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Best decibel meter apps for android

1.Sound Meter & Noise Detector

Free download

Sound Meter & Noise Detector offer meters for sound level, decibel (dB), noise and sound pressure level (SPL). This app requires the device's microphone to measure environmental noise and for value reference.

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  • Doris Powell

    by Doris Powell

    This easy to calibrate compared to the other apps especially if you're just a beginner. It also good results.

2.Best Sound Meter

Free download

Using the built-in microphone from your phone, this app will measure the environmental sound decibels around you, displaying the sound intensity with decibels.

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  • Age rating:Everyone

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  • Publisher:Netigen Tools

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  • Ronald Meyer

    by Ronald Meyer

    Best Sound Meter is a really neat free app that measures the decibels of sounds in the real world. It shows the decibel readings based on what it hear More

  • Gloria Olson

    by Gloria Olson

    This is the best choice for measuring noise. I tried it to measure my Marshall speaker in my bedroom. It's clearly accurate.

3.SPL Meter

Paid: $0.99 with in-app purchases

This app is a professional sound level meter, which will allow you to know what's the sound level around you: point your device to the sound source and using its built-in microphone you will know what's the sound level around you.



  • Johnny Fernandez

    by Johnny Fernandez

    On my android device I have the SPL Meter installed so I can check the sound level that is surrounding me. It's really useful when I want to record so More

  • Aaryan Balasubramanium

    by Aaryan Balasubramanium

    Just recently this week, My family decided to watch a play in New York. I just remember that there's a part wherein it is awfully loud and i dled this More

4.Sound Meter

Free download

The sound level meter provides a decibel meter for environmental noise and displays its measured dB values in various forms. The app features a graphic design with high frame by a smart sound meter app. 

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  • Denise Armstrong

    by Denise Armstrong

    My BFF is sensitive to noise. Since he's not that a techy kind of person, I look for app like this and will recommend it to him.

5.Sound Meter PRO

Free download

Use this app to find out the noise levels of everything! Just install the app and start it to see how much noise are your neighbors doing, how loud is your new computer or how many decibels your new car can get.

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  • Publisher:Mobile Essentials

  • Size:4.19 MB

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  • Paul Herrera

    by Paul Herrera

    This is the best app on the market for measuring DB levels. I have had an outstanding experience with it and will continue to use it. It's super easy  More

  •  José Juan Mondragón

    by José Juan Mondragón

    I'm looking for a dB meter cause I'm trying to record a music. This is pretty easy to use but I prefer if they offer PRO.

6.deciBel

Free download

This app will allow you not only to know the sound level of your environment, but also an evolution of the levels, so you can know the evolution of the decibels. 


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deciBel

deciBel

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  • Rose Dixon

    by Rose Dixon

    deciBel is such a cool app. I can see how professionals would find it useful to not have to carry around a separate thing to measure sound levels, the More

  • Victoria Pan

    by Victoria Pan

    We used this for my grandma. She's sensitive to sound so we need this to determine the noise meter. The app is pretty accurate and good.

7.Sound Meter

Free download

This app will use your Android device's microphone to find out the sound level in your environment. You will also get a graphic to see the evolution of this level. 

  • Ying Ding

    by Ying Ding

    We're currently working on an amateur film prod and this decibel meter is really useful to limit ambient music that we do in our prod.

  • Douglas Hart

    by Douglas Hart

    This is not what I expected and not what I would be looking for with this app.

8.Decibel Meter Sound and Noise

Free download
Using this app you will be able to easily measure environmental noise just by using your phone's microphone. A high decibel exposure can lead to severe health problems, and using this app you will know if you are in danger. 

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Decibel Meter Sound and Noise

Decibel Meter Sound and Noise

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  • Age rating:Everyone

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  • Larry Lucas

    by Larry Lucas

    I have found the Decibel meter Sound and Noise app to be very fun to use. I have noticed that around my mother it always tells me to get away when I'm More

  • David Ávalos

    by David Ávalos

    Just saw my musician cousin using this app to control the noise he makes in their garage. Tried it, so far so good esp if you're just a startup

WHAT’S THE MEANING?

A decibel is a unit of measurement that is being utilized to compare various different things such as sound or electricity. Consequently, the loudness or quietness of a sound is measured in decibels (dB) through a decibel scale. Another important concept to understand is the intensity of a sound. Intensity is defined as the amount of energy carried by a sound wave. Interestingly, notice that car engines produce extreme noise because the sound waves that are generated carry more energy.

DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that some horror filmmakers incorporate infrasound into their films to induce fear in their audiences? Infrasound consists of extreme bass waves with a frequency below the range of a human ear. And believe it or not, the way music composers maximize their musical tools to develop a fear-inducing sound is considered to be an art. Interestingly, while these waves are inconceivable through the human ears, they could actually be felt--anxiety, extreme sorrows, and even palpitations. Indeed, everyone can attest to the statement ‘sound is just as important as the video quality’, as once cited in an article on The Los Angeles Film School. The concept of sound design has come into vogue in the 1970s alongside the emergence of Dolby sound system. Ever since, series of filmmakers started utilizing it, for once a French filmmaker named Gaspar Noe. Noe admittingly said that he incorporated infrasound into his film, Irreversible. 

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