Ambients vs Sleep Sounds ٞ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ambients
This app brings back the ambient sounds of people to your environment, helping you focus and relax. It offers a variety of audio tracks simulating everyday environments, with options to remove ads.
- Ambient soundscapes of people
- Focus and relaxation audio
- Coffee shop sounds
- Street sounds
- Outdoor sounds
- Indoor sounds
- Ad removal option
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*** App of the Day September 2020*** *** Featured by Apple "Apps We Love" June 2020 *** Bring the soundtrack of people back to your life. *** No subscriptions! Try it for free, and remove the ads whenever you'd like. *** Has Your World Been Too Quiet Lately? Whether we're working in a coffeeshop amidst strangers, or walking down a crowded street, people make up the ambient soundtrack of our lives. Concentration is tough with an absence of sound. Ambients reintroduces the quiet, persistent background noise of the world with audio tracks meant to soothe without distraction. Three free tracks are available, with no distracting ads: * Beach * Coffee Shop * New York City Streets Crave more? Listen to the rest after watching a quick ad and consider removing the ads if you enjoy! Drinks & Dining * Coffee Shop * Jazz Club * European Outdoor Market * Busy Restaurant * Sidewalk Cafe Outdoor Fun * Beach * Ice Skating on a Pond * Neighborhood Swimming Pool * Schoolyard * Theme Park (Carousels & Roller Coasters) World Tour * Streets of New York City * Evening Paris Stroll * Walking in Madrid * Netherlands Riverside Park * Exploring Greece * Hanging Out at the Mall * Bustling Fish Market
Sleep Sounds ٞ
This app offers a curated collection of nature sounds, white noises, and melodies designed to aid sleep, relaxation, and focus. It helps users reduce stress, improve sleep quality, and achieve deeper states of calm through customizable soundscapes.
- 90+ high-quality nature recordings
- Combine and adjust sound levels
- Background playback
- Save favorite combinations
- Set sleep timers
- Animated background visuals
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Relax Sounds is one of the best customized app for sleep and relaxation, based on a unique compilation of nature sound effects, white noises and melodies. It's most suitable for sleeping, relaxing, yoga, meditation, spa and wellness activity, stress relief, overcoming anxiety and insomnia, achieving intense concentration and studying! The app includes over 90 outstanding high quality nature recordings. Listening to nature sounds is the most natural and healthy way to relax and improve your sleep quality! People use our app relaxing ambience to achieve the following: - Significantly reduce stress and anxiety levels - Improve sleep cycle and eliminate insomnia - Achieve profoundly deep states of relaxation and/or meditation - Manage anger and nervous tension - Overcome depression - Boost energy and vitality levels - Improve mental health and emotional well-being Features: * Combine different nature sounds * Adjust individual sounds level * Can work background * Save favorite sound combination * Set timers * Beautiful background pictures with animation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ambients at 79% against Sleep Sounds ٞ's 33%. Ambients also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). Sleep Sounds ٞ's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and iOS requirement 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. Ambients sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Sleep Sounds ٞ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sleep Sounds ٞ holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 232 and 82 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Ambients's written reviews are positive against 33% of Sleep Sounds ٞ's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ambients ships an update every 4 weeks, Sleep Sounds ٞ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ambients | Sleep Sounds ٞ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (232 ratings) | 4.9 (82 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 232 — better | 82 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 13.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOO LOST LLC | Matrix Software Co. |
Customer experience
Ambients
Sleep Sounds ٞ
Bugs and requests
Ambients
Reported bugs
2 issues- 🐛 Cannot play purchased sounds (Google error)
- 🐛 Progress line without control is confusing
Requested features
10 requests- More nature sounds
- Mass transit recordings
- Sleep timer
- More free audios
- Ambient passenger train sound
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- 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
Sleep Sounds ٞ
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ambients
- Unlock World Tour$2.99
- Unlock Outdoor Fun$2.99
- Unlock Dining Audio Tracks$2.99
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- Remove Ads$4.99
Sleep Sounds ٞ
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Ambients free?
Is Sleep Sounds ٞ free?
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