Why evenings
For many people with tinnitus, the evening is the hardest part of the day. The house goes quiet, the day's noise falls away, and the ringing seems to step forward just as you're trying to wind down.
We wanted to make something small and gentle for that moment. Not another busy app full of streaks and charts, but a quiet place to set up a sound, check in for a few seconds and go to sleep.
Find a tone that sounds like yours
Put on headphones and match the pitch you hear by ear. It takes about three minutes. The sound starts very quiet and only gets louder when you choose.
This isn't a hearing test, and the result isn't a diagnosis. It's simply a way to shape tonight's sound around what you hear.
Night sounds shaped around it
There are fifteen real nature recordings, from night rain and a calm shore to streams, wind in the trees and cicadas, plus a fan and white, pink or brown noise. Mix them, then add a layer shaped to your tone: Cover places soft noise around it, Around leaves a gentle gap there. Use whichever feels more relaxing.
The player is made for bed. It keeps playing with the screen locked, has lock-screen controls and a sleep timer that fades out slowly, and a screen-dark mode keeps the room dark. Volume always starts low and stays under a cap you set.
Ten seconds each evening
The evening check-in asks one question: how much did your tinnitus bother you today? Add tags like poor sleep, stress or caffeine if you want to.
After a few weeks, Patterns compares your own days, such as days after poor sleep or evenings with sound. A link only appears once there are enough days on both sides, and the app never claims that one thing caused another.
Alongside it are 28 short lessons, two to four minutes each, drawn from cognitive behavioural techniques: why tinnitus can feel louder at night, sound enrichment, attention, sleep habits, relaxation and protecting your hearing.
Private by design
There's no account, no ads and no tracking. Your diary is stored only on your iPhone, protected by iOS and never synced to iCloud. When you get a new phone, you can move it over with a password-protected backup file.
If you subscribe, Apple handles the payment and our subscription provider only sees an anonymous ID and your purchase history, never your check-ins. The Privacy Policy explains it all in plain language.
Free and Pro
The free version includes the night player and sleep timer, sounds with up to three layers, the evening check-in, the last seven days of patterns, the first three lessons and one tone-finder run.
Pro saves your tone and unlocks sounds shaped to it, all sounds with unlimited layers, your full history with what seems linked, and all 28 lessons. It's available monthly, or yearly with a 7-day free trial, and the app reminds you a day before the trial ends.
A note on health
Tinnitus Night offers relaxation, sleep sounds and self-tracking. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition. If your tinnitus is new, sudden, in one ear only or comes with hearing changes or dizziness, please talk to a doctor or audiologist. The Health & Safety page has more detail.