Brown Noise Machine
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praise 63% · mixed 4% · complain 33%
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- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Too good to be true. I thought I found a genuinely great brown noise app till they demanded for money to listen to brown noise. Corporate greed at its finest.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Nope!. Updates like this are exactly why I disabled auto-updates for all my apps. I'm still on the old one. Greedy and shameless update. I won't be reading your inevitable AI-generated response to this review, thanks.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Good luck with updates. it's a great app until iPhone has an update and then it just keeps charging you even though you've already purchased it.
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Absolutely zero reason to charge people money for this.. This app used to be quite useful, offering a simple way to play white, brown, green, or pink noise for any length of time. However, they recently introduced an update that requires payment after an hour of use. This change is completely stupid, as brown noise is widely available for completely free elsewhere. It seems the same sounds I can easily access for free from a fan or an AC are behind a paywall. Entirely pointless and stupid. If you value your money, do not download this app.
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
No longer free. I loved this app when it was free, unlimited brown noise. It was simple and did what I wanted. Now they made it a membership with limited playing if you don’t pay
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Was free!!!. Such a shame
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Original was incredible. I loved the original app. It provided a simple feature set and did it well. The most recent update is not simple, requires an account, and gated the ability to play sounds for more than an hour behind a fairly steep monthly fee. I could deal with charging for new features. I could live with the new UI. Charging not to degrade the original core functionality is.. regrettable.
- ★★★★★lost simplicity after update
Used to be absolutely perfect. The new update ruins this app. It used to be perfect and simple. Now it requires log in and a subscription?!!! What did they do to this perfect app?!!!
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Should’ve kept it free. It was good until you could only use it for an hour free
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Was great before version 2.0. This was a great simple app for generating brown noise. However, with the latest update this has all been put behind a subscription. $60/year just to listen to a brown noise is insane. In response to the developer saying brown noise is still free for one hour. This is completely useless since people were using the brown noise to sleep through the night. And to be clear, I do not care about any of your new features
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
It is not help to sleep.. This app helps you to waste your time and money.
- ★★★★★lost simplicity after update
Used to be great. Loved the app before the update. Was simple and effective. Used it to sleep every single night. Then the update came with all the bells and whistles no one asked for along with a pay wall. Will be deleting and moving on to another.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Was great, now trash. Loved this app’s simplicity and its ability to do exactly what it was meant to do. Just opened the app tonight and now you have to pay and it is completely different. Terrible.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
From free to expensive. This was a free app now it’s 59.99!!!
- ★★★★★lost simplicity after update
Disappointed. Now charging for service, everything excellent about this app has changed. Used to be basic white, brown, green, pink noise, timer with fade-out. It was perfect. Now it’s all fancy and I have to pay for things/sounds I don’t want or need. Welp, guess I’ll go pack to buying another white noise machine on Amazon…it’ll be cheaper. So disappointed.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Terrible. Was free forever and did its job until it wasn’t anymore. Greedy company, deleting now highly recommend getting ColorSleep if your in the Same situation
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Disappointing to have to pay. I’ll be removing this app now that it’s no longer free since the update. Other apps that are just as good remain no charge.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
It used to be great. I just need a simple white/brown noise sound generator to help me sleep, and this was perfect. Ultra simple, 3 levels (deep was awesome), and free. Now it’s $60 per year with a bunch of stuff I don’t need.
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
No longer free. Used to be an amazing and barebones app that I could have as background noise while sleeping. Most recent update introduced a ton of new features and a SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. You now get only one hour free and don’t have access to any of the new features unless you want to pay 60 dollars a year for the subscription. I understand the need to make money somehow but taking away functions instead of just paywalling the new features or even giving a monthly payment option was certainly a choice. How generous they are to grandfather in early users with a one month free trial offer which I will be using to find an alternative.
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Scam to get you to pay. This app has great sound quality but after using it for a couple of weeks it suddenly limited usage to one hour - without warning. So an hour into bedtime the sound goes off. Then it requires me to buy a subscription to work for more than an hour. What a scam and thanks for disrupting my sleep. You should have let me know when I started using the app that you were going to seriously limit use in the future.
- ★★★★★other
Sleep good. Great for sleeping but every time I turn my Bluetooth on the brown noise connects instead of my music. Nothing you can do to prevent it so super annoying
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Subscription service. Do I need a subscription to my brown noise app. NO.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Ruined a good thing. This app was ok. Then they went from being free, to a yearly subscription. Never deleted an app so fast in my life. What garbage behavior. 79.99 a year just to play static noise. Will be using the on board sounds now. iPhone>Settings>Accessibility>Audio/Visual>Background Sounds. So many better options without a disgusting yearly subscription. Hope the devs feel good about gouging people. In today’s overly subscription based society, it was nice to have one free app. But the devs went and screwed that up. DELETE. AVOID. Never support such greedy monetization
- ★★★★★lost simplicity after update
Bloat and Paywalls are coming. This app was perfect but now they’re putting it behind a paywall and ruining the beautiful simplicity of the older version with stupid and unnecessary features.
- ★★★★★lost simplicity after update
Really? We pay now?. This app was awesome to start with and very simple. Now, you have to pay to get any use and the app is incredibly busy and obnoxious. You ruined a perfect thing :/
- ★★★★★one-hour limit without subscription
Too good to last, I guess. 😢. I really enjoyed using this app before the latest update. It said it was free to use, and it was. But now the dreaded subscription option has been added. You can still access brown noise plus a few other free sounds without a subscription, but the maximum time to run it for free is an hour. That’s not helpful to me at all. Guess I’ll move on.
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
paywall. this app was great and completely free to use until they updated and put all the good features behind a paywall
- ★★★★★paywall trap after free period
Disappointed.. I used this app for free. For many months. With absolutely no warning, I get a pushed update and now it’s $80/year? Frankly - it was a “nice to have” for free. If the sudden hike alone hadn’t put me off, the price tag would have. Respectfully, it’s not that special. You should’ve tried ads first.
- ★★★★★sound quality and depth settings
Too soft. Love the app. Simple! But just not loud enough.
- ★★★★★simplicity and minimalism
Very nice and very simple noise app. 100% absolutely love this! Thank you for being honest and very simple developer Yellowcat. One screen. 4 noise sounds to choose from. And a timer option. You can even choose 3 sound intensity for each color. I really enjoy the deep brown noise.