Thrive Hearing Control

Starkey Hearing Technologies

About this app

The Thrive Hearing Control app works seamlessly with sensor-enabled hearing aids to give you full control of your hearing. Change settings easily, adjust volume, create customized memories, and stream music or phone calls with the touch of a button.


The Thrive app gives you access to Healthable features like social engagement and activity tracking. You can set goals and your Engagement Score and Activity Score will track how close you are to meeting them daily. The Thrive app also offers information services like Thrive Assistant, Translate, Transcribe, and Self Check, which lets you check your hearing aid performance without an office visit.

And that’s just the beginning. Thrive also offers:


EDGE MODE
Industry-leading sound performance provides you with instantaneous adjustments for the most challenging listening situations.

REMOTE CONTROL
Easily adjust your hearing aid volume and change between memories created by you or your hearing professional.


PERSONALIZED MEMORIES
Create custom memories using manual and customizable sound adjustments. And geotag these memories so your hearing aids automatically adjust when returning to that location.


FALL DETECTION AND ALERTS
Designed to help you stay independent, falls can be detected, and alert messages sent to selected contacts.


ACTIVITY / ENGAGEMENT TRACKING
Track steps and other activity and set daily goals to inspire a healthy lifestyle. Monitor hearing aid use and social engagement and set daily goals to positively impact brain health.


THRIVE ASSISTANT
Ask questions about your hearing aids like, “how do I adjust volume?” or general questions like, “what’s the weather today?” and get quick answers.


TRANSLATE
This first-to-world feature helps you easily communicate with people who speak other languages.


THRIVE CARE COMPATIBLE
You can use the Thrive app to share helpful information like physical activity, hearing aid usage and social engagement with people you select who have the new Thrive Care app. This helps you maintain independence and provides peace of mind for the Thrive Care users you selected.


SELF CHECK
Allows you to perform a diagnostic test of your hearing aid components without having to make an office visit.


TRANSCRIBE
It’s like closed captioning for real life. Conversations are transcribed so you can read what's being said.


TELEHEAR™
Get help anywhere. Connect with your hearing professional by video call and obtain minor hearing aid adjustments directly to your hearing aids and smartphone.


FIND MY HEARING AIDS
Easily locate lost hearing aids. A signal detector sends a stronger or weaker signal based on how close you are to the location of the hearing aids.

AUDIO*
Enables carefree communication using your Android phone. Delivers superior sound and pristine audio streaming of any music or media played through your Android device.


The Thrive app works with hearing aids from Starkey, Audibel, NuEar, MicroTech and AGX® Hearing. These hearing aids must be purchased from a hearing professional. All features are not available on all hearing aid styles. Check with your hearing professional for details.

*Due to the large number of different Android phones and their capabilities with connecting and streaming audio to hearing aids, Starkey cannot guarantee full compatibility of this Thrive app with all phone models. Please visit here for current compatibility: https://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/apps/thrive-hearing-control/compatibility

Ratings and reviews

Poor notification control, lack of granularity. Constantly streaming when you don't want. Unreliable when you do. It's essentially all or nothing. Randomly eats battery life. Unmutes when you don't want. UI is bad. Sometimes fails to connect w/o force stop/restart. For an app that controls extremely expensive medical appliances, entirely unacceptable. Starky support suggesting this work around instead of fixing the app is unacceptable as well.

This app is awful! The only reason I have it is because my hearing doctor needs to connect to it to see my usage for my hearing aids. It constantly crashes and disconnects from my hearing aids. Force stop does absolutely nothing to help the issue. Now I've started getting notices saying "Thrive closed because this app has a bug. Try updating this app after the developer provides a fix for this error."

Opening this app for the first time in a week and seeing that it suddenly requires the ability to send me notifications in order to work is upsetting. The only apps that need to send notifications to function are communication apps. Otherwise, I like the app, it's a little laggy and slow as expected from hearing aid technology. But being able to turn off my hearing aids entirely is great, the live transcribe is super useful and surprisingly works with the remote mic plus accessory.

What's new

Your hearing experience has been enhanced even further with several performance updates.