A Soft Murmur vs Pixel Thoughts Official
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Soft Murmur
Craft your ideal soundscape for sleep, relaxation, study, or work. Mix ambient sounds, play them offline, and save your favorite combinations. Enjoy seamless, uninterrupted audio that helps you focus or drift off peacefully.
- Customizable sound mixes
- Offline playback
- Background audio support
- Adjustable timer and fade-out
- Save and share favorite mixes
- Seamless, uninterrupted audio
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Create your perfect mix of relaxing sounds to help you sleep, relax, study or work! Play sounds in the background while you listen to podcasts or music. Play calm nature sounds to help you drift off to sleep. You can easily set a timer to stop playing after a certain length of time, or set sounds to gradually fade out. Download once, listen whenever and wherever you like. All sounds are stored locally on your device, and once installed you can listen without using any data and without an internet connection. A Soft Murmur plays seamless, uninterrupted audio so it never interrupts your focus. Listen to four free sounds - gentle rain, rolling thunder, ocean waves and gusting wind. And for a one-off purchase, enjoy six additional sounds - crackling fire, morning bird song, chirping crickets, bustling coffee shop, meditation singing bowl and zen white noise. When Meander is active, the volume of each active sound increases and decreases at random, creating rolling waves of sound that are never the same twice. Save your favorite mixes and give them names. Switch easily between mixes or share them with your friends. The modern world is full of distractions, so we've made this app incredibly simple and easy to use. With a few taps you can enjoy seamless, relaxing nature sounds with A Soft Murmur.
Pixel Thoughts Official
This app offers a 60-second guided meditation to help you manage stress. Simply type your worries, watch them dissipate into space, and experience a sense of relief. It's a clinically studied tool for mental well-being.
- 60-second stress relief sessions
- Type and visualize stressful thoughts
- Clinically studied for anxiety reduction
- Calming messages after each session
- Free and ad-free experience
- Simple, intuitive interface
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Pixel Thoughts is interactive mindfulness: a 60-second meditation for stress and anxiety where you don't just listen, you take part. Type a stressful thought into the star, watch it shrink into the cosmos, and feel lighter in 60 seconds. CLINICALLY STUDIED Pixel Thoughts was the intervention tool in a randomized controlled trial at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (Westenberg et al., 2018). After a single 60-second session, participants reported: - 29% fewer anxiety symptoms - 30% less depression - 44% less anger - 13% less pain Four research publications, three peer-reviewed, including two randomized controlled trials. HOW IT WORKS 1. Type what's weighing you down 2. Watch your thought shrink into the stars 3. Read a calming message 4. Feel lighter, in 60 seconds CONNECTED BREATH New in 2.0: a live meditation you share with the world. Breathe in sync with people everywhere, and join the daily gathering when everyone breathes together at once. A GROWING UNIVERSE Pixel Thoughts is becoming a home for interactive mindfulness: short, carefully made experiences that respond to what you bring. Two today, more on the way. FREE No ads. Just you, a stressful thought, and the night sky. TRUSTED SINCE 2015 Used by millions to clear their minds. No learning curve. Just type and breathe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixel Thoughts Official at none against A Soft Murmur's 7. Pixel Thoughts Official also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 39 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). A Soft Murmur's advantage is ratings volume (252 vs 12) and review sentiment (77% vs 67%). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. A Soft Murmur sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Pixel Thoughts Official asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pixel Thoughts Official holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A Soft Murmur has 252 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of A Soft Murmur's written reviews are positive against 67% of Pixel Thoughts Official's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
A Soft Murmur ships an update every 39 months, Pixel Thoughts Official weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A Soft Murmur | Pixel Thoughts Official |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (252 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sleepy Rabbit LLC | Marc B |
Customer experience
A Soft Murmur
Pixel Thoughts Official
Bugs and requests
A Soft Murmur
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer stops working after app updates
- Purchased sounds disappear after restoring from backup
- Sounds fade in and out randomly
Requested features
5 requests- More free sound options
- Separate volume controls for each sound
- Dark mode
- Green noise sound
- Additional nature sounds like water streams
Pixel Thoughts Official
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
A Soft Murmur
- Unlock water sounds 1$1.99
- Unlock animal sounds 1$1.99
- Unlock musical sounds 1$1.99
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- Unlock rain sounds 1$2.99
- Unlock synthesized sounds 1$2.99
- Unlock all default sounds$3.99
- Unlock mechanical sounds 1$3.99
Pixel Thoughts Official
No in-app purchases
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