Background video showing gentle ocean waves flowing, creating a calm ambient atmosphere.

Ambient sounds for sleep and focus.

Rest deeper at night. Stay focused during the day.

Blankie on iPad, Mac, iPhone, CarPlay and iPhone Duo
Download on the App Store
All features 100% free.No ads or subscriptions.
4.9 out of 5.0
Global App Store rating
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Every device

A Blankie for every screen.

iPhone

Ready on your nightstand

Start your bedtime preset from a Home Screen widget or Siri, set a sleep timer and give your Lock Screen a looping video backdrop.

Mac

Mix from your menu bar

Start, stop and adjust your mixes from the Mac menu bar while you work. You can also hide the Dock icon and keep Blankie running in the background.

Blankie's menu bar mixer popover on Mac
iPad

Sidebar and mixer, side by side

Your favorite presets and Quick Mix sit in a sidebar on the left, with sounds and controls on the right.

Blankie on iPad with favorites, presets and sounds in the sidebar beside the Creekside mixer
CarPlay

Calm drives and naptime rides

Mix rain, white noise or your favorite presets in the car when you need to focus or relax, or when it's nap time for a little one in the back seat.

Blankie on CarPlay in a car dashboard
iPhone DuoNew in 2.1

Works in every pose of iPhone Duo

Set it down half-folded on your nightstand and the upright screen shows what's playing with your sound and controls on the flat half. Unfold it like a book and Now Playing splits along the spine onto the left page with sound mixing on the right.

See every pose
Blankie on iPhone Duo in the seated pose with artwork on the upright half and sound controls on the flat half
Seated pose
Blankie on iPhone Duo in the book pose with Now Playing on the left page and the Sound Mixer on the right page
Book pose

Mix

Layer as many sounds as you like.

Blankie comes with 24 built-in sounds, from steady rain and bedroom fans to coffee shops and brown noise. Start with one, layer in another and adjust each volume until you like how it sounds.

  • Individually adjustable volumes
    Every sound has its own slider, and each one can be as loud or quiet as you want.
  • Bring your own sounds
    Import your own audio files and mix them in with the built-in sounds.
Blankie on Mac with several ambient sounds playing at once

Sleep timer

Fall asleep without playing all night.

Optionally set how long Blankie should play when you get into bed and it automatically stops when the timer ends.

  • Short fade at bedtime
    When the timer ends, sounds briefly fade instead of a hard stop.
  • All-night loops
    Like to listen all night? Seamless loops are hand-tuned to play with no audible gaps.
Blankie's sleep timer on iPhone over warm artwork

Presets

Save your mixes for sleep and work.

Build separate presets for bedtime and drowning out a noisy office. Star favorites to quickly find them in widgets and CarPlay.

  • Heavy Rain Sleep
    Rain + Brown Noise + Fan
  • Cozy Night In
    Fireplace + Wind + Warm Piano
  • Ocean Focus
    Green Noise + Waves + Lo-Fi Beats
Blankie on iPad with a saved preset and its mix

Customize

Make it unmistakably yours.

Each preset can look the part with its own background photo and accent color.

  • Customize colors
    Set a unique accent color for each preset.
  • Customize artwork
    Choose background photos and Lock Screen animations for each mix.
Blankie's preset editor with a free-form accent color picker

And everything else you need to settle in.

Localized in 12 languages

Blankie is available in 12 languages, with more added all the time by community translators.

Control it everywhere

Use Home Screen widgets, Siri, Shortcuts or find presets and sounds in Spotlight. Control Center, headphones and media keys work too.

Offline & private by design

Works fully offline and collects nothing about you. No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking.

Apple IntelligenceWhere available

Blankie can suggest names and icons using the on-device AI model.

Spatial AudioExperimental

Place a preset's sounds around you on a draggable map, rendered binaurally on any headphones.

Open Source

Blankie is developed openly on GitHub and welcomes contributions from the community.

Reviews

Loved by listeners in 90+ countries.

4.9 out of 5· 25,000+ downloads
United Kingdom
“Anyone who works in a co-working space or office should download this immediately! So relaxing!”
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Canada
“…this is exactly what I was looking for : a simple app , no ads, great sleep sounds and able to mix 5 sounds together!”
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United States
“I love this app and the flexibility of mixing the sounds. Each night I can try something different to see what works the best for me. I enjoy using it to read to as well. Gives the perfect sounds to block out the rest of my surroundings.”
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United States
“I want rain sounds, it makes rain sounds. I don’t want anything else, I don’t have to have anything else. I wish more software was this straightforward.”
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United States
“Car Play feature seems to be what makes this app really stand out, especially once I realized I didn’t have to pay for any subscriptions anymore. Very cool.”
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Germany
“Super great app. 1. Free with no in-app purchases. :D 2. Genuinely high-quality sounds. :) 3. Adjustable however you like. :D”
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United States
“Wish I could rate it higher, perfect lightweight solution compared to having several YouTube tabs open”
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United States
“Very slick and easy to mix together custom soundscapes. And incredibly customizable to make it your own. I can’t believe it’s free!”
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Germany
“Absolute silence lets you hear everything, like the pencil of your neighbor, and silent noises can become loud in comparison. This app plays relaxing background noises, even several at the same time, that allow you to sink in and thus help concentrating on what you are doing.”
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Enjoying Blankie and want to help? Here are some ways you can support it:

Don't rent your relaxation.

Other sleep and focus apps lock sounds and features behind paywalls.Blankie gives you everything free, forever.

$0
Forever

No ads, no upsells and no sneaky business model. Why is Blankie free?

  • All 24 built-in sounds
    Including classic sounds like rain and waves, four kinds of noise and music loops
  • Unlimited adjustable layers
    Mix as many simultaneous layers as you like with no limits
  • Import your own audio
    Blankie automatically levels your imports so nothing gets lost in the mix
  • CarPlay & iPhone Duo support
    In your car, or on your nightstand, Blankie is ready to go
  • Widgets, Siri & Shortcuts
    Put Blankie on your Home Screen, or add Action Button and Focus automations
  • Sleep timer & Lock Screen art
    A short fade when the timer ends, and looping video on the Lock Screen
  • Shareable presets
    Send mixes to friends as files they can open without an account
  • 100% offline & private
    Works in airplane mode and never collects your data
  • Translated into 12 languages
    Thanks to volunteer translators from around the world
  • Every future update, free
    No paid tiers and nothing to unlock

Other apps

$20–$120
Per year

Free to try, then worse until you buy.

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Worse Sleep
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Spendel
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Dark Pattern
Nosey
Ad Noise Lite
  • Limit what you can listen to or do until you pay
  • Can monitor how you use the app
  • Can track your location
  • Can track you across other apps and the web
  • Have free trials that start charging you automatically
  • Don't have a CarPlay app
  • Collect your personal information
  • Can share your data with third-party advertisers

Download Blankie

Available now for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Requires iOS/iPadOS 26.4 or later, or macOS 26 or later.

Download on the App StoreRecommended (Automatically Updates)
Other ways to install on Mac

Still on macOS 15 Sequoia? Get Blankie Classic

Install with Homebrew

Run this in Terminal:

brew install --cask blankie

Requires Homebrew. Visit brew.sh for more information.