# Vigilant Ear: Deaf Sound Alert > Direction, Distance & Noise Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761978703](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761978703) ## Overview - **ID:** `id6761978703` - **Platform:** Apple - **Type:** Apple app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Robert Palmer - **Category:** Utilities - **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings) - **Version:** 1.1.7 - **Last updated:** 2026-09-18 - **First published:** 2026-05-18 - **Size:** 263 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-22 - **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vigilant-ear-deaf-sound-alert/id6761978703) - **Website:** [https://vigilantear.com/en/](https://vigilantear.com/en/) - **Privacy policy:** [https://vigilantear.com/en/privacy/](https://vigilantear.com/en/privacy/) ## Description Where a sound came from and how far. Sirens, alarms, baby crying, doorbells, weather, quake alerts. Live captions plus on in-app video calls. No subscription. Private. WHICH DIRECTION THE SOUND CAME FROM — AND HOW FAR That is what other sound-alert tools leave out. Vigilant Ear turns the iPhone you already own into a sound radar for the Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and CODA community: sirens, alarms, knocks, a crying baby, severe weather, and the voices around you — each one placed on a live map with its direction, rough distance, and a haptic buzz, the moment it happens. $5.99, one time. Free for 90 days, and captions and alerts stay free forever. No subscription, ever — and no new hardware to buy. It runs on the phone in your pocket. It also tells you WHO is speaking. Live captions separate the people around you by voice, and link nearby iPhones into one shared picture of the room. All on-device. Designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users who rely on visual captions and alerts. It's a visual, haptic tool - not built for blind users. The interface is high-contrast dark by design, and every alert is distinguished by shape and icon — never by color alone — so it works for color-blind users, too. Using on-device machine learning, it identifies hundreds of everyday and emergency sounds in real time and estimates their direction and rough distance — nothing is sent to the cloud or off your device. Vigilant Ear is an experimental research and accessibility aid — not a certified or life-saving device. Always use your own situational awareness. ALWAYS FREE: • Live captions of nearby speech (Speaker Mode), separated by speaker • Live text to speech of captions to any bluetooth connected audio device (Beats, iPods, hearing aids) • Real-time alerts — alarms, sirens, knocks, doorbells, a crying baby, a person approaching • Official severe-weather warnings — US (NWS), Europe (MeteoGate), Japan (JMA), China (CMA), Korea (KMA), India (NDMA), Canada (ECCC), Australia (BOM), and Brazil (INMET) — gated by geographic position of your device • Live radar map with directional guidance, multi-target tracking, and haptics • Alerts appear on your Apple Watch too, even when your iPhone is asleep as long as the app is running (even minimized) • Siri, Shortcuts & Action Button — ask "What's around me?" (or type it to Siri) for a spoken-and-on-screen summary of nearby sounds, and start or stop listening hands-free • 300+ on-device sound classifications — your audio or telemetry data never leaves your device • Earthquake alerts if a deep rumble (infrasound) is heard with confirmation from the USGS. POWER PACK+ — optional, one-time charge • Translation — captions converted into your language, on-device • Constellation — link nearby iPhones into a shared, more precise picture of sounds (acoustic mesh/biangulation/triangulation) • Music & Sound ID — name the songs playing around you • Remote Link — reach someone who isn't with you, using video and text. No audio at any point, so nothing depends on hearing at either end — and it gives you a way to sign with someone. You send a code; they join free, without Power Pack+. Power Pack+ is free to try for your first 90 days; after that, captions and alerts stay free forever and a small one-time fee keeps the glamorous extras. No subscription, ever. Privacy first: all listening, transcription, translation, and sound classification run entirely on your device. The only exception: if you use Music ID, a short audio fingerprint — never raw audio — goes to Apple's Shazam service to name the song. Compare that to other apps! Built for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Stay aware. THE UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR, FOR REAL Science fiction promised a device that simply understands — no setup, no picking languages. Vigilant Ear is the closest thing yet: it detects the language being spoken on its own, separates the voices, and captions every speaker in the room in your language, live and entirely on your device. In 1.0.10+, the app can also "speak" the captions to any bluetooth enabled device such as Beats headphones, iPods, or hearing aids. ## Rankings - #540,960 — Overall ## Similar extensions and apps - [BeAware Deaf Assistant](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1609670787) — 4.50 / 5 - [HearAssist](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6762711262) - [ALRM](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6739757486) — 4.20 / 5 - [Earshot Live Transcription](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6768166317) — 4.00 / 5 - [Hark - Live Captions](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6772125031) - [AdAlert](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6753354718) - [Visualfy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1239331584) — 1.00 / 5 - [Weyyak-SA](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6739612812) - [Listening Device: Clarive](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6748903280) — 4.80 / 5 - [BeWarned – App for Deaf and Hard of Hearing](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id990607348) — 2.00 / 5 - [Visual Hear — Helper for Deaf](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id899882405) - [Deaf Transcriber : HearingPal](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6759249514) — 4.30 / 5 --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761978703)