The right noise protects you from the wrong one. A steady, predictable sound (rain, waves, the murmur of a café) covers the sudden spikes that actually break your focus: a door, a notification, a voice. Seven real sounds, free, start right below.
Pick, listen, close the tab whenever you want: everything stays right here. The volume and the sound you pick are the same ones you find inside WeFocusBuddy, when the timer starts with you.
A steady sound fills the background that sudden spikes (a door, a notification, a voice) would otherwise stand out against: when the background is full, the spike is less audible. This is acoustic masking, the same reason you cannot hear the next table’s conversation in a busy café.
The effect varies from person to person. The way to find out is to try it, not read about it.
Inside WeFocusBuddy these seven sounds start together with the timer, and at the end of a session you can give it a score from 0 to 10 if you want to: minutes times score divided by ten, and those are the weighted hours. Free, no ads, data in Europe.
Yes, every track is meant to be played on a continuous loop. Here the loop is handled by the browser itself (native audio tag); inside WeFocusBuddy the loop also gets a crossfade of a few seconds on every pass, for an even smoother transition.
Here it's one sound at a time, to keep things simple. Mixing tracks (e.g. rain + fireplace) is possible but needs more care with the relative volumes: a good next experiment if you find this page useful.
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