New Parents
If you’re a new parent this app is an absolute 100% must have app. Our daughter is five months old and the vacuum cleaner noise still puts her to sleep. I even forgot how much better I sleep with white noise. And the marketplace is great too for new sounds to download. Best $0.99 I’ve ever spent that’s for sure.
Update: Four months later and still using the app nightly. Only our little one has moved from the noises to music. Great selection of lullabies, meditation music and our favorite Christmas carols.
Update: Four months later and still using the app nightly. Only our little one has moved from the noises to music. Great selection of lullabies, meditation music and our favorite Christmas carols.
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Great app
I love this app, mainly for the White Noise marketplace which lets me find so many additional sounds! The timer function is great, and that I can play it in the background with my phone screen locked.
Best way to drown out house noises
If you’re someone who lays there and hears your older house “settling” and maybe it freaks you out a bit, this is a great app. When you know your house is secure and safe, turn it on so you can’t hear the tiny little things that might wake you up.
Pets roaming around, distant thunder, an old two-story house that freaks and sways with the wind and just settles and adjusts constantly are all things that keep people waking up and not getting a good night’s sleep. This will help drown out those noises.
If you still want to be able to hear, just don’t turn it up so loud but let it cover the softer noises good stuff! Love making my own mixes!
Pets roaming around, distant thunder, an old two-story house that freaks and sways with the wind and just settles and adjusts constantly are all things that keep people waking up and not getting a good night’s sleep. This will help drown out those noises.
If you still want to be able to hear, just don’t turn it up so loud but let it cover the softer noises good stuff! Love making my own mixes!
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Response from developer
Thanks for the awesome review! We are so happy to hear that the app is helping mask those creepy sounds so you can get some sleep! We're also happy to hear you are taking advantage of the mix feature. It's a great way to create your favorite sleep sound. We appreciate the amazing feedback and your support!
Doesn’t always work
I’ve had this app for a while and always use it as my alarm. Lately it’s not working on my ipad the same as on my iPhone. Several times throughout the night the sound feature would just stop and it would shut off and I would have to open the app and start it all over again. It’s updated so I don’t what’s wrong. It worked one night then went right back to not working. Same exact app on iPhone and works there, except when I snooze it, the white noise sound doesn’t continue. Several times on my phone the music alarm would start but there was no way to turn it off. I would have to go into the music app just to stop it. Very frustrating.
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Sound change has helped my life
I lived with a stressed mind for sleep .
I taught myself to slow with brown noise and have found a peaceful sleep
I taught myself to slow with brown noise and have found a peaceful sleep
Great except for one flaw
Updating my review to five stars because I found out you can disable those annoying new sound postcards! Thank goodness!
The paid version of this app is worth every penny! I am a horrible sleeper who wakes at even the slightest noise, and am able to detect the repeat in most sound tracks, and that will keep me awake. However, many of the sounds on this app have perfect loops and no distinguishing pattern, so I sleep great!
What cost it a star: that stupid splash noise when there is a pop up about new sounds or some such nonsense. I never read it. All I know is it’s very annoying, and very jarring, to set a sound to sleep, put the phone down, only to be jolted by the sudden, loud splash! Get rid of that and you’ll have a perfect app.
The paid version of this app is worth every penny! I am a horrible sleeper who wakes at even the slightest noise, and am able to detect the repeat in most sound tracks, and that will keep me awake. However, many of the sounds on this app have perfect loops and no distinguishing pattern, so I sleep great!
What cost it a star: that stupid splash noise when there is a pop up about new sounds or some such nonsense. I never read it. All I know is it’s very annoying, and very jarring, to set a sound to sleep, put the phone down, only to be jolted by the sudden, loud splash! Get rid of that and you’ll have a perfect app.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback! We appreciate the star bump and your continued support!
Great app
Great app!
I love this app — I have one tweak request, though ...
I work from home, as does my wife. Ever since we moved my office to the room with the back door and my dad moved in with us, there’s been a lot of foot traffic and ambient noise near my desk. White Noise is invaluable — I’ve had a thunderstorm in my head for days now, blocking out all the footsteps, dog barking, and general hubbub that happens while I’m trying to concentrate.
One feature request, though (and I’m guessing the developers have heard this before): I would love it if the sounds faded in or out on start and stop rather than being so abrupt. I can see how that might be a complicated addition since the noise is generated rather than strictly a recording, but it’s very jarring to turn it off and on. Other than that, I use white noise more than any other app these days, except perhaps mail and messages. Thanks for a great app!
One feature request, though (and I’m guessing the developers have heard this before): I would love it if the sounds faded in or out on start and stop rather than being so abrupt. I can see how that might be a complicated addition since the noise is generated rather than strictly a recording, but it’s very jarring to turn it off and on. Other than that, I use white noise more than any other app these days, except perhaps mail and messages. Thanks for a great app!
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Response from developer
Thanks for the awesome feedback! We are so happy to hear that we can help you concentrate while you work. As far as the fading, we do have a fade feature if when you set a time. You can set a timer for the sound to stop at noon and have it fade either 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes prior to that time. Hope this helps! Thanks again for the review.
White Noise
This is a great app. It's easy to work with and can produce some very nice sounds that are almost as good as real music for relaxation purposes.
Could improve sound library somewhat
I like the app, and I use it sometimes for sleeping (played over small Bluetooth speakers). However, only a couple of the sound selections seem a good fit for me - in particular the rain forest and the running river. Many of the rest seem somewhat harsh and/or intrusive rather than soothing. Taking some of the treble off the rain selections might help a bit.
The rain forest selection, which I otherwise like, could use a longer clip — right now, the loop is short enough that one quickly begins to anticipate when each bird call is coming, which ends up being a distraction. Maybe twice or three times as long would be better.
The rain forest selection, which I otherwise like, could use a longer clip — right now, the loop is short enough that one quickly begins to anticipate when each bird call is coming, which ends up being a distraction. Maybe twice or three times as long would be better.
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