Hearing Number: Test Your Ears

mimi hearing technologies GmbH

About this app

How’s your hearing? Learn your Hearing Numbers—the softest sound you can hear in each ear—with an app created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Then use your Hearing Numbers to protect your hearing and hear better. Track your hearing to know how it changes over time and encourage others to know their hearing. Take charge of your hearing wellness!

Hearing Numbers can be as low as -10 or as high as 100 decibels, or dB. The higher your Hearing Numbers are, the louder sounds will need to be for you to hear them, and the harder it will be to hear and communicate in noisy places.

Requires headphones, a quiet space, and about 5 minutes to complete.
No advertising, in-app purchases, or product recommendations.
The app tests the noise level around you, measures your hearing levels at four frequencies in each ear, and provides your Hearing Numbers.
Share the Hearing Number app and encourage your friends and family to learn their Hearing Numbers.
Re-check your Hearing Numbers from time to time and review previous results to track how your hearing changes over time.

Learn more about the Hearing Number and how to use it at app.HearingNumber.org.

This app is created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, seeking to empower people to know their hearing—millions at a time.

Disclaimer
This hearing wellness app does not constitute medical advice or diagnosis. You should consult with a health care provider for questions related to your hearing or if you are experiencing any of the following: ear pain or ringing, dizziness, ear drainage or a sense of something in your ear, sudden or fluctuating hearing loss, injury or deformity to your ear, or worse hearing in one ear (i.e., your right and left Hearing Numbers are different by more than 10 dB).

Ratings and reviews

Where is the list of devices that will work with this app? I'm using a Galaxy S22 with Sennheiser HD 458BT headphones. I can't get any further than the "Connect Headphones" screen. I'm assuming that the app is supposed to work with Bluetooth since my phone won't take a wired connection. How about making a version for PCs?

been a year, yet you still do not have ANY Google earbuds, not even the pixel bud pro 2, which are way more accurate than any of the apple earbuds, with a wider frequency response as well. but you have a ton of inferior apple devices listed... seems suspect to me.

this app gets to the point where you select the earpiece, set the volume and then goes no further. I have tried with both the earpiece I have which is listed and also tried the last choice which is none of the above and neither works. UPDATE: The instructions state "Turn on 'Do Not Disturb - Mute notifications, sounds, and vibrations". That, however also turns off the earbuds on my Android based Galaxy phone which then means the sounds from the applications needed for the test are muted also!