Tin Roof is a sound machine in your pocket: seamless rain, deep colored noise, calming tones, and binaural beats — for sleep, focus, calm, and soothing little ones.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Why sound helps
Even while you sleep, your auditory system keeps scanning for change — a door, a snore, a car outside. It isn't the volume of a noise that wakes you; it's the contrast against silence. A steady, predictable sound raises the floor so that sudden noises stand out less, which is why generations of people have slept best on stormy nights under a tin roof.
That's the whole idea behind Tin Roof. We give you a palette of continuous, seamless sounds — real recordings and precisely generated noise — that you can layer into a mix that masks the world, settles a racing mind, or holds a baby's attention long enough for sleep to win.
We're honest about the science, too. We'll tell you a binaural track is a 3.2 Hz delta beat and that it needs headphones to work — not that it will "rewire your brain." No cures, no hype. Just good sound, described accurately.
The library
Every sound is either a long seamless loop recorded and mastered for zero audible seams, or generated live on your device so it literally never repeats.
The hero of the app: rain on a corrugated tin roof, plus soft rain, rain on a window, distant thunder, and full storms rolling through the night.
White, pink, and brown noise generated in real time. Brown for depth and sleep, pink for masking and tinnitus relief, white for classic full-spectrum cover.
Womb sounds, heartbeat, gentle shushing, hair dryer, music box, and steady white noise — with an infant-safe volume cap on by default.
Singing bowls, temple ambience, and pure tones for breathwork, yoga, and unwinding an overstimulated mind.
Delta, theta, alpha, and beta beats generated precisely on-device, plus a sleep ramp that glides down as you drift off. Headphones required — we'll remind you.
Box fan, ceiling fan, air conditioner, refrigerator, dryer, car ride at night — the domestic drones people have always fallen asleep to.
Café murmur, crackling fire, a cat purring, turning pages, a ticking clock, gentle keyboard — quiet textures for focus and comfort.
Ocean waves, streams, wind through trees, night crickets — the outdoors, minus the mosquitoes.
Sixty seconds of our white noise, rendered by the very engine that ships in the app — lossless FLAC, no compression tricks. This one's in the free app on day one.
Download the FLAC · 4.4 MBOne tap, ready-made
Don't want to build a mix at 3 a.m.? Neither do we. Tin Roof ships with presets blended and volume-balanced for the moments people actually reach for a sound machine — and any mix you make yourself can be saved as a preset of your own.
How it works
Tap a preset, or tap any sounds to layer them — up to six at once, each with its own volume slider.
Choose a sleep timer and Tin Roof fades out gently at the end — guaranteed to stop, never a surprise at 6 a.m.
The screen goes dark and calm. No pop-ups, no upsells, no motion that draws the eye. It just plays.
What we believe
Every sound, every preset, every feature — free for up to four hours a night. Want it all night? Tin Roof Lifetime is a single $1.99 purchase, yours forever, and it adds the full set of guided meditations. No subscription, no ads interrupting your wind-down.
No account, no sign-in, no analytics trackers. Everything runs on your device and your mixes stay on your phone. Read our privacy policy — it's short because there's nothing to disclose.
The core sounds ship inside the app and the generators run on your device; anything else downloads once and then stays put. Airplane mode, a cabin with no signal, a nursery with the Wi‑Fi off — Tin Roof doesn't care.
The baby category ships with a volume cap and a gentle reminder about speaker placement, following pediatric guidance on nursery sound machines.
We describe frequencies and beats factually — "6 Hz theta beat," not "instant deep meditation." Sound can help you relax; it isn't medicine, and we never pretend otherwise.
Dark by default. No streaks, no gamification, no notifications begging you to come back. The best session is one where you forget the app is there.
Questions
Every sound and feature is free for up to four hours of listening a night, along with two guided meditations. If you want sound all night, Tin Roof Lifetime removes the limit for a one-time $1.99 and adds every other guided meditation — no subscription, nothing renews, and it restores on your other devices. No ads, no account, and no sleep sound is ever locked. We built Tin Roof because we wanted a sound machine that didn't nickel-and-dime people at bedtime.
Yes. Tin Roof plays continuously with the screen locked, and the sleep timer keeps working in the background. When the timer ends, playback fades out and fully stops — we treat "it actually stops" as a hard guarantee.
With headphones, a binaural beat produces a real, measurable interference pattern at the frequency we state — that part is straightforward physics. Whether that entrains brainwaves in a meaningful way is an area of ongoing research, and we won't oversell it. Many people find the beats deeply relaxing; we label each one factually and let your ears decide. Through a speaker, they're just a pleasant tone.
Used sensibly, steady sound is a well-loved soothing tool. Tin Roof's baby sounds ship with a conservative volume cap by default, and the app reminds you to place the phone or speaker well away from the crib. As with anything involving your child's health, your pediatrician is the authority — see our terms for the full disclaimer.
Many people with tinnitus use low-level pink or white noise at night to make ringing less noticeable, and Tin Roof includes a preset tuned for exactly that. It's a masking aid, not a treatment — if tinnitus is affecting your life, an audiologist can help properly.
Only to download a sound the first time you play it. The core sounds are bundled with the app and the generators run on your device; once a sound is downloaded, Tin Roof works identically in airplane mode.
iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets at launch. Watch apps and widgets are on the wishlist but out of scope for version one — we'd rather ship a small thing that works perfectly.
Because rain on a corrugated tin roof might be the most beloved sleep sound on earth, and it's the first thing we recorded. It's the app's icon, its default preset, and its whole personality.
Tin Roof launches soon on iOS and Android. Drop us a line and we'll let you know the moment it's live — nothing else, we promise.