Most sound apps hand everybody the same list and let you dig. This asks what you are actually doing and what you cannot stand, then names one thing to try.
The version above is two taps and a fixed answer. In Luten you say how you feel in your own words, and Sona reads it on the phone itself. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. It also learns which sounds you keep and which you skip, so the answer stops being generic.
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Fifteen combinations, so you can read them without answering anything.
Very low cello and double bass, one dark chord held with almost no movement in it.
It has no narration and no lyrics. No one telling you to relax. This one was written for the exact hour you are awake in.
In the Sleep section of Luten.
Open Three In The Morning in Luten →Pink noise with the highs taken away. Deep and close.
No melody to follow, because there is no melody. Pink noise sits between the hiss of white and the rumble of brown, and this version has the top rolled off so it stays soft.
In the Sleep section of Luten.
Open Deep Pink Noise in Luten →A single sustained cello note, almost motionless from the first second to the last.
It does not build and it does not resolve.
In the Sleep section of Luten.
Open The Long Middle in Luten →Sparse felt piano over distant room tone. Company without conversation.
Sound from a room. Nobody in it will talk to you.
In the ADHD section of Luten.
Open Parallel Play in Luten →Brown noise held completely level.
Brown noise is a preference, not a treatment, and we will not tell you otherwise. What is true is that this one is synthesised to its actual spectral slope rather than made by pulling the treble off a recording, and it does not move.
In the ADHD section of Luten.
Open Steady Brown Noise in Luten →One sustained reed organ tone with the slightest movement in it.
The whole track is the first second. Nothing arrives later.
In the ADHD section of Luten.
Open One Thing At A Time in Luten →Flat, even white noise. The same from the first second to the last.
Broadband noise and nothing else. No tune, no tempo and no voice.
In the Focus section of Luten.
Open Pure White Noise in Luten →Pages turning in a still room, sparse and quiet, like a library desk nearby.
No tempo anywhere in it. Lo-fi has a beat, and a beat is a thing to follow.
In the Focus section of Luten.
Open Page Turns in Luten →Pink noise held perfectly level.
Deliberately uneventful.
In the Focus section of Luten.
Open Steady Pink Noise in Luten →Solo cello, long slow bows in the low register, woody and warm.
One instrument, no words, no guide. If wordless choirs still read as voices to you, this has none of that either.
In the Stress section of Luten.
Open Low Cedar Stillness in Luten →A descending pad whose fall is always longer than its rise.
Shaped rather than composed. It is a slow shape repeating, not a piece of music going somewhere.
In the Stress section of Luten.
Open The Long Exhale in Luten →A near-silent sine pad, mostly space.
Closer to a quiet room than to a track. Most of it is the space between.
In the Stress section of Luten.
Open Empty And Still in Luten →A Japanese lullaby on solo koto, sparse and full of space, with a breathy shakuhachi far away.
The lullabies in Luten come from all over the world and none of them has words, so nobody is singing.
In the Kids section of Luten.
Open Kiri no Komoriuta in Luten →White noise with the top softened.
A hush, not a song. No tune, nothing that ends.
In the Kids section of Luten.
Open Soft White Noise in Luten →An Icelandic lullaby on harmonium, sustained and very still, the reeds just audible.
It circles rather than develops.
In the Kids section of Luten.
Open Bíum Bíum in Luten →No. There is no narration and there are no lyrics. No narration, no guided meditation, no course.
Yes. Audio keeps going in the background and on the lock screen, and the player stays black while it plays.
No, and deliberately not. The descriptions above say what a sound is, not what it will do to you. Whether something suits you is your call, not ours, and how long you listen is your business.
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More on the specifics: sounds for waking at 3am, sleep sounds with no talking, white, pink and brown noise, rain sounds with no thunder, fan sounds for sleeping.