When it gets louder, or when you notice it, you log a spike: one moment in time and how loud it is on a 0 to 10 scale. That is the whole job. What it sounds like, what came with it and what helped are all optional, and the app never asks whether it is still there.
Tinnitus changes over time in many people, so researchers ask in the moment: one study drew on 45,935 phone check-ins.
Breitmayer et al., Sci Rep 2023A spike is saved as a single moment: the time you logged it. There is no timer, no in-progress card and no stop button, so there is nothing to come back to and close. If one lasted a while you can add an end time later in the Journal, but it is never asked.
Whether your tinnitus is always there and sometimes louder, or comes and goes, you answer once during setup. It only changes the words the app uses.
The Symptoms page lists the sounds people describe: a ringing tone, hissing or static, buzzing, roaring or rumbling, pulsing with your heartbeat, clicking, whistling, and a sound that changes pitch. Under them is what can come with a spike: ear fullness, sound sensitivity (hyperacusis), muffled hearing, dizziness, headache, ear pain, trouble concentrating, trouble sleeping and anxiety. A sound is one tap. For what came with it you can also say mild, moderate or severe. All of it is optional.
The loudness page is a 0 to 10 slider from Quiet to Very loud. A spike with only a loudness counts for every statistic in the app.
Paint the picture is the first page of the full log. Type or speak freely, tap Find matches, and the app picks out the sounds, symptoms, triggers and reliefs it recognises, where you were and what you were doing, and the loudness if you mention one, for you to keep or remove. With Premium the AI reads the whole description; without it, the app matches the words it knows. The microphone is optional; without it you type.
Paying attention to tinnitus tends to make it louder, so TinnitusMe never asks you to check. No daily check-in, no reminder to log, no question about whether it is still there. Notifications are off unless you switch one on, and the only one on offer tells you when a new pattern is found.
The log button sits first on Home, and Log Spike sits at the top of the Log tab. Both open the guided entry: Paint the picture, Symptoms, Loudness, Triggers, Reliefs, Locations, Activities, Missed activities, Notes, then Review. Further down the Log tab, Quick Log holds short forms for a spike with loudness and symptoms, a trigger, a medicine, a relief, an activity or a missed activity. The pencil on the Log Spike card lets you hide or reorder the pages. Past spikes are in the Journal, where you can edit the time or add an end time.
A tap when it gets louder, and a loudness. Every other page is optional, and the app never reminds you. Logging happens on the phone, as there is no watch app. A late entry lands on the time you give it. Voice is optional; with Premium the AI reads your own words, without it the app matches the words it knows.
No. There is no TinnitusMe watch app, so logging happens on the phone. Apple Watch data still comes in through Apple Health, and Garmin, Oura, Polar and WHOOP connect directly.
Change the time in the Journal. The statistics work on the time of the spike, not on when you typed it, so a late entry lands on the right day.
No. Every page can be skipped, the first one included, and a spike with only a loudness counts for everything. The other pages add detail when you feel like it.
