Dark Noise: Ambient Sounds
- 60 of 100 · reviews
- 4.8of 5 · store
- 3,604ratings on the App Store
- 402reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
People praise Dark Noise for a pleasant, natural sound set, a neat clean interface and easy mixing, and for some it saved their sleep during tinnitus and insomnia after a sound machine broke. It breaks in two places: business and repair. People are angry that on launch they're immediately trapped in a paid-plan screen and can't close the app without force-quitting, and that restore purchase doesn't work so they're dragged back into subscribing. Technically one complaint repeats: an audible jump in the brown noise loop.
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What people use it for
People who want natural sounds with a clean interface and easy mixing, including against tinnitus
What reviews praise
Natural pleasant sounds, clean simple interface, easy mixing, helps with tinnitus and insomnia, works through HomePod
What reviews complain about
Launch immediately pushes a paid plan and can't close without force-quit, restore purchase doesn't work, audible jump in the brown noise loop, silent support, missing menu-bar feature that was promised
What users experience
2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
Brown noise has audible “jump” when it loops. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s very subtle but disruptive. Only brown is affected and that’s the one I downloaded the app for. Very disappointed.
The app requires a subscription upon launch. When I tried to close the window, the app refused to close, and I was only able to do so through the System Monitor.
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