Most people who land on a page like this have already searched some version of “what frequency is best for tinnitus.” What they usually find is a confident answer. 528 Hz. Or 432 Hz. Or some other single number, presented as if it were obvious and settled.

It isn't, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

If you live with tinnitus, you already know how much advice gets handed to you that doesn't hold up the moment you actually try it. The promises are usually too clean, the framing too universal, the certainty too quick. So we want to start somewhere different. We want to tell you what we actually know from the customers who have written to us about tinnitus, and what we have learned from sitting with them about which frequencies on TŌNEM tend to feel like relief.

Before we go any further, the honest part. TŌNEM is a wellness tool, not a medical device. We cannot tell you that any specific frequency will reduce, treat, or quiet your tinnitus. We are not allowed to, and more importantly, we would not want to even if we were, because the truth is more interesting than that.

What we have learned from our customers

Tinnitus is one of the most individual experiences a person can describe.

The pitch people perceive is different from one person to the next. The cause is different. The contexts where it gets louder are different. And the kinds of sound that bring any kind of relief are different too. There is no single answer that works across our customers, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either selling you something or hasn't talked to enough people who actually live with it.

What we hear from customers tends to cluster along a wider range than the internet suggests.

Some people find that the lower Solfeggio frequencies, like 174 Hz or 285 Hz, feel the most grounding. They describe a kind of settling, a sense that the lower tone draws their attention downward and creates space underneath the hum.

Other people find that the higher end of the range, 963 Hz especially, gives them a sense of relief in the opposite direction. The higher tone seems to sit alongside the perceived ring rather than fight it, and for some that is the experience that actually works.

A lot of people land somewhere in the middle. 528 Hz and 432 Hz come up often. They are gentle to sit with for long stretches, they have a long history in sound healing traditions, and many of our customers gravitate to them as a kind of natural starting point.

And then there is a quieter pattern that comes up often enough to mention. A number of customers tell us that the specific frequency matters less than simply having any steady, intentional sound to focus on. The mind has something to settle into. The silence where the hum tends to feel loudest gets replaced with a presence the person has chosen. That is its own kind of relief, separate from any one frequency.

How to actually explore this

Reading about which frequencies other people prefer is interesting but it is not how you find what works for you. The only real way to do this is to sit with each frequency yourself and pay attention.

Here is what we usually suggest. Spend a couple of days with each frequency. Two evenings, one stretch of quiet listening, whatever fits your life. Don't try to evaluate every frequency in one night. Tinnitus shifts day to day, and the goal is not to find the dramatic moment of “this one worked.” The goal is to notice which frequencies make you want to come back to them. Which ones feel like a place you would actually settle into for half an hour without thinking about it. Which ones, after the session ends, leave you feeling slightly more at ease than the silence did.

TŌNEM comes with a small Pure Tone Therapy guide that walks through each frequency and how people in the sound healing community have historically used it. That is a useful starting point if you want some context as you explore, but the document we are most interested in is the one you write for yourself over the next couple of weeks, even if it just lives in your head.

You may also find that what works changes. Some customers tell us they reach for one frequency on quieter days and a different one on harder ones. That is fine. The practice gets to evolve with you.

Why We Built TŌNEM

We built TŌNEM because the people in our community kept asking us a version of the question that opens this article, and we kept giving them an answer the internet was not going to give them. Try them all. See what your body does. Have your own experience. We wanted to put a tool in their hands that made that actually possible.

A phone does not. A YouTube search does not. A Spotify playlist does not. (We wrote more about that in why your phone is the worst place to try to relax.) Those tools force you to make a choice before you have any real basis to choose, and then they make every session feel disposable, because the next track is one tap away.

TŌNEM is a dedicated, simple device with every Solfeggio frequency and 432 Hz preloaded. No apps. No notifications. No decisions to make once you have it in your hand. The point is to remove every friction between you and the practice of exploring sound for yourself, so the only thing left to focus on is what your own experience is telling you.

That is the version of sound therapy we believe in. Honest about what it is, honest about what it isn't, and ready to meet you wherever your particular experience lives.

If you find a frequency that works for you, we would love to hear about it. The community we are building is partly your community too, and the things you discover help us shape what we make next.