Decibel X - Pro Sound Meter

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3.8
9.82K reviews
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About this app

"Decibel X" is one of very few sound meter apps on the market that has highly reliable, pre-calibrated measurements and supports frequency weightings: ITU-R 468, A and C. It turns your phone device into a professional sound meter, precisely measures the sound pressure level (SPL) all around you. This extremely useful and beautiful sound meter tool will not only be an essential gadget for many uses but also bring you a lot of fun. Have you wondered how quiet is your room or how loud is a rock concert or sport event? "Decibel X" will help you answer all of those.

WHAT MAKES "DECIBEL X" SPECIAL:

- Trusted accuracy: the app is carefully tested and calibrated for most devices. The precision is matching with real SPL devices
- Frequency weighting filters: ITU-R 468, A, B, C, Z
- Spectrum analyzer: FFT and BAR graphs to display real time FFT. Those are very useful for frequency analysis and musical tests. Real time predominant frequency is also displayed.
- Powerful, smart history data management:
+ Recording data can be saved into a list of history records for future access and analysis
+ Each record can be exported as hi-res PNG graph or CSV text via sharing services
+ Fullscreen mode to give overview the whole history of an record
- Dosimeter: NIOSH, OSHA standards
- InstaDecibel to capture your dB report overlaid on photos and easily shared via popular social networks (Facebook, Instagram, etc.).
- Beautiful, intuitive and carefully crafted UI design

OTHER FEATURES:

- Standard time weightings (Response Time): SLOW (500 milliseconds), FAST (200 milliseconds) and IMPULSE (50 milliseconds)
- Trimming calibration from -50 dB to 50 dB
- Standard measurement range from 20 dBA up to 130 dBA
- Spectrogram
- HISTO graph for plotted history of the recorded values
- WAVE graph with 2 display modes: Rolling & Buffer
- Real time scale level chart
- Display Current, Average/Leq, and Max values with both nice and clear digital and analog layouts
- Quick reference text to help you compare with real-life examples
- "Keep Device Stay Awake" option for long duration recording
- Reset and clear current recording at any time
- Pause/Resume at any time

NOTES:

- Please do not expect a quiet room reading will be 0 dBA. The range 30 dBA - 130 dBA is the standard usable range and an average quiet room will be about 30 dBA.
- Although most devices are pre-calibrated, custom calibration is suggested for serious purposes requiring higher precision and accuracy. To calibrate, you will need a real external device or calibrated sound meter as a reference, then adjust the trimming value until the reading matches with the reference.

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Updated on
26 Sept 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
No data collected
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Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
9.5K reviews
Drew Ryan
20 November 2020
It's pretty spot on. Out of the box it was about 3 or 4 decibels off. The running graph is very nice if you have to stop to look at the result of your test. The ability to save your tests is very handy and it's ready to go immediately after installation as it requires little initial setup. Its a good application; I'll definitely continue to use it.
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Woody Woodwolf
13 December 2021
I am a sound engineer. While the functions seem useful in this app, the subscription model is not a good way to go. Save yourself some money in the long run and buy professional equipment once. Also a smart phone microphone losses accuracy at over 90 dB's, due to the fact these microphones are made for voice. I would be willing to pay $20.00 one time to purchase the app to support the developers in their efforts. There are some situations where this app would be useful and handy.
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SkyPaw Co., Ltd
23 December 2021
Hi, Woody Woodwolf! Thanks for your feedback. We appreciate the useful information you provide and we are working hard to develop and improve our app even better to make up for the limitations of mobile devices. We look forward to hearing from you in the future
A Google user
14 November 2018
It's a very handy app, however I think itd be more effective used indoors only. It denotes basic street noise while recording, but if theres a very loud noise unusual for the environment, it will still change the high end decibel level to the one for that isolated incident. Perhaps there's more to it than I was able to get to in my rush & if I go back & Im able to account for the sound that I'm specifically trying to capture (a voice yelling thru a bullhorn e.g.), then I will up my rating to 4 stars. I can't give it 5 stars since it won't export or share the data unless you pay to upgrade it.
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What's new

∿ Change to new data format when saved using timestamp for better users post processing
∿ Support exporting pdf report
∿ Improve histogram display
∿ Improve summary report and html report
∿ Fix an issue where location cannot be retrieved
∿ Components upgrade
∿ Various performance improvements and minor bug fixes