The Best Hearing Aids of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Other Hearing Aids to Consider

We've reviewed dozens of proceeding aids, and galore of them are bully but not great. Here are alternatives to consider:

GN ReSound Vivia for $5,000+: ReSound's caller Vivia enactment of medicine proceeding immunodeficiency are connected par successful some plan (at a svelte 2.56 grams) and prime with the Starkey Edge AI models, providing a pristine audio acquisition that is tuned perfectly and utterly escaped of hiss and feedback. The “intelligence-augmented” devices enactment good successful either sound oregon much intimate one-on-one settings, and GN’s Smart 3D app couldn’t beryllium easier to master. Support for Bluetooth Auracast is besides included, truthful wearers tin present tube media (like the audio from the TV astatine a bar) straight to the aids. They aren’t cheap, truthful getting immoderate beforehand ears-on clip with them is indispensable for prospective buyers.

Eargo 7 for $2,699: The Eargo 7 (7/10, WIRED Review) connection high-quality sound, and you tin link with an audiologist to fine-tune them to your ears. There are a fewer listening programs you tin rhythm through, but I didn't find the request to power modes—they provided well-amplified audio nary substance what I was doing. The main issue? They're needlessly expensive.

Sony CRE-E10 for $1,000: The CRE-E10 (7/10, WIRED Review) aren't truthful overmuch of an upgrade to the C20 we urge above, but a antithetic people of product. They're overmuch much visible, though they look similar a modular brace of Bluetooth earbuds. The E10 supply a comfy acceptable but tin get tiring aft a agelong day. At slightest they usage a rechargeable artillery (via USB-C) with up to 26 hours connected a azygous charge. You tin power them lone done Sony's app, and the proceeding trial lets you tune the frequence effect of the aids. The audio acquisition is fantabulous astatine debased volumes, though these immunodeficiency person a spot of an echo and immoderate further noise. Still, I recovered it manageable. They bash a decent occupation streaming media and calls via Bluetooth.

Elehear Alpha Pro for $449: If you endure from mild proceeding loss, the Elehear Alpha Pro (7/10, WIRED Review) are worthy a look. They're traditional-looking proceeding aids, and caller users get a escaped 30-minute league with an audiologist to get them acceptable up. There are respective modes you tin rhythm done successful the app to boost the measurement and alteration ambient noise, positive you tin tweak the presets Elehear offers, though a batch of this is proceedings and error. They person bully artillery life—around 20 hours connected a azygous charge—and did not deplete for maine aft utilizing them for a afloat day. You tin popular them into a carrying lawsuit that tin recharge them up to 7 much times.

Avoid These Hearing Aids

Just arsenic important arsenic what proceeding immunodeficiency to bargain are what proceeding immunodeficiency not to buy. While immoderate of these devices are affordable, astir are lacking successful prime oregon style. After our testing, we don’t wholly urge these proceeding aids. (Poor proceeding immunodeficiency tin harm your hearing.)

Audien Atom One for $98: I had precocious hopes for these (5/10, WIRED Review) but they're impossibly cheap. The Atom One travel up abbreviated connected astute features, arsenic there’s nary mode to fine-tune these devices.

Lexie Lumen for $699: These are comically ample and dated. The lawsuit was physically falling isolated during testing, which I wouldn’t expect from proceeding immunodeficiency astatine this price. Though they dependable fine, they’re acold from subtle and were plagued with connectivity bugs.

Olive Union Olive Max for $447: The Olive Max (6/10, WIRED Review) are large and look similar a Bluetooth headset from the aboriginal 2000s (except for some of your ears). You tin usage an app to fine-tune the listening experience, but the wide proceeding assistance show was mixed and I experienced a steady, buzzing inheritance noise. They were beauteous unusable successful large environments too. That said, they enactment good arsenic modular wireless earbuds.

Ceretone Core One for $349: The mandatory app required to power these proceeding immunodeficiency is truthful basal that it's useless (5/10, WIRED Review). You can't tune the frequencies, and the listening acquisition is rather blunt. They're besides not comfy to deterioration for agelong periods.

Sennheiser All-Day Clear for $1,000: Considering the price, these proceeding immunodeficiency (3/10, WIRED Review) are not effectual and person a important inheritance hiss problem. They're bulky and hard to position.

Linner Nova OTC for $300: The AirPods-like Linner Nova (3/10, WIRED Review) amplify biology dependable and tin treble arsenic streaming earbuds, but bash neither peculiarly well.

MDHearing Neo for $297 and Neo XS for $397: Never caput the Joe Namath endorsement, these in-ear immunodeficiency are incredibly uncomfortable and diagnostic a wildly dated plan sensibility. Screeching feedback astatine the slightest interaction makes them untenable for adjacent short-term use.