dB Halo: Sound Meter

Decibel & Noise Level Monitor

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Read decibels at a glance, see the full spectrum, estimate your daily noise dose and catch snoring in a sleep journal. All on your device, no account needed. From a home workshop and HVAC rumble to a gym floor or concert venue, dB Halo helps you understand sound without sending data off your device. The large Halo safety ring shows live dB at a glance, with minimum, average, maximum, and peak readings plus a time-stamped event log. Choose A, C, or Z weighting, connect an external microphone, and save multiple calibration profiles for different setups. Analyze one live session in three synchronized views: FFT Spectrum, RTA octave bands, and Spectrogram. Noise Dose estimates daily exposure against NIOSH or OSHA criteria and shows remaining safer time. The on-device Sleep Journal recognizes and classifies snoring, breathing, speech, coughing, alarms, animal sounds, impacts, ambient sound, and crying, then logs each event without saving raw microphone audio. Microphone audio is not saved by default; an AAC file is created only when you explicitly start a recording. History keeps every saved session organized and ready to review. Export selected measurements as visual PDF reports or CSV data, export explicitly recorded AAC files, and burn dB overlays onto photos and videos. Export environmental audio levels to Apple Health, check Home and Lock Screen widgets, use App Intents and Shortcuts, and take standalone measurements on Apple Watch. There is no account, no ads, no analytics, and no tracking. Processing stays on your devices. Each general feature that produces a result includes three free uses. Spectrum, Noise Dose, and Sleep Journal each include one. A use counts only after a result is created; cancellations, permission denials, and failures do not count, and existing results remain readable. Lifetime Pro is one non-consumable in-app purchase: pay once, own it forever, with no subscription. Measurements are estimates. dB Halo is not a certified professional sound level meter and does not replace medical advice or an occupational safety determination. Optimized for iPhone Duo.

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Version 1.0.5

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    Information

    Seller
    Guan Feng Lai
    Size
    12.8 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 43 more
    • English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
    Age Rating
    9+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Caitlyn
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