plaiiin Sound Meter
Calibrated noise evidence
Only for Mac
$19.99
Mac
A sound level meter that keeps its working: calibrated dB(A), a spectrogram of what the noise actually was, and the same microphone measures your speakers.
Sound Meter turns a calibrated measurement microphone into a sound level meter that keeps its working.
Point it at a noise and it tells you how loud, in dB(A), against the standard weighting curves. Leave it running overnight and it logs the level every second, saving a recording whenever the sound crosses a threshold you set — with the seconds before the trigger, so a clip starts where the noise did rather than halfway through it. The table fills while that happens: a run and its clips appear as they are recorded, counting up with the levels so far, instead of showing nothing until the file closes.
WHAT MAKES IT EVIDENCE
Every recording is written with the measurements beside it: which microphone, which correction file, and the reference the levels were computed against. Open a recording later and the app measures the audio again from scratch, so the figures can be reproduced rather than taken on trust. A one-page report puts the level trace, the frequency content and the whole measurement chain on something you can send to a landlord, a neighbour or an authority.
WHAT IT WAS, NOT JUST HOW LOUD
Two disturbances with the same dB(A) can be completely different things. The spectrogram shows the frequency content over time in sixth-of-an-octave bands, which is what separates a bass line through a wall from a television, or a compressor's hum from the sound of a room.
CALIBRATED PROPERLY
Bring the correction file your microphone shipped with. The app applies its frequency response, takes the reference level from it, and shows you the curve so you can see it makes sense. A microphone can hold several files — one for pointing at a source, one for pointing at a room — and switching between them is one click.
The full-scale reference comes from that file, not from a calibrator held against the capsule, and every report prints it, so what the numbers are anchored to is on the page rather than assumed.
Sound Meter also refuses to measure through system input gain, which silently shifts every reading and is the most common way a calibrated setup is wrong.
THE SAME MICROPHONE, POINTED AT YOUR SPEAKERS
Speaker Calibration is a three-step assistant. Pick a speaker and a microphone, then measure that speaker at several listening positions: it plays a sweep through the speaker you chose, records the room, and shows you the response and how far the positions disagree.
From the average it designs a correction toward a Harman-style curve, flat, a B&K house curve, or a target you import — with boosts held back where the room's own measured noise floor says there is nothing there to lift. Export it as EqualizerAPO parametric or graphic filters, or as REW text, for the average or for any single position.
WORKS WITH
Any Core Audio input, and any output device for the sweeps. Made for the miniDSP UMIK-1 and other measurement microphones that ship an individual correction file.
NOTHING IS SENT TO US
There is no account, no telemetry and no network code of any kind. Recordings, level logs and reports stay in the app's own folder on your Mac. If you use iCloud, your measurement setups and correction files sync through your own iCloud account, so a microphone calibrated once works on your other Mac; recordings never sync.
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Help, throughout the app.
• A help book in the Help menu (⌘?), 20 pages, and a "?" button in every window that opens its own page.
What was wrong, and is fixed:
• The storage limit deleted starred recordings once the library passed its size. It never touches a starred recording now, and says so if it cannot remove a file.
• The header's LAFmax was the loudest one-second average, so a short event — a door, a drill — read several decibels quieter than it was. It is the loudest Fast level now, as the name says.
• Choosing "No room measured" fell back to the last room measured. It stays chosen.
• With nothing measured yet, the window showed two empty panels saying the same thing. One now.
Soundproofing, measured against the laboratory:
• The prediction was reworked and checked against 350 measured walls. Double-frame walls read about 6 dB pessimistic and staggered-stud walls 4 to 8 dB optimistic; both are within about 4 dB now, and the model's mean error over all 350 walls is 3.3 dB, from 4.2.
• Three-leaf walls resonate where the physics says, the leaves' own damping reaches the calculation, and the curve no longer steps at the resonance.
Also: correction files and measurement setups sync through your own iCloud, which the store page now says plainly; the soundproofing window's recording list groups automatic runs the way the main table does.
The developer, plaiiin GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- plaiiin GmbH
- Size
- 11.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 plaiiin GmbH

