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Hearing
Understand. Record. Prepare.

Keep listening difficulties and test records organized.

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Screening and assessment have different jobs

A hearing screen looks for a possible difficulty that may need further assessment. A diagnostic hearing evaluation investigates it in more detail. Everyday communication examples can help explain your needs regardless of a screening result. ASHA’s reference below describes screening and referral.

A hearing record can start with real situations: following conversation in a busy room, hearing on the phone, or asking for repetition. Those examples describe what is difficult in daily life. A home screening result is another piece of information, not the same as a diagnostic hearing assessment.

Use this hub to prepare for an audiology discussion. The guide explains how to keep listening examples and test context together; the log and appointment notes tool help you organize them. The companion app offers home screening and exported results. Device setup and surroundings should remain attached to those results, and sudden hearing loss should not wait for an app test.

The hearing reading room

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Hearing · 3 min read

What to keep with a copy of your audiogram

Keep the labels and context that make an audiogram usable, and prepare questions about the graph without grading hearing from a cropped screenshot.

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Hearing · 3 min read

Different hearing tests answer different questions

Understand tone tests, speech tests and tympanometry, and ask what each part of a hearing appointment can and cannot tell you.

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Hearing · 4 min read

What to write down before a hearing appointment

Examples from real listening situations can be more useful than a single home-test score.

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Listening situation planner

Pick one situation and one obstacle. The result gives you a small set of communication requests to try and record. It is not a hearing test and does not play test tones.

Listening situation planner

Communication ideas cannot measure hearing or replace an audiology assessment.

Sources and how this tool works

Original HealthLogKit tool; source checks are not clinical validation. No diagnosis or treatment plan is generated. Sources checked 2026-09-20.

Nothing you enter here is sent to analytics or saved automatically. Keep a longer record or see the companion app.

Free preparation tool

Appointment notes: hearing.

Put your main concern, relevant changes, and questions in one place before a visit. Your words stay in this page until you download them or leave. Nothing is sent, interpreted, or saved automatically.

Preparing questions and a symptom or medicine history is suggested in NHS appointment guidance. This tool formats your notes; it has not been clinically validated.

The companion app

Hearing Test & Audiogram

Keep hearing-screening history and export results; home screening is not a diagnosis.

Features listed by the developer

  • Pure-tone home screening and audiogram display
  • Saved test history and reminders
  • PDF and CSV exports

Website or app?

The website gives you free guides, browser logs, and printable PDFs. You can also prepare appointment notes. Choose the app if its listed features fit the way you want to keep a longer record.

The website and app do not automatically synchronize. Check current in-app purchases, subscriptions, device support, and the app's own privacy details before downloading.

Published by Allegro Digital. Feature descriptions checked against the App Store listing on 2026-09-20. Listing claims are not independent evidence of health benefits.

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