You know this moment. It hit the hour cap. A text came in and killed it. The loop clicked and started again from the top. An ad began playing into the dark. Now you are awake, reaching for the phone, three menus from where you were.
If it switches off, that in itself wakes you. Newsleep exists to refuse that one moment, and to be the softest thing on your phone while it does.
Most sleep sound apps stop at an hour, or eight, or whenever the free tier says so. In Newsleep, all night is the default. Nothing that keeps the sound playing is ever capped, and when you do want it to stop, it fades over a minute instead of cutting off. Rain on the window, rain on a tin roof, rain on a tent, a dripping gutter: ten rain recordings, and the one you fell asleep to is still there at six.
The click at the end of a short loop is the second most common reason a sleep sound wakes you. Every recording in Newsleep is one to two and a half minutes long and crossfades into itself over ten to thirty seconds at equal power, so the level never dips and there is no join to hear. All 161 files were checked at the seam before they went in.
Some nights need rain alone. Some need rain with a fan under it and thunder far away. Newsleep lets you stack up to four sounds from anywhere in the bank and set each one with a word, from far to forward. Brown noise, pink noise, a box fan, an air conditioner, an airplane cabin, a night train: they are all here, and they all sit under the rain if you want them to. Your mix is saved per soundscape, so tomorrow night is one tap.
A routine only survives if it costs nothing. Newsleep opens on the soundscape you used last night, with your mix and your timer already set. Tap the light and put the phone down. There is no survey, no streak, no notification and no question at bedtime, ever.
Sixty dollars a year for rain is the most common one-star review in this category, and we agree with it. Newsleep is one payment. Every night gives you fifteen free minutes with every soundscape, every layer and every control first, so you hear the whole thing before you decide. No ads, no account, no email.
Under every soundscape is a slow, hazy picture, moving at a quarter of its speed, with the soundscape's own colour laid over it and a little grain on top. Nothing sharp, nothing bright, nothing to read. At midnight the screen should be the least interesting thing in the room.
If you live with tinnitus you already know the rule: set it just below the ringing, never over it. Rain, moving water and the noise colours sit where the ringing usually lives, and Ringing relief quietens one narrow pitch you choose yourself. Newsleep is sound enrichment, not treatment. A speaker is kinder than earbuds.
Because at two in the morning the video plays an ad, the screen has to stay on and the data runs all night. Every recording in Newsleep ships inside the app. Nothing streams, nothing buffers, and it plays in flight mode, on the nightstand speaker, with the screen off.
Loud sound for long periods can harm hearing, whatever the source. Keep it quiet: just below the ringing, or just over the room. Newsleep treats nothing, and it says so.
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