Shwssh

Every baby is soothed by something different.

So Shwssh does not hand you one sound and wish you luck. It hands you nineteen, lets you layer them at your own levels, and lets you record the one that actually works: your voice.

iPhone and iPad · iOS 18 and later

The Shwssh player: a felt night pasture with sheep, a cottage and a lighthouse, above a volume cord and the record button.

Three things it does differently

The sound library, with White Noise selected and Shwssh, Light Rain and Thunder Storm listed.

A mix, not a track

Play as many sounds as you like at once. Each one keeps its own level, so the rain can sit under the lullaby instead of burying it. Four starter mixes are there for the nights when choosing is the hard part.

The record button: a felt disc with a microphone on it, wrapped in a rainbow yarn cord.

Your voice, on the shelf

Hold the yarn microphone and shush, hum, or sing. What comes out lands in the library beside the built-in sounds and mixes exactly the same way. Nothing you record ever leaves the phone.

A felt owl in a scarf, the guide that introduces the app.

A welcome, not a wall

A night owl walks you through it: try your voice, pick a ready-made mix, or skip the lot. Nothing is asked for that the app does not need, and there is no account at the end of it.

A pasture that listens

Play the rain and it rains.

Behind every sound is a hand-felted night scene, animated and slow. The storm rolls in over the hills. A train crosses the viaduct. Sheep jump the fence and count themselves. Turn it off in Settings and the pasture holds still, which is noticeably kinder to the battery.

A felt cottage built into a hillside with lit windows.
Lamplight in the hill
A felt lighthouse, its lamp lit.
A lamp turning
A felt narwhal surfacing in the bay.
Something in the bay
A felt sheep on four legs.
Counting themselves
The felt train engine.
Out of the tunnel
A felt train carriage.
and across the viaduct
A felt raindrop.
Rain on the pasture

The moon over your pasture

It follows the real sky.

Tonight's moon is the one actually up there, cut from felt and sewn at the edge, waxing and waning through the month with it. If you would rather choose, pin it to any phase and it stays.

New moon
Waxing crescent
First quarter
Waxing gibbous
Full moon
Waning gibbous
Last quarter
Waning crescent

Nineteen sounds, and then yours

Every one of them cut from felt.

The library is not a list of file names. Each sound has its own piece of artwork, and a recording of your own gets one too.

White noise

Music

Yours

Built for 3am

Plays through the night
Background audio, with the screen off, with lock screen and Control Center controls.
A timer that fades
The mix winds down instead of stopping dead. Add ten more minutes without getting up.
Works offline
Every sound ships inside the app. No connection needed, ever.
Nothing collected
No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The app makes no network connections at all.
Kind to the battery
The scene steps itself down when nobody is watching, and switches off entirely if you would rather it did.

Open it, hold a sound, put the phone down.

That is the whole of it.