For the quiet room at 2 a.m.
Tinnitus is usually at its worst when everything else is quiet, which is exactly when you are trying to sleep. The room is silent, there is nothing else at your frequency to attend to, and the ringing becomes the loudest thing in the house.
You can find your frequency here, free, in about a minute. It runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and you get the number whether or not you ever install anything.
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The useful property is steadiness. A sound with no events in it — no words, no melody, nothing that resolves — gives your hearing something to settle on without giving your attention anything to follow.
Podcasts and music work for falling asleep and then work against you: speech and melody keep pulling attention back, and both have gaps your tinnitus fills.
Quieter than you think. Aim for a level that sits just under your tinnitus — enough that the ringing stops being the only thing in the room, not enough to bury it. Sound loud enough to cover tinnitus completely is usually too loud to run for eight hours, and your ears will tell you so in the morning.
Sylence does all of this: sound generated on the phone rather than looped, fade-out timers and all-night playback, and every sound shaped around your own pitch with notched sound therapy.
Sylence is free to use. It runs entirely on your phone — no account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing about your tinnitus ever leaves the device.
Sylence is a sound-therapy and relief tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or cure tinnitus. If your tinnitus is new, sudden, changing, or in one ear only, see an audiologist or a doctor first — sudden one-sided tinnitus in particular is worth urgent attention.