HearingAmp Lite vs Head Shadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HearingAmp Lite
Enhance your hearing with real-time sound amplification and filtering. This app uses your phone's microphone to deliver clearer audio through earphones, reducing background noise and boosting specific frequencies. Customize sound profiles for various environments.
- Real-time sound amplification
- Background noise reduction
- Frequency band amplification
- Customizable sound profiles
- Preset frequency profiles
- Signal processing engine
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HearingAmp Lite is a fully functional 15-day free version of HearingAmp. HearingAmp allows you to amplify and filter the sounds in your environment. It uses the microphone in your phone to tune the sound in real-time, producing a cleaner, crisper sound through your earphones. You can reduce background noise and amplify different frequency bands, allowing you to tune sound performance to your current surroundings. A number of preset frequency profiles are provided as templates. Users can create and modify profiles for use in various locations such as airplanes, classrooms, or crowded areas. HearingAmp uses a state of the art signal processing engine to tailor and enhance incoming sound. It provides effective noise reduction and voice amplification in any environment. If you use a Bluetooth headset, the headset quality will affect the performance of HearingAmp. In addition, its intrinsic A2DP protocol will increase the latency in real-time communication.
Head Shadow
This app acts as a hearing aid for individuals with single-sided deafness or mild bilateral hearing loss. It utilizes your iPhone or AirPods microphone to capture ambient sounds, then amplifies and outputs them through wired headphones or AirPods.
- Single-sided deafness aid
- Mild hearing loss amplification
- 10-band audio equalizer
- Reverb options
- Works with AirPods and wired headphones
- 30-day free trial
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Head Shadow is a hearing aid iPhone app for people with single-sided deafness or mild hearing loss in both ears. The app captures nearby sound with the iPhone or AirPods microphone, enhances it with a 10-band equalizer, and plays it in real time through wired headphones, AirPods, or AirPods Pro. FOR SINGLE-SIDED DEAFNESS When using AirPods, activate the microphone on your deaf side. Place that AirPod in your deaf ear and the other AirPod in your hearing ear. Head Shadow captures sound from your deaf side, enhances it, and plays it in your hearing ear, providing a CROS-like listening experience. FOR MILD HEARING LOSS If you have mild hearing loss in both ears, connect your wired or wireless headphones and play the app. Head Shadow captures sound with the iPhone microphone, enhances it, and plays it through your headphones. SOUND CONTROLS The 10-band equalizer lets you adjust the frequencies used in a standard audiogram. Reverb options let you hear how sound changes in different spaces. TRY FREE, THEN BUY ONCE Try all features free. Continue with a one-time purchase. There are no ads and no subscriptions. FINAL PLANNED FEATURE RELEASE Head Shadow was first published on the App Store in 2019. This is its final planned feature release, and the app will remain available and supported. Head Shadow AI, our next-generation app for people with single-sided deafness, is now available separately on the App Store and will receive future feature development.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Head Shadow at 83% against HearingAmp Lite's 40%. Head Shadow also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 25 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). HearingAmp Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Head Shadow sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. HearingAmp Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Head Shadow holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of HearingAmp Lite's written reviews are positive against 83% of Head Shadow's.
HearingAmp Lite ships an update every 25 months, Head Shadow every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HearingAmp Lite | Head Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.3 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Davicom | Isa Asudeh |
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HearingAmp Lite
Head Shadow
In-app purchases
HearingAmp Lite
No in-app purchases
Head Shadow
- Free 30-Day TrialFree
- One time purchase$3.99
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