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Acoustic Ruler Pro

Acoustic Ruler Pro at Mac App Store analyse

Florian Student
5,584 ratings · Power index: 250
Version 4.4
Size 3.24 Mb
Updated 8 years ago
Released 01 Nov 2011

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[Please also check out my app Sonalarm, the first sleep cycle alarm clock app that works from your bedside table with NO additional hardware!] Wouldnt it be amazing to have a ruler in your pocket all the time? Well now you can! Measure distances of up to 25 meters (82 feet) with two devices or up to 1.10 meters with one device and headphones. Click below on "Florian Student Web Site" or open www.iq-tainment.com to watch two videos demonstrating the app. Acoustic Ruler Pro has been featured on Cult of Mac, Techcrunch, GIZMODO, lifehacker, and MAKEZine. The app works by clocking the time delay of the emitted sound waves. There are two different operation modes: a single device operation (with headphones) and a dual device mode for measuring the distance *between* two devices. Read below to find out which modes work on your iOS device. Single device (headphone) mode: This mode works on the iPhone 3GS (and newer), iPod Touch 3rd Generation (and newer) and on all iPads. You either need one of those devices and headphones with a mic or headphones without a mic and a iOS device with a built-in mic (excluding the iPod Touch 3rd Generation). The resolution in this mode is 1mm or 1/10 of an inch, depending on the unit system you have selected. Dual device mode: For this mode you need two compatible iOS devices. These are: iPhone 3GS (and newer), iPod Touch 4th Generation and all iPads. One device has to be started as the master device, and the other as the reflector device. The measurement is started on the master device, by pressing the “Measure” button. The reflector device then sends back the chirp of the master which displays the measurement result. The resolution in this mode is 1cm or 1/2 of an inch. When you first start the program, it will guide you through the easy calibration steps with text and illustrations explaining what to do. Please recalibrate when you are getting wrong measurements. The app lets you set the air temperature as an additional calibration. This is important, because the speed of sound varies considerably with temperature, affecting the precision of the measurements. You can switch between displaying the measurement in feet/inches and meters/centimeters. Accordingly, the air temperature will either be set in degrees fahrenheit or celsius. Since the app works by sending and receiving sound, you’ll obviously get the best results when using it in an environment that is not too loud. Starting with version 4.2 of the app, the measured latency (delay) is also displayed. Double-tap the display of the distance to swap the locations where delay and distance are displayed. This feature was added because a couple of users of the app thought it could be useful to measure latencies in their audio systems. In the dual-device mode the displayed delay corresponds to the delay from one device to the other (i.e. half of the totally measured, round-trip delay). If there are any problems with my app, please let me know by using the contact form on my blog. I will do what I can to get it working perfectly on your device. Customer satisfaction is very important to me. ----- Follow @acoustic_ruler on Twitter to stay up to date with the newest developments, or to report any problems you may have.

Estimates

Monthly Downloads > 5.5k
Est. Revenue ~ $2.25k

Availability

Devices

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Pricing by country

Country Price
Canada 2.99 CAD
China 12 CNY
France 2.99 EUR
Germany 2.99 EUR
Italy 2.99 EUR
Netherlands 2.99 EUR
Portugal 2.99 EUR
Spain 2.99 EUR
Poland 2.99 EUR
UK 1.99 GBP
India 160 INR
Japan 250 JPY
Poland 8.99 PLN
Russia 169 RUB
Turkey 6.99 TRY
USA 1.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 2.19 USD
Ukraine 1.99 USD

Étonnant

Archiebald Turtle · 14 years ago · v1.01

Marche très bien !

2 i devices necessaire !

Makeupontheroad.com · 14 years ago · v1.01

Juste une remarque, pour une mesure au dela de 25cm il faut 2 iphones ou ipad. Pour chaque i device il faut un licence soit presque 2 €.... autant acheter un metre :)

Pas précis

Marjorie20 · 14 years ago · v1.01

Une fois la bonne température ajustée, pour 25 cm, ça saute de 22 à 32 cm !!!!! ... et pour 9,68m, jai 10m24 !!!

Ajustement

ArchiX · 14 years ago · v1.03

Pour linstant les mesures effectuées entre un iPad 1 et un iPhone 4S sont fausses (au moins dun facteur 2) mais je crois au potentiel de cette app ainsi je laisse 2

A éviter !

phran6 · 14 years ago · v2.0

Fonctionne très mal avec 2 iphone (un 4s et un 3g) : soit échec ("fail"), soit donnée fantaisiste. Nest pas fiable avec les écouteurs non plus. Donc évitez de perdre 1,59 euros comme moi...

Mouais...

Mussopo · 13 years ago · v2.0

Testé avec écouteurs uniquement. Précision de la mesure correcte. Mais on est du coup limité à la longueur de fil des écouteurs !!! Pas testé avec un 2e iphone. Deux étoiles pour le concept.

lamentable

PhilippeSama · 9 years ago · v4.4

La plupart du temps ne fonctionne pas ou donne des mesures aberrantes. Parfois ça marche, cest bien rare et comme on ne peut jamais faire confiance au résultat, cette app est strictement inutilisable, encore 2€ gaspillé, merci Apple, merci les développeurs du dimanche.