Dark Noise: Ambient Sounds

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1. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Prevents closure. 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.

2. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Not a free app. This app is listed as free when you filter in the App Store for free apps. It is not. Upon opening the app, you are immediately trapped in a "choose your paid plan" step and you have to force quit the app to close it.

3. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Free Plan is Useless. If I give them money I might find this useful. As is, in the test it for free version before handing over credit info, it is useless. What I can see suggests that if I did pay up I would need to spend time figuring out on my own what sounds to use and how to configure them for a specific goal. AI told me to junk this app and just to use the built in background sounds in the iPhone and layer over that a soundscape like ocean waves. That seems easier and less frustrating.

4. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Useless app after turning to a subscription only app. Bought this app back in 2020 only to realize that 99% of the noise is locked behind a paywall. Do yourself a favor and just buy a white noise machine so you don’t deal with this type of business model.

5. ★★★★★other

   It will not delete!. I was looking into this app but when I decided to delete it, it has no option to delete.

6. ★★★★★other

   Can’t get your icon off my computer screen. Can’t get your icon off my computer screen.

7. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Obnoxious. Open app to TRY to test it, IMMEDIATELY hit by FULL screen demand for $20/yr payment. Finally found cross-bars to get rid of it. Tapped noise selector. Again, blocked per ad. Anyone this afraid to show what his app can do → buhBye

8. ★★★★★subscription trap

   Charge for free trial.. I wanted to test this app out before paying the subscription. Was charged the monthly fee after clicking the free trial. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

9. ★★★★★other

   Nope. Begging for an app store rating 1.2 seconds after opening the app.

10. ★★★★★subscription trap

    not free dark noise. Why would you say free downlod of all those types of sounds, but only white noise is available without subscription

11. ★★★★★audio quality and loop artifacts

    Repeating sounds. Sounds cycle repeat often, they sound like a broken record.

12. ★★★★★custom mixes and sound selection

    low selection. very small count of sounds to test and experiment with

13. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Scam. 90% of the advertised features are locked behind a monthly fee. In reality you get access to 4 sounds and that’s about it

14. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Expensive and useless. Peloton meditation works much better.

15. ★★★★★other

    Doesn't have "dark noise" as an option. I wanted something that would be similar to dark noise/background noise on iPhone. It's not so I'll just use the native feature in iOS

16. ★★★★★subscription trap

    $19.99/year Price not shown until you run it.. The application does not show any price until you download, install, and run it. Then it says $19.99/year after a 1-week free trial. An honest application would show the price before you download it. This is a total waste of time having to download, install, and run an application just to find its price. For such an application, zero stars would be more appropriate, but that is not possible.

17. ★★★★★custom mixes and sound selection

    deleted all my custom mixes randomly. subscribed for a year, just opened the app and all my custom mixes are still here by name but contain no sounds. yeah not gonna subscribe sgain, rip :/

18. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Other free apps are much better. The free version of this is so extremely limited, it's laughable. There are many free apps with 10x the sounds available. Opened the app, saw how ridiculous and limited it was, deleted it immediately after.

19. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Subscription?! N.O.. Ugh. Used to LOVE Dark Noise. Now that it's subscription, I'd rather listen to anything else. SO DISAPPOINTING.

20. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Dark noise app. Apps amazing until they think they post charge for literally every single thing anymore!!! World’s backwards today!!!!!

21. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Trash. They took 20$ out my account before time then not monthly but yearly Nah I’m fighting this with my bank Be aware

22. ★★★★★subscription trap

    almost $2 a month???. Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio -> Background Sounds. Just saying.

23. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Put subscription fees in the first line. Nothing aggrevates me more about apps then when what is available in the free version is not inidcated first.

24. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Original Customer (Lifetime Membership Needed). Not going to pay anymore and definitely going to tip the developers if they make “tip jar” available. One star for now.

25. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Scam. Always Trying to Rip Me Off.. I like the app. The problem is that the app conveniently forgets quite often that you already have an active subscription. The app then locks you out of the premium features, because it wants you to spend money to sign you up for a more expensive subscription. Therefore, I have stopped using the app and canceled my subscription. I refuse to use any app that has a primary focus of using me to make money. Really sad that such a great app has as a primary focus scamming subscribers out of their money. If I could give the app no stars I would. I mean what is the point of paying a subscription to have access to premium features when the app will the next day conveniently forget that you have an active subscription and want you to sign up for an even more expensive subscription.

26. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Prices. The prices for this app are insane. You can get these sounds anywhere. It’s a shame, I would’ve done the one time purchase for $10 I’m reading about, but they changed it to $50 🥴🤣

27. ★★★★★integrations and technical bugs

    Airplay doesn’t work. What’s the point?. Random, choppy audio when trying to airplay from iPhone 13 mini to HomePod mini. Wakes me up in the middle of the night.

28. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Not Worth It. $50, or subscriptions, for a white noise app that has the exact same sounds and features you can find on Android for free? Absolutely not. Yeah, the App Store MAY be safer due to a higher degree of curation from Apple, but the need for some developers to feature creep an app just to justify subscription pricing gives it just as bad a rep as the Google Play store.

29. ★★★★★subscription trap

    Yearly subscription is not expensive. The yearly subscription price is to high for the features offered.

30. ★★★★★subscription trap

    A subscription model?. Charging 20 a year for sounds you can get for free in a lot of places is not it for me.