Comparison

Loudly vs Tap Relay

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

Head to head
About

Loudly

Transform your iPhone into a precise sound level meter. It measures noise in real-time with a clear visual display and offers professional features for various uses, from monitoring baby rooms to protecting your hearing. All processing is done on-device with no data collection.

Highlights
  • Real-time decibel measurements
  • IEC 61672 compliant audio engine
  • A-weighting and C-weighting filters
  • Fast, Slow, and Impulse time weighting
  • Calibration controls
  • Min/Max/Average statistics (Pro)
  • Session history (Pro)
Features
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Turn your iPhone into a professional-grade sound level meter. Loudly measures noise levels in real time with stunning accuracy, displayed on a beautiful Liquid Glass gauge. Whether you're checking if your baby's room is quiet enough, documenting noise for a complaint, or protecting your hearing at a concert — Loudly gives you instant, reliable decibel readings. ACCURATE & PROFESSIONAL • IEC 61672 compliant audio engine • A-weighting and C-weighting frequency filters • Fast, Slow, and Impulse time weighting modes • Calibration controls for reference-level accuracy BEAUTIFUL & INTUITIVE • Large, easy-to-read circular gauge • Color-coded noise levels: green (safe) → red (dangerous) • Noise categories with real-world examples: Whisper, Quiet, Moderate, Loud, Very Loud, Dangerous PRO FEATURES (one-time $2.99 unlock) • Min / Max / Average statistics • Session history — track measurements over time • Peak alerts — get notified when noise exceeds your threshold • Leq (equivalent continuous sound level) calculation • Export your readings PRIVACY FIRST • No data collection. No ads. No tracking. • 100% on-device processing — audio is never recorded or stored • No network requests. Your microphone data stays on your device. COMMON USES • Check noise levels at work, home, or events • Monitor baby room sound levels • Document noise for complaints or disputes • Measure environmental noise pollution • Protect your hearing — know when it's too loud No subscription. No ads. Pay once for Pro, yours forever.

About

Tap Relay

Features
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Press the button. Fire the webhook. That's it. Tap Relay turns your iPhone into a portable bridge between a Flic Bluetooth button and any HTTPS webhook endpoint. Press the button, the phone fires a POST, your backend gets the event. No hub required. Works wherever your phone works. Setup is one QR scan. The official Flic app makes you type webhook URLs on a phone keyboard, hand-format JSON headers, and navigate deep menus to wire everything together. One typo and the whole thing silently breaks. Tap Relay does it differently. Your endpoint provider generates a QR code with the webhook URL, auth token, and button binding pre-configured. You scan it. You're done. Setup time: under five seconds. Built to survive the background. Most webhook apps die quietly when iOS gets aggressive with memory. Tap Relay uses Core Bluetooth State Restoration and background URLSession the way Apple intended — so even if the app gets evicted, the next button press wakes it up and fires the webhook anyway. Lightweight, single-purpose, no consumer-app bloat. Behaves more like a system daemon than an app. Made for the people who need it most. Developers wiring Flic buttons into Zapier, Make.com, Home Assistant, or their own PWA Mobile professionals — field techs, real estate agents, delivery drivers — who need the button to work away from home, not just inside HomeKit range SaaS platforms shipping pre-provisioned hardware to non-technical end users Anyone who wants a clean, reliable, single-purpose alternative to the official Flic experience What's inside Pair any Flic 2 button via the official Flic iOS SDK Scan a backend-signed QR code to provision the webhook target in one tap Fire HTTPS POST requests on press, double-press, and hold events Background-survivable BLE via Core Bluetooth State Restoration Reliable delivery via background URLSession (webhooks complete even if you put your phone in your pocket) HMAC-verified QR payloads (no risk of a malicious QR rebinding your button) Keychain-stored credentials (your tokens never sit in plain text) Live event log so you can see exactly what fired and when Test-fire button to confirm the pipeline end-to-end Privacy and security Tap Relay sends button events directly from your phone to your configured webhook. No third-party cloud relay. No analytics. Your tokens never leave your device except in the outbound POST to your endpoint. Not affiliated with Shortcut Labs. Tap Relay is an independent utility for Flic button owners. Flic® is a registered trademark of Shortcut Labs AB. This app uses the official Flic iOS SDK but is not made, endorsed, or supported by Shortcut Labs. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://taprelay-web.pages.dev/privacy.html

Screenshots

Loudly4 screens
Tap Relay3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tap Relay at none against Loudly's 1. Tap Relay also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Loudly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tap Relay asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Loudly versus Tap Relay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoudlyTap Relay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPragmatiqALLEN STURDIVANT

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Loudly

One-time1
  • Loudly Pro$2.99
None

Tap Relay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loudly free?
Loudly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tap Relay free?
Tap Relay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loudly or Tap Relay have ads?
Neither Loudly nor Tap Relay shows ads.

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