Sleep Sounds app review: create your very own personal ambient sound mixes 2021

Introduction

What we have here is a sleeping aid app consisting of a collection of a dozen different sounds that you can play either individually or in tandem with one another to create your very own personal ambient sound mixes.

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You can then use these to lull you off to sleep or to simply help you wind down at the end of a hard day. I must say, I’ve been finding the sound effects in this iPhone app for sleeping better to be a little hit and miss.

I love the Forest sounds as they sound very accurate, and the Piano and Zen tracks are also very pleasant. Some of the other sounds, such as Wind and River, are a little on the abrasive side for my liking.

This is a reasonably decent app for the iPhone or iPad, but I personally can’t imagine myself using these relaxing sounds for better sleep. Maybe you will be able to after you checfk our our Sleep Sounds app review.

Twelve Different Ambient and Melodic Sound Effects

I should probably preface this review by saying that the title “Sleep Sounds : Relaxing White Noise and Ambient Music” is ever so slightly misleading. This app does contain ambient sound effects and a couple of melodic tracks, but there doesn’t appear to be any actual white noise.

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As for the app itself, the interface is a very simple affair, consisting of a grid of twelve buttons, with one for each sound effect. There is also a pretty night sky scene in the background, consisting of a crescent moon and a few twinkling little stars.

The sounds contained within this app are labeled as follows:

• Rain;
• River;
• Fire;
• Chimes;
• Storm;
• Forest;
• Night;
• Wind;
• Piano;
• Music Box;
• Ocean; and
• Zen.

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I really like Piano and Zen, and I especially like the Forest sound because the audio quality is pretty decent, but some of the other tracks are just a little too harsh for me to find them relaxing. The Wind sound effect sounds more like static from a television set, while the music box is excessively trebly.

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Aside from this, you can tap the clock icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the interface in order to set a sleep timer. This feature enables you to choose various time intervals ranging from five minutes all the way up to an hour and a half.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Choose from twelve different ambient and melodic sound effects
• Set a Sleep Timer from five minutes to an hour and a half in duration
• Play more than one track at a time to create your own ambient sound mixes

Cons                                                                    

• I found the ads to be a little intrusive, causing me to inadvertently open up the App Store while reviewing this app (a major pet peeve of mine!)
• Some of the sounds in this app are a little too shrill or generally harsh on the ears, in my opinion

Final Words

I would consider Sleep Sounds : Relaxing White Noise and Ambient Music to be a middle-of-the-road app for the iPhone and iPad.

It isn’t the best sleep aid app that I’ve ever used, but it certainly isn’t terrible, and I’m quite sure a lot of you will get a great deal of enjoyment from some of the sounds.