Tinnitus SoundsSweep
A tone glides slowly from low to high and repeats as long as you like. Tap Mark when it sounds like your ringing. After a few passes, your marks cluster around your pitch.
Free
For people living with ringing in the ears
Find your tinnitus tone. Then choose what you hear.
A slow, repeating sweep and a fine-tune matcher help you pin down the exact pitch you hear. Then play CR tones and notched noise built around it, or mix calming background sounds. It all runs in your browser.
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Free to try, nothing to download. Cancel the full version anytime.
4,000Hz
B7 −14¢
250 Hz → 12 kHz, then again
4tools in one place
7background sounds
0apps to install
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How it works
From "what is that sound?" to a nightly routine.
The tools work in order. Each step uses what you found in the one before.
Match
Nudge 1% at a time, check an octave up and down, and pick the ear. Use a pure tone, narrow-band noise or hiss, whichever sounds closest.
Free · noise types and saving in fullCR tones
Four short tones, two just below your pitch and two just above, in a new random order each cycle. This follows the acoustic coordinated reset method from published research.
Full versionSounds
Notched noisePinkBrownRainOceanStreamWind
Notched noise cuts a one-octave gap around your exact pitch. Layer it with nature sounds, set each level, and let the timer turn everything off after you fall asleep.
Pink noise free · all seven in full
Pricing
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Try it free. Subscribe if it helps.
The basic tools are always free. The full version is a simple subscription that starts with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel it anytime.
Free
$0
- Repeating frequency sweep with marks
- Pitch matcher with pure tone
- Octave check, left, right or both ears
- Pink noise
- Auto-stop up to 15 minutes
- CR tones
- Notched noise, brown noise and nature sounds
- Saved match history
Full version
$4.99/month
$39.99/year
That's about $3.33 a month, billed once a year.
7 days free. You won't be charged until your trial ends.
- Everything in Free
- CR tones built around your pitch
- Notched noise tuned to your pitch
- Brown noise, rain, ocean, stream and wind
- Mix sounds together, each with its own level
- Narrow-band noise and hiss for matching
- Saved match history to share with your audiologist
- Auto-stop up to 4 hours
- Every future sound and tool we add
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Guides
Understand what you're hearing.
Plain-language guides with honest research summaries, including where the evidence is mixed.
Start here
How to find your tinnitus frequency at home
The slow sweep, the 1% matcher and the octave check.
SleepWhite vs pink vs brown noise
Which sound to try, how loud, and for how long.
ResearchNotched noise for tinnitus
The idea, the setup and what three studies found.
ResearchCR neuromodulation, explained
The four tones, the timing and the trial results.
Questions
Good to know.
Is this a treatment for tinnitus?
No. Tinnitus Sounds is a self-help tool for exploring and describing the sound you hear, and for playing sounds you find comfortable. It doesn't diagnose, treat or cure any condition. If your tinnitus is new, sudden, in one ear only, pulses with your heartbeat, or comes with hearing loss or dizziness, see a doctor or audiologist.
Do I need headphones?
Headphones give the most accurate match, and they're required for picking the left or right ear. Laptop and phone speakers often can't play below about 200 Hz or above about 14 kHz.
How loud should it be?
Quiet. Start low and raise it slowly. For matching, CR tones and notched noise, set it to about the loudness of your tinnitus and no louder. Stop if any sound is uncomfortable or makes your ringing worse.
What are CR tones and notched noise?
CR (acoustic coordinated reset) plays four tones spaced around your pitch, at 0.766, 0.9, 1.1 and 1.4 times its frequency, in shuffled order, based on research by Tass and colleagues (2012). Notched noise is pink noise with a one-octave band removed around your pitch, an idea that comes from research on "notched" sound by Okamoto and colleagues (2010). Both are experimental, and study results have been mixed.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in any up-to-date browser on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Chromebook. Nothing to download or install.
Is my information private?
Your matches, marks and settings are stored only in your own browser. We don't receive them. Payments are handled by Stripe, and we never see your card number.
How does the subscription work?
Start with 7 days free. You enter a card at signup, but you aren't charged until the trial ends, and if you cancel before then you pay nothing. The full version is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and includes new sounds and tools as we add them. It renews automatically until you cancel. If it isn't for you, email us within 30 days of your first payment for a full refund.
How do I cancel?
Use Manage subscription at the bottom of any page, sign in with your email, and click Cancel. You keep the full version until the end of the period you've paid for, and you won't be charged again.
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Go to Restore on this device and enter the email you subscribed with and the last four digits of your card.
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