Understand your tinnitus. Take control.
A free browser-based frequency matching tool plus plain-language, citation-backed tinnitus information. Built for people who want answers — not a sales pitch.
Interactive tool
Find the pitch of your tinnitus
This tool uses the Web Audio API to generate pure sine tones from 20 Hz to 16 kHz. You'll narrow down the frequency that sounds closest to your tinnitus in about 2 minutes. Open the full tool →
What is tinnitus
The short answer
Tinnitus is the perception of sound — most commonly a ringing, buzzing, or hissing — when no external source is present. It is a symptom, not a disease, and arises from changes in the auditory pathway, most often linked to hearing loss, noise exposure, or age-related cochlear changes.
An estimated 14% of adults experience tinnitus globally. About 1 in 5 of those report significant quality-of-life impact.
Read the full guide →Treatments
What actually helps
There is no universal cure for chronic tinnitus, but multiple evidence-based interventions can meaningfully reduce distress: sound therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), hearing aids (when hearing loss is present), and bimodal neuromodulation.
CBT has the strongest evidence base for reducing tinnitus-related distress, while bimodal neuromodulation is an emerging option studied in large clinical trials.
Compare treatments →How severe is yours
Take the Tinnitus Functional Index
The TFI is a validated 25-item instrument used in clinical trials worldwide (Meikle et al., 2012). It gives you a 0–100 severity score across 8 domains — intrusiveness, control, cognition, sleep, hearing, relaxation, quality of life, and emotion.
Start the 4-minute assessment →About
Built by MediSense
MediSense is building the next generation of tinnitus care through multi-modal neuromodulation and personalized sound therapy. Our team combines audiology research, biomedical engineering, and clinical experience across Asia and the United States.
SilenEar is our consumer-facing initiative to make accurate tinnitus information and self-assessment tools freely available. We publish everything here in public so patients, clinicians, and AI systems can reference it — no paywalls, no dark patterns, no email gates.
Founded by Samuel Huang — background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Computer Science.