Music for Noisy Places

Ambient music for focus, rest, and sleep. Every song takes you somewhere calm. And if it's loud where you are, the music helps cover some of that too. Coming soon to iPhone.

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Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone · Lovely with headphones. Fine without.

Enter
The idea

Music you put on and leave on.

A loud desk. A head that won't settle. A night flight. Twenty original songs, each one written to hold steady for hours, with nothing in it that jumps out at you. Underneath, a steady wash of sound that helps cover the noise around you. You put it on. Then you get on with your day.

Bright enough to work

Unhurried music that holds one level for hours. It sits behind whatever you're doing, so nothing in it pulls your attention away. Bright when you need to think. Deeper when you need to stop.

Deep enough to sleep

No courses. No streaks. No guided sessions. Put it on to sit with for a while, to wind down at the end of the day, or to sleep. Then leave it. It keeps going.

Helps cover the noise

A steady wash of natural sound runs under every song the whole time, with no swells and no gaps. Voices, chewing and tapping get easier to ignore. Not gone. Easier. That's the honest version, and it's a good one.


The rooms

Choose a door.
Stay a while.

Every song is set in a place, with its own scenery and its own sound running under the music. In the app, we call these rooms. There are five. Each holds four songs written for that same place: one to focus, one to unwind, one to relax, one to sleep. Open a door and it plays for as long as you like.

Focus, Unwind, Relax, Sleep.

A misty bamboo grove above a shallow stone-bedded stream. Free forever

The Bamboo Grove

A forest, a stream, and all the time in the world. Four songs, Green Hour to Understory.

A dark stone bathhouse, still water and a single vertical light.

The Baths

Warm stone. Still water. A long, soft echo. Four songs, First Light on Water to Deep Water.

An ochre chamber with a column of daylight falling through an oculus.

The Sanctum

One shaft of light, a bell somewhere far off, warm air. Four songs, Procession to Last Bell.

A vast dune ridge under a dust-coloured sky, a tiny doorway at the crest.

The Dunes

Dry wind over sand, with the light going soft. Four songs, High Sun to Night Crossing.

Green aurora over snow mountains and a frozen lake at night.

The Tundra

Snow, and the northern lights just doing their thing. Four songs, White Morning to Under the Lights.

More doors
to come.

New places are being written now. Each one arrives when it's ready, and it's yours if you're subscribed.

The mix

Remix any song while it plays.

Every song is made of parts. Drag one to blend it, tap it to mute it. Pull the melody down when you need to think. Push the pads up when it gets loud around you. Whatever you change stays the way you left it. There are no wrong choices here.

  • Pads the steady bed under everything
  • Bass weight and floor
  • Drums a pulse, when you want one
  • Sound FX sounds of nature. Or brown, pink, or white noise, if you'd rather
  • Melody the part you'll hum later, or play yourself
The Bamboo Grove player with its five-stem mixer along the bottom. The Baths player, a dark stone bathhouse with the mixer visible.
Play along

Reach in and play.

Touch the scene and a note plays. It's always in tune with the song, so every note you add belongs. Add a few when you feel like it and stop when you don't. The music keeps going either way. You don't need to know how to play anything. Nobody's keeping score.

A person by a window, headphones around their neck, touching a glowing point of light in The Bamboo Grove on an iPhone.
How it works

Put the headphones on
and pick a room.

i.

Open the hall

The app opens on a hall of doors, one for each room. There's no feed and nothing to scroll. Just doors.

ii.

Walk through

Pick a room and the door opens into it. The sound and the picture arrive together.

iii.

Set your level

Blend the parts to the hour: brighter to work, dimmer to drift, more of the wash when it gets loud around you. Then leave it. It keeps playing until you stop it.

A pair of pale doors standing slightly open in a sunlit marble wall.
Pricing

One room is always free.

Free

$0

The Bamboo Grove, in full. It doesn't expire, and it isn't a trial.

  • All four songs
  • Every mix control
  • Offline playback

Yearly · best value

$19.99 / year

Every room, every song, and everything added while you're subscribed. The first seven days are free, so take your time.

  • All five launch rooms
  • New rooms as they arrive
  • Offline playback & background audio
  • Under $1.70 a month

Monthly

$2.99 / month

Same music, month to month. Cancel any time in Settings. No questions asked.

  • All five launch rooms
  • New rooms as they arrive
  • Offline playback & background audio

Prices shown in USD; local pricing is set by the App Store. No ads. No account to create. Your subscription lives with your Apple ID.

Questions

Common questions

What's a room?

Every song here is set in a place: a bamboo grove, a bathhouse, a stone temple, desert dunes, the far north. Each place has its own scenery, its own door, and four songs written for it. That's a room.

The four songs cover different things you might want: one to focus, one to unwind, one to relax, one to sleep. Pick the room for the sound you like and the song for what you're doing. It plays until you stop it.

Is it for focus, sleep, or meditation?

All three. Each room has four songs: one to focus, one to unwind, one to relax, one to sleep. Whichever you pick plays continuously for as long as you leave it on.

Is this a meditation app?

No. There are no courses, no streaks and no guided sessions, and nobody talks. Pick a room, put it on for twenty minutes or three hours, play along if you feel like it, and stop when you're done.

Does this actually block noise?

It helps cover noise. It doesn't block it. Nothing played through headphones can remove a sound from the room you're in. What it can do is put a steady sound over the top, so a voice you were following word by word gets harder to follow and easier to let go of. Same for the small sounds: chewing, tapping, a pen clicking four desks away.

Every song keeps that steady wash running underneath the whole time. It goes well with noise-cancelling headphones, which handle the low, constant sounds like engines and fans. And if brown noise already works for you, every song carries brown, pink and white noise on the same part.

Can I just play brown noise?

Yes. Every song has a part that's the sound of the place, water or wind or air, and you can tap it to swap in plain brown, pink or white noise instead. Turn the other parts down and that's all you get: steady noise, nothing else, for as long as you like.

That works the same way in all twenty songs, including the four in the free room.

Will it drain my battery or need a signal?

The app comes with music on it, so it plays with no signal at all, and audio keeps running with the screen off and in the background. It is built to run for hours at a time.

New songs and rooms are downloaded as they are added. That part needs a connection, once per song. After it lands it plays offline like the rest.

Who makes the music, and is any of it AI?

People do. It is written, arranged and mixed by humans, and original to this app. We do use our own software to extend our music according to rules we set. Think of it more like a capable arpeggiator than like artificial intelligence.

That is different from generative AI like Suno. Those models are trained on existing recordings and return a finished track from a prompt. Our software does not work that way. It produces notes, not audio. People set the harmony, keep or rewrite every phrase, and play it through instruments we license and mix ourselves.

What happens if I cancel?

You keep full access until the end of the period you've paid for, then drop back to the free room, which stays free. You can resubscribe later and pick up exactly where you left off.

Peace, even here.

The open-plan floor, the night flight, the apartment above yours at eleven, and some days just your own head. You can't always make those quiet. That's all right. Put this on, and let the place you're in matter a little less.

Coming soon to the App Store