T-Minus - Tinnitus Wellness

There is no other App with the variety of sound therapy, T-Minus is brilliant

On using Spotify with the app, the ‘agree’ button was unresponsive but when I closed the pane I was able to start playing the first album. I later tried to resume playing but found that once I selected an album and clicked on ’play’ the screen just froze. This is the same for both iPhone and iPad. Not a great start and very disappointing given the encouraging reviews.

The app is completely inaccessible for VoiceOver users and it’s a shame that developers don’t care about it

Great app

This App has been well thought out and researched. The sound scapes that have been developed are truly amazing and as a tinnitus sufferer I find them very relaxing and actually reduce stress which in turn tones down the tinnitus. Unfortunately I am old school and like to own my music, so I don’t subscribe to any music services. As soon as my 3 month music service trial ends I am unlikely to continue. This is the only shortcoming that I can see. It’s a shame there isn’t an alternative option. When I first became affected by tinnitus I was lucky that I have an App developer in the family and asked them to help out. They developed an app to get me through my darkest days ‘SoundRelaxed’. This App is a step ahead, well presented, informative and it just works. Well done.

This is fantastic. The App was super informative and easy to use. I was a bit sceptical when I first saw it, but I was quickly proved wrong. It has really helped. I can’t reccomend it highly enough. I am telling as many people as I can find, it has made a real difference to me.

This is just what you need to help with the ringing. Such a fabulous collection of sounds to help you. A sleep timer would have made it 5 stars! Might that function be coming soon?!

Despite being unable to sign in through the app to my premium Spotify account on my iPad, I did manage to get somewhere on my iPhone. Once connected, I found the variety of sounds on offer to be more than enough for my needs, but...and it’s a big but, the lack of clear instruction on how to use the app was a major show stopper. Just exactly what am I supposed to do with the controls (that modify the ambient sounds). The instructions given are too vague. As a long term acute tinnitus sufferer, I’d really like to delve into the app properly, but ended up frustrated at the lack of guidance. I had no idea on how I balance the background sounds with the broad spectrum noise generation, and pure tones on offer. What am I trying to achieve here? Please provide better and more comprehensive guidance on how to use the app.

Do get this App if you have tinnitus like me. Don’t hesitate. The sound quality and the range of sounds and the ability to tailor them with white or pink or brown noise etc plus a frequency pitch you can adjust are superb. It’s so much better than the generic Rain and Storms or Trickling Streams plus Beauty Spa music or White Noise type albums that you can buy or find on YouTube. It’s a comfort to me to know I have this App on my phone and can turn to it when my tinnitus gets annoying or if it interrupts my sleep. My particular favourites are “Priory Bay”, “Water”, “Cuban Cafe” and “Magestic” and I select low pink noise with these which I prefer to white noise and then add a frequency pitch just slightly deeper than the one that I can hear sometimes in my head. I’m pretty clueless with technology but the App is so easy to use and clearly labelled. It’s really nice to look at too. Clean and uncluttered with lovely images. Someone has put a lot of thought into the look of this not just the excellence of the sounds and what the App can do. Can’t recommend it highly enough. My thanks to the people who made it. I enjoy the daily quotes and snippets of tinnitus info too. A nice touch. Remember to tell yourself your tinnitus is just the noises in your head and nothing sinister. I try to think of my tinnitus as positively as possible and on quieter days it keeps me company - in fact on those good quieter days I tell myself it’s just distant fairy sleigh-bells which I’ll soon forget about and tune out. The British Tinnitus Association has done studies and found that many people can sleep as soundly as babies even though their tinnitus is as loud as others who sleep poorly. Don’t make a bogeyman of your tinnitus. Even people without it when put in a sound-proof room will start to hear the noises in their head. The brain gets bored too - it can’t keep listening in and “habituates” to the noise over time. And in the meantime there is this fabulous App. My thanks again to the people who created it.

Firstly, the recorded sounds and music accessed via Spotify (premium needed) are great. They cover a wide range and I expect they’d help mask all kind of tinnitus. The app works fairly well on iPhone, although the Spotify integration seems buggy- I have to keep logging in. The iPad version is pretty rubbish. In fact I’m having no success using it at all. The carousel style is badly implemented and requires far too much unintuitive swiping. And why can’t they all just be on one page? There aren’t that many options and the screen is big enough. And the artwork panes - what is the point of being able to wiggle them around? I’m just trying to access the controls and instead it all it does is let me wiggle them. Animation for the sake of animation. Also, the Spotify AGREE button doesn’t work so I can’t access the music.