47 s
is how long we look at one screen before switching. In 2004 it was 2.5 minutes
Gloria Mark, UC Irvine
Focus music · In your browser · Free to start
Calm music for work, for when it’s hard to focus
No words, no ads and no repeats: the music is composed while you work. Drowns out the noise around you, and a timer reminds you to take a break.
For people who find it hard to focus
It’s noisy around youYou work somewhere noisy: an open office, a café, at home with family around.
Your attention slips awayIt’s hard to start a task and stay on it, including with ADHD.
How it works
- Pick a modeFocus, Deep Work or Routine: each has its own tempo for its kind of work.
- Pick an atmosphereSix atmospheres. Stick to one, and your brain learns to slip into work.
- Work, we’ll handle the restSet a timer for 25, 50 or 90 minutes. A bell rings when it’s over.
Why not a playlist or a recording that runs for hours
- Never repeatsA recording loops. Lanthen puts the music together again while you listen.
- Nothing cuts inNo ads, no next track with a voice on it, no row of clips beside it.
- Follows your workQuieter for the first minute and a half to ease you in, softer in the evening, calmer on a break.
- A faint, steady wobbleIn Focus and Deep Work, the volume wobbles 16 or 40 times a second, based on 2024 research. No promise of a result.
- Everything in one tabMusic, background sounds, a timer and breaks - no separate timer, no second app.
- Works everywhereIn the browser, through speakers or headphones. Free to start, no card.
You’re not distracted. You’re being distracted.
- Drowns out the talkRain and soft noise turn the speech around you into an even background.
- Music without wordsOnly instruments and nature. No lyrics to argue with your own thoughts.
- Reminds you to restWhen the timer ends, a quiet bell rings: time for a five-minute break.
Six atmospheres. Pick yours.
Background sounds
Rain, café, fireplace, waves, a train or soft noise. They cover what’s around you and never shout over the music.
Here every sound plays at a medium volume. In the app you set each one separately.
Based on research. Not on guesswork.
46.9%
of the time we think about something other than what we are doing
Harvard, Science 2010
−28%
stress and annoyance from nature sounds. A finding across 18 studies
PNAS, 2021
70 dB
is roughly the hum of a café. With it, people came up with better ideas than with a quiet background
Journal of Consumer Research, 2012
0 words
in our music. Songs with lyrics get in the way of reading, remembering and thinking
Journal of Cognition, 2023
An ADHD brain is bored in silence. We took that into account.
In the working modes the volume of the music sways slightly, 16 or 40 times a second. In a 2024 study, a 16-per-second pulse helped people with pronounced ADHD symptoms hold their attention longer. The Focus mode is built on it.
Communications Biology, 2024
Volumedrawn 40 times slower
- Make it yoursSome need rain, others the hum of a café. Each sound has its own volume.
- No sudden soundsThe volume never jumps, the sound changes smoothly. Nothing pulls you out of your work.
- Missed a day? No problemA habit takes about two months to form. One missed day doesn’t break it.
Lanthen doesn’t treat anything and doesn’t replace a doctor. It’s just a sound that makes work easier.
Start free. Pay only if you like it.
Free
To try it out
0 ₽
- The Ember atmosphere
- Focus mode and breaks
- Timer and every background picture
No card needed
Plus
Every atmosphere, mode and background sound
- The Steppe, Downpour, Cathedral, Vinyl and Polar Night atmospheres, and every new one
- Deep Work and Routine modes
- Background sounds: rain, café, fireplace, waves, train
- Your whole history, streak and stats by mode
14 days free, once per account. No card needed
You need an account to use it, so your settings and history are never lost. The account is free.
Questions
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