Three things it does differently

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.

Your voice, on the shelf

Hold the yarn microphone, or tap once to start and again to stop, and shush, hum, or sing. A new take plays as soon as you save it and waits at the top of My Sounds, where it mixes with everything else exactly the same way. Siri can play it by name. Nothing you record ever leaves the phone.

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. A boat crosses the bay and the whales come up to see it. Sheep jump the fence and count themselves, and Settings keeps the tally. Turn it off in Settings and the pasture holds still, which is noticeably kinder to the battery.

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.

Thirty-five 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. Four starter mixes are there for the nights when choosing is the hard part.

White noise

• Shwssh
• Light rain
• Thunderstorm
• Ocean waves
• Ocean storm
• Lake waves
• Whale song
• Sailboat
• Winding stream
• Windy night
• Forest walk
• Jungle safari
• Warm fireplace
• Heartbeat
• Train ride
• Vacuum cleaner

Songs

• Wool and Lamplight
• The Long Field
• Milk and Moon
• Down the Lane
• The Little Boat
• Counting Slowly
• Under the Hill at Dusk
• Sailor’s Call Home
• Siren’s Song
• Brahms’ Lullaby
• Für Elise
• Greensleeves
• Moonlight Sonata
• Ode to Joy

For October

• The Friendly Dark
• Tiptoe
• Pumpkin Light
• The Cobweb Waltz
• Something in the Hedgerow

Yours

• As many as you record

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.

Ask Siri

“Start Shwssh”, “Play Light Rain on Shwssh”, or any of your own recordings by name. Shortcuts and Spotlight know them too, and a Control Center button starts your last mix.

On the wrist and the charger

Widgets, an Apple Watch app, and StandBy with the pasture behind the controls, dimmed at night. A Bedtime Focus filter can have the mix ready when you open the app.

A nursery volume limit

One setting keeps every sound at half its full volume, however high the slider goes. Softer is kinder for small ears.

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 slows in Low Power Mode and when the phone is warm, steps itself down when nobody is watching, and switches off entirely if you would rather it did.

For everyone

VoiceOver reads the widgets, the lock screen, the watch and the volume sliders. Every screen and Siri phrase is in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese.

One price

Buy it once. No subscription, no unlocks, nothing to cancel.