# White Noise - Soundly Sleeping — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of White Noise by Three Green Wedges, rated 4.20/5 from 171 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/white-noise-soundly-sleeping/id792187184/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/white-noise-soundly-sleeping/id792187184.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 115 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of White Noise? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface - 🎵 High-quality brown noise sound - 💰 Free app with no subscription required - 🔄 Continuous looping without disruptions - 📱 Works as background app - 🎧 Multiple noise options (white, pink, brown, green) - ⭐ Reliable and consistent performance - 🚫 Minimal and non-intrusive ads - 🔊 Works well with external speakers and AirPlay - 😴 Effective for sleep and noise masking **Cons** - 🔋 Drains battery quickly when running overnight - 🔇 Sound cuts out when screen is locked or app backgrounded - 📵 Doesn't work with phone on silent/vibrate mode - 🔊 Volume inconsistencies and glitches - ⚠️ Flashing ads trigger migraines/photosensitivity - 🔐 Privacy policy not accessible or transparent - 📺 Sound interrupts when video ads play - 🐛 Occasional random stopping or stuttering - ❌ No off/pause button in some versions **Commonly reported bugs** - Bluetooth connection fails after updates - AirPods/wireless earbuds not recognized - Sound stops after 3-5 seconds of playing - App crashes or stops working entirely - Sound cuts out when certain ads play - Volume jumps up and down unexpectedly - Sound stops when exiting app or locking screen - App conflicts with other audio apps - Glitches and audio skips in brown noise loop - App stops working after iOS updates **Most requested features** - Sleep timer functionality - Pause/stop button on lock screen - One-time lifetime purchase option to remove ads - Deeper/lower frequency brown noise option - Volume normalization/stability - Ability to play sound while phone is on silent - Sound continues when screen is off - Bluetooth connectivity improvements - Better ad implementation (non-flashing) - Accessible privacy policy ## Newest reviews (19 of 96) ### 2/5 — Kills your battery *2025-07-27, version 2.0.2* A fully charged phone plugged in will only last 4-5 hours before this app kills your battery. Makes it difficult to sleep through the night. ### 4/5 — Amazing when it works. Mildly annoying when it doesn’t. *2024-07-14, version 2.0.2* Perfect in many ways however sometimes it just stops working. Resetting is easy though by closing and reopening the app. ### 4/5 — Best noise app *2023-08-10* This is my favorite noise app so far, esp the brown noise. But I have one small issue… I keep my phone on silent but if I get a call the noise machine will go off while the call is coming in. It wakes me up when the noise randomly stops. I have to pick up my phone and make it start again which disrupts my sleep. Love the tone of the sounds though and the ease of use of the app! ### 3/5 — Great app, a couple new bugs *2023-05-17* I love the app, PLEASE make it so it still plays sound even if your iPhone is on vibrate again. It seems like they removed that functionality in the last update. I would love to be able to use the app even when my phone is muted. Also, I just noticed that when I turn off my screen, the audio stops. This didn’t happen before, please fix! **Developer response:** Hello, We are also users of the app every night and have not experienced this issue. Our phones are also on vibrate, no ringer on. It could be that there is a background process happening on your device that is interrupting the sound, so you could close all the apps on your phone and try again. If that doesn't work, you'd can let us know what model iPhone and version of iOS you are running and we can try that in a simulator and see if we can reproduce the issue. You can send that to info@threegreenwedges.com. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Great sound but needs a timer function! *2023-04-30, version 2.0.2* As the title says it… great sounds to choose from and handy with AirPlay.. just needs a timer function and it would be perfect!! ### 4/5 — Safety app for years. Flashing ads bad for photosensitive migraines/epilepsy. *2023-03-31, version 2.0.2* Im autistic and when I’m stressed or overwhelmed for years I’ve had this app on my phone (now my tablet) and put on my headphones and listen to brown noise. Loud noise and high pitches overwhelm me so this app has been amazing and saved me from many meltdowns and shutdowns in public and private. I can think better when I can isolate what I need to do in my brain (ie. Am I hungry, do I have low blood sugar, am I too cold, do I have to go to the bathroom). Those sound like normal things to a lot of people, but for a lot of autistic ppl too much input makes it hard to figure out what is wrong and then everything is overwhelming. My therapist and I put this specific app/my noise cancelling headphones into my safety plan about 3 years ago. Im epileptic/photosensitive and have severe migraines so when ads flash on games apps I can’t watch. I liked to keep it open on a low brightness as long as my head didn’t hurt because I really like the stars and moon so it was calming to look at. When I opened it this morning, I already had a migraine so I was trying to figure out why (had low blood sugar), but immediately panicked when I saw the flashing g ads and the new green noise button. The ads intensified my migraine, and the change in general just panicked me because my app that has been my safety for years didn’t feel safe anymore because it must have updated overnight on its own. I know that sounds kind of weird and hysterical, but change to things I’m used to that keep my days normal and safe is really big to me. I’ve loved this app so long. I’m probably not going to find a better substitute. I’ve tried YouTube videos, Spotify podcasts, turning my heater on, turning my fan on, turning them both on at the same time, sitting in my car parked while it’s running, listening to music to drown out other stuff, just noise cancelling headphones, sitting in the bathroom in the dark with the fan on, the background noise built into iPhones now, and listening to my kitchen fan. It’s something about the specific sound and consistency of the brown noise on the app that I like and I haven’t found it in anything else. Subscriptions aren’t a thing for me because of monetary limitations, but this would definitely be worth a one time fee to remove ads if the devs decide that they choose to keep them. Although personally Id be happily willing to keep an app and ‘tip’ a dev for an app I love if I’m not forced into removing things that are bad for my health. And more devoted to a company that has the best interests of it’s disabled consumers in mind. ### 5/5 — Doesn’t work anymore - thank you for fixing this. *2023-02-20* I am sorry but this app will no longer connect to my Bose speaker. It has been working for a long time. But just stopped in the last couple weeks. Thank you for fixing this. It works great now! **Developer response:** Hi Jack! We are aware of an issue with bluetooth in the first version of the update and apologize for the disruption. Please check the App Store for version 2.0.2, which was published yesterday (2023-02-09). Should you still experience problems after the new updates, we'd love to investigate this further. It would help us if you could send us the type of speaker you are using, if you are up for that, please send us an email to info@threegreenwedges.com. Thanks! ### 5/5 — WOOOOO 🥳🥳🥳 *2023-02-13, version 2.0.2* The bug has been fixed! Perfect flawless app!!! ### 5/5 — Works Very Well & Helps with Sleep *2023-02-11, version 2.0.2* Update 2/11/23: The developer corrected the Bluetooth issue very quickly and even reached out to me personally to let me know. This is a great app for using White, Pink, Brown or Green noise for a variety of reasons. I use the brown noise at night to help with sleep. The sound has a great quality compared to others I have tried. The app is straight forward and easy to use. Try it out for yourself and see! I have used this app for quite some time as brown noise at night to help me sleep. It was simple & easy to use. I just did the update & now it will not connect to my Bluetooth speaker. All other apps with sound will but for some reason this does not recognize it. I’m going to have to find another app to use until this is fixed. Please fix it soon as I relied on this app each night. Thank you! I’ll be happy to give this five stars when this is fixed. ### 5/5 — Issues fixed *2023-02-10* I wrote a review a few days ago about the Bluetooth issues after the recent update. Developers were quick to respond and resolve the issues. Happy to go back to using this app nightly! Thank you!! Upgrading my previous review to 5 stars ❤️ **Developer response:** .****UPDATE: The latest version, 2.0.2, has fixed the problem! Hooray! Please update!.**** We are aware issues with bluetooth in the first version of the update and apologies for the disruption. While 2.0.1 fixed a majority of the bluetooth connectivity issues, there were some devices that were still not working. We have identified the issue and have released a fix - hopefully it gets through the App Store review process soon! Should you still experience problems after the new updates, we'd love to investigate this further. It would help us if you could send us the type of speaker you are using, if you are up for that, please send us an email to info@threegreenwedges.com. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Best sound app *2023-02-10, version 2.0.2* This is a great app and I love that it has multiple selections for sound. My favorite is brown. ### 4/5 — No longer plays through AirPods since update *2023-02-10, version 2.0.2* **Update - It works again. Thanks.** This update does not allow to be played through AirPods anymore. There is no option for it. Very weird. ### 5/5 — Love it but having issues with connecting *2023-02-10, version 2.0.2* I absolutely love this App, but since the recent update, I am unable to have the app connect to Bluetooth on a Bose speaker It is an app I use nightly. I hope there is a fix! ### 5/5 — Bluetooth works! *2023-02-10, version 2.0.2* I sleep with this app every single night! Love it! ### 2/5 — What happened?! *2023-02-09, version 2.0.1* I’ve used the brown noise in this app to sleep for a couple years. I am SO disappointed with the changes!! This used to be my favorite sleep noise app but now it’s just not good. Fortunately, the Bluetooth connection problem was fixed but it’s still not good. The sound is different and the volume is funky. And no off button. Bring back the old version please!! ### 5/5 — updated review— thank you! *2023-02-08, version 2.0.1* I had suggested that there be a way to pause the app on the Lock Screen and they just made that update.. thank you! ### 5/5 — Bluetooth Speaker *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* Thank You for responding so quickly. I use this app daily. Can’t wait to use it again. ### 2/5 — Issues in update *2023-02-07* I really like the simplicity and functionality of this app, but the new update has caused an issue with my earbuds. Now the sounds simply will not play out of my AirPods. I have had no other such issues with my earbuds and other apps, so I’m fairly confident this is a problem with this app specifically. I hope this can get fixed soon, because I would love to continue using the app. **Developer response:** .****UPDATE: The latest version, 2.0.2, has fixed the problem! Hooray! Please update!.**** We are aware of an issue with bluetooth in the first version of the update and apologies for the disruption. Please check the App Store for version 2.0.1, which we published yesterday. While this fixed a majority of the bluetooth connectivity issues, there were some devices that were still not working. We have identified the issue and are releasing a new version. Should you still experience problems after the new updates, we'd love to investigate this further. It would help us if you could send us the type of speaker you are using, if you are up for that, please send us an email to info@threegreenwedges.com. Thanks! ### 2/5 — Bluetooth quit working *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* I loved the app until the last update. Ow it won’t play through my Bluetooth speaker, only the iPhone. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No AirPods *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* Sound won’t play through AirPods, only speakers. Not sure what the point of that is. ### 1/5 — Stopped working with latest update *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* After the latest update this app is no longer playing over my Bluetooth headphones and will only play over the phone speaker?? This ruins the app for me as I use it just for myself since the sound bothers my partner while they sleep. Please fix this. This app was my sleep saviour until tonight. ### 1/5 — Update stinks *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* My updated app has a “green” option in place of the off selection and now I have no way of turning if off. I also can’t get it to connect via blue tooth. Please change back to original version!!! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work for me anymore! *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* The app quit working tonight after changes seem to be made green noise was added in place of the off button. Now there’s no off button that was kind of stupid are use this app for years to drowned out background noise while I sleep. Now I have to find a new app, this one no longer broadcast to my Bluetooth speaker, so I guess I’m done that was terrible to see if there was changes made to the simple app!!! ### 1/5 — Update prevents Bluetooth? *2023-02-07, version 2.0.0* Why did the last update change my ability to play the white noise over my Bluetooth speaker? ### 1/5 — Nope *2022-10-26, version 1.31.0* This app will cause your phone to act off. It will shut down and cause all music apps to stop playing ### 1/5 — Hidden privacy policy *2022-08-28, version 1.31.0* This developer has completely hidden their privacy policy. When you click on privacy policy it takes you to just an overview of the app. I literally cannot find the privacy policy anywhere so deleting the app that’s sketchy af. ### 1/5 — Stops sound *2021-06-03, version 1.28.0* There is a bug that after you tap the noise you want it starts for like 5 seconds and then just no audio happens. Attempted it after closing the app still happens and then I tried after restarting my phone still happens. Sometimes it doesn’t happen and sometimes it does! So so annoying, please fix it! ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2021-05-11, version 1.28.0* Not sure what happened, but the sound no longer plays longer than a few seconds. I think the ads at the bottom are interfering with the basic function, unfortunately. I’ve used this for at least a year or two with no problems until now. Hopefully, they get this fixed. ### 1/5 — New update broke it *2021-05-11, version 1.28.0* It worked great for years till the last apple update. Now the sound stops when you exit out of the app. So it’s pretty much useless until they patch it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love the app *2025-06-30, version 2.0.2* Really good sounds great app no ads download today for free ### 5/5 — Love the app *2025-05-02, version 2.0.2* Really good sounds great app no ads download today ### 5/5 — Simple, Effective! *2025-04-23* I don't need fan noises, rain drop sounds, fancy programs... Just a button for brown noise, and sometimes pink. This does that beautifully. :) Wish there was a 1-time "lifetime purchase" option to get rid of ads, but I am glad it is not a subscription model. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-02-26, version 2.0.2* Amazing, always helps me sleep. I feel like I have a much better sleep when I use the app. So simple and easy ### 5/5 — Zzzzz *2025-01-28, version 2.0.2* I love this app so much! I literally use to nightly. I live off a highway and its helps! ### 5/5 — Awesome 👍 *2024-06-16, version 2.0.2* I have been using this app for a few years now paired with sleep headphones and it has worked brilliantly to drown out my husbands snoring. After ten years of insomnia and other sleep problems this has really done the trick. Also great for flying. Please don’t change the app it’s great as it is! ### 5/5 — Get this and stop looking!!! *2024-04-14, version 2.0.2* I have used this app for years. Don’t waste time looking for “color” sounds and just use this one. I normally don’t write reviews on apps, but this app deserves it! ### 5/5 — I love this app! *2024-02-03* I have been using it every night for several years and it’s always worked perfectly for me. I love the simple UI & unobtrusive ads, & that it does exactly what it says on the tin. Thank you for making it!!! ### 5/5 — Use the app every day *2023-09-16, version 2.0.2* Works great now! ### 5/5 — Simple & Functional *2023-05-18, version 2.0.2* A great app with no hidden fees. Straightforward and lets you choose a sound to play for an unlimited time without requiring to upgrade. Great selection of sounds and a very friendly user face. --- *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 2026-07-05.*