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Play a soft tone, slide it until it matches the pitch of your ringing, and read your tinnitus frequency in Hz. It’s free, runs entirely in your browser, and asks for nothing.
Your saved pitch stays in this browser only — nothing is uploaded.
Matching your own pitch takes a minute of quiet attention. Here’s the reliable way to do it:
A common trap: your tinnitus and the tone can sound matched but sit exactly one octave apart (for example 3,000 Hz vs 6,000 Hz). If two very different slider positions both feel “close,” try the higher one as well and see which blends more completely.
For most people, tinnitus is high-pitched — it commonly lands somewhere between about 3,000 and 8,000 Hz, often near the range where their hearing has dipped. But it genuinely varies from person to person: some hear a low hum, others a very high whistle above 8,000 Hz. There is no “normal” number, only your number. Whatever you land on is simply useful information about your own tinnitus, not a diagnosis.
Honestly? It’s a good estimate, not a precise measurement. Matching your own pitch by ear is approximate — the octave confusion above is real, the result can drift a little from day to day, and a phone speaker will do worse than headphones. That’s fine for getting oriented and for gentle self-help.
If you want an accurate figure — for instance because you’re going to build notched sound around it — the right people to see are an audiologist or hearing professional. They can pitch-match properly and also check your hearing, which matters, because tinnitus and hearing loss often travel together. We’d always rather you had a professional in the loop than relied on a browser tool alone.
The main reason people match their pitch is notched sound — pleasant sound or music with the exact band around your frequency removed, on the theory that it gently quiets the over-active nerve cells behind the ringing. It’s a real idea with a real mechanism. We’ll also be straight with you about the evidence: the best trials have been mixed, and it helps some people more than others. We think you deserve the honest picture before you spend a cent.
Yes — the tool above lets you do exactly that in about a minute. Just treat the result as a close estimate rather than a clinical measurement, and use headphones in a quiet room for the best match.
High-pitched tinnitus is the most common, frequently in the 3,000–8,000 Hz range, though plenty of people hear lower or higher. Your own pitch is what matters, not the average.
That’s octave confusion, and it’s very common. A tone one octave above or below your tinnitus can feel like a match. When it happens, compare both and keep the one that blends most completely into your ringing.
For self-help and orientation, yes. For anything you want to be precise about — especially building notched sound — an audiologist can pitch-match far more accurately and check your hearing at the same time.
Not by itself. Knowing the number is a starting point for approaches like notched sound and for understanding your own tinnitus — but the pitch match alone doesn’t change the sound.
This page and tool are for general educational and self-help purposes and reflect the author’s personal experience living with tinnitus. They are not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and are not a substitute for professional care. Tinnitus has many causes; please talk with an audiologist or physician about your own tinnitus and hearing. Keep listening levels gentle, and stop if any sound is uncomfortable.
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