Loxley Sound Level Meter

Point your phone at a sound and see how loud it is. A big dial shows the level, live, in A-weighted decibels, the way real sound level meters read, with a few words under the number that say what that level is like: a whisper, a quiet room, a normal conversation, a busy street, heavy traffic. No ads, no sign-up, no accounts, and nothing watching what you do.

WHAT'S NEW IN 1.2
• A-weighted readings (dBA), which track how loud things sound to your ears. Tap Flat for the unweighted number.
• A 60-second graph of the level, with the 85 dB hearing-risk line drawn across it, so you see the spike, not just the number.
• A spectrum view: ten octave bands from 31 Hz to 16 kHz show which pitch range is loud, with a thin line holding each band's peak.
• A Log tab. Save a reading with a note, or tap 1 min for a timed measurement that saves itself when the minute is up. Share the log as text or export it as a CSV file.
• Colour zones on the dial (green, gold, red past 85) and a tick that marks the peak since you last reset.
• A calibration offset in Settings: if you have a real meter, set this so both read the same.
• Keep the screen on while measuring.
• Meter, Log and Recordings are tabs across the top, like the other Loxley apps, and the back button returns to the previous screen instead of leaving the app.

WHAT YOU GET
• A live dial reading the sound level in approximate dBA or dB
• Min, average (energy average, like a real meter) and peak while you measure, with one-tap reset
• Plain-words captions for the number
• The last 60 seconds as a graph, or the spectrum by octave band
• Saved readings with notes and timed 1-minute measurements, shareable as text or CSV
• A Record button that captures audio only when you tap it
• A Recordings list showing each clip's length, size and date; rename, share or delete any of them
• A playback screen with a scrollable waveform you can tap to seek, and peak markers at the loudest moments
• Recordings saved as standard WAV files on your device
• Works offline

Honest about the limits, too: phone microphones aren't calibrated, so the meter gives you a useful relative reading, not a certified SPL measurement. The offset in Settings lets you line it up with a real meter if you have one.

THE LOXLEY PROMISE
• No ads, ever
• No tracking, no analytics, no accounts
• No internet permission, so it cannot phone home
• The only permission is the microphone, used solely to measure and record
• Recordings and readings stay on your device; nothing is uploaded
• Free, and yours to keep

Loxley Labs makes simple tools the old way: something that does one job well, then stops.

Questions? [email protected]