# Ambients — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of Ambients by TOO LOST LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 230 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ambients/id1508398558/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ambients/id1508398558.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 180 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Ambients? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 😌 Soothing and relaxing sounds - 🎧 Great for focus and concentration - 🏠 Simulates public spaces effectively - 👍 Simple and user-friendly interface - 🎶 High-quality audio - ✨ Transformative app experience - 😊 Helps with anxiety and stress - 🚶‍♀️ Recreates social settings for the isolated - 📚 Good for reading and sleeping - 💡 Innovative concept for ambient sounds **Cons** - 💰 Unclear ad removal payment - 🤔 Some users find the app pointless - ⏳ Short track lengths (8-9 minutes) - 🚫 Lack of nature sounds or mass transit - 📱 Limited functionality on iPad (split-screen) - 🚫 Cannot hide progress bar - 🔇 No fade-out for seamless looping - 📺 Ads can be intrusive for some - 💸 High cost to remove ads ($7) - 🚫 No cast feature to external devices **Commonly reported bugs** - 🐛 Cannot play purchased sounds (Google error) - 🐛 Progress line without control is confusing **Most requested features** - More nature sounds - Mass transit recordings - Sleep timer - More free audios - Ambient passenger train sound - Horse and carriage sound - More environmental backgrounds (e.g., sporting events, rainfall under rooftops) - 10-second sample clips for locked soundscapes - Ice skating rink sound - Forest or woodsy outdoor sound ## Newest reviews (11 of 37) ### 4/5 — Muito bom *2020-10-19* Poderia melhorar colocando mais opções **Developer response:** Obrigado pela revisão! Por favor, deixe-nos saber se você tem alguma sugestão! ### 5/5 — reconnecting *2020-10-05* As a disabled person I love the way your app, when I close my eyes, virtually transports me back into life and around the world... It’s relaxing and fun! More! PLEASE!!! More places (cities, markets, rainforests, remote beaches), lots of unique weather options (thunderstorms, etc...), fictional fun (ambient star trek bridge sounds), I’m sure you’ve got plenty of ideas so I’ll stop... But this medium is as transformative as a book, a movie, or a performance — love this idea! :) **Developer response:** We're so happy you're enjoying Ambients! We will continue to add more and please continue to let us know your ideas! We love the idea of adding fictional soundscapes, look for it in the future! ### 5/5 — This app was such a good idea! *2020-09-30* Really love this app and the way it gives you a genuine sound that puts you in the atmosphere! I love using it when I’m reading or even going to bed! I would love a forest or woodsy outdoor sound too! I just moved from a very forest/woods filled state to a beach state and I would love to hear some of those earthy tones again! **Developer response:** Thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate it! Great ideas for future sounds, we'll keep them in mind! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2020-09-23* Great app to use if you need some background noise while studying! :) ### 5/5 — Calming *2020-09-23* I use this app to quiet my mind and help me fall asleep. I absolutely love it! Great interface and easy to use! ### 5/5 — Great tracks! *2020-09-20* Long enough to not notice loops. Great for helping the isolated re-create social settings. **Developer response:** Thanks for the support! ### 4/5 — Brings back the public feel without the COVID masks *2020-09-20* I miss the days(already) of the sense of freedom to spontaneously go to public locations without the worry of where my mask is. At least during COVID lockdowns, I am able to simulate those environments with the HD quality background of the days that once was. 4/5 stars as I hoped to also have more environmental backgrounds like maybe sporting events or rainfall/thunder under different rooftops(barn, car, jungle) **Developer response:** Great ideas, thanks for the feedback! ### 4/5 — Good app *2020-09-20* Attractive, nice ambient sound app. A few odd things: there is a progress line for the ambient track playing, but no control for moving forward/back - minor quibble, but confusing. Why is it there if not for control? I’d think focusing on the position of the track would be antithetical to the purpose, which is to be able to do other stuff with this in the background? I also quickly noticed that all three included tracks have the same base white sound to them with thematic elements (spoon on a teacup; distant honking horn) peppered in. Not sure if that’s good or bad, but it’s stood out quickly. (Also, to be fair, I’m not using headphones right now, so my iPad speakers may not be reproducing all of the details here.) Last, a suggestion: for the unpurchased “locked“ soundscapes, perhaps include a 10 second sample clip for each? Certainly not enough to be “giving it away“, but enough to be able to hear what’s different about it from the others, to learn if someone wants to buy them or not. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback! We are focused on sound production right now, but these are great ideas for down the road. ### 4/5 — Great quality but needs one thing *2020-09-20, version 1.06* It’s great just needs more free audios but it’s great ### 5/5 — It just finished downloading. *2020-09-20* I love it and I have a great one for you the developers! How about this. Maybe I want it cause I’ve never been and just wanna hear it... I hear it in every movie that has a scene shot at near or on the famous ice skating rink in New York. It is definitely relaxing and it is a much different sound than people cars water whales or any other! It is it’s own very unique sound of the skaters sliding and slapping over the top of hard packed ice with freshly sharpened rental skates. and the innocent laughter of children and happy and warming sound of new and old friends talking and laughing and singles mingling and meeting other singles and the sound of there nervous and vulnerable laughter. Anyways. I believe it would set your app aside and more so, on top, of the charts and other apps!!! No other has it!!! **Developer response:** We're glad you like it and keep your ears out for some exciting updates in the future. We appreciate the ideas! ### 5/5 — A+ and 5 Stars. *2020-07-12* For me this app has move to the top of the list of soundscape apps. Two sounds I hope will be added,ambient passenger train and horse and carriage. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lame. Dumb. Useless. *2021-01-24* Perhaps I’m missing something but what the heck is the point to this?! Just listen to any streaming music service or podcast. Who would put this on the “relax” or “feel less alone?!” Again, perhaps it’s me. But this is stupid. And they charge $7 to remove ads. Pretty lame. ### 1/5 — Why does this app exist? *2020-10-10* The world is a very noisy place. Everywhere we go, our ears are assaulted by excess noise. In restaurants, we have to shout so that the people we are with can hear us. This app is the last thing. A quiet home is a place of refuge. **Developer response:** I'm sorry you couldn't connect with our app! It's meant to bring back the ambient noise that brings people comfort in an unpredictable time. If you have any suggestions or requests for sounds, we would love to hear them! ### 1/5 — Can’t play purchased sounds *2020-09-20, version 1.06* I paid the full amount and get the error from google saying that I can’t play the sound. 🥺 ### 1/5 — As cynical as it gets *2020-09-02* Based around americacentral and what they think might appeal...Paris ?! First page up “Buy all tracks for [*]5.99” ? Developers with zero conscience. **Developer response:** “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” -- Oscar Wilde..... This app is meant to bring comfort in an unpredictable time, we're sorry it couldn't provide that to you. We are always open to suggestions, and will always strive to get better! ### 1/5 — Stupid *2020-09-02* There’s only three sounds so dumb. 🙄🙄 ### 2/5 — meh *2020-09-24* • Bought on a whim, but sound tracks are only 8-9 minutes each. • Effectiveness of sound-loops can be increased dramatically if they used at least 20-minute long loops (or longer), because people start remembering song patterns, especially for short songs. • Also, songs should not have particularly recognizable portions of audio, otherwise it kills any effectiveness of the looping. Just increase length of track to 30 minutes or longer to avoid this issue. Or have an audio engineer mix and remix the audio — you can easily create an unrecognizable 30+ minute loop out of splices of a full 10 minute loop.... • I don’t know why more soundscape apps don’t have longer tracks. We don’t need more tracks, we just need *longer* tracks per track. • Other Quality of life issues: 1) On ipad, can’t move the app into a split-screen panel frame on the left or right or hidden drawer panel; only full-screen is enabled. 2) Can’t hide the track progress bar on the bottom or current time of track. Annoying for those who want to keep the app focused on the screen, since may start mapping track timings to audio patterns or get unfocused because keep watching the timer bar getting close to the end. 3) At least have an audio engineer mix the end of each track so that when it loops back, you don’t have to fade the audio in and out and its just a seamless loop of audio. **Developer response:** We appreciate the feedback. We plan to address all of these issues in future releases, we hope you will stick around to see! ### 2/5 — 只有三个免费声音，不支持中文 *2020-06-18* 不支持中文，只有三个免费声音而且声音质量一般，还不如用潮汐 ### 3/5 — Missing cast feature *2020-09-21* If i could cast this to an echo or google home device, I would buy all the sounds and give it 5 stars. But not worth it to only play through phone or headphones. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback; there is currently only the option to airplay to apple devices, so I understand your frustration. Please be on the look out for this feature in a couple months! ### 4/5 — I like this. *2023-03-08* But it’s not clear how to pay to remove ads and supports the development of this app ### 4/5 — Good *2021-01-24* This app is great especially during these times , it needs more sounds but most definitely a good app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Among the most relaxing apps I have installed *2021-09-09* When the binaural sound apps just aren’t chaotic enough to help guide my concentration, I find this app is extremely soothing for me when anxiety creeps in. In these Modern trying times one thing I miss most is being able to go hang out somewhere public and listen to the sound of crowds. I find it very relaxing and I use it to enhance the sounds around me in hospital waiting rooms and even just resting at home. Put in your earbuds with the passive sound on so it blends into your surroundings at low volume or if you are trying to escape the chaos around you, activate the noise cancellation option and listen to entropy that is a bit more controlled. Reminds me of of friends I had that went out and did field recordings for music projects. Shocked there aren’t nature sounds or mass transit recordings. I know this app is helping me out. ### 5/5 — نوشتن‌بی‌وقفه *2021-05-17, version 1.12* من یه نویسنده هستم، و ازین برنامه‌برای قرار گرفتن توی محیط‌هایی که دسترسی بهشون واسم ممکن نیست استفاده می‌کنم، برای خلاقانه‌تر نوشتن. ممنون ازتون. ### 5/5 — Great app🔥🔥 *2021-04-21* AMAZING ### 5/5 — Must download *2021-02-07* This app is truly amazing and doesn’t force any cost and the advertising is so minimal that you don’t even notice it. Honestly love the app and it really is one of my favourite apps due to its simplicity and the fact it has never asked me to pay for anything, it’s just letting me listen in peace while I study. Even thought I’ve only encountered one small ad in the few hours I’ve used it I’m going to go ahead and pay for it anyways. I love what you guys have done with this app and it deserves its credit. The sounds are also terrific, by far my favourite would be the ice skating. **Developer response:** Hello there! So glad you enjoyed the app! We really appreciate the nice words. We are super excited to add some more sound packs & improvements soon. If you have any feedback or ideas, please feel free to send them over at support@toolost.com ### 5/5 — Great app *2021-01-28* Nice way to bring back life during such a dead time :) **Developer response:** Thanks for the support! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2020-10-20* Very clean and nice looking app. The ambient sounds are realistic and very relaxing! In app purchases aren’t too expensive! :) **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback! We're glad you're enjoying Ambients! ### 5/5 — An excellent app for those craving working/relaxing outdoors *2020-10-16* I keep this app on during my office hours. Gives you a peaceful relaxing white noise improving your ability to focus on things you are doing. **Developer response:** We're glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for the feedback! ### 5/5 — LOVE IT! *2020-10-07* This app has been transformative! It’s great while working from home to keep me focused as well as at the end of day to wind down, keep the sounds coming! ### 5/5 — Love the app but I wish there was a timer *2020-10-07* First I just want to say that this is a great app! Especially since they made all of the tracks available to everyone. One thing I wish there could be is a sleep timer of some sort. I’ve seen it on other apps, and I feel like it would just be so useful. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback! Look for a sleep timer in the near future! ### 5/5 — These are just the right background noises *2020-10-06* There are tons of rainfall etc apps which are fine, but with all this staying home more I needed familiar background sounds and these are spot on. Sounds of a cafe, restaurant, jazz club, outdoor market, I play different ones at different times of the day. I love music and podcasts but so,trimesters I just want to remember normal life. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*