A sound therapy tool built on peer-reviewed neuroscience — notched noise, ACRN, and bimodal stimulation, the protocols used in clinical trials. Free to start, in your browser, no account.
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Each comes from a separate peer-reviewed line of research. The programme runs them in the order the science supports — foundations first, advanced protocols once your auditory system is ready.
Broadband sound with a precise quiet gap at your exact tinnitus pitch. Over weeks of daily listening, the overactive auditory neurons around that frequency calm down — the brain stops amplifying what isn't there.
Okamoto H et al. (2010) PNAS — Tailor-made notched music training
Four tones at precise ratios around your tinnitus pitch, played in a shifting random order. Designed to desynchronise the locked-together neural firing that drives the ringing — break up the "crowd clapping in unison."
Tass PA et al. (2012) Restor Neurol Neurosci — Acoustic coordinated reset
Sound paired with a gentle somatic action (jaw, tongue, or neck) on each beat. In the Shore lab clinical trials, about half of participants saw a meaningful drop in their tinnitus. This app uses a self-timed action — effect is more modest than the electrical device, but the principle is the same.
Marks/Shore SE et al. (2018) Sci Transl Med; JAMA Netw Open (2023)
A toggle that runs through the whole app. Read it in plain English, or flip to the citation-level science. Same content. Same honesty. Same toggle, every screen.
Most tinnitus isn't a problem in your ears — it's the brain turning up the volume on a missing signal. When the tiny hair cells in your cochlea lose sensitivity at a particular frequency, the auditory brain compensates by amplifying the silence. That amplification is what you hear as ringing.
Notched sound therapy plays a broad sound with a quiet gap at your exact tinnitus pitch. The neurons just outside the gap fire normally, and through a process called lateral inhibition, they help quiet the overactive ones in the middle. Over weeks of daily listening, the brain learns to stop turning up the volume on that missing signal.
Tinnitus is a neuroplastic response to partial deafferentation. Reduced cochlear input triggers homeostatic plasticity in the dorsal cochlear nucleus and primary auditory cortex, upregulating synaptic gain to maintain average firing rates. The resulting spontaneous hypersynchronous activity is perceived as phantom sound.
Tailor-made notched sound therapy (TMNST) omits energy at F₀ (the tinnitus frequency) while delivering it to the flanking bands. The flanking-band activity drives lateral inhibition onto F₀-tuned neurons via inhibitory interneurons, promoting tonotopic map reorganisation and reducing pathological hyperactivity over weeks of consistent exposure (Okamoto et al. 2010, PNAS).
The toggle persists across every page in the app — the wizard, the science reference, the session context. You set the register once.
Setup once, listen daily, check in weekly. The retraining takes weeks — most people see real change around weeks 4 to 8.
A 5-minute wizard finds your exact frequency, sets a safe therapeutic volume, and explains the programme. One-time setup, in your browser.
30 to 60 minutes a day — read, work, drift off. Start in Foundation mode; ACRN and bimodal unlock at weeks 3 and 5, in the medically correct order.
A weekly inhibition test gives you an objective signal you can graph. The diary surfaces patterns — sleep, caffeine, weather — that nudge your tinnitus louder or quieter.
The whole interface is built around one daily ritual — pick today's session, press play, get back to your day.
The Foundation protocol is the core retraining mechanism, and it's always free. Pro adds the advanced protocols and progress analytics — but starts with a 7-day trial, and you can cancel anything any time.
Long-form, citation-backed guides — the same plain-English/science register the app uses.
A clinician-honest walk through everything that has actually been studied — what works, what doesn't, and what's still unclear.
Lateral inhibition, tonotopic reorganisation, and the Okamoto 2010 PNAS results — explained without dumbing them down.
Spontaneous remission rates, habituation timelines, and the gap between "no cure" and "no help" — without the marketing.
Every protocol in the app traces to specific published trials. Here are the primary references, with what each one actually showed. No selective citation — null results and Cochrane reviews are listed too.
References list is illustrative, not exhaustive. The full citation set for each protocol lives in the corresponding long-form blog article. Spotted an error or have a study we should add? Email info@tinnituswizard.com.
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