# A Soft Murmur

> Sleep and Relaxation Sounds

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1175522255](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1175522255)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1175522255`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sleepy Rabbit LLC
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (253 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2023-10-13
- **First published:** 2017-04-24
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-soft-murmur/id1175522255)
- **Website:** [https://asoftmurmur.com](https://asoftmurmur.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://asoftmurmur.com/docs/privacy-policy.html](https://asoftmurmur.com/docs/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

Create your perfect mix of relaxing sounds to help you sleep, relax, study, or work. Blend calming nature sounds, listen in the background, and save your favorite mixes for quick access.

A Soft Murmur plays seamless, uninterrupted audio offline—store sounds locally, so you can listen without data. It offers four free sounds (gentle rain, rolling thunder, ocean waves, gusting wind) and six paid additions (crackling fire, morning birds, crickets, bustling coffee shop, singing bowl, zen white noise). When Meander is active, each sound's volume rises and falls randomly to create evolving soundscapes.

## Rankings

- #97,462 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise A Soft Murmur for its simple, elegant design and high-quality sounds, especially the ability to mix noises into custom soundscapes. It’s widely used for sleep, relaxation, and focus. However, recurring issues include resets of settings/purchases after closing, problematic restoration of purchases, and paid-content pricing. Technical bugs like looping gaps and limited media-control support also appear. Overall, the app is powerful and helpful, but bugs and pricing concerns are commonly mentioned.

### Pros

- Powerful mixing: the ability to combine multiple sounds and create custom soundscapes.
- Excellent for sleep and relaxation; helps reduce stress and aids focus.
- Simple, elegant design with high-quality, thoughtfully curated sounds.
- Great for staying focused during work or study.
- Offline-friendly and reliable for travel.

### Cons

- Settings and purchases can reset after closing the app or restarting the phone; locked sounds revert to default and mixes disappear.
- Restore purchases/login issues; bought sounds sometimes inaccessible and requires manual restore or re-login.
- Paywalls for extra sounds; many sounds require additional purchases and some users feel priced out.
- Looping bugs causing gaps or long silent pauses; problematic for sleep and continuous listening.
- Playback controls sometimes don’t respond to hardware controls (e.g., media keys/headphones).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1175522255)