Sound for work that never plays the same bar twice.
Real instruments, recorded note by note, assembled into music in your browser while you work. A loop gives itself away in twenty minutes. This has nothing to give away.
Free to start · works on a phone
How it works
Four atmospheres
Pick a place to work in. Sound and picture come as a pair.
Ember
Warm bowed strings and a singing bowl now and then.
Steppe
A far-off throat singer, quiet wind, a drum in the distance.
Downpour
Felt piano, an old organ and rain on the roof.
Cathedral
An organ and a choir in a vast hall, heard through a stone wall.
Switch mid-session: the sound dips and returns as the new one, the picture fades across.
How the sound is made
The instruments are recorded. The music is not.
The instruments are real recordings — strings, piano, organ, a throat singer, a church choir. The engine decides as it goes which chord comes next, which note, in which register, when and how loud. The tempo breathes by a fraction of a percent. No two minutes are alike, so there is nothing to wait for and nothing to tune out.
It follows the clock too: brighter in the morning, lower and quieter at night, calmer for the first minute and a half while you settle in.
Three tasks
Different work wants different movement.
Focus
Everyday work: writing, design, code. Enough movement to stay awake, too little to listen to.
Deep Work
Hard, long work. Almost nothing moves; events are rare and far apart.
Routine
Email, edits, repetitive tasks. A soft, steady pulse to keep you going.
Breaks turn the sound into a quiet rest on their own.
The picture
A background drawn by the sound.
Not a video. An ASCII field that listens: brightness and motion follow the level, the bass and the highs, and every note lights it for a moment. Six scenes — Fire, Night steppe, Stained glass, Northern lights, Mori, Flux — each with a morning, day and night look.
- Keeps playing with the phone locked. Pause from the lock screen.
- Installs to the home screen like an app and opens full screen.
- Saves battery on its own: fewer frames on a phone, with the interface hidden and below 20% charge.
Free and Pro
Free is a complete app. Pro opens the rest.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Ember atmosphere, Focus task, breaks | ||
| Timer, goals, share card, today's total | ||
| All six backgrounds, soft noise layer | ||
| Steppe, Downpour, Cathedral and every atmosphere added later | — | |
| Deep Work and Routine | — | |
| Rain, café, fireplace, waves and train layers | — | |
| Full history, streak and breakdown | — | |
| Works offline once installed | — |
No card for the trial.
Questions
Will it make me concentrate better?
Nobody can promise that, and we won't. Research finds background music reduces mind-wandering compared with silence, mostly through mood and alertness rather than anything happening to your brainwaves. Treat this as sound designed for working, not as a treatment.
Is it a recording?
The instruments are; the music isn't. Each note is a sample of a real instrument, and the engine arranges them live, so the piece you hear exists only once.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free one: a login, an email and a password. It carries your history, settings and Pro to every device. You sign in with the login or the email; the email is only for password resets and purchases. Deleting the account erases it on our side and leaves the history on your device alone.
What do you collect?
Which controls get used and how long sessions run. No text you type, no page contents. Do Not Track is respected.
Will it drain my battery?
The sound costs little. The picture costs more, so it lowers its frame rate by itself on a phone, with the interface hidden and on low battery, and draws nothing while paused or in a background tab.
Can I use it at work, on a stream, in a video?
Yes, while you have access. Reselling the sound or the code is a different matter — ask first.
Credits
- Strings, piano, organ and harp — VSCO 2 Community Edition, Versilian Studios, CC0. Piano and organ sampled by Simon Dalzell of Ivy Audio.
- Field recordings from Freesound: throat singing — Metzik; wind — dhallcomposer; frame drum — cabled_mess; rain on the roof — newlocknew; rain on windows — InspectorJ; thunder — DBlover; choir in Cathedral — a mass in Cologne Cathedral by Further_Roman, giuseppeaceto (CC BY 3.0), uair01 (CC BY 3.0), DiArchangeli; rain, café, fireplace, waves and train layers — vincefred, JarredGibb, Sadiquecat, amholma, Yoyodaman234 (CC0).
- Icons — Solar Icon Set by 480 Design, CC BY 4.0.