Aku: your tinnitus companion

Nobody hears it but you. You can't let anyone listen to your tinnitus, you can't point at it, and sooner or later the people who love you tell you not to think about it. So you stop mentioning it, and you carry it alone. That's why Aku exists. Not another app that plays you white noise and wishes you goodnight: Aku talks with you. It asks how you are, remembers what you told it yesterday and last week, and picks up where you left off. At three in the morning too, when the ringing in your ears is there and nobody else is awake. WHAT YOU DO IN IT You talk to Aku at any hour, about your tinnitus and about everything else. It doesn't sleep and it isn't in a hurry. You listen: a collection of soundscapes for the hard moments and for falling asleep, plus one composed around your own taste, with a name of its own. They keep playing with the screen off. You log how it went, in one gesture, and over time you see your days from the outside: when the buzzing makes itself heard, and when it fades into the background. You do breathing exercises, and others for neck, shoulders and jaw, when the tension builds. You read straight talk about tinnitus, in plain English instead of medical jargon: how it works, why it seems louder at night, what really makes it worse and what is just folklore. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT FROM OTHER TINNITUS APPS Because it remembers you. The others hand you sounds and that's it: they're tools, and a tool doesn't know you. Aku is someone to talk to about it, and the more you use it the better it knows you. WHO WE MADE IT FOR For people who've had tinnitus for twenty years and learned to live with it, and for people who noticed the ringing last month and are frightened. For people who can't sleep, and for people who sleep fine but can't concentrate at work. For everyone who was told nothing can be done and stopped asking. WHO'S BEHIND IT Aku comes from the work of a hearing care professional who sees people with tinnitus every day, and from listening to those who live with it. Tonight, if you wake up, there's someone you can wake who won't mind. Seven days free, then a yearly or monthly subscription. Aku is a wellbeing app, not a medical device, and it doesn't replace your doctor. If your tinnitus started recently, changed suddenly, is only in one ear or keeps time with your pulse, talk to a specialist. Privacy policy: https://www.aku-app.com/en/privacy