Comparison

Noize vs Blankie

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Noize

This app offers a variety of natural soundscapes and ambient noises designed to improve sleep quality, enhance focus, and reduce stress. It provides a minimalist interface for quick access to sounds like rain, wind, forest, and white noise, aiding in relaxation and concentration.

Highlights
  • White noise for focus and sleep
  • Rain sounds for relaxation
  • Wind sounds for stress relief
  • Nature soundscapes
  • Fan and clock noise options
  • Minimalist user interface
Features
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Improve Sleep, Boost Focus & Reduce Stress with Natural Soundscapes Find Your Perfect Sound for Relaxation & Focus • White Noise – Steady background noise to improve focus, sleep, and relaxation. • Rain Sounds – Soothing rain ambiance to calm the mind and enhance sleep • Wind Sounds – Soft breeze ambiance to ease stress and deep relaxation • Forest Sounds – Peaceful nature soundscape with birds, leaves, and flowing water. • Dreamy Sounds – Soothing melodies for meditation, sleep, and deep relaxation. • City Sounds – Urban ambiance with distant traffic, chatter, and city life. • Fan Noise – Consistent fan hum to block distractions and promote better sleep. • Clock Noise – Gentle ticking for focus, productivity, and nostalgic calm. • Relaxing Noise – A carefully curated mix of sounds for stress relief and mindfulness. Why Noize? Better Sleep & Insomnia Relief – Fall asleep faster with sleep sounds and white noise Focus & Productivity Booster – Stay concentrated while working or studying Stress & Anxiety Reduction – Calming sounds to relax your mind and body Tinnitus Masking – Reduce ringing in the ears with therapeutic soundscapes Minimalist & User-Friendly – One-tap access to high-quality sounds Perfect for: Light Sleepers & Insomniacs – Drown out background noise and sleep soundly Remote Workers & Students – Improve concentration with distraction-free sounds Frequent Travelers – Block noisy environments with airplane and fan sounds Meditation & Yoga – Create a peaceful space with ambient meditation sounds You Listen to Us, We Listen to You! We’re constantly improving and adding new sleep sounds, nature sounds, and ambient noise based on your feedback! Download Noize now and transform your sleep, focus, and relaxation!

About

Blankie

Create personalized ambient soundscapes by mixing a variety of high-quality sounds. This app helps you focus, relax, or sleep by masking distractions. It offers offline functionality, custom sound imports, and convenient playback controls.

Highlights
  • Customizable sound mixes
  • 24 high-quality ambient sounds
  • Sleep timer with fade-out
  • Lock screen playback controls
  • Import custom sounds
  • CarPlay support
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Mix rain, a fan, ocean waves and white noise into the sound you sleep or work to. Set each sound's volume, save the mix as a preset, and play it on your iPhone, iPad or in CarPlay. • 24 sounds built in Rain, distant thunder, wind, ocean waves and a bubbling stream. Birds, a pine forest and crickets on a summer night. A train, a sailboat, an airplane cabin and a busy street. A coffee shop, a crackling fireplace, a fan and a dryer in the laundry room. Warm piano, gentle guitar, lo-fi beats and an ambient synth. And the noise family: white, pink, green and deep brown. They all live on your device, so nothing streams. • Build your own mix Turn on any sounds you like and drag each slider until the mix feels right. Save it as a preset, give it artwork, and star your favorites. • Sleep timer Pick how long to listen. Blankie fades out and stops on its own, so nothing runs until morning. • Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts Start a favorite from your Home Screen, ask Siri to play a preset, or build Blankie into your own shortcuts. • Lock Screen, Control Center and AirPods Play, pause and step between presets from the Lock Screen, Control Center or your AirPods. • CarPlay Long drive with a sleeping kid in the back? Your presets and sounds come along, in a simple view made for the car. • Support for iPhone Duo Open it and Now Playing fills one page while your sounds fill the other. Stand it half open on your nightstand and the upright half shows what's playing, with your sounds in reach on the flat half. • Bring your own sounds Bring the fan you can't sleep without, a favorite rain recording, or anything else as MP3, WAV, FLAC and more. Blankie levels each import to match the built-in sounds, so a new sound never blasts over your mix. • Free, private, open source Actually free: no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking. Blankie works offline, collects no data, and the code is open source on GitHub.

Screenshots

Noize4 screens
Blankie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Blankie at weekly against Noize's every 9 months. Blankie also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 1). Noize's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Noize against 5.0 for Blankie. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blankie has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Noize ships an update every 9 months, Blankie weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Noize versus Blankie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoizeBlankie
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings113 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB226 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWve LabsCody Bromley

Customer experience

Noize

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blankie

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Noize

No in-app purchases

None

Blankie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Noize free?
Noize is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blankie free?
Blankie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Noize or Blankie?
Noize and Blankie are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 13 ratings respectively.
Do Noize or Blankie have ads?
Neither Noize nor Blankie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Noize or Blankie?
Noize ships an update every 9 months, and Blankie weekly. Most recently, Noize was updated on October 18, 2026 and Blankie on October 30, 2026.

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