Your Sleep Sounds, Sorted. Where Should You Start?
You open the sleep sounds list, tap something with rain in the title, and switch it off ten minutes later.
Nothing was wrong with that track. It just wasn’t built for what you needed that night.
Most people pick by name. The name tells you almost nothing about what a sound is actually doing.
Open Soundspace, the second tab along the bottom of the app, and you get six shelves. One of them isn’t sound at all. The other five are, 145 tracks in total, free, no subscription.
Sleep Stories - not a sound but a voice, someone reading you to sleep. Twenty of them right now: eight Fiction, six Train & Travel, six Nature. Also free. For nights when what keeps you up is your own train of thought.
Meditations - a voice walking you through it. For when your to-do list follows you to bed.
Brainwave Audio - a steady beat running underneath the tones. For nights your head won’t slow down on its own.
Snore Masking - shaped to sit on top of low, irregular sound. For when the person next to you is louder than the room.
White Noise - steady and wide-spectrum. For covering a noisy street, a door down the hall, a thin wall.
Tinnitus Masking - a steady sound to sit alongside persistent ringing, for anyone who finds a silent room harder than a noisy one. Keep the volume low. For relaxation, not treatment.
Tonight, do one thing: open Soundspace, and pick the shelf that matches your last bad night.
Give it your wind-down window — the twenty minutes before you actually try to sleep. That’s long enough to tell whether a type fits you.
Why sort them at all, instead of one long list? Because these types are doing physically different jobs.
White Noise works by covering. It spreads energy evenly across frequencies, so a sudden sound has a smaller gap to land in.
Snore Masking can’t work that way. Snoring is low and irregular, so the track has to be shaped to sit in that same low range instead of spreading out.
Brainwave Audio isn’t music with a nicer label either. It carries a steady acoustic beat under the tones, designed for wind-down rather than for listening to.
Sorting a library this way takes longer than sorting by mood or by weather. But it means the shelf you pick actually tells you something.
So, which type is actually in your listening history?
Tell us in the comments: the one you go back to, and what it’s for. Blocking a roommate? A head that won’t stop? Someone snoring beside you?
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Sleep sounds are intended to support relaxation and rest. The tinnitus masking sounds provide a masking sound for relaxation only — they are not a treatment for tinnitus or any other condition, and do not replace medical advice or medical devices.
believe it or not I love storm sounds and I mix sounds up making the best storms I love that we can do that. You never know what you will combine perfectly till you try it
sometimes just the plain ol rain is nice too. I’m listening to it now and bonus it helps my little ones drift off so whoohoo! Bet the earbuds are fantastic:) 
sorry I forgot to mention that. I’ve been wanting to get the earbuds my fear is comfort. I struggle with my ears when I lay down the pillow has to be just right and I’m just hoping to see some input on them in here to convince me to make the leap!
