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Tinnitus Clarified

Free tinnitus tools

Every interactive tool on this site, in one place. All 12 run entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, no account, no sign-up — and none of them replace a real evaluation from an audiologist or doctor.

Need relief right now?

For when a spike feels overwhelming, or the quiet is making it worse.

  • SOS Breathing Tool

    A guided box-breathing exercise to take the edge off an acute tinnitus spike.

  • Sound library

    Rain, fans, white, pink and brown noise, generated in your browser. Steady sound can make tinnitus less prominent, especially in a quiet room.

Is this urgent?

Most tinnitus is not an emergency. With sudden weakness or drooping in the face, trouble speaking or seeing, or severe vertigo that will not settle, call your local emergency number: these can be signs of a stroke. Of the rest, one is time-critical: if your hearing dropped suddenly, over hours or a few days, that is a same-day matter.

  • When to See a Doctor

    The tinnitus patterns that warrant assessment, with the evidence behind each. It flags concerns; it never tells you you are fine.

Hearing checks

Quick, informal screening checks you run yourself — not a substitute for a real audiogram.

  • Online Hearing Test

    Tone-based check across standard audiometric frequencies, tested ear by ear through headphones.

  • Digits-in-Noise Test

    Repeat spoken digits over background noise — modeled on a validated speech-in-noise screening method.

  • Audiogram Reader

    Type in the thresholds from a hearing test and get the plot, the pure tone average, the grade on two scales — and the shape of the curve, which is what tracks with tinnitus. Reads a notch, a slope and asymmetry between the ears.

Self-assessments

Structured questions to help you (and a professional) understand what you're dealing with.

  • Noise Dose Calculator

    How much of a day's safe noise a given level and duration uses, on the NIOSH 85 dBA criterion — and what earplugs actually buy you.

  • Medication Checker

    Look up a drug by generic name, brand name or class across 10 classes with a documented tinnitus association — and what kind of evidence each rests on.

  • Tinnitus Impact Self-Check

    15 questions on daily function, mood, and overall impact — 2 minutes, not a diagnosis.

  • Risk Factors Checklist

    See which documented tinnitus risk factors apply to you, each linked to the evidence behind it.

Sound therapy

Find your tinnitus's pitch, and try sound built around it.

  • Tinnitus Frequency Test

    Find your tinnitus's pitch by ear. An optional notched sound follows — experimental, and not reliably shown to beat ordinary music.

Tracking & coping

Turn what you're noticing — or what you've read — into something concrete.

Guides that use these tools

Each tool is built on one of the site's articles. Read the guide first if you want to know what the tool can and cannot tell you.