White noise is “a signal that contains equal power within any frequency band with a fixed width” (via) and studies shown that it has great impact on your sleep. A relaxing background noise helps you sleep by covering all disturbing sounds that keep you awake, such a cars driving by or noisy neighbors. We compiled a list with some of the best websites with FREE ambient music and white noise for those that don’t own a white noise machine.
BONUS: GreatYoutube videos with amazonian rain, birds in the woods or relaxing piano music.
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Features: This one is for those of you that love the rain. Rain Fm has a super easy interface, all you have to do is choose between the three options. You can also schedule it for as many hours as you want and they intend to add slideshow to make it more appealing. Now they only allow you to hide panels and enjoy the rainy background which is a good start.
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Featuress: Focus@will is more complex and less repetitive because each category has lots of tracks;if you don’t like a certain track you can skip it. It’s free but you have to sign in with Facebook, Google+ or email and it only takes a couple of seconds to do so. If you click on the clock it will be programmed for one hour but if you right click on it it will allow you to listen to it for four hours at most.
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Features: There’s no mentioning about how long can you listen to these sounds because this website is targeted for nap music but it’s worth a try. I personally like the classic sounds and they’re great for work music as well. They used Neuro Linguistic Programming because ” NLP techniques[…] provide ways to directly talk to your subconscious mind while letting your conscious mind slowly drift away. This enables you to feel more relaxed in a shorter amount of time and increase the benefits of your quiet time.”
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Features: Simply Noise lets you choose between white, pink and brown noise and seems to be very popular. Recently they released Simply Rain and even developed an app that is ranked #1 in 37 countries and has extra features and more customization options.
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Features: Here you have it. You click on the sound you like, a popup image appears and you should be snoozing away.
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Features: Not quite nature sounds as it also features household and music tracks but you get the picture. You can also listen to compositions made by other users and maybe you’ll find something you like.
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Features: Talk about keeping things simple! The moment you open Rainy Mood you will hear the relaxing rain BUT they don’t have any controls. You can’t adjust volume, thunder intensity or frequency, basically you listen to what they give you and adjust the volume from your speakers.
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Features: If you like buttons, this one is for you. Hair dryer, clock, vacuum or crickets, these are only a couple of the available options. In case you like it, help the developer by making a small Paypal donation to help him keep his website up for our fellow insomniacs.
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Features: Here you have 37 sounds to choose from and some of my favorites are heartbeat and cat purr. You mix up to 5 sounds, save the mix if you want to and enjoy a relaxing night of calming sleep.
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Features: Here you can listen to ocean, rain or forest and if you have an Android device you can get their free app here.
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Features: This one took me by surprise as I didn’t expect to find “rain with large drops” option available anywhere but when you think of it it … Otherwise it’s plain simple and it also lets you to download the sounds to listen them on any device you have.
TIP: It might ask you to install some plugins to be able to hear the sounds but it only takes a few minutes.
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Features: Ambient mixer has lots and lots of free endless audio loops from a simple storm to human sounds (a restaurant, a busy street or even a world cup) and it allows you to change all the sounds you hear. For example, if you listen to a fireplace you can increase the volume of the burning torches and mute the fire cracking if you want.
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Features: This one isn’t necessary a white noise or a relaxing ambient one, it’s just light ambient noise from a coffee shop. Research showed that people are more creative when they have some calm, chilling ambient noise to and so this website was created. You can either use it for work or see if it puts your insomnia to rest.
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Features: Yes, they are somewhat plain but I had to share this with you as well because you never know what you guys like. But it seems they plan to add more noise in the future and try to compete with the bigger websites. “Although we’re focusing on white noise at the moment, we have plans to add more colored sounds to our programs in the future : pink noise, brown noise, and grey noise.”
Bonus! 7 YOUTUBE videos
Sleep well 9 hours of Sounds from the Allegheny National Forest in Tidioute Pennsylvania
Sleep with the ocean – 8 hours of sea sounds
10 Hour Recording of a gentle rain
Fire Sound – 8 hours of a fireplace sound
Long Playlist of Sleep Music – Relaxing Calm Piano Music
Cricket sound 8 hours of nature forest sounds
9 hours of Sleep to Sounds of Pennsylvania Peepers
