Mix Your Own Background Noise

A Soft Murmur lets you customize your own background noise: turn up the crickets, turn down the coffee shop, increase the wind noise. Whatever you want.

Per the site, “A Soft Murmur is designed to help you ignore bothersome noise by playing custom ambient sounds to suit your environment.”

Specifically, they recommend: “If you’re trying to study in the library and someone won’t stop talking, try listening to the Coffee Shop sound to transform a single, distracting voice into a pleasant background murmur. If music coming through the wall is keeping you up, try a mix of Singing Bowl with Waves or Wind to help you ignore it. To disguise high-pitched sounds, Birds and Crickets are a good option, and for low-pitched sounds, try Thunder.”

A Soft Murmur seems to be free (I played around on it for a while and never hit a paywall), and there is even a timer option. Cool.

-Molly Beck