First Mobile App: White Noise
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I recently built a small Android app (Apple soon) that plays white noise and ambient sounds for sleep and focus.
I am a software developer and I built this app to learn Mobile App development (using capacitor.js) and I wanted to ask for your feedback on the app itself and everything else you may know on this topics!
So I built something intentionally simple:
- clean UI (no clutter)
- works offline
- minimal/unobtrusive ads
- quick to open and play
- Simple timer
- Simple Sound selection
Right now I’m in the early stage trying to validate whether this is actually useful to others beyond just me.
A few things I’d love feedback on:
- Is “simple” actually a selling point here, or do users expect more features?
- What sounds/features would you consider essential?
- Any ideas on positioning this in a crowded market?
- Would you suggest any improvement in the actual listing of the app?
Here is a link to the app [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyapps.sleepsounds] if anyone has an android and would love to have a quick download for me.
Last but not least, I would also love to get some App idea around Children app.. The next one I have pinned is a children night clock, that I use myself for my son, so I would love to use my own app!
Thanks in advance 🙏
Nice first-app scope. For mobile utilities, I think the hard part is proving usefulness in the first 30 seconds. With Kinetic Override, I’m trying to compress activation to: understand permission → record one tiny tap/swipe loop → replay it successfully. That first tiny win matters more than a long feature list.
Nice first app. I think “simple” can work, but only if it is framed as a specific job rather than “fewer features.” For sleep apps, the market is so crowded that “white noise + timer” probably reads generic unless the first screenshot makes the use case instantly obvious.
I’m building in an adjacent space with Quiet Sleep on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rouber.quietsleep
The positioning lesson I’m seeing is that sleep sounds alone are hard to differentiate. A sharper wedge is the moment before sounds: the user gets into bed and the day still feels mentally unfinished. For my app, I’m testing “bedtime thought dump” / “clear the mental noise before sleep” before breathing and sounds.
For your app, I’d maybe pick one narrow promise like “one-tap offline white noise for sleep, no account, no feed” and make the first screenshot brutally direct. If you add children/night-clock next, I’d consider making it a separate product or at least a separate mode, because parents buying a kid sleep tool may have a very different expectation than adults using focus/sleep sounds.
Really like this approach—building a simple white noise mobile app for sleep/focus is a great first project, especially with your dev background. The “fast, offline, no clutter” angle is actually a strong differentiator in a space where most apps feel bloated.
For your question: yes, “simple” can be the selling point—especially if you position it as a distraction-free alternative to feature-heavy apps. You could even lean into that in your Play Store listing (“no accounts, no tracking, just sleep”).
Quick one — do you work on ideas/projects like this?
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