White Noise Baby
White Noise Baby by TMSOFT costs $0.99. Once. No subscription, no premium tier, no upsell. 20 built-in sounds (white noise, pink noise, fan, womb, heartbeat, rain), 10 lullabies, cry detection, and access to 10,000+ community sounds via White Noise Market. If you just need background noise for the nursery and refuse to pay monthly for it, this is the one.
In a world where baby apps charge $50-$130/year, White Noise Baby costs 99 cents. Total. Forever. That alone makes it worth listing.
20 built-in sounds: white noise, pink noise, fan, rain, heartbeat, womb, car ride, vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, and more. Plus 10 classical lullabies. Cry detection monitors for baby waking up and restarts the sound automatically. Connect to White Noise Market for 10,000+ community-created downloadable sounds if you want variety.
There's also a baby rattle feature with shapes and sounds, which is cute but not why you're here.
The interface is dated. It looks like it was designed in 2014 because it probably was. TMSOFT has been making white noise apps since before it was trendy. Function over form.
Compared to Sound Sleeper (~$20-$40/yr), White Noise Baby lacks age-specific sound curation and the auto-play is simpler. But it's a dollar. Compared to BetterSleep ($50/yr, 200+ sounds, meditations), White Noise Baby is a fraction of the content and zero of the meditation/story features. But again - a dollar.
If your nursery needs are "play rain sounds all night, stop if I pause it, restart if baby cries" - this does that for less than a cup of coffee. If you want guided sleep stories, adaptive soundscapes, or sleep analytics, look elsewhere.
Best value in the entire directory. Not the best app. Best value.
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