Ding.

Ding by HearBat · Hearing wellness

Not ready for hearing aids? Good.

Ding gives your AirPods a personalized hearing profile in 8 minutes. No beeping. No hand-raising. No appointment.

Works with AirPods Pro · iPhone required

IMAGE A — HERO 67yo woman, AirPods Pro, dinner table warm editorial photo · 4:5 fal.ai / flux-pro

Hearing loss is the #1 modifiable risk factor for dementia.

The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention identified hearing loss as the single largest modifiable risk factor, ahead of physical inactivity, depression, and smoking.

The ACHIEVE trial at Johns Hopkins found treatment can cut cognitive decline by nearly half in high-risk adults — over three years.

Lancet Commission 2024 · ACHIEVE 2023

2×

dementia risk with mild hearing loss

3×

dementia risk with moderate hearing loss

5×

dementia risk with severe hearing loss

48%

reduction in cognitive decline with hearing treatment (ACHIEVE)

1.5B

people with unaddressed hearing loss worldwide

$5,000

average out-of-pocket cost of prescription hearing aids

8 min

to get your personalized Ding profile

Your hearing test was invented in 1947. Your iPhone wasn't.

The old way

Audiologist booth.

3-hour appointment
Soundproof booth
Beeps, not words
Hand-raising
$200–400 out of pocket
Abstract threshold chart

IMAGE B — OLD TEST 1960s audiometry booth, B&W vintage · clinical · cold

The Ding way

Your couch.

8 minutes
Your living room
Real words, real sentences
Repeat what you hear
Free to start
AirPods calibrated to you

IMAGE A.2 — DING same woman, iPhone in hand, AirPods in relaxed, warm interior · 16:9

How Ding works.

Six clinical methods, validated in peer-reviewed audiology research, compressed into a single 8-minute test. Then your AirPods do the rest.

Speech-based testing

You repeat real words and sentences out loud. Ding listens, scores you in real time, and maps where your comprehension drops off — not just your tone thresholds.

Speech-in-noise

The test runs the same speech against calibrated background noise. This is the test that predicts real-world hearing difficulty better than any tone audiogram.

Minimal pairs

Forced-choice discrimination across the consonants that fail first — b/p, f/th, s/sh. Catches the early high-frequency loss tone tests miss.

Real-time adaptation

Ding senses the environment you're in — kitchen, café, sidewalk, theater — and adjusts your AirPods' speech amplification automatically.

Your hearing profile

A personalized frequency curve, written to your AirPods in one tap. The same calibration audiologists do — without the audiologist appointment.

Dementia risk tracking

Retest monthly. Ding tracks the slope — and flags meaningful change in your speech-in-noise score, the strongest cognitive correlate in the literature.

IMAGE C — BEFORE 72yo man at dinner party desaturated body, vibrant scene around him "present but withdrawn"

Untreated

IMAGE D — AFTER same man, fully saturated leaning in, AirPods Pro visible "back in the room"

With Ding

Untreated hearing loss withdraws you from the room. Treating it brings you back.

Three ways to start.

The free version takes the test. Ding+ keeps it accurate as your hearing changes. Pro is for clinicians.

Free

Take the test

Always

Full 8-minute hearing test
One-time AirPods profile
Basic audiogram and results
Speech-in-noise score

Start free

Ding+

Most people pick this

$4.99/mo

or $49 one-time · cancel anytime

Everything in Free
Real-time environment adaptation
Monthly retesting & tracking
Cognitive risk trending
Speech-in-noise training
Export to your PCP

Try Ding+

Ding Pro

For audiologists

$49 + hardware

Clinician account · invoiced

Everything in Ding+
Physical calibration coupler
Clinical-grade accuracy
Multi-patient dashboard
CPT-aligned export

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Your AirPods can do more than you think.

8 minutes. Free. No appointment.

Test your hearing free