White Noise

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1. ★★★★★alarm and volume broken after updates

   Undo the last change to the volume. I used to have this play on the same Bluetooth speaker from my iPhone at 50% volume. After the update 2 days ago my iPhone now has to be at about 99% to hear it and it just suddenly jumped to blaring loud. Like the volume control is now broken. Please fix it.

2. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

   Incompetent programming. Stops working (emitting sound) periodically, and the only way to fix it is to uninstall the app and reinstall it. Has been this way for years.

3. ★★★★★other

   WN takes all lock screen place!. I don’t know why but lately when I lock my phone, instead of seeing my custom locked screen with background image of my girlfriend, all I see is White Noise taking all screen, this really sucks!

4. ★★★★★alarm and volume broken after updates

   Stopped Working. Sucks I can no longer set an alarm between 2AM and 3AM. Stupid thing defaults to 3AM so it has become useless on those days I have to get up at 2:30 for work. Of to find an app that actually works.

5. ★★★★★other

   Can’t purchase! It’s broken.. Upgrade takes you to the App Store to get it, not buy it. Dah! iPhone 12.

6. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

   Why would you ask me to review a white noise app?. Why would you ask me to review a white noise app? It either works or it doesn’t. This one works great, but you keep wasting my time by constantly asking for a rating, so enjoy your 1-star. You’ve earned it.

7. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

   STOP ASKING TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS!!!. I would hope that every app would take note of this review, but I doubt even this one will. STOP ASKING TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS!!!

8. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

   lying. apple watch app does not play sound on series 10 i want a refund

9. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

   Still stops playing after a couple of hours.. Going on for several years now, making the app unusable. I’ve tried every suggestion I can find on the Internet and still doesn’t work. New iPad as well. Your mileage may vary, but I’m having no luck.

10. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Randomly cuts in and out. Definitely do not downtown if you need white noise to sleep. In the middle of the night, the noise will cut in and out like static, waking you up. This app used to be good but has become a liability to good sleep with recent updates.

11. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

    IQ tax. It's no use at all

12. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

    Bravo! Drowns out my husband’s snoring!. Use it nightly to comeback sn

13. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Every sound has clicking or tinny noises. I’ve used this app for years and I love it, but recently every sound has obnoxious clicking or banging in the background. It always wakes me up. Is there anything that will stop this? I’ve tried adjusting pitch and everything else and the noises eventually come back

14. ★★★★★ads and hidden paywalls in the paid version

    Full version full of ads. Why are there more ads in the full version than the free?!

15. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Keeps failing to open. Bought this because I love the lite version. Now neither app will open. I have an old system. Did the upgrades fail to make it backwards compatible?

16. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

    Battery Killer. My iPhone 12 Pro Max was at 80%, I turned on Airplane Mode and Low Power Mode, and turned on this White Noise app at 9:45pm. My iPhone’s battery died at 2:30am. Deleted this battery killing app and switched to the new built in iOS Background Noise.

17. ★★★★★ads and hidden paywalls in the paid version

    GARBAGE. DO NOT BUY.. They ruined what was a good app, with the usual money-grubbing, greedy pop-up ads EVEN AFTER YOU BUY EVERY SINGLE VERSION!

18. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Upgraded and my issues began. I’ve had this app for over a decade, and have never had a reason to try anything else UNTIL I upgraded to create my own mix. Now it keeps crashing on me, and I’ve wasted hours removing the app, re-loading it, upgrading it, remixing only to have it crash AGAIN!!! I’m done!

19. ★★★★★ads and hidden paywalls in the paid version

    Privacy?. Why is a paid White Noise app showing me ads and collecting location information?! This is ridiculous!

20. ★★★★★ads and hidden paywalls in the paid version

    Developer uses Spotify which monetizes hate speech.. Hard to rate the app because once I paid my 99 cents I found out it uses only Spotify for its podcasts, etc., I deleted the app. I will not support the promotion of hate speech especially when there are alternatives out there which to me means the developer chose to support Spotify. They got my 99 cents before I knew so I’m posting this to give you a heads up.

21. ★★★★★rich sound library and custom mix builder

    Scam App. White Noise market is a completely unusable app that gets stuck on every page. Just listen to TMsoft on Spotify and don’t give them any money for this garbage app.

22. ★★★★★rich sound library and custom mix builder

    What a Beating. Couldnt delete this thing off my phone fast enough. What a beating to try to navigate. Just trying to access a list of available sounds proved impossible. And to download new sounds apparently requires downloading a separate app. Sent stress levels off the charts just trying to use it.

23. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

    Zero Support. Tried to report an issue and get a msg saying I need to set up a valid email account. HOW???? It also says they no record of a purchase, yet I have the full version? The App Store has a record of the purchase. No way to send an email, chat, or any form of meaningful communication.

24. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    suddenly randomly stops?. I have loved this app for years. the last two nights, it just randomly stops. the first night, it stopped once. Last night it stopped four times. and no, it doesn’t say the app needs to be updated. Trashed night of sleep.

25. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Keeps Randomly Stopping. I have used this app for many years every night to sleep. However, recently after the latest IOS update, it randomly stops playing during the night causing me to wake and having to play again. Please help..

26. ★★★★★alarm and volume broken after updates

    UNRELIABLE.. DONE. UNRELIABLE. MUSIC “PLAYS” BUT WITH NO VOLUME SO FORGET ABOUT WAKING UP TO IT! TIRED OF WAKING UP LATE BECAUSE THE MUSIC IS AT VOLUME LEVEL 0. UPDATE: I don’t know what they did on the most recent update, but since then my music alarms do not go past half volume! I do not have fade set, and I learned a LONG time ago to check my music volume (since it is separate from the sounds volume) before setting the alarm. I play a little random music, make sure the volume is all of the way up, and then set the alarm. While a PITA, at least that fixed the issue of the alarm going off with no volume but now it just sits at half volume! NOT GOOD! For now I’ll keep with it and trying but after years of using the app and lots of downloaded sounds, I may end up changing after all to something that wakes me up instead of me waking up before it. PREVIOUS: Let me delete stock sounds! That is probably my only complaint. I’m good as long as I remember to check the volume of my music before going to bed. Quite a few times the sound was all of the way down so no alarm. But it is really annoying to have to keep sounds I will never use like the drier, fan, clock, etc. they are just annoying to me- please pick one sample like waves to have to keep and let us delete the others!

27. ★★★★★app stops when screen locks or user switches away

    Quality dropped off as they added features I don't want. Having bought the app so it would keep playing in the background now it doesn't work any more. I don't want my screen on when I go to sleep. I've turned background sounds on and off repeatedly and tried I few other options.

28. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Used to love it - now it stinks. I used to love this app but it’s been stopping the sound and saying “sound failed to play” which is really annoying and wakes me up at night

29. ★★★★★indispensable daily ritual for sleep and focus

    Used to work….. I have used this app for over 4 years. Worked great until this week. I never right reviews but would have given this 5 stars before this week. Now it stops every hour or less and I end up waking up. It just started after this weekend. I even uninstalled and reinstalled to make sure it wasn’t an issue there. I guess I will have to find another app that will actually stay on all night. I really enjoyed this but it is unusable now.

30. ★★★★★sound cuts out or stutters during playback

    Started Hiccuping while playing!!. I’ve had this app for years… 2013 or so? Just started hiccuping while playing. When you’re trying to sleep and have the sound of rain playing, it completely ruins the calming sound when it completely stops for a second and then resumes… over and over and over. Looking for another option while simultaneously hoping this app gets fixed.