Comparison

VoxBT vs HearAura

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

Head to head
About

VoxBT

Features
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Experience your tour with maximum comfort: listen to your guide directly from your smartphone, using your preferred headphones. The Vox app allows you, through a dedicated cable specifically developed by Vox, to connect the tour radio to your phone and receive the guide's audio in a simple, practical, and immediate way. It is the ideal solution for anyone who wants a more personal, comfortable, and familiar listening experience, without the need to use shared earphones or additional devices. Perfect for guided visits, museums, city tours, cultural events, and tourist groups.

About

HearAura

This app connects to Auracast broadcasts, allowing users with LE Audio hearing aids or earbuds to stream sound directly. It offers features like volume control, saving favorite broadcasts, and on-device live captions. A demo mode is available for users without compatible hardware.

Highlights
  • Connect to Auracast broadcasts
  • Control broadcast volume
  • Save favorite broadcasts
  • On-device live captions
  • Share sound with friends via Channels
  • Apple Watch companion app
Features
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HearAura is the iPhone remote for Auracast, the new Bluetooth standard that lets a place send its sound straight to your ears: the TV at the gym, the gate announcement, the sermon, the show. If you wear LE Audio hearing aids or Auracast-capable earbuds, HearAura joins the broadcast for you in seconds. LISTEN ANYWHERE - Join Auracast broadcasts by QR code, share link, or nearby scan - Control broadcast volume, and quiet your hearing aids' own microphones so you hear only the program - Save favorite broadcasts and rejoin them with one tap or with Siri - Apple Watch companion: volume and mute from your wrist WHO IT IS FOR - Hearing aid wearers: most hearing aids sold since 2024 have LE Audio inside; ask your audiologist about Auracast - Earbud listeners: Auracast-capable LE Audio earbuds join the same way - AirPods owners: AirPods cannot receive Auracast broadcasts yet, but live captions (including an AirPods-mic mode) and Channels work great today NO HARDWARE YET? TRY THE DEMO A built-in demo simulates the whole join flow, so you can see exactly how it works before you ever meet a broadcast. LIVE CAPTIONS, ON DEVICE Turn speech around you into captions, generated entirely on your iPhone. Nothing you hear is sent to a server. SHARE SOUND WITH FRIENDS Channels stream conversation audio and captions between nearby iPhones over your local network. Nothing touches the internet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Captions never leave your phone. A NOTE ON SCOPE HearAura is a broadcast assistant for LE Audio devices. It does not amplify, process, or alter sound for your hearing, and it is not a hearing aid or a medical device. Auracast is a trademark of Bluetooth SIG. HearAura is an independent app, not affiliated with Bluetooth SIG or Apple.

Screenshots

VoxBT4 screens
HearAura4 screens

Verdict

The call

VoxBT and HearAura are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

VoxBT ships an update weekly, HearAura every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
VoxBT versus HearAura: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoxBTHearAura
PriceFreeFree
Rating—2.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVox S.p.A.craig merry

In-app purchases

None

VoxBT

No in-app purchases

None

HearAura

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VoxBT free?
VoxBT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HearAura free?
HearAura is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do VoxBT or HearAura have ads?
Neither VoxBT nor HearAura shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VoxBT or HearAura?
VoxBT ships an update weekly, and HearAura every 6 days. Most recently, VoxBT was updated on October 24, 2026 and HearAura on October 22, 2026.

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