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Sounds for your situation: a mix for what's keeping you up
A snoring partner, noisy neighbors and daytime sleep call for different sounds. We built a mix for each from the 30 recordings in the Fall Asleep app, then measured every mix as a whole. Find yours in the table.
| Situation | The mix | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| A partner who snores | Steady rain, no thunder (Rain room) | 67% of energy between 500 Hz and 2 kHz |
| Noisy neighbors | A middle-range wind mix for voices, or a deep Underwater mix for bass | 63% of energy between 500 Hz and 2 kHz |
| Day sleep after a night shift | The steadiest mix we measured: a stream and night woods (Forest room) | loudness swing 0.6 LU |
| Hotels and travel | Two rain layers (free) | energy centre 1,200 Hz |
| A short nap | Sea breeze and foam (free) | loudness swing 2.9 LU |
Measured October 30, 2026 from the app's own files, mixed at each recipe's levels. The numbers describe the sound of the mix, not how much noise it hides or how anyone sleeps with it.
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Steady rain, no thunder
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In the app each room layers its own sounds (rain on the roof with distant thunder, waves with a sea breeze), each at its own volume. Free gives you the Rain and Beach rooms with 3 sounds each and plays while the app is open; Plus adds all 30 sounds, saved mixes and play with the screen locked, on iPhone and iPad. A browser tab can also stop when your phone locks. Free vs Plus →
What we left out, and why
There is no mix here for babies. Safe use depends on the volume and the distance from the crib, and a web page can't check those on your speaker. There is none for tinnitus either: that is a question for a clinician. If you only want a plain noise color, the sleep sounds page plays white, pink and brown noise.
All of this is something to try, not a treatment. The research on sound as a sleep aid is limited and low quality (Riedy 2021), which is why every mix comes with a timer and a low starting volume.
Sources
- Noise as a sleep aid: A systematic review — Sleep Medicine Reviews 55:101385, 2021 (Riedy S.M. et al.)
General information from population studies (NIH, CDC, NSF, AASM). It is not medical advice and does not replace a clinician who knows you.