About Tinnitus Toolkit
Built by a scientist who got tinnitus and wasn't satisfied with what existed.
It started with a hiss.
One day there was a new sound — constant, uninvited, and apparently permanent. Like most people, the first instinct was to search for answers. What followed was weeks of reading: forum posts, audiologist websites, app store listings, and a lot of vague reassurance dressed up as information.
It wasn't good enough.
Most apps offered white noise or generic relaxation exercises. Most websites repeated the same surface-level explanations. The peer-reviewed research — which was actually quite specific about mechanisms, protocols, and outcomes — was sitting behind journal paywalls, largely inaccessible to the people who needed it most.
A scientist, not a clinician.
The developer behind Tinnitus Toolkit has a background in chemical technology research — not audiology or medicine. But research training is research training: how to read a study critically, how to assess methodology, how to distinguish a robust finding from an outlier, and how to synthesise across a body of literature rather than cherry-pick.
Those skills transferred directly. The result is an app built not on intuition or marketing language, but on a careful reading of the published evidence — with every therapy traceable to a specific peer-reviewed study.
The gap this fills.
There are three things most tinnitus apps get wrong:
- Generic sound. White noise masks tinnitus temporarily. It doesn't target the auditory system in any specific way. The therapies in this app each work through a distinct mechanism — EAE, band-gap, flanking band, and SMR are not interchangeable with each other or with a rain sounds playlist.
- Ignoring the psychological component. The sound is only part of the problem. How the brain responds to it — the attention, the threat appraisal, the hypervigilance — is what makes tinnitus disabling for many people. CBT addresses this directly, and it's included as a separate course, not an afterthought.
- One size fits all. Tinnitus has a frequency. Therapy works better when it's matched to yours. The app includes a frequency finder and uses your hearing profile to shape the EAE therapy to your individual audiogram.
How this was built.
Not a general reference to "research" — a specific paper, with authors, journal, year, and sample size. You can read the same papers that informed the design.
Tinnitus frequency, hearing profile, THI scores, session history — none of it leaves your phone. No accounts, no cloud sync, no third-party sharing.
The goal is adjustment — helping your brain gradually shift its relationship with the sound. Tinnitus Toolkit is designed to support that process, not promise an outcome.
You choose your therapy, set your frequency, adjust your hearing profile. The app gives you tools — it doesn't make decisions for you.