Tinnitus De-correlation Sound Therapy

Free · Private · Runs entirely in your browser — based on a 2025 randomized controlled trial.

What is this? — 1-minute explanation

Short version: a free sound-therapy tool for chronic tinnitus. It plays gentle harmonic sounds whose fine structure around your tinnitus frequency is modulated to be maximally unpredictable — aiming to retrain the over-precise brain processing thought to keep tinnitus going. It implements the cross-frequency de-correlating stimulus modulation tested in Yukhnovich et al., Hearing Research 2025 (Newcastle University, open access).

How to use: ① let the guided matcher find your tinnitus pitch (~5 min) → ② pick a hearing profile → ③ listen ~60 min daily for 6 weeks and log your tinnitus loudness.

Evidence status (honest): in one blinded randomized crossover trial (77 completers), this stimulus reduced tinnitus loudness significantly versus placebo (~10% on average, more for some people), and the effect persisted for at least 3 weeks after stopping. It has not been independently replicated yet, and it is not a medical device. If your tinnitus is one-sided, pulsating, sudden, or came with hearing loss, please see a clinician first.

Safety. Keep volume comfortable — never masking-level. Follow the study's 60/60/60 rule: ≤ 60 % device volume · ≤ 60 min at a time · ≥ 60 min break. The study had people listen ~1 h daily for 6 weeks. Stop and consult a clinician if tinnitus or sound sensitivity worsens.

1 · Find your tinnitus frequency

Research says matching works best in a quiet room with headphones, with the probe about as loud as your tinnitus. Use noise-like probes for hiss/static, tones for ringing/whistling.

Probe volume — set so the probe is roughly as loud as your tinnitus

40%

What does your tinnitus sound like?

Already know your tinnitus frequency?

Hz

Listen to the probe, then say where your tinnitus sits relative to it (pitch, not loudness). The steps shrink automatically — this "bracketing" is more reliable than jumping straight to a slider.

Can't hear the probe at all? That pitch is likely above your hearing — answer LOWER.

Octave errors are the classic matching mistake — your tinnitus can masquerade as a pitch one octave off. Play all options, then select the closest to your tinnitus.

Now fine-tune. The probe pulses — a ~1 s burst, then a gap, so you can hear your tinnitus in the silences. Compare in the gaps and drag until the bursts sit at your tinnitus pitch. Tiny mismatch is fine: therapy targets a whole octave band.

tones pin the pitch better; noise suits hiss-type tinnitus

Optional sanity check — residual inhibition. After listening to noise centred on the right frequency, tinnitus often goes quieter for a few seconds to minutes. No effect doesn't prove the match wrong, but an effect is a good sign.

Sit quietly, keep the volume comfortable.

Your tinnitus frequency match:

Reliability improves if you re-run this on 2–3 different days and use the average — tinnitus pitch genuinely fluctuates. All matches are saved and included in the JSON export.

2 · Hearing profile

This compensates for faded high-pitch hearing so the therapy band stays audible to you — it changes the sound, not the therapy. Every preview is the identical sound; only the treble balance differs. Use headphones, and pick the version that sounds most even across pitch — not the loudest or brightest.

Approximation of the study's 4 profiles — a boost ramping in above ~2 kHz (Mild is deliberately subtle, up to +5 dB). No audible difference between options → pick Flat. A real audiogram beats this guess; laptop speakers often can't reproduce the boosted range at all.

3 · Therapy

Ear balance center

Volume 30%

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Aim for ~60 min daily for 6 weeks (headphones or speakers — the study allowed both). Effects built up over weeks and persisted ~3 weeks after stopping. Keep the daily log below so you can actually tell.


Daily log — how loud is your tinnitus right now? 5/10