Blankie vs Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable sound mixes
- 24 high-quality ambient sounds
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Lock screen playback controls
- Import custom sounds
- CarPlay support
- Offline functionality
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Blankie is your personal ambient sound companion. Mix soothing rain with a crackling fireplace, or combine whistling winds of a forest with a warm piano. Blankie helps you tune out distractions to sleep, relax or get to your flow state. • 24 High-Quality Sounds Rain, storms, wind, ocean waves, a running stream. Birds, a forest, crickets on a summer night. A train, a boat, an airplane, the hum of a city. Coffee shop, fireplace, a fan, the laundry room. Warm piano, lo-fi beats, gentle guitar, ambient synth. And the full noise family: white, pink, green and deep brown. All ready to go without downloading or streaming. • Customizable Mixes Choose your sounds and dial in your ideal volume levels to craft the perfect balance for work, study, relaxation, or sleep. Keep it subtle or turn it up, it’s your Blankie. • Set a Sleep Timer Pick how long you want to listen and Blankie fades out and stops on its own. Drift off without leaving sound running until morning. • Quick Playback Controls Play or pause Blankie easily from your lock screen, Control Center, or even AirPod controls. • Bring Your Own Sounds Already know what you like? Import custom sounds from files and your voice notes. Every import is loudness-matched to your library automatically so nothing jumps out of the mix. • CarPlay Support Long drive with a sleeping kid in the back? Take Blankie on the road with your presets and sounds in a streamlined view. • Offline & Privacy-First Blankie is fully functional offline, collects no personal data and is completely open source. No ads or subscriptions. Ever. Experience deeper relaxation, sharper focus, and a calmer mindset with your own blend of ambient sound. Whether you need white noise to block out distractions, or a peaceful drizzle of rain to help you unwind, Blankie has all the options you need to soothe your environment and elevate your day. Download Blankie today and start creating your perfect soundscape.
Drift
This app offers quick, 60-second calming experiences designed to combat endless scrolling and promote relaxation. It features interactive visuals, guided breathing exercises, ambient soundscapes, bite-sized puzzles, and short narrated interludes for moments of decompression. The app is built for real-life use, requiring no sign-up or lengthy tutorials.
- 60-second calming experiences
- Dedicated Sleep Mode with soundscapes and timers
- Interactive visual exercises
- Guided breathing exercises
- Ambient soundscapes with full-screen visuals
- Bite-sized brain games
- Short narrated interludes
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It's late, and you meant to be asleep an hour ago. Put on the rain, a box fan or a slow piano, set a timer, and let Drift play you to sleep. Every sound in Drift has its own scene, drawn live and slow enough to fall asleep to: snow over a line of pines, embers lifting off a fire, moon jellies drifting up through dark water. Watch it, or hide the controls and let it fill the screen. 43 SOUNDS, SEVEN KINDS Rain, Water, Noise, Nature, Night, Ambient and Instrumental. Thunderstorms and rain on leaves, ocean waves and a stream, a box fan, a deep drone, brown noise and pink noise, crickets and cicadas, a crackling fire, a singing bowl, a cat purring, even the clack of a mechanical keyboard. INSTRUMENTAL Eight calm tracks for the end of the day, from Night Piano and Violin Lullaby to Banjo Blues. Every sound in Drift loops without a seam, so there's no pause or jump to wake you. A TIMER FOR FALLING ASLEEP Choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or play until you stop it. The sound fades out over the last half minute, the screen dims while it plays, and it keeps going with your phone locked. Play and pause right from the lock screen. MIX YOUR OWN Layer up to four sounds, like rain over crickets with a fan underneath, and set each one's volume. Save the sounds and mixes you reach for and start them in one tap. A NIGHTLIGHT Turn your screen into a soft, even light in one of six colors, and dim it down to a faint glow. Your sound keeps playing underneath. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM Six sounds are free, with every timer and the mixer: Rainy Night, Ocean Waves, Forest Morning, Singing Bowl, Night Piano and Violin Lullaby. Premium opens all 43 sounds, the nightlight, and new sounds as they land. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan. After that it's 29.99 a year, or 3.99 a month, and you can cancel anytime. NOTHING TO SET UP No sign-up and no account. Open Drift, tap a sound, and put the phone down. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blankie at none against Drift's 2. Blankie also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Drift's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Drift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Blankie asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blankie against 5.0 for Drift. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blankie has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Blankie ships an update every 10 days, Drift every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blankie | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 176 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cody Bromley | Sean Trapani |
Customer experience
Blankie
Drift
In-app purchases
Blankie
No in-app purchases
Drift
- Drift Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Drift Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year









