AudioNotch

2.2
39 reviews
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About this app

AudioNotch's mobile app allows you to create and listen to Notched Sound Therapy that has been customized for your particular tinnitus frequency.

Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of any external environmental sound. It affects millions of people worldwide, and usually presents as a persistent ringing in the ears. (4)

Notched Sound Therapy is a tinnitus treatment that can lower the volume of your tinnitus tone. It is created by taking either music or "white noise" and removing the sound energy—"notching it out"—at the same frequency of your tinnitus tone. (2) In some experiments, tinnitus volume was reduced by 75%, 26%, and 20%, respectively. (1,2,3)

FEATURES INCLUDE:
- The ability to match your tinnitus frequency using our tinnitus tuner (free, does not require an account)
- The ability to create Notched Sound Therapy customized for your particular tinnitus frequency (requires paid account)*
- The ability to listen to Notched Sound Therapy (requires paid account)

A paid AudioNotch account gives you full access to our mobile app and our web app. Through our web app, you can create and listen to the same Notched Sound Therapy audio files online.

*Notched White Noise and Notched Natural sounds can be created directly in the mobile app. However, creating Notched Music requires the usage of our web application on a computer (access to this is provided with the same paid account). Notched Music created via a computer can be listened to on the mobile app.

In order to learn more about the science behind AudioNotch and how it works, read our comprehensive F.A.Q. at https://www.audionotch.com/faq

REFERENCES:

1)
Lugli M, Romani R, Ponzi S, Bacciu S, Parmigiani S (2009) The windowed sound therapy: a new empirical approach for an effective personalized treatment of tinnitus. Int Tinnitus J 15:51-61.

2)
Okamoto H, Stracke H, Stoll W, Pantev C (2010) Listening to tailor-made notched music reduces tinnitus loudness and tinnitus-related auditory cortex activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107: 1207-1210.

3)
Teismann, H., Okamoto, H., Pantev, C. (2011). Short and intense tailor-made notched music training against tinnitus: The tinnitus frequency matters. Plos ONE, 6, 1-8.

4)
Heller AJ (2003) Classification and epidemiology of tinnitus. Otolaryngol Clin North Am 36:239–248.

DISCLAIMER: THIS DESCRIPTION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. SPEAK TO YOUR DOCTOR FIRST IF YOU HAVE TINNITUS. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS APP.
Updated on
Aug 28, 2017

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Ratings and reviews

2.4
36 reviews
A. Google User
June 29, 2023
COMPANY IS NOT OUT OF BUSINESS, BUT THEY SURE DO ACT THAT WAY. I've been using the app for over a year. However, several months ago all of my created audio therapy disappeared. I tried emailing and calling the company many times. When they finally responded, they said, "Whoops, we had a server malfunction." I managed to restore all of audio, only to have it disappear a few weeks ago. And yes, you guessed it, the company hasn't returned any of my recent emails.
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Pete
July 13, 2021
After being without AudiioNotch for a few weeks, my tinnitus has got significantly lower. So I guess it did work! Have increased rating. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Tried for 6 months. No improvement. Worse than ever right now. Difficult to be certain that you are tuned to the correct frequency, no way to objectively verify, after all, it's all in your head, right? Also difficult to schedule the regularity and session length that is recommended.
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A Google user
February 8, 2019
Pretty good. Only been using it for a couple of days but I feel like it is helping. Though the app does crash every now and then when switching between apps. Also need to work on the UI for sound selection. I don't want to scroll a massive list. Would be nice if you could convert songs on the device itself too instead of relying on the Web app
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What's new

This is a small bugfix for the AudioNotch app.

Changelog for 1.0.1:
- Fixes a bug with the tuner not properly using tone types "Noise" and "BB Noise"
- Adds version number to settings

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us at support@audionotch.com or use the “Contact/Report A Bug” button in our app. We’re always looking to make this app even better, and we take your feedback seriously.