Sound Meter (Noise & Decibel)

Name: Sound Meter (Noise & Decibel)
Rating: 3.05 (20 reviews)
Author: loora

Measure the surrounding sound (dB) and noise with your computer's microphone!

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Sound Meter (Noise & Decibel) is a Chrome extension designed to measure ambient sound levels using your computer's microphone. It accurately captures sound factors like decibel levels, noise intensity, sound average, and normalized sound values, helping you monitor your environment effortlessly.

Upon installation, the extension requests microphone access and requires a few seconds to initialize. Its flexible interface can be opened in a separate window, tab, or toolbar popup, letting you choose the most convenient view. The extension also allows switching between different sound capturing APIs for enhanced accuracy. Ideal for anyone needing quick and reliable noise measurement directly from their browser.

For support or feature requests, users can visit the addon's homepage.

By:: loora
Users:: 50,000+ 10.00K
Rating:: 3.05
(20)
Version:: 0.1.6 (Last updated: 2025-01-15)
Creation date:: 2020-01-05
Risk:: Very low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
contextMenus
Size:: 138.24K
Email:: lo*****@gmail.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 3,747 ▲ 540

Other rankings

#158 in Tools ▲ 11 #36 in sound keyword 58 #45 in computer keyword 21 #45 in level keyword 41

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User reviews

Users appreciate that the Sound Meter extension works well for short durations, detects ambient noise, and provides informative graphs. However, it struggles with accurate sound measurement when volume changes, has graph glitches after prolonged use, lacks calibration features and frequency range details, does not support logging readings, and may slow down some computers. The extension is mostly functional but has significant accuracy and usability issues noted by multiple users.

Pros

Works well for short use periods
Provides informative graphs
Can detect ambient noise
Simple and easy to use

Cons

Does not accurately respond to changes in sound volume or sources
Graph glitches or bugs after some use
Lacks calibration and frequency range information
No feature to log readings to a file
Some performance slowdown on computers

Recent reviews

How is it that when I play a song and increase the volume, the app does not show any change to dB? Doesn't matter if I increase the volume with the speaker dial, or the windows system volume, the app reports no change to noise levels. The app picks up the ambient noise of my typing and humming, so it clearly hears *something*. Just not what I'm trying to measure.

Will, 2023-06-20

had to download itfor school but this is hot steaming garbage

Dylan Renneman, 2023-05-11

Does not react to any sounds. Starts at 30 decibel, then climbs to 40.13 decibel, where it stays no matter what sounds I expose it to.

Vegard Aanonsen, 2022-11-20

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Sound Meter (Noise & Decibel) does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Risk likelihood

Sound Meter (Noise & Decibel) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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