Noisli vs Kokoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noisli
Create personalized soundscapes with a variety of ambient noises to enhance focus, relaxation, or sleep. Mix and match sounds to build your perfect audio environment, available offline.
- Mixable ambient sounds
- Customizable soundscapes
- Offline sound playback
- Save favorite sound combos
- Timer with fade out
- Sync combos across devices
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The Official app of Noisli.com - The background noise and color generator for working and relaxing. High quality ambient sounds to help you focus while working, relieve anxiety, help during your meditation or yoga classes, or just to relax while reading or before going to sleep. Noisli is mainly used to drown out annoying noises in order to better concentrate and to enhance productivity, or to create a pleasant audio environment for relaxing or sleeping. You’re working from an open office, have loud co workers and can’t focus? You’re working or studying from home or in a library and nothing gets you motivated? You’re continuous travelling on plane or train and need a quick power nap? Noisli makes your life a little easier and keeps you sane during long office hours or intense study sessions. PRESS & MEDIA QUOTES The Next Web – “The perfect tool to help get you more productive in the comfort of your own home” Time – “Noisli helps you tackle busywork” FastCompany – “12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts Can’t Live Without” Cnet – “Relax during your stressful workday with Noisli. It is pure simplicity” LifeHacker – “Noisli Generates Background Sounds to Keep You Creative and Relaxed” The app is also useful in many other situations, such as helping with insomnia, relaxing while reading, reduce stress, soothe headaches and migraines or at the spa, during massaging sessions and for parents to help your baby fall asleep. Noisli is also used to mask Tinnitus and to help with ADD and ADHD. With Noisli you can improve your health and feel better. The service is already being used all over the world by coders, programmers, bloggers, writers, students and translators during work or by teachers during creative writing classes. HOW IT WORKS Mix different sounds and create your perfect sound ambience tailored to your personal need and taste. Activate one or more sounds and adjust the volume slider to create an always different and pleasing sound environment. With Noisli you can boost your focus and enhance your productivity or just lay back, listen, and enjoy falling asleep. SOUNDS Rain, Thunderstorm, Wind, Forest with Birds, Leaves, Water stream, Seaside with seagulls and relaxing waves, Water, Fireplace, Summer night with owls and crickets, Fan, rumbling Train, Coffee Shop, White Noise, Pink Noise, Brown Noise. ALWAYS WITH YOU - OFFLINE SOUNDS The Noisli app lets you play all of the sounds offline and therefore you can always enjoy its features and benefits also while travelling on a plane or commuting on a train, or during any other activity with no need for an internet connection. CREATE AND SAVE YOUR WONDERFUL COMBOS Play and Mix the Sounds together and find your Favourite Combos - Save and Replay them whenever you like. SYNC Now you can sign up for a free Noisli account and have your wonderful Combos always in sync on all your devices. A network connection is required to synchronise. TIMER WITH FADE OUT FUNCTION With the Timer function you can take advantage of efficient time management methods, such as the Pomodoro Technique, to be more efficient and productive while cutting out distractions and prevent burnouts. Use the built-in countdown timer function during work, study or creativity sessions or simply use it as a sleeping timer for taking a relaxed nap or while falling asleep. BACKGROUND AUDIO SUPPORT You can enjoy the wonderful sounds also while using other apps or while surfing the web. FOLLOW US Like it: https://facebook.com/Noisli Follow: https://twitter.com/Noisli Website: https://www.noisli.com
Kokoon
This app offers a personalized sleep audio experience tailored to your needs and habits. It features a library of original audio content, including soundscapes and spoken word, and allows you to integrate audio from other apps. Track your sleep data to understand how your habits impact your rest.
- Personalized sleep audio
- Original audio content library
- Configurable audio for sleep stages
- Integrates with other audio apps
- Sleep data tracking and insights
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Delivers a personalised sleep audio experience, tending to your specific needs and sleep habits. Original content library - includes different types of audio tracks for sleep: coloured noise, soundscapes and music as well as a variety of spoken word audio to deepen your understanding of your sleep or practise different relaxation techniques. Configure audio - adapt to your sleeping stage: pause your sounds or fade audio out into coloured noise to protect your sleep from disturbance. Use audio from any audio app - e.g. Audible, Spotify, Podcasts etc. It works with whatever you like to listen to when relaxing. Data tracking and insights - build an understanding of your sleep, and see how your audio usage and behaviours affect your sleep over time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Noisli at 61% against Kokoon's 15%. Noisli also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.8) and chart position (#22 vs unranked). Kokoon's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Kokoon is free to download; Noisli costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Noisli holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 255 and 140 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Noisli's written reviews are positive against 15% of Kokoon's.
Noisli ships an update every 6 months, Kokoon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noisli | Kokoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (255 ratings) — better | 3.8 (140 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better | 14.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 255 — better | 140 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 254 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noisli Labs UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) | Kokoon Technology Ltd |
Customer experience
Noisli
Kokoon
User reviews
Noisli
From 255 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⛅ Calming ambient sounds
- 🎨 Customizable sound combinations
- ⏱️ Helpful timer function
- 💤 Great for sleep and focus
- 🌳 Realistic nature sounds
Room to improve
- 🔊 Some sounds too quiet
- 🌈 Distracting color changes
- 💻 Not optimized for newer devices
- 🔍 Limited sound selection
- 🔒 No background audio support
Kokoon
From 140 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Comfortable to wear
- 🚀 Good sound quality
- 👍 Helpful for sleep
- 🚀 Useful data and tracking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable app
- 🔋 Poor battery life
- 🐛 Unreliable sleep tracking
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 👎 Limited functionality
Bugs and requests
Noisli
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch for some users
- Volume sliders not working properly
- Sounds not resuming after interruptions
- Compatibility issues with iOS 14.2 and newer
Requested features
5 requests- Add more sound options like ocean, wind chimes, etc.
- Implement a dark mode
- Allow setting custom timer durations
- Add alarm/wake up functionality
- Improve compatibility with Bluetooth/smart speakers
Kokoon
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes and freezes
- Sync and login issues
- Inconsistent audio playback
- Inaccurate sleep data
- Firmware update problems
Requested features
6 requests- Offline audio playback
- Integration with Apple Health
- More customization options
- Improved sleep tracking and data visualization
- Better audio library and content
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- Automatic fade out and noise masking
In-app purchases
Noisli
No in-app purchases
Kokoon
No in-app purchases









