White Noise Lite

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

   Kills battery. 1 minute of usage and 8 hours of “background usage” which used more than 50% of the battery life. They need to fix whatever the latest OS update did. Until then…delete the app and find a different one

2. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

   Privacy concerns. I’ve used and relied on this app for years, but as all apps eventually do, it seems like a recent update has pushed to collect personal identifiers and harvest data from its user base. Most likely will start to sell off this data to tech giants and advertisers. You can say it’s anonymized, but the reality is with all the data points it’s collecting, it’s not really. Would love to hear why they went this route rather than simply asking its users to support it with small donation. A real shame…

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

   Volume Ruined. What the heck?! New app update makes the sound so soft now. I can barely hear anything even at max volume. Will be switching to another app.

4. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Buggy Lately. Bluetooth issues

5. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Broken. I’ve used this app every single night without fail for almost ten years, never had any issues. Starting today, sound stops playing when you turn your screen off or go to another app, you have to restart the app only to get it to do it again after 15 seconds. It’s very clearly a programming error because if you switch outputs, it will continue playing again until you shut the screen off. Completely broken. Please fix this, I’ll update my review when it’s fixed. Absolutely begging. This is my sleep app, I use it every single night and I can’t sleep without it.

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

   Ads stopping the sound. Some new ads being displayed in the app silence the sound selection in the app making it useless.

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

   Lost lock screen clock. New version forces you to use app clock which I do not like. I only use Gray Noise and IOS now has that for free. Switching to IOS.

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

   App. It would be nice if the app played more than one sound and that for only a minute 🫩

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   I paid for this and upgraded now no sound. Not working

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

    Change. I dont like the new logo

11. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    Ads are very annoying. The ads on the new version of the lite app are very distractin* and annoying. You now have to agree to personalized ads.

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

    Battery problems. This app feels bloated and runs in the background even when I don’t want it to. It has been draining my battery until I finally figured out what was causing the problem. It also caused my phone to heat up (and I wasn’t even using the app.)

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

    Horrible Serivce. Cannot get sound to work

14. ★★★★★fan and AC noise break tracking accuracy

    Used to be the best. This used to be the greatest white noise generator for sleeping. Perfect air conditioner sound. Then they ruined it with an “updated ad experience” which includes pop ups that stop the sound every 5-10 minutes, rendering the app completely useless. Please fix this!!!

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

    Unusable. To actually get any sounds into this app, you need to download another app, and create an account, and log in. And then the other app tells you that you need to upgrade, which it won’t successfully do. In the end, you can’t actually get any sounds. Horrible.

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

    nag screen. I will tolerate being asked for a review several times but if it persists you get one star

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

    Shuts off. It shuts off on its own

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

    Sucks. Bad volume on all sounds

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

    Can’t Purchase! Broke. Neither the App nor Apple TV can you buy it. Both show in app purchases but it doesn’t exist on my iPhone 12.

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

    Tricked into ads. Had this for years without ads, loved it - but just got tricked into clicking to allow them ("see what's new"...), and now have blinking obtrusive ads at the bottom of the screen. Complete fail.

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

    keeps randomly stopping. i’ll wake up in the middle of the night and realize that the white noise just randomly stopped for some reason and it’s very annoying

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

    Ads. Sucks. Takes away simplicity of this beautiful free app

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

    I like free. I’ve been enjoying White Noise for free for 2 years Going to my miss it.

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

    Takes to much battery. The title says it all

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    They removed landscape mode. Used to like this app. Recently they removed landscape mode from the app so now my phone won’t display the clock properly when the phone is on the side. They replied to my inquiry and said that’s in the Pro version. Already paid more for the Lite version with the features I liked, now they want more? Nah, I’ll go to a competitor’s app now. No thank you.

26. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    Deceptive privacy consent. The latest app update employs a very deceptive ‘continue’ button instead of the promised <screen of consent or don’t consent>, which is supposed to appear next in the splash screens after first opening the app after its update. However, the next screen cannot be gotten to without clicking the continue button and then the privacy consent screen never appears. Once this was done, I assume they had all my data, even if I went into the settings of the app to withdraw consent it was too late to protect my privacy!

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

    New problem in last five days. App immediacy stops after 60 seconds. iPhone is already closed, no other apps open, incredibly inconvenient.

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

    Looped. You can hear a loop sound in the brown white noise. Disappointing.

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

    Skips after running for 6-8 hours. I have become so reliant on this, and it recently started skipping every couple minutes in the morning on both my and my gf’s phone. It has ruined many nights of sleep the last month or so. It’s driving me insane.

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

    Used to be great. I have the free version, and it used to be fantastic. Now it just turns off randomly. Sometimes frustrating.