Journal and statistics
After every exercise, Freequency briefly asks how you are doing. Those answers grow into a journal that keeps your streak, spots your patterns and shows how your tinnitus develops week after week.
Tinnitus changes from day to day, and those very fluctuations are hard to remember. That is why every session closes with a check-in of half a minute: how much discomfort did you have, how did that feel, and what did your day look like? You pick a flower, tap a few words and you are done. Nothing more is asked of you.
Everything you fill in lands in your journal. There you see at a glance on which days you practiced, how your streak is doing and how the intensity of your tinnitus moves. Professor Tone looks along and tells you what he notices, without judgment and without leaderboards.
The five flowers
You indicate how much discomfort you had with a flower. Each flower stands for a step on a scale from 0 to 100 percent, and those percentages form the basis of all your charts.
No discomfort at all0%
Hardly any discomfort25%
Some discomfort50%
A lot of discomfort75%
Very much discomfort100%
The check-in
This is how you finish a session. Only the first question is required; all the others you may skip or answer in detail. The more you fill in, the sharper your journal becomes.
How much discomfort did you have today?
Professor Tone opens with a compliment and one question: to what extent did you experience tinnitus-related discomfort today? With the slider you pick one of the five flowers, from no discomfort at all to very much discomfort. The flower turns and changes color as you slide. This is the only question you always answer.
What describes this feeling best?
Eighteen words, from peaceful to angry, always in the same order so you find them quickly. Pick as many as you like. The calm words count as a positive reflection in the analysis.
How did you sleep last night?
Sleep has a big influence on how loud tinnitus sounds. That is why the app asks briefly about your night. The answers fall into two groups, slept well and slept poorly, which the journal later sets against each other.
How did you eat and drink today?
From ate healthy to a heavy meal. Caffeine and alcohol get extra attention, because they are known to aggravate tinnitus. This too is a snapshot of one day, not dietary advice.
How did you spend your day?
Movement, relaxation and strain: a walk, a hobby, a busy workday or a loud environment. This is how the journal later sees whether active or quiet days go along with less discomfort.
- Each question only appears after you tap Next, so you never see one long list at once.
- Only the flower is required. Skip a question and that session simply does not count toward the matching analysis.
- Your answers are health data. They stay on your device and are never sent along with analytics.
Your streak
At the top of the Today screen you see your streak: the number of days in a row on which you practiced, with this week's flowers underneath. The rule is simple. Do a session every day.
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- Streak freeze
- No session yet
Missing one day is fine
Skip a single day and a streak freeze automatically pauses your streak. The frozen day does not count, but it does not break your run either. Miss two days in a row and you start again from zero.
Today still counts
If you have not practiced yet today, your streak is not gone. You see an exclamation mark next to the flame and a badge on the Practice tab, as a gentle reminder that the day is not over yet.
A nudge at eleven
If your streak is at risk, Professor Tone sends one more message at 11 pm: practice today to keep your streak going. After that it is up to you.
Tap a flower
Every flower in the calendar is a button. Tap it and you see that session again: date, time, duration, targets found and everything you filled in at the check-in.
Statistics
Below your streak are your totals since your first session. They never go down, not even after a quiet week. The bar shows how far along you are toward one hundred practice days.
- 31/100Days
- 38Sessions
- 1587Targets
- 407Minutes
Days
The number of days with at least one session, set against the 100 days of the program. After day 100 the counter simply keeps going.
Sessions
Every completed session, even if you do two on one day. Only sessions you close with the check-in count.
Targets
All the birds you found and set free in Catch the Tone, added up since your very first session.
Minutes
Your total practice time. Ten minutes a day sounds like little, until you see how quickly this number grows.
The charts
The journal draws four charts over your last thirty days. Each chart tells you beforehand what it shows and only appears once there are enough sessions to draw something.
Tinnitus intensity
The intensity of your tinnitus over time.
Every session is a point on the line, colored after the flower you chose. The Personal goal line sits at 33 percent: below it, your tinnitus hardly bothers you anymore.
Per day of the week
The intensity of your tinnitus per weekday.
The same sessions, now placed side by side per weekday. This shows whether your Mondays go differently from your Sundays, and whether one day deserves extra attention.
Lifestyle
How your tinnitus intensity relates to your sleep, habits and daily activities.
For six factors, from slept well to a loud environment, a bar shows the average intensity of the sessions in which you tapped that factor. A factor only appears after three sessions, so the average means something.
Time practiced
The duration of your sessions over time.
How long each session lasted. Useful to see whether you hold on to your rhythm, also in weeks when you are busy.
The analysis
Above the charts sits a short message from Professor Tone. He looks at your last seven days and highlights one thing that stands out. Encouraging, never preachy.
Your latest session was gentler than most this week. Momentum is on your side.
The analysis weighs everything you filled in: how often you practiced, how the intensity went, which words you chose and what you shared about your sleep, food and day. A pattern only counts when enough sessions sit behind it, and a difference between two groups has to be at least ten percentage points. The most meaningful insights get the biggest chance of being picked, and the wording varies, so the message never sounds the same twice.
The trend of your week
With four or more sessions, the analysis compares the first half of your week with the second. A difference of ten percentage points or more counts as a real movement, up or down.
Looking at your past week, the discomfort you reported has been easing from session to session. That's real progress.
Your regularity
Practiced seven days out of seven, or four to six? That gets noticed. Even a single session in a week earns encouragement, never a reproach.
You practiced every single day this past week. That's the kind of consistency progress is made of.
Sleep and tinnitus
Sessions after a good night are compared with sessions after a bad one. Only when both groups hold at least two sessions and lie ten points apart does Professor Tone say something about it.
Your check-ins show a pattern this week: after nights of good sleep, your sessions felt noticeably calmer. Your rest is working for you.
Movement
Days with exercise, a walk or fresh air are set against days without. Active days are also counted on their own, because three of them in one week is an achievement in itself.
On days you got moving, with a workout, a walk or fresh air, your sessions came out calmer this week. Your body is helping your ears.
Caffeine and alcohol
Did your sessions run louder on days with lots of caffeine or alcohol? Then you hear about it as an invitation for a small experiment, not as a ban.
Your check-ins hint that days with caffeine or alcohol ran a little louder this week. It might be worth a small experiment.
Heavy weeks
Was the average intensity high, or did it climb? Then the message is not about the number, but about the fact that you kept practicing anyway.
This week asked a lot of you, and you still kept showing up. That commitment matters more than any single number.
A quiet moment
One session with no discomfort at all is enough to be highlighted. Especially on louder days it is good to know those moments exist.
One of your sessions this week ended with no discomfort at all. Hold on to that feeling. It shows what's possible.
Your check-ins themselves
Do you fill in the lifestyle questions faithfully? From five check-ins in a week you get a thank-you for that, because it sharpens every other insight.
You've been filling in your daily check-ins faithfully. The more you log, the more clearly your personal patterns surface here.
Always at hand
The journal lives in the app, but you do not have to open it to see how you are doing.
The Today screen
Your streak, this week's flowers and your totals sit at the top every time you open the app. Finished a session? It slides in here right away.
The Journal tab
The month calendar, the message from Professor Tone and the four charts. Through View all sessions you browse your whole history month by month, and every session can be opened or deleted.
Apple Watch
Your streak with the last three days, this week's intensity and your session list, right on your wrist. Not practiced yet today? Then the streak screen turns red.
Widgets and Live Activity
Your streak on the lock screen. On the home screen you choose which numbers to show: days, sessions, minutes, streak or targets. During a session the timer runs along as a Live Activity.
Siri and quick actions
Say 'View my Freequency journal' or press and hold the app icon and you jump straight to your journal. Also available through the Shortcuts app.
Everything stays with you
Your sessions live on your own device and go nowhere else. Want to remove a session? You always can. The app does warn that it may affect your streak and progress.
Get started
Ten minutes a day, your phone, and your own tone. That's all it takes, and the first 3 days are free.
Freequency complements your existing care and does not replace it. Use it in consultation with your audiologist or healthcare professional.
