Used to be a good app, I paid for it years ago. Recently it's become unusable, the sounds are very choppy. They're not on other apps. Also, switching sounds is really quite awkward and is not intuitive.
completely unusable now. used to be great, audio is choppy frequently now, cutting in and out. even when it's behaving "well" there's random skips every couple of seconds. issue has been happening for months, hasn't been fixed and the developer doesn't seem to be interested in supporting it. edit: I bumped my review to 2 stars because despite my frustration with it being unstable now, I've had it for years and more than gotten my money's worth for the few dollars I paid. still needs to be fixed
Edit (2025) - I've discontinued use because of interactions with Android Auto. The app white noise starts automatically when I get in my car and the foreground audio service that talks to AA can't be killed without a reboot. I suspect they are specifying the wrong media type. Other annoyances - 1) you can't remove the default sounds and 2) Even on a paid version the White Noise Market still forces you to watch sketchy ads. Not acceptable.
I love this app. I use it literally every night with a little Bluetooth speaker. I especially like that I can create mixes. I like to layer rain sounds with something like Huge Waterfall for the bassy sound. I find that if I use only one sound, my brain will start to find patterns in it when it repeats, and that prevents me from sleeping. But with layered sounds, since they don't have the same duration, they rarely overlap each other in the same way, so my brain never finds any patterns.
This is really a great app and I originally had a five-star rating. However, after always having to sync my portable Bluetooth speaker to my phone to get the sound to play, I finally realized that this app is lacking one serious feature - casting to a Google home or another smart speaker. Surprisingly, I'm able to cast to my Chromecast, but not to any of my Google home speakers. Why?
Have been using this app for years w/o issue and loved it. With the latest update the sound from each ear (I use a lot with earbuds) fluctuates up and down and from left to right. I use this app to help me stay focused when reading etc. and this new change drives me crazy! More distracting than anything. Looked for a way to disable this in settings and cannot find anything. Very frustrating!
I love this app and we use it every night when we sleep... but it crashes a LOT lately. Almost every night, I wake up at some point and the app has completely shut itself down no matter which device we use. It's still nice to have, but annoying to be woken in the night by abrupt silence and have to fumble with a phone when you're half asleep.
The sound just randomly turns off in the middle of the night causing me to wake up. It looks like it may have stopped. The audio randomly stutters every now and then. Also there is an annoying post card thing that sometimes pops up when I open the app. For an app that is supposed to offer sound therapy, they sure managed to make it as ANNOYING as possible.
We use this app every single night. Love the variety of sounds and ability to create our own mix of sounds at different levels and so on. You can even make sounds directional if you cast to a stereo or surround capable speaker system. Start with "crickets chirping" plus "camp fire", then mix in one of the many "rain" sounds (or frogs...or waves...or flowing river sounds) and cast out to a nice set of speakers for a great "camp site" soundscape at bedtime.
Still an amazing application here at the end of 2023. It has been in my ear on most every flight over these years, sometimes in the terminals, camping trips, vacations, and sometimes at work when other audio is too distracting. Thank you for maintaining the look and feel of the UI. Also for not changing the selection list.
