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Granular Volume

Quieter than your phone or tablet allows.

Sometimes the lowest volume setting is still too loud, on a phone or a tablet. And sometimes the volume buttons themselves stop working. Granular Volume puts the whole volume range on your screen: one floating slider with normal volume above your device's minimum line, and the quiet steps Android leaves out below it.

After you install, open it once and allow it to display over other apps. That is the entire setup.

Free No ads No tracking Open source Phones & tablets Android 9+

See it, and hear it

Watch Android's own slider run out of room, then watch the dial keep going below it. The audio in the video drops with every step on screen.

When the lowest setting is still too loud

The first notch above mute can be too much for a quiet room, a sleeping baby, or a sensitive pair of headphones, on a phone or a tablet. Android will not go lower. Granular Volume does, on both.

Quieter than minimum

Fine volume steps beneath the lowest hardware step, for when even the minimum is too much.

The whole range on screen

Above the device-minimum line the slider sets normal system volume, so it stands in for worn or broken volume buttons. Even 5 dB steps on speaker and wired; on Bluetooth it follows your device's real hardware steps, so every bar is audible.

Mutes media, not alarms

One tap silences media and leaves the alarm volume where it was. The quiet steps do lower alarms too, so test your level before a morning you cannot miss.

Phones and tablets alike

Tablets often have an even higher minimum volume than phones. Granular Volume works exactly the same way on both.

A floating volume control

It floats over any app. Drag it anywhere, tuck it to an edge, close it with one tap.

No takeover

Your buttons and the system panel keep working. The dial sits on top as an overlay and controls only the level.

Quick Settings tile

Swipe down, tap once. Toggle the control on or off from your notification shade without opening the app.

Free and private

No ads, no tracking, no account, no network access. Open source under GPL-3.0.

Made for quiet moments

The volume you reach for at night, on a phone or a tablet.

Sleep and white noise

Keep lullabies and white noise barely audible next to a sleeping baby.

Sensitive headphones

For IEMs and bone conduction where even a few percent is too strong.

Tablet speakers

Tablet speakers and headphones, where the minimum step is often even louder than on a phone.

Late night listening

A podcast or audiobook to fall asleep to, without waking anyone beside you.

Quiet rooms

A library, a quiet office, meditation, or anywhere that needs calm.

Samsung Galaxy too loud

Galaxy phone, tablet, or Buds still too loud at the lowest step, when Sound Assistant doesn't help.

Earbuds too loud

When one Bluetooth step is too big a jump, and the lowest is still too loud in your ears.

Calls too loud

When the earpiece or speakerphone stays too loud at the lowest step, in a quiet room or late at night.

Already tried everything?

Limiter apps, EQ presets, fine-step tools, Normalize Volume, none of it moved the floor. Here's why, and what does.

Pixel calls too loud

Check the hearing aid setting first, then the in-call floor itself. Covers Pixel 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9a.

Alarm too loud

The alarm slider is on step one and still jolts you awake. Also covers ringtones and notifications.

Why the floor exists

The lowest step is a decision in Android's audio mixer, not a fault in your phone. Where the limit comes from, and what can move it.

Volume buttons not working

Stuck, stiff or dead volume keys. The free fixes first, then a slider on screen that stands in for them.

Sensitive ears

Quieter levels than the minimum for sensitive hearing. A comfort utility, not a medical device.

See it

Swipe through.

When the lowest setting is still too loud One slider, the whole volume range Works when your buttons do not Mutes media, never your alarms One tap from Quick Settings

One slider, the whole range

Most volume apps make things louder or rebuild your whole audio system. Granular Volume covers your normal range and then keeps going where they stop: below the minimum.

Granular VolumeTypical volume app
Goes quieter than the minimumMakes things louder
Stands in for broken volume buttonsOverrides working ones
One slider, no setupEqualizer, presets, accounts
Free, open source, no trackingOften paid or ad supported

Get the volume you were missing, on your phone or tablet

After you install, open it once and allow it to display over other apps. That is the entire setup.