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

Constant connection n disconnect problems. You can hear the aids getting louder n more distant in the volume when connecting. Absolutely aggravating during a movie. Even worse during a conversation. When there's a software update I can't update them myself. I have to go to the Audiologist, more time, seeing her for her to push a few buttons I could do on the Starkey website. It's almost 2026 n they act like it's before 2000 technology. Checked with other companies n they are set up differently.

The last 6 months, calls aren't connecting via Bluetooth correctly and am forced to change to speakerphone or handheld. And, for what seems like forever, if I pause streaming on my phone, once I hit play again, I have to hit a volume button to get any volume in the hearing aid again. This is ridiculous. The hearing aid itself works fine. I should not have to upgrade to a newer phone, an iPhone, or a newer hearing aid to fully utilize the promised Bluetooth capabilities.

Update: The app won't connect to my hearing aids on my new Samsung 25. I won't be able to call anyone, I guess. I'm not super fond of this app. I want more control over streaming. I want the option to hear those around while streaming. I want to be able to block certain apps from streaming to my hearing aids. For instance, the Amazon app steams to my aids for no reason. Making it so I can't hear while I shop. Give me more control.

What’s new

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