Awareness! The Headphone App app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 1152 ratings )
Utilities Music
Developer: Essency
6.99 USD
Current version: 2.9.2, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 11 Sep 2010
App size: 6.64 Mb

Awareness! Variable Noise Isolation for all headphones and earphones. Awareness, with its iconic interface, has become the mainstay app for hundreds of thousands of headphone users since its release in 2010.

A must have for noise isolating and in-ear monitors.

Choose how much, if any of your environment you hear, listen to your music, listen to the world, or listen to both, the choice is yours!

Listen to music AND the outside world without having to remove an earpiece. Walking, running, jogging, cycling, at home, at work, or on your way, Awareness!® helps you hear whats happening around you while listening to music.

Featuring:
AutoPause – automatically pauses your music when someone talks to you, un-pauses when your conversation is over

AutoSet – one button setup, analyse background noise and turns the mic on for any sound louder than background noise

AutoSet Plus – continuously monitors background noise and only turns the mic on for louder ambient sounds, great for when you are on the move

ClearVoice – makes speech clearer and easier to hear

Microphone Boost – gives you super hearing. Caution can make the microphone very loud

3 Band EQ – NEW for iOS 10! - boost or reduce, high, mid, or low frequencies on the mic.

dB Noise Meter – display ambient noise as SPL (for entertainment purposes only)

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"Awareness!™ listens for danger when you cant"

"ONE OF THE TOP 500 APPS IN THE WORLD" The SUNDAY TIMES.

- The best Street Safety app, stay aware whatever you are listening to
- An aid for the blind and partially sighted – retain awareness using headphones
- A powerful hearing aid – louder than all hearing aid apps we’ve tried
- A Spy device for covert listening – can pick up conversations in rooms next door

Enjoy your music – but still hear danger
Awareness!® will interrupt your music for sudden loud noises like cars, screams or announcements. A must-have for joggers, cyclists and travellers. Perfect for exercising, jogging, awaiting a boarding call at the airport, or even listening to a podcast while watching kids in the playground.

You control how much outside sound is heard and when. No need to remove or re-adjust your earphones, even with noise cancelling or noise isolating headsets.

- Awareness!® could save your life, stop you missing a flight, or just let you listen & talk 

- Joggers & cyclists - hear that truck before it flattens you
- Travelers - watch a movie without missing your announcements
- Workers - listen to music but hear the phone ringing
- Multitaskers – talk to friends AND listen to music at the same time!

AWARENESS!® V2.9.2 is heavily refined, optimised for iOS10 and with new EQ on the mic channel and some nice performance tweaks.

- MUST HAVE a headset with a good quality inline mic or Awareness automatically uses your devices internal mic

- DOES NOT WORK with Bluetooth/Wireless

REVIEWS
"ONE OF THE TOP 500 APPS IN THE WORLD" The SUNDAY TIMES.

5 Star "One of the most useful apps we’ve seen” - WHAT MOBILE

"A modern ESSENTIAL!.” - STUFF.TV

"One of The Best Sound Aware Apps" SUNDAY TIMES

"The app automatically set a level to allow us to hear the loud noises around us, including when someone asked us to borrow a chair from our table. At home it blissfully kept neighborhood sounds from interrupting our music listening but piped through dog barks warning us of a visitor." APPSHOPPER

"Without doubt the most important app around" User Review.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- iOS10 or above
- iPhone 5 or above


• EAR CARE: If you need to turn the microphone volume up high, you are listening too loud.

• VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/user/EssencyHeadphoneApps

• SAFETY: NEVER wear headphones where there is any risk of personal danger!

• Comments, Support? Get in touch at http://www.essency.co.uk/

Awareness!® is a registered trade mark belonging to Essency Ltd. © 2010/2016 Essency. All rights reserved. UK Patented. US Patents Pending.

Photos courtesy of Pressfoto

Pros and cons of Awareness! The Headphone App app for iPhone and iPad

Awareness! The Headphone App app good for

Five stars because it does what it claims to do. Also I believe its such a great safety feature that it should come implemented by Apple by default.
Such a great idea for an app. You can have full conversations with people while listening to your music(y)
This app will save lives if you listen to music buy this app it is a must have. Dont miss anything, wanna be save running biking listen to music. Must buy worth more than 5$
this app is really good if you are a person like me who likes to talk with friends but still want to listen to music without having to turn the volume down or only put headphone in your ear. you have to get this app while its still cheap!!!($2.99)
Now I can hear my dogs if they bark, and listen to music. Also, it uses in in-line mic if you have one so pocket noise is not an issue.
Now I can listen to music at work and hear those who come in to my office. Note: For those who have mic issues. You should consider trying high end ear buds. Remember, you get what you pay for. I have BOSE earbuds and they work great with this software.

Some bad moments

... Is it to make customers angry, as soon as they discover that it will cost them about 6,50€ of in-app purchases to unlock all features the app currently has to offer? Each of these "add-ons" is 0,79€ or more. Why pay for a sinlgle feature? The same Money could buy whole apps. Tss, tss, tss ... ... Is it to prevent potential customers (provided they are smart enough to take a look at the ridiculous expensive in-app purchases before they push the buy button) from making the purchase of the app at all? ... Is it to demonstrate to the world, that the same human beings that are smart enough to develop sophisticated software can be completely stupid when it comes to marketing strategy? ... Is it to prove, that intelligence and arrogance often go hand in hand? Well then, maybe its not arrogance but rather stupidity (again) to believe that a sufficient number of people will be ready to waste their money on a product like this app, to repay the time invested in building it. Whatever! I recommend to download this app as long as its free and rate it the one star it deserves for showing that in the capitalistic world of ours, greed once more triumphed over reason and respectful interaction with customers! Oh, this is the Apple app store. Sorry, I forgot.
App seems to work but it ruins the screen of your iPhone. Installs a big red bar at the top of your screen that flashes on and off like a goal light in a hockey game. How obnoxious and egotistical. It is hardly my most important app. Seems no way to uninstall this "feature". Get a life.
Found completely useless while riding a bike......that is unless you like listening to the wind and/or your breath instead of music. At speeds of over 35kph wind and your breath become a constant!!! The purpose for which the app is designed does not work, as mike is worn on the front of your body which causes terrible startling effect when a car goes by (sound starts as car is RIGHT beside you) . As far as conversation is concerned , all I have found is that my voice is amplified but the other persons voice is missed unless I constantly ask the other person to speak up. There is potential with this product.... but not worth a cent at this point. As a matter of fact you lawyers out there might want to start handing out cards to cyclists using this product as a defensive riding product??!!
I have to give props to the author of the app for the clever idea, but as it is, I dont think Ill get much use out of this app. I own a pair of in-ear buds with an inline mic. They block out a bit too much of the surroundings for my comfort, and I hoped this app would remedy this. The problem is that the mic doesnt pick up any distant sounds. Youre not likely to hear a friend calling out to you, for example. The mic trigger ends up being a distraction with its cutting in and out for gusts of wind, big trucks, etc. I think the app might work better if you are indoors in a quiet area and need to hear the doorbell, but for outdoor use I cant recommend it.
While the mic in my headphones cause the sound to duck, I get no environment sound in the mix. Perhaps an iOS 6 issue that will be addressed. Disappointed thus far. Horrible documentation too.
About $10 for app that just adds drilling noise and echo (I use apple in-ear headset) to the music you listen. Dosnt do ambient noise cancelation, does not pass-through voice from around well. I actually cannot get what should it do by design.

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