Hear Coach is a suite of listening games that challenges cognitive and auditory sharpness. It tracks progress and unlocks harder levels as you improve, using varied background noise to simulate real listening environments. Designed for people with hearing loss, new hearing aids, or experienced users, the app recently removed the login barrier to progress tracking.
Pros & Cons
Designed for hearing loss and hearing aid users
Progress tracking with unlockable levels
Realistic listening practice through varied background noise
Free to use with login-free progress tracking
Lacks explicit sound amplification or audio boost features
No explicit live audio recording or testing tools mentioned
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About Hear Coach
Hear Coach was a word app developed by Starkey Hearing Technologies. It was removed from Google Play Sep 9, 2021 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Hear Coach had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Hear Coach was rated 4.14 out of 5 stars, based on 36 ratings.
App Information
Hear Coach was free to download. The APK download size was 49.66 MB. The last available version was 3.2. The last update was on March 21, 2016.
Technical Requirements
Hear Coach required Android 4.0.3+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play February 2013.
Description
Individuals with hearing loss tend to have increased difficulty understanding speech in noise and as a result experience communication breakdowns. Tasks like the ones in this game have been shown to help improve listening ability in noise. When people have improved listening in noise they don't have to work as hard to hear and can relax and participate in conversations without straining, even in loud or busy environments.
Hear Coach is a suite of listening games developed by Starkey Laboratories; it features games that challenge both your cognitive and auditory sharpness.
Hear Coach allows you to track your progress over time and unlock more difficult levels as your performance improves. A different background noise stimulus within each of the levels provides you with varying degrees of difficulty to help you train your auditory system in different environments. This app is designed to help people who think they might have a hearing loss, people who have new hearing aids, and even experienced hearing aid users who want to get the most out of their listening.
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Recent changes: We've eliminated the requirement to create a login in order to track progress through levels. Progress tracking is now available to all users.
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★★★★★
Usefull Great tool but I am a person with normal hearing and the male voice was very difficult to understand. It was too mechanical and very quiet even at max volume. The female voice used as the test volume was perfect.
★★★★★
I don't have Starkey hearing aids, but I do have an Advanced Bionics cochlear implant and this app has helped with my auditory rehab immensely. They should add an option that allows to replay what was said. They should also show a the answer after the user gets it wrong 3 times in a row for each individual question.
★★☆☆☆
Can't even open the app! GalaxyS5 going to uninstall
★★☆☆☆
Will not open With the new version of lollipop on samsung galaxy s4 the app will not open.
★★☆☆☆
Sound doesn't work. Useless without sound.
Technologies used by Hear Coach
Hear Coach is requesting 5 permissions and is using 4 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: The app requests standard connectivity and storage permissions (network state, internet, read/write external storage, and vibrate). These are typical for online features and progress saving; no additional sensitive permissions are listed.
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.