Volume, a Windows Phone volume management app

Volume

Book is an interesting utility app for Windows Phone 8 that helps you lot manage your phone's volume levels. If yous are constantly adjusting the volume throughout the day or find that you lot often forget to adjust things, this app may be of assist. Book will let you set profiles to automatically adjust your Windows Phone's book during cardinal times of the 24-hour interval (meetings, after hours, during classes, etc.) and create Live Tiles to quickly conform the volume for those unexpected times.

Book has plenty of options, some of which require an in-app purchase for the premium version, available to regulate your Windows Phone volume. The app's user interface takes a petty time to become used to but overall, Volume comes across as a handy app for those needing a little assist adjusting the volume levels.

Features

Key features for Volume include:

Automatically adjusting the sound volume based on the time of the twenty-four hours or solar day of the calendar week.
Use pre-set profiles to switch between unlike sound settings.
Profile override ability.
Alive Tiles to display current sound profile, to temporarily accommodate the volume, to activate a sound profile, and to use the default book.

The main folio for Volume volition display your active profile, electric current volume level, controls to override the profile, constitute a time limit on the override. You also have tile buttons to plow off the sound, set a custom volume, return to the default book, and silent the book for appointments (available in the Pro version).

Volume Main Page and Menu

There are besides four control buttons at the lesser of the main page that includes access to the app's settings, view your sound profiles, create a Alive Tile and view more than apps from the developer. Upwardly under the iii-dot menu are links to the app'southward main carte and a troubleshooting/help section.

The Master Bill of fare selection sends you lot to a screen that will give you list options to access Book's settings, profiles, the help/feedback page and the about screen.

App Settings

Volume App Settings

Volume's settings comprehend general awarding options, volume management, notifications and date options. They suspension downward as follows:

General options cover language choices and setting an car exit time. When yous utilize a Live Tile that changes settings, the app volition launch briefly to reflect the changes the Live Tile has made. The machine get out fourth dimension controls how long the app is displayed.
Volume Direction has three options to plow on/off automatic volume direction, skip any volume changes if music is playing and an early profile change.
Notification options include turning on/off notifications for contour changes, disabling notifications when in silent way and choosing the notification sound.
Appointment settings allow you to cull which account to monitor for appointments, turning on/off the silent style during appointments and choosing the notification audio.

Contour Settings

Volume comes with two, pre-fix audio profiles. You do have the ability to add more than profiles but you will need to upgrade to the Pro version to enjoy this feature. The two pre-gear up profiles include a Dark Profile and the Default Profile.

Volume Profile Settings

To admission and edit these profiles, just tap the Profiles command button off the main page. Editing options include general, activation and volume settings. Full general settings deal with the proper noun, colour and icon of the profile. Activation settings cover the 24-hour interval and time the profile should be active and notification sounds. Volume settings let you to ready that particular contour's volume level.

Activation options are time based for every mean solar day of the calendar week or specific days of the week.

Live Tiles

Four Live Tiles are available for Volume. They include a principal Alive Tile that displays the active contour, a ready book Live Tile, a Live Tile to activate a profile, and a Live Tile to override the current volume profile.

Volume Live Tiles

Book has a dainty Alive Tile creation wizard that walks y'all through all the parameters for each Live Tile. The free version is limited to 1 active Live Tile. To add more Live Tiles to your Windows Phone Start Screen you will need to upgrade to the Pro version of Volume.

Pro Version

While the free version of Book has plenty of features, a Pro version is bachelor through a $1.99 in-app buy. The Pro version brings the post-obit features to the table.

Removes the ad-support
The ability to create additional profiles
The ability to pivot more than one Live Tile
Allows for notifications when the volume changes
Unlocks the feature to automatically set your Windows Phone to silent during meetings
Adds a one 2nd, immediately, and tap to shut options for the car go out fourth dimension.

The need to upgrade is solely up to your private needs. If ii profiles and one Live Tile will do the play tricks, it probably isn't worth the in-app purchase.

Overall Impression

Book has a lot going for it with plenty of options to manage your Windows Phone sound levels. The app ran smoothly and did not skip a beat when automatically adjusting the volume.

The app's interface is a fiddling on the cumbersome side and I would not mind seeing the Main Card option removed from the three-dot menu. It just felt a lilliputian redundant when you take command buttons to access the same features the Primary Menu offers. It takes a niggling fourth dimension using Volume to get the hang of things but once you do, setting up your profiles and activating them does go easier.

Overall, Volume is a dainty Windows Phone 8 app for those who need to automatically adjust their sound levels. The gratuitous version has enough meat on the bones to satisfy most Windows Phone possessor's needs while the Pro version is available for those needing a little more.

Volume is a free, advertizement-supported app that is available for Windows Phone 8 devices (including low-retentivity devices). Y'all can find your copy of Volume here in the Windows Telephone Store.

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