SimplyNoise - Free White Noise

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1. ★★★★★audio stops when switching apps

   Worst app ever. If negative stars were possible I would choose that. This is the dumbest app I have ever tried. As soon as the screen locks, it turns off. Completely useless

2. ★★★★★app autolaunch won't turn off

   Works but. Every time I accidentally close an audiobook and try to play it with AirPods this comes in blasting. Even after force shutdown of the app

3. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

   Deceptive. The app lists the price for a rain sound as $1.99. Yet I was charged twice for this, which evidently means this is a monthly charge rather than a one-time charge. I am trying to cancel this unauthorized subscription. This is a deceptive business practice (under the UCL & CLRA.)

4. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

   SimplyNoise. Free White noise is absolutely correct, anything at all beyond that is for sale.

5. ★★★★★app autolaunch won't turn off

   Never Turns Off. Good sound but every time I connects to my car it starts thundering. It isn't safe. There is NO way to turn it off. Finally had to delete it from my phone.

6. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

   App. App only has 1 sound for free use. So, advertising as being a “free” app is false.

7. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

   App Glitch. The app won’t shut down. The only way to shut it down is to delete it.

8. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

   Don’t download. This app is so awful. You have to pay for things that you could get on Apple Music or Spotify for free. There is no great point and the sounds are all the same anyways. Do not recommend

9. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

   Horrible sleep app. This is listed as a “free” sleep sounds app DO NOT DOWNLOAD! There is one pinkBrownWhite noise that is free and if that’s your thing enjoy. The ret of the options are DEMOS, that you can listen to from 15 seconds until it defaults back to the original sound. Sickening!

10. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Delete. Do not enjoy

11. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Why it bad. It doesn’t have noises of frogs and crickets and it cost a lot of money for a kid (me) who just wants to rest. It’s rather bad and there has to be better apps than this garbage.

12. ★★★★★broken after ios update

    Broken in iOS 15. Used to be great no longer works

13. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Sound only lasts a few seconds.. It only plays for about 10 seconds at a time. It stops playing while still being in ‘play’ mode. I have to constantly reset it by turning it on and off multiple times, every 10 seconds. Useless.

14. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

    Gaps and micro transactions. Such a great old website, but not a reliable app now even for whitenoise. Gaps after even just a 30 minute loop or so of brown noise. Will go back to keeping a reliable gapless loop in my library as this app adds zero benefit aaaand micro transactions for sound packs, which I wont buy because if the above.. Great old site before it turned to trash though :(

15. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

    Not worth it. Said “free”. Instead it was one free noise and everything else for sale. You can get most of these sounds online for free and play them off any device

16. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

    Won’t restore purchase. Was using for years and then I dumped back to default and won’t restore purchase. Crap

17. ★★★★★broken after ios update

    Abandoned app. This app appears to have been abandoned by the developers. Last update was about two years ago. It used to be great, but now it just shows a dark grey screen and then crashes. RIP, SimplyNoise.

18. ★★★★★broken after ios update

    Stopped working. Guess the app just doesn’t work anymore? Tried to open it and it’s a gray screen

19. ★★★★★app autolaunch won't turn off

    Why?. I like this app and I hate this app. I love how it helps me to sleep at night. I love that I can set whatever time it goes off. I HATE THAT I CAN SHUT IT OFF WHEN I DONT WANT TO HEAR IT. I can pause it in a number of ways but I can’t turn it off during the day. I leave my house and get in my var and my phone connects to my car by Bluetooth and I am frightened by LOUD white/brown noise on my radio, I try to listen to a video in my car and SimplyNose usurps the sound track. I turn it off and if I make a phone call, when I hang up my car is aeash I’m LOUD white/brown noise. I thought I could quit it. When I try to listen to music, it starts again and covers the music. The only way I have found to prevent this unwanted SimplyNoise intrusion is to UNINSTALL the app and then REINSTALL it at night when I WANT to hear it. Please make it possible to actually TURN OFF the app when it’s not wanted.

20. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Doesn’t have a way to connect with google home. would be nice if it was integrated with google home or chrome cast, Alexa... really, anything

21. ★★★★★advertised free but most sounds cost money

    Paid for Add-On and Am Not Getting It. Paid for SimplyFire add-on several months ago. Suddenly do not have access to it and am being prompted to purchase it again. Tried emailing support and received a bounce back stating that my email was classified by the recipient as spam. Nice customer service, guys. I’ve used SimplyNoise for 9 years, and I’m out I’ll find a replacement.

22. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Terrible UI. Terrible UI, doesn’t work

23. ★★★★★app autolaunch won't turn off

    Blue tooth issues. This app will not stay shut down. It launches every time I turn my car on and every time I launch Pandora or Google Maps in my car, it will re-launch and drown out anything else. Great at night but otherwise very annoying.

24. ★★★★★audio stops when switching apps

    Alarms turn off the sound. If any alarm goes off on your phone, the app stops playing noise, and then you have to literally turn the whole app off and turn it back on in order to resume the noise

25. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Skipping every 10-30 seconds. Sounds just like a cutout in a tape.

26. ★★★★★audio stops when switching apps

    Constantly have to restart app. The second I get a call or play music or a video the simply noise app will pause but you can’t, I repeat, you can’t start it back up again without restarting the app. Not hiding the app and coming back to it. Literally CLOSING the app and having to reopen it. Who the hell writes this crap and calls it “simply” anything? I mean, you had ONE job.

27. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    What were they thinking?. Previous version was way more user friendly. This version is bollocks.

28. ★★★★★app autolaunch won't turn off

    App is terrible. The App has a mind of it’s own and executes itself whenever. It should terminate when I swipe it dead, period. I’m deleting it.

29. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Horrible update. The update makes this app basically useless. The main page is simply an advertisement for their other apps, and the new percentage volume adjustment makes it impossible to listen at a reasonable level, plus it is way too sensitive to toggle. This app used to be the only thing to help me sleep and now it is completely pointless. It is extremely sad that they likely paid a professional to create this painfully bad app.

30. ★★★★★noise helps sleep and focus

    Great app with a terrible interface. This app used to be fantastic, but the new interface is confusing and too complicated. It would be great to have a new interface that matches the elegance and simplicity of the original.