What SoundPrint does

SoundPrint LLC is a New York-based, privately held operator of a crowdsourced mobile platform that uses smartphone microphones to measure ambient decibel levels at hospitality and entertainment venues. The company distributes a free consumer application on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, enabling individual users to measure sound levels in real time via a built-in decibel meter, submit location-tagged SoundCheck readings with atmospheric metadata (day, time, average/max/min dBA, venue type), nominate venues to community-curated Quiet Lists, and file noise complaints that the company may route to venue managers and acoustic consultants. The platform also reads Apple HealthKit to display Environmental Sound Level exposure data from Apple Watch, positioning SoundPrint as both a venue-discovery tool and a hearing-health companion.

The underlying technology is a crowdsourced acoustic-data layer rather than a sensor IP: the core asset is a growing public database of venue decibel readings segmented into Quiet (≤69 dBA), Moderate (70-75 dBA), Loud (75-80 dBA), and Very Loud (≥80 dBA) bands, displayed via search and venue-detail interfaces and supplemented by Foursquare venue metadata and Google Maps directions. The company is incorporated in Delaware, headquartered at a New York PO Box, and explicitly markets only to US users, with venue coverage observed across cities including Tucson, Denver, Colorado Springs, Bentonville, Branson, and Commerce City.

The business model is consumer-freemium with no disclosed pricing tiers or subscriptions, and no institutional funding, parent company, or management team disclosed in available sources. Stated monetization pathways are limited to potential data licensing to hearing aid manufacturers and audio-AI companies (via an opt-in Audio Consent Recording feature), venue-manager outreach for noise mitigation, and referrals to acoustic consultants. The company has earned tier-1 press recognition (Time Best Inventions 2019, Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2019, New Yorker feature, Oprah Magazine) but operates with no disclosed headcount, revenue, or capital base.

Name

SoundPrint

Legal name

SoundPrint LLC

Website

https://soundprint.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SoundPrint LLC operates a free iOS and Android mobile app that lets consumers measure venue decibel levels via smartphone microphones and submit them to a crowdsourced database, helping users find quiet venues while protecting hearing health.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. App Distribution: Free mobile application for consumers to measure sound levels and find quiet venues. Revenue model is not explicitly disclosed in available sources.
2. Data Licensing: The company collects sound level submission data that may be shared with qualified third-party researchers or organizations on an aggregated basis. The Terms & Conditions also mention the ability to commercialize data for hearing aid manufacturers and audio-AI companies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SoundPrint provides a free mobile application (iOS and Android) that uses smartphone microphones to measure ambient sound levels at venues and submit those readings to a crowdsourced public database. Users can search for quiet or moderate venues, view community-curated Quiet Lists, submit noise complaints to venue managers, and protect their hearing health by avoiding venues with dangerous decibel levels. The platform also enables sharing of consented ambient audio recordings with hearing-aid manufacturers and audio-AI companies for machine learning.

Product overview

SoundPrint is a community-driven mobile application platform centered around a decibel meter that enables users to measure, submit, and search for venue sound levels. The core product consists of the SoundPrint mobile app (available for iOS and Android) which features SoundCheck for measuring and submitting decibel readings, a crowd-sourced venue database with aggregated historical data, Quiet Lists for community-recommended quiet venues, Search functionality for finding venues by noise level, and Noise Complaints for user-driven venue feedback. The platform operates on user-generated content model where community submissions populate the public database, which users can then search to find quiet venues or avoid loud ones. The product is positioned around hearing health protection and facilitating conversation in public spaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SoundPrint Mobile App A free mobile application (iOS and Android) for individual consumers that uses the device's microphone to measure venue sound levels, submits readings with atmospheric variables to a public database, searches for quiet or moderate venues, recommends venues to Quiet Lists, files noise complaints, integrates with Apple HealthKit to display personal Apple Watch environmental sound exposure, and (via Audio Consent Recording) optionally shares ambient audio with hearing-aid manufacturers and audio-AI companies for ML training.

Quantifiable outcome

• Venues are categorized into four noise levels: Quiet (≤69 dBA), Moderate (70-75 dBA), Loud (75-80 dBA), and Very Loud (≥80 dBA)

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Hearing Aid Manufacturers and Audio-AI CompaniescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoundPrint's Audio Consent Recording feature allows users to consent to having ambient sound recordings shared with hearing aid manufacturers and audio-AI companies for machine learning algorithm training to help hearing aids better decipher sounds in various environments. This is a stated strategic purpose of the platform.
• Acoustic ConsultantsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoundPrint may recommend acoustic consultants to venues that receive noise complaints, helping them diagnose acoustic environments and offer solutions for noise mitigation. The platform also shares anonymized sound recordings with acoustic consultants for venue diagnosis.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Foursquare Places: SoundPrint already ingests Foursquare venue data and links out to Foursquare records. Foursquare is an upstream data infrastructure peer rather than a direct competitor, but with venue data and discovery ubiquity it could trivially extend into noise ratings.
• Phonak / Sonova hearing aids: Major hearing-aid manufacturer explicitly named in SoundPrint's terms as a potential data-licensing counterparty. Represents both a revenue opportunity (consumer of ambient-sound ML training data) and an existential risk (a vertically integrated audio-AI company could acquire or build a competitor).

Broad incumbents

• Apple Noise app / Apple Watch Noise monitoring: Apple ships built-in environmental sound-level monitoring and hearing-health features on Apple Watch and iOS Health — the most threatening incumbent because it is preinstalled on hundreds of millions of devices and already shares exposure data with Apple Health, the same channel SoundPrint currently integrates with.
• Yelp: Crowdsourced consumer venue-discovery platform that SoundPrint explicitly compares itself to ("Like Yelp, but for Noise"). Yelp's broader review/rating franchise could trivially absorb a noise dimension if it chose to.

Direct peers

• Decibel X: Top-ranked iOS/Android decibel meter app with calibration features. Directly competes for the same consumer use case (measuring ambient noise levels on a phone) but without SoundPrint's crowdsourced venue-database social layer.
• NIOSH Sound Level Meter: Free, professionally validated iOS sound level meter from the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; the same target user (anyone curious about venue sound levels) and the same core measurement workflow as SoundPrint, but distributed by a federal agency rather than a private company.
• Spectroid: Open-source real-time sound analysis Android app measuring ambient SPL. Competes for the same smartphone-based ambient-noise measurement use case; lacks crowd data.

Regional players

• WHO Make Listening Safe / HearWHO: World Health Organization public-health initiative on hearing loss prevention, including the HearWHO hearing-check app. Comparable in mission (hearing-health awareness) and partially in user experience (mobile measurement), but global/public-sector in scope rather than U.S. private and venue-focused.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SoundPrintapp
• Facebookfacebook.com/soundprintapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/soundprintapp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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