Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better
Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better
4.79
Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better

Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better

by Tam Nguyen

Free

121 ratings
4.79
Age
4+
Size
37.34 MB
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About Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better

Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better is an app that will drown out the noise of the street and allow you to concentrate on the work at hand, increasing your productivity. 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. On the other hand, it can also set the mood for a romantic evening or lull you to sleep, ensuring that you will dream soundly all night long.

Features:

• 80 enchanting ambient sounds.

• Ease of choosing and blending the ambient sounds into a mixture that will perfectly fit your mood.

• Background sound support. Listen to your mixes while using other apps.

• The Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better app lets you play all of the sounds offline.

• High-quality nature sounds, to set the mood.

• Add your owner sound.

• Create your own amazing focus, relax or sleep sounds mixes.

• Minimalistic design.

• Sounds are played in a seamless loop.

• Autopause timer.

• Store with unique additional sounds for your future mixes.

80 Ambient sounds:

Beach, Waterfall, AsianDuet, Birds, BrahmsLullaby, Brown Noise, Child Sleep, Classic Rain, Fan, Fire, Forest, Train, Frogs, Leaves, Pink Noise, Pond, Rain Thunder, Rain on brick, Summer Night, Guitar, Thunder Storm, Meditation, Waves, Water, Water stream, Whales, White Noise, Chimes, Wind, Wolves, Cicadas, Piano, Cynthia, Fireplace, Gary, Gladys, Keyboard, Music Box, Nuvole Bianche, Ocean Rain, Peepers, Ronald, Sailing, Shower, Thunder, SkyNight, Fountain, Crowd, Rain In A Car, Rain Umbrella, Heavy Rain, Wind Desert, Wind Mountain Grass, Shush, Hair Dryer

Download Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better Now to get a simple yet elegant instrument for setting the right mood for any occasion. Use it to help you work or study, or allow the sounds of this app to transport you to a cozy campfire under a full moon or to any other place you can imagine.

The Relaxing Sounds - Sleep Better app will be useful to you for:

• As massage music or sounds for yoga & meditation

• Sleep great with relaxing sounds

• Concentrate on your work and avoid distractions

• Rest your mind after a long and tiring day

• Relax and reduce stress

• Pacifies crying babies

• Soothes headaches and migraines

• Masks tinnitus (ringing of the ears)

Can also help with:

Calming Anxiety | Deep Sleep | Focus and Concentration | Managing Stress | Relationships | Breaking Habits | Happiness | Gratitude | Self-Esteem | Loving-Kindness | Forgiveness | Non-judgement | Commuting to work or school | Mindfulness at College | Mindfulness at Work | Meditation | Calm Kids

Version

Version: 2.12.0

App Information

Official websiteN/A
LanguagesN/A
CategoryProductivity, Health & Fitness
Age Rating4+

Two weeks of desperation and white noise

Started using Relaxing Sounds after my upstairs neighbor apparently took up midnight tap dancing. You know those nights where every tiny sound feels like thunder? Yeah, that was my entire February.

The app's free, which honestly made me suspicious. Most sleep apps want $9.99/month before you can even hear a raindrop. This one? Download and you're immediately hit with 30+ sounds. No trial period countdown. No credit card begging. Just... sounds.

My sleep experiment (spoiler: it helped)

First night was weird. Picked "rain on tent" because camping memories, right? But the loop was too short - every 45 seconds I'd hear the same thunder crack. Switched to ocean waves. Better, but my brain kept waiting for the pattern.

Day 3 discovered the mixing feature. This changed everything. Combined brown noise with distant thunder and cricket sounds. Suddenly my bedroom sounded like a summer night instead of downtown chaos. The tap dancer upstairs? Still there, but buried under my artificial nature documentary.

Week two I got brave and tried the timer function. Set it for 30 minutes thinking I'd wake up when it stopped. Nope. Out cold til morning. The fade-out is so gradual your brain doesn't notice.

What really surprised me? Using it for work. That focus mode with coffee shop sounds? Actually works. Written three reports with it running. Weird how fake background chatter helps concentration more than silence.

The pros and cons

Pros

  • Actually free (no sneaky subscriptions after 3 days)

  • Mix up to 6 sounds simultaneously

  • Timer doesn't abruptly cut off

  • Tiny app size (37MB vs Calm's 200MB monster)

  • Works offline after downloading sounds

Cons

  • Some loops are stupidly short

  • No sleep tracking like fancier apps

  • UI looks like 2019 (because it is)

  • Limited "premium" sounds behind ads

  • Rain sounds could be better quality

How it stacks up

Feature

Relaxing Sounds

Calm

Headspace

Noisli

Monthly price

Free

$14.99

$12.99

$11.99

Sound variety

30+ free

100+

40+

28

Mix custom sounds

Yes (6 max)

Limited

No

Yes (unlimited)

Sleep stories

No

Yes

Yes

No

Offline mode

Yes

Premium only

Premium only

Yes

Best for

Just need sounds

Full meditation

Beginners

Sound mixing

File size

37MB

200MB+

150MB

45MB

What Reddit won't shut up about

Found a 300-comment thread on r/insomnia where people are genuinely shocked it's still free. Bunch of theories why - some think the developer abandoned it (last update was 6 months ago), others say it's a passion project.

The App Store reviews are weirdly consistent. 102 five-stars mostly saying variations of "why is this free?" and "better than paid apps." The 6 three-star reviews all complain about the same thing: sound quality on certain tracks. Fair point - the thunderstorm sounds like it was recorded on a Nokia.

MacRumors forums barely mention it, but there's one guy who's been recommending it for 3 years straight. Checked his post history - not a bot, just really loves free apps apparently.

Twitter search for "@tam_nguyen relaxing sounds" returns nothing. Developer's a ghost. No support account, no updates, no marketing. Just an app that exists and works.

The bottom line

Look, it's not going to win any design awards. It won't track your REM cycles or wake you at the optimal time. But if you just need something to drown out your neighbor's Netflix binges or your partner's snoring? This does that job for free.

Been using it every night for two weeks now. Haven't opened Calm once (sorry, $70 annual subscription). Will I keep using it? Yeah, probably until it stops working or they finally monetize it.

Just dont expect meditation guides or Matthew McConaughey reading you bedtime stories. It's sounds. That's it. And honestly? Sometimes that's enough.

Ratings & Reviews

4.79
121 reviews
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  • Version: 1.1.0

    KingOfSea

    I fall asleep every night to the thunderstorm and rain sounds on this app. I don't know what I'd do without it. Every sounds choice is amazing and authentic and the new addition are a fun thing to wait.

  • Version: 1.1.0

    HoangTDV

    This app so amazing. Helping me sleep easy. I give five star for it.

  • Version: 1.1.0

    Blurted Girl

    This is the best app in the store. It's really soothing to listen to, and help me calm down after a long day. I love that you can adjust the levels of different sounds, I like to turn off everything but the rain and thunder, and close my eyes and imagine it's raining really hard outside.