Volta Audio?
Volume Booster ships an update every 3 days, and Volta Audio monthly. Most recently, Volume Booster was updated on September 30, 2026 and Volta Audio on October 11, 2026.

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