Hearing Test & Ear Age Test 12+

I recently suffered from Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss and went to A&E at 3am. The ENT doctor I saw (within 30 mins!!) wanted to do a hearing test, but no audiologist was there. He suggested this app to me to do one. I didn’t have my headphones with me though, but starting using it as soon as I got home to do regular tests, and speaking as someone who has had many hearing tests, I can see why he suggested it. A couple of reasons for not 5 stars is first, an actual visual compare function between two different tests, so you can look at the graphs between two different tests at the same time, would be really useful. The other is around improving accuracy - it’s really important that you ensure you don’t have any equalisation settings enabled like bass boost on your headphones. To be on the safe side, while doing tests I go to Settings - Music - EQ and then turn EQ to off, also just to be on the safe side, I turn everything off under Audio. It might be that the app bypasses these, but my JVC HA-531BT have a separate loudness function. I think the app should help with this. Aside from that, it’s a very good app, the shapes of the results are reflective of what I get from a proper hearing test.

I was worried about my hearing, as I sometimes struggle to hear conversations when there is background noise I’m 63 and the tests gave mostly normal with moderate loss at high end, did the age test and it came out at 50 I’ll take that 🤗

The app runs on my iPad with any issues. Very simple to use (set volume to 50% and go) but I think it needs a little more thought.

I compared it to my audiogram performed professionally at SpecSavers. The low frequencies up to 500Hz are a good match, but as the frequency increases, my reported hearing level drops to 15 or 20 dB below the professional measured values. It's not a bad profile, just negatively biased... For both ears.

TL;DR the app works but is negatively biased by about 20dB above 500Hz relative to my professionally obtained audiogram.