Background Sounds To Write, Focus and Relax To - GT #28

20 unique apps and tools to stay focused when writing and thinking as well as for relaxing and recharging breaks.

Hello my friend, glad to have you for this new edition of Good Tools.

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The focus of this edition is on digital tools that generate / playback background sounds that are ideal for writing, focusing and relaxing.

*Nonetheless the results of the last user poll were favoring “Logo Builders” I chose to focus on these sound apps for writing and focusing, because my favorite background atmosphere-generating tool just disappeared a few weeks ago into the void.

And boy, did I discover some interesting apps (!).

I am very happy to share the fruit of this research with you.

Try the ones that seem to fit your sound preferences and enjoy them for your writing, focusing and relaxing needs.

Robin

Background Sounds To Write, Focus and Relax To

My Favorite Ones (5)

• MyNoise

  This is a fantastic sound resource. Created by Stéphane Pigeon, a signal processing engineer with a great passion for sounds, MyNoise offers all kinds of sounds and mixed pre-sets that are excellent for writing, focusing and relaxing. From recorded nature sounds, to actual music and generated static noises this is probably the best background sound library that I know of. Each sound atmosphere can be personalized through sliders or sub pre-sets. It integrates a timer and a meditation bell. Absolute must-have.

  • Hundreds of mixable sounds.

  • Static noises library.

  • Web, iOS, Android apps.

  • 100% free

    • Support this free tool with a monthly or a one-time donation and get access to privileged areas (e.g. meditation room) and tools .

      

• ZenSounds
  Complete, easy-to-use, straightforward. Great sounds and flexible personalization.

  • 78 mixable sounds.

  • Themes: Nature, rain, animals, urban, places, transport, things, color noise, binaural beats.

  • Unique sounds: Singing bowl, paper, submarine, temple, wolf, owl, river.

  • Save sound combinations as presets (through the hamburger menu). No login.

  • Integrated Pomodoro timer, countdown and writing notepad.

  • 100% free. Open-source.

    

• Noizer One

  Super-rich selection of sounds. Personalization.

  • 60+ mixable sounds (with multiple variants for each - *Pro) .

  • Unique sounds: Train, plane, traffic, underground, bells, fireworks, printer, keyboard, whale, static noises, vacuum cleaner and many more.

  • Save multiple sound mixes into playlists (requires logging in).

  • 100% free version.

    • Pro option has 200+ soundscapes, can save unlimited mixes and has advanced mixing controls. Costs $24 / one-time.

      

• Noises Online

  • 30 mixable nature and ambient sounds.

  • Unique sounds: Wind chimes, fan, brown and pink noise.

  • 100% free.

• Mindmelo

  • 16 instruments, nature and ambient sounds.

  • Unique sounds: meditation, train, flute, code, singing bowl, study and code.

  • Integrates Pomodoro timer, location, date, temp.

  • 100% free. Open-source.

2) Water - Rain Focussed Sound Apps (2)

• Rainbow Hunt

  • Cool background sound app focusing only on rainy sounds.

  • 5 mixable loops.

  • Unique sounds: Light rain, raindrops hitting a window, rainstorm, splashing rainfall, thunder.

  • 100% free.

    

• Virtocean

  • 15 ocean sounds.

  • From seagulls to dolphins to underwater diving.

  • 100% free.

    

3) Ambience Background Sound Apps (3)

• Calmy Leon

  Nice, tidy and effective. Calmy Leon has very few controls and sounds but it produces background sounds and atmospheres that sound immediately right.

  • 5 dynamic sound atmospheres (zen, nature, rain, ocean, music) and

  • 5 fixed nature/ambient sounds (rain, waterfall, wind, people and ocean).

  • 100% free. (may not work properly on Chrome).

    

• Hipster Sound Ambience

  • 5 mixable ambient sounds plus

  • 2 excellent background music loops (Jazz and Piano Bar).

  • 100% free

    

• Virtual Café by Flocus

  • 8 mixable café-related sounds

  • Unique sounds: stirring, pouring, espresso machine, ice cubes, city ambient sounds, soft music jazz/piano bar tracks.

  • Free version

4) Uniquely Relaxing Animal Sounds (3)

• Purrli Cat Sounds

  • Customizable sounds of a cat purring next to you.

  • 6 variables: sleepines, liveliness, purring in/out, joyness, distance, meowiness

  • 100% free. *May not work on Chrome. Try Firefox, Safari, etc.

• Cicadas - Jungle Nightlife Sounds

  • 10+ hours of cicadas singing and other sounds of night creatures - Part #1

  • Free

• Hawaii Jungle Trails - Birds

  • 6 hours of trail walking on Hawaii islands

  • videos of trail walking included

  • Free

4) White / Static Noises (1)

• TheWhiteNoisePlaylist

  • A finely curated collection of thematic atmospheres generated exclusively with color noise generators.

  • 50+ pre-set infinite white noise soundscapes.

  • 100% free.

    

5) Other Background Sound Apps for Writing, Focussing and Relaxing (7)

• A Soft Murmur

• 10 nature and ambient sounds. Mixable.

• Unique sounds: crickets, singing bowl.

• Integrated timer. Meander function (sound wave button left of Play button).*When active, any sound which isn’t silent will gently increase and decrease in a random pattern, creating a unique soundscape.

• Web and mobile apps.

• 100% free version. Pro version (14.99/year) adds more sounds (15) and all future sound additions.

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• Moodil

  • 15 mixable sounds with two or more options for each (30 total sounds).

  • Unique sounds: frogs, different birds, steps, train, cafes, static noises.

  • 100% free.
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• Chill ‘n Sounds

  • 14 mixable basic nature and ambient sounds.

  • Unique sounds: sheep, chimes, pink/brown noise.

  • 100% free.
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• Ambient Sound

  • 6 non-mixable sounds.

  • Chrome extension

  • 100% free.
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• Noisli

  • 16 mixable nature and ambient sounds.

  • Pre-set playlists: productivity, relax (available in free version)

  • Save and share sound combinations into playlists.

  • Integrated timer / text editor.

  • Web app, Chrome extension, iOS / Android.

  • Free version. Pro from $10/mo
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• Moszen

  • 24 non-mixable nature sound loops.

  • Themes: Sea, jungle, river, lake, forest, weather

  • Web page

  • 100% free.

    

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• Nature’s Sounds - Jungle Stream

  • 8 hours of jungle ambience

  • Sounds: rushing water stream, tropical animals, birds and monkeys

  • Youtube video

  • Free.

*No AI was used to research, write and prepare this issue.

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from sunny Koh Samui (Thailand)

Robin Good