Earplug vs Breathe, Queen

"La semplicità è la suprema sofisticazione" -- Leonardo da Vinci Earplug is a minimalist relaxation app. When you can't sleep, reach for Earplug. It only does one thing... perfectly. Sleep, meditate and concentrate soundly with a buttery–smooth "masking" track that can help to hide: • Snoring • Sirens • Wild animals • Distant screams • Neighbors • Poltergeists • Sadness • Breathing EARPLUG SOUND Earplug Sound is our proudest creation: it's a rarefied blend of pink and white noise looped and spun like silk; Earplug’s Sound pairs up perfectly with almost any source of environmental noise, helping to lessen its impact and free your mind. DISTRACTION-FREE APP When you need Earplug most, you're either half-asleep or you want to be. You don't want to fiddle. You want the app that was created by experts in audio and user interface to guide your experience. Earplug has no options, no popups and no nags... Ever! We made Earplug because we're like you. We love sleep-sound apps but never found what we were searching for, so we built our own: Earplug. It's distraction-free in its sound, design and stability, and it's quality from beginning to end. INSTRUCTIONS • Unlock your iPhone, iPad or Mac • Open the Earplug app Earplug can also be controlled from the Control Center, Apple Watch, and the iPhone lock screen. The App also works great with headphones (especially Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones and Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II) and external speakers. The App will resume after your alarm or timer goes off, and will respond to the Bluetooth media controls on your lock screen. SLEEP Sleep isn't something you do. Wait for it! TELL US WHAT YOU THINK With all questions, comments and feedback email us at support [at] confusionStudios [dot] com. THANKS Thanks for checking out Earplug and sweet dreams!

A soft nudge to check in with your own nervous system. Breathe, Queen sends you a gentle notification a few times a day and asks one question: were you in fight or flight? You answer yes or no straight from the notification, without ever opening the app. That is the whole interaction. No mood journal, no five-point scale, no paragraph to write at the end of a hard day. A PICTURE, NOT A SCORE • Your last five weeks, one square per day. Deeper pink means more of the day was spent activated. • One number for today, and a kind sentence to go with it. • Miss a few and they simply wait for you. There is no streak to protect and nothing to fall behind on. MAKE IT YOURS • Choose the days, the hours, and how often. Every 15 minutes, every 4 hours, or anywhere in between. • Write your own question and your own messages. The app rotates through them so they never go stale. • Eight soft gradient wallpapers, or one of your own photos, with a readability slider and optional sparkles. • Turn the chime off, for the days when one more sound is the last thing you need. WHEN YOU NEED A BREAK Pause for an hour, a day, or a week. Reminders switch themselves back on when the pause runs out, so a snooze can never quietly become forever. QUIET BY DESIGN • Every reminder is scheduled on your device. There is no push server, so it works with no signal at all. • No ads. No analytics. Nothing sold, nothing shared. • A wallpaper you pick from your photos is copied into the app and never uploaded anywhere. • Signing in exists for exactly one reason: so your history comes back if you reinstall. Free, with nothing to buy.