Dark Noise: Ambient Sounds

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Useless app after turning to a subscription only app. Bought this app back in 2020 only to realize that 99% of the noise is locked behind a paywall. Do yourself a favor and just buy a white noise machine so you don’t deal with this type of business model.

2. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   It will not delete!. I was looking into this app but when I decided to delete it, it has no option to delete.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t get your icon off my computer screen. Can’t get your icon off my computer screen.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Obnoxious. Open app to TRY to test it, IMMEDIATELY hit by FULL screen demand for $20/yr payment. Finally found cross-bars to get rid of it. Tapped noise selector. Again, blocked per ad. Anyone this afraid to show what his app can do → buhBye

5. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Charge for free trial.. I wanted to test this app out before paying the subscription. Was charged the monthly fee after clicking the free trial. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Nope. Begging for an app store rating 1.2 seconds after opening the app.

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   not free dark noise. Why would you say free downlod of all those types of sounds, but only white noise is available without subscription

8. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Repeating sounds. Sounds cycle repeat often, they sound like a broken record.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   low selection. very small count of sounds to test and experiment with

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Scam. 90% of the advertised features are locked behind a monthly fee. In reality you get access to 4 sounds and that’s about it

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Expensive and useless. Peloton meditation works much better.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn't have "dark noise" as an option. I wanted something that would be similar to dark noise/background noise on iPhone. It's not so I'll just use the native feature in iOS

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    $19.99/year Price not shown until you run it.. The application does not show any price until you download, install, and run it. Then it says $19.99/year after a 1-week free trial. An honest application would show the price before you download it. This is a total waste of time having to download, install, and run an application just to find its price. For such an application, zero stars would be more appropriate, but that is not possible.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    deleted all my custom mixes randomly. subscribed for a year, just opened the app and all my custom mixes are still here by name but contain no sounds. yeah not gonna subscribe sgain, rip :/

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Other free apps are much better. The free version of this is so extremely limited, it's laughable. There are many free apps with 10x the sounds available. Opened the app, saw how ridiculous and limited it was, deleted it immediately after.

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Subscription?! N.O.. Ugh. Used to LOVE Dark Noise. Now that it's subscription, I'd rather listen to anything else. SO DISAPPOINTING.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Dark noise app. Apps amazing until they think they post charge for literally every single thing anymore!!! World’s backwards today!!!!!

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Trash. They took 20$ out my account before time then not monthly but yearly Nah I’m fighting this with my bank Be aware

19. ★★★★★accessibility and assistive-technology issues

    almost $2 a month???. Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio -> Background Sounds. Just saying.

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Put subscription fees in the first line. Nothing aggrevates me more about apps then when what is available in the free version is not inidcated first.

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Original Customer (Lifetime Membership Needed). Not going to pay anymore and definitely going to tip the developers if they make “tip jar” available. One star for now.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Scam. Always Trying to Rip Me Off.. I like the app. The problem is that the app conveniently forgets quite often that you already have an active subscription. The app then locks you out of the premium features, because it wants you to spend money to sign you up for a more expensive subscription. Therefore, I have stopped using the app and canceled my subscription. I refuse to use any app that has a primary focus of using me to make money. Really sad that such a great app has as a primary focus scamming subscribers out of their money. If I could give the app no stars I would. I mean what is the point of paying a subscription to have access to premium features when the app will the next day conveniently forget that you have an active subscription and want you to sign up for an even more expensive subscription.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Prices. The prices for this app are insane. You can get these sounds anywhere. It’s a shame, I would’ve done the one time purchase for $10 I’m reading about, but they changed it to $50 🥴🤣

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Airplay doesn’t work. What’s the point?. Random, choppy audio when trying to airplay from iPhone 13 mini to HomePod mini. Wakes me up in the middle of the night.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not Worth It. $50, or subscriptions, for a white noise app that has the exact same sounds and features you can find on Android for free? Absolutely not. Yeah, the App Store MAY be safer due to a higher degree of curation from Apple, but the need for some developers to feature creep an app just to justify subscription pricing gives it just as bad a rep as the Google Play store.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Yearly subscription is not expensive. The yearly subscription price is to high for the features offered.

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    A subscription model?. Charging 20 a year for sounds you can get for free in a lot of places is not it for me.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    It went subscription. I’m grandfathered in, but now new people have to pay double the price, AND yearly too?? For low quality sounds too? Spaceship is the only one that sounds decent, other are low quality and brown noise needs more bass. Awesome looking app, but you use it while your eyes are closed…..

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    CHEATED by the developers, reporting this to Apple. I paid for this app already. My family became dependent on it for sleep sound. Tonight, the app informed me that I am no longer a paying user, that I must now pay, AGAIN, every year, to continue using an app that I already bought. This is a violation of section 3.1.2(a) "Permissible uses" in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: "If you are changing your existing app to a subscription-based business model, you should not take away the primary functionality existing users have already paid for." I'm reporting this app to Apple. If you want more of my money then you need to make another app that I want to buy. You can't just charge me for the same app over and over after I already paid you for it.

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Gone subscription.. My favorite ambient noise app, it’s a shame it went “free” and now cost double the amount I originally paid for JUST one year. It’s a great app, but I honestly don’t think it’s updated enough to justify that. I understand that I’ll be grandfathered in to these “pro” features for the time being, but I think this pricing for new customers is really out of wack.