About Deep Rest Sounds
Deep Rest Sounds makes long, calm sleep sounds: steady white noise, rain, a fireplace, a soft thunderstorm, a box fan, a creek and crickets. The full 4-hour versions are on YouTube, and this little app plays short seamless loops of the same sounds so you can mix them and fall asleep with a timer, even offline.
Ad-free downloads (a 1-hour MP3 plus a 10-minute WAV that loops seamlessly) are $2 each on Gumroad, or all five for $6: Deep Rest Bundle.
Privacy
No accounts, no tracking, no ads, no cookies. Your volume settings and last mix are kept only in this browser (local storage), and the sounds are cached on your device so they work offline. Links to YouTube and Gumroad open those sites, which have their own policies.
Sound credits
Steady Rain, Thunderstorm and Babbling Creek use real field recordings released under CC0 (public domain) on Freesound, looped and mastered by Deep Rest Sounds. Thank you to the recordists.
- Steady Rain
- Rain on forest ferns, bushes and grass, recorded by newlocknew (CC0): freesound.org/people/newlocknew/sounds/865323. Looped and mastered by Deep Rest Sounds.
- Thunderstorm
- Heavy, steady rain recorded by drewhalasz (CC0): freesound.org/people/drewhalasz/sounds/434314; thunder rolls recorded by PostProdDog (CC0): freesound.org/people/PostProdDog/sounds/607823. Looped and mastered by Deep Rest Sounds; the thunder is softened (no sharp cracks).
- Babbling Creek
- A babbling stream in Brittany, France, recorded by bruno.auzet (CC0): freesound.org/people/bruno.auzet/sounds/690325. Looped and mastered by Deep Rest Sounds.
- White Noise, Fireplace Crackle, Box Fan, Crickets
- Synthesized from scratch by Deep Rest Sounds, with no samples or recordings.
Artwork credits
The tile pictures are the YouTube thumbnails, some made from licensed stock video on Pexels (Pexels License; credit given voluntarily):
- Fireplace: Jonathan on Pexels, close-up shot of a wood burning
- Thunderstorm: Muh Rusydi on Pexels, green tree during rain and storm
- Fan: Umar Andrabi on Pexels, ceiling fan with light in motion
- Creek: Victor Rogov on Pexels, forest creek flowing over rocks
- Crickets: Matheus Bertelli on Pexels, a dark sky with trees
Tips
- Install it: on iPhone, tap Share then Add to Home Screen; on Android, use Install app in the browser menu.
- On iPhone, if you hear nothing, check the ringer switch and volume; the app asks iOS to treat it as media playback, but older iOS versions follow the silent switch.
- The sleep timer fades out gently over the last minute.
No accounts, no tracking, no ads.