September 2026
RoomScore was an iPhone app that measured the acoustics of conference rooms. It is no longer available, and it is not coming back.
It worked. People who started a measurement almost always finished one, and the numbers it produced were real. There just were not enough of those people to make it a business, and I would rather say that plainly than leave a website up pretending otherwise.
What follows is the part worth keeping.
Between January and September 2026, RoomScore measured 183 rooms. The headline finding is not the one I expected when I started, and it runs against most of what gets sold in this category.
Most conference rooms are acoustically fine. Nine rooms in ten sat inside a healthy reverberation range without any treatment at all. The common sales pitch, that your meeting rooms are echo chambers in need of acoustic panels, was not true of the rooms we measured.
Reverberation was rarely the issue. Microphone coverage was.
| Room size | Rooms | Median RT60 | Median coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 53 | 0.44 s | 82% |
| Medium | 122 | 0.45 s | 54% |
| Large | 8 | 0.53 s | 28% |
Reverberation barely moves as rooms get bigger. Coverage falls off a cliff. In 70% of the rooms we measured, under 70% of the seating area was well covered by the microphone, which means somebody in that room is hard to hear on every call.
Across the rooms where we could compare, room size mattered far more than which soundbar was installed. The two best represented brands were indistinguishable from each other, while the same brand swung more than 30 percentage points between a small room and a medium one. If you are trying to fix a room, where people sit relative to the microphone is a better place to look than the brand on the device.
Coverage figures come from 47 rooms, the subset where a walk test was completed. That is a small sample and the large-room row rests on a single measurement, so read it as a direction and not a number.
If you used RoomScore, your account data and scans have been deleted. Nothing was ever sold or licensed to anyone, and nothing will be. The figures above are aggregates that cannot identify a person, an organisation or a room.
To everyone who measured a room, wrote in, or asked when it was launching: thank you. A handful of people took this seriously enough to walk around their offices clapping at their phones, and I am genuinely grateful for it.