About HearSmart

HearSmart is an independent buying guide. Our motto is “check the evidence, then choose”. When you need to pick a phone, a mattress, a savings account, an app or a travel service, we line up the options, put their documented specs and published prices side by side, score them on one formula and show which one comes out on top.

We cover the everyday choices people ask about, sorted into 12 categories: Tech & gadgets, Home & living, Money, Health & fitness, Software & apps, Travel, Learning, Hearing & audio, Kids & family, Music & creators, Outdoors & sports, and Shopping & services. The list of rankings keeps growing.

Every ranking opens with a spec sheet: one sortable table with each product's starting price, free plan or trial, platforms, compatibility, whether you can buy it on your own or have to talk to sales, and one key spec for that category. The site currently carries 60 rankings and 1050 statistics across 20 data pages, and each statistic links back to the organization that published it.

About this domain

From roughly 2015 to 2023 this domain hosted HEARsmart, an Australian hearing loss prevention project. HearSmart is a new, independent publication. It is not that project, not its successor and not affiliated with it or with the organizations behind it. Some of the old hearing pages are still linked from other sites, so we rewrote those topics from scratch as sourced guides rather than leave the links pointing nowhere.

Who writes the pages

Every page carries the byline of the HearSmart research desk. There are no named reviewers, invented experts or profile photos on this site. We would rather you judge us by a method you can read than by a face.

What a score tells you

A score sums up what a product offers according to its maker's own documentation, product pages, published specs, help center and price tables. We compare documented features and published prices, never hands-on testing, and we do not claim to have bought, worn or used each product. The full formula and the spec sheet columns are explained on the methodology page.

Health guides

Our health and hearing guides summarize what health agencies and researchers publish. They are not medical advice. If you notice hearing loss, ringing in your ears or pain, see a doctor or an audiologist.

How the site is paid for

HearSmart earns nothing from the products it ranks. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored slots, no fees for being listed and no ownership stake in any product we cover.

Write to us

Report an error, a new price or a product or category you want ranked at editorial@hearsmart.org. The editorial policy describes what happens next.