Hear - Volume Limiter 4+

Good but missing one key feature

This is a super simple app to use. It sits in your menu bar, and you just use a slider to set your max volume (across apps, I'm assuming?). The only problem I've encountered, is that it doesn't tell you what decible you're setting the limit to. So I have no clue if I'm actually protecting my hearing or not.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, I will try to implement a feature that you described. Indeed the app limits the volume across all apps - system wise. Thank you for your review and constructive feedback.

Really quite good

I feel the current review of 3.8 is harsh. here is the thing reporting decibles isn't that easy. It's contingent on the headphone.

What this does do. You take a teams call on mac it goes to max volume you damage your hearing. Now this app, you set a safe limit to say 50% (max) that's not going to cause damage with almost anything you use and you have time to adjust, and it nearly always audible. I don't see much issue here. You don't need to overthink some of that other stuff if you say 70db in an app-- you could just write that but it's not really 70db on the vast majority of things you use because it's driver and impedence dependant or whatever the device is.

Really if you are doing headphones i'd personally recomend 30% as a reasonable starting level that's going to be a good percentage of the time what you watn. if you are in doubt use your phone which has a decible meter and listen to your headphones though that. NOISH makes one. I'm warning you though it's an estimate unless you callibrate it. This is really good if you are using headphones that don't have one built in.

Apple you should have this built it for the safety of your customers just like you do on the phone.

To the auth of this what i'd recomend is not a db matching attempt but a max volume and a safe starting volume. This is somethign that people use in recievers and is a proven model. It's also much easier to implement. FOr example user picks 15% on default just enough to hear clearly but you can't get it past 60% (or whatever the user decides to do). That woudl take thsi to the next level. Not sure if you are working on this anymore or willing to share the source code.

might as well just not press the volume up button.

doesn't tell you what decibels you're limiting your audio to.
it's "volume limiting" is quite literally a slider in your menubar, it's. . . extremely lazy.

i read previous reviews and noticed that the developer stated that they'd "try to implement" a decibel read out. never happened.

save your $0.99, this isn't worth it.