Getting around Find My Quiet Sound

The Sounds page

The library is grouped so you can browse by character rather than by name: Noise (white, pink, brown, gentle static, soft hiss), Water (rain, rain on a window, ocean, lapping water, flowing water, waterfall), Nature (forest, rustling leaves, wind, crickets, cicadas, night sounds, summer night), and Environment (fan, fireplace). A few sounds live only inside the experiments: Generative Sound offers Ambient Drift, slowly evolving music that never plays exactly the same way twice, and Gentle Chimes; the sounds you make in Frequency Painting or Sound Sculptor appear under My Saved Sounds once you save them. Every sound is generated live in the browser, so nothing loops with a click and nothing has to download; read how the sounds are made.

The circle and its controls

Tap any sound and the big circle starts it, quietly. Under it sit Volume, Pause and Stop all sounds, plus Add sound, Timer, Add Visual, Mixer and Save, and on the Sounds page Immerse, which opens a full-screen player with nothing else on screen. The same volume control appears on every screen that plays sound, with a smaller set of actions that fits the place. The volume starts at 35% on first use and remembers your last level, never above 60% when you come back; every sound fades in and out; a warning appears if you go above 75% on any volume slider; and no feature ever raises the volume on its own. If you would rather talk than tap, Ask Find My Quiet Sound takes plain requests such as “something gentle for sleep”.

Your Moments

From your first choices in Help Me Find My Sound, four one-tap Moments appear at the top of the Sounds page, each built from your own preferences (they get better as you complete more rounds):

• Your Quiet — your sound, ready now.
• Your Sleep — a 60-minute session with a gentle fade at the end.
• Your Focus — your sound with the visual you last used in Visual Focus (Underwater until you pick one).
• Woke Up at Night — an extra-gentle 30-minute version for the middle of the night.

Tuned to You

After a few comparisons in Help Me Find My Sound, a small Tuned to you chip appears beside the controls. It applies two gentle, reversible touches to whatever you play: people who consistently chose warmer sounds get the very top of the sound softened, and people who chose moving sounds get a little of the engine’s slow variation. It never rewrites a sound’s character — hiss stays hissy, cicadas stay bright — and it never touches the frequency generator or Find My Tinnitus Sound, which must always play exactly as set. One tap turns it off.

One-tap presets and saved items

One-tap presets are ready-made blends: Gentle Relief (soft broadband sound, low), Sleep (brown noise and gentle rain), Focus (pink noise and subtle nature), Ocean, Rainy Night, Rain on Window and Summer Night. Below them the app keeps what you make yourself: My Saved Mixes (Save on the Sounds page, in Immerse, on the sleep screen, in the mixer, or a Sound Morph blend), My Saved Sessions (Save environment in Visual Focus, Save on the Focus screen, or Build My Session), and My Saved Sounds from Frequency Painting, Sound Sculptor and Help Me Find My Sound. All of it stays on this device.

Sleep Mode

Sleep Mode is a darker, simpler screen for bedtime. Choose 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes or leave it continuous, keep gradual fade-out on so the sound eases away before the timer ends, and pick a preset or build a session from your profile. The sleep screen shows the clock, the time remaining and your sounds, with volume, pause, stop, timer and save close at hand. The Timer control on any screen also takes a custom length from 5 to 180 minutes, always with the fade. Practical advice on levels, speakers versus earbuds and night-time listening is in using sound at night.

Find My Sound

The Find My Sound section holds the three tools that learn something about you, and the one place they report to. Help Me Find My Sound discovers the sound you prefer; Find My Tinnitus Sound explores the pitch and character of the sound you hear; Sound Response records whether your tinnitus is temporarily quieter after particular sounds. My Sound Profile shows your sound preferences and your Sound Response summary, on this device. Clear on the preferences card removes the preferences, your experiment ratings and play counts; Sound Response records are deleted from View experiment details in Sound Response; a saved tinnitus match is forgotten from Find My Tinnitus Sound itself.

Mixer, Frequency Generator, Visual Focus and Experiments

The Mixer layers up to five sounds with their own level and left–right balance. The Frequency Generator plays a continuous tone from 20 Hz to 16 kHz at a lower level cap than other sounds. Visual Focus pairs a calm picture with your sound. Experiments is where the app tries ideas that go beyond pressing play, each with an evidence label.

The first time you open it

A short welcome explains the three ideas the app is built on (choose a sound, keep it comfortable, personalise it) and ends with Start Listening. On the website a small card asks whether we may count your visit; No thanks is a full answer and can be changed later on the Privacy page. Below the sound library a five-step starter guide (New here? Get comfortable with sound) is there if you want it and can be dismissed. Your Moments, the profile suggestions in Visual Focus and Sleep, and the Tuned to you chip only appear once Help Me Find My Sound has something to work from, so on a first visit those spots are simply empty.

Install, offline and privacy

An Install app button appears in the top bar on browsers that offer installation (Chrome and Edge; on iPhone and iPad use Safari’s Share → Add to Home Screen instead). The app keeps its own files in the browser after your first visit, so the sounds keep working without a connection; Ask, Your Moments and Tuned to you become available offline from your second online visit. There is no account. Your settings, saved items, profile and experiment records live in your browser’s storage on this device and are not uploaded; see Privacy for exactly what is kept and how to clear it.

Small things that help

• Back — the ← Back button in the top bar, your browser’s back button, or the Backspace key all step back through the app; Escape closes the sleep screen and Immerse; Space plays or pauses.
• Light or dark — the moon and sun button in the top bar.
• Learn — the Learn tab has safe-listening basics, when to see a professional, and links to every guide.

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Important: Find My Quiet Sound is designed for sound masking, relaxation and tinnitus management support. It does not diagnose, treat or cure tinnitus and is not a substitute for professional medical care. If your tinnitus is new, in one ear only, pulsing with your heartbeat, or comes with hearing loss or dizziness, see a doctor or audiologist.

Written from the sources above by the Find My Quiet Sound project; no clinician has reviewed this page. See Research & Sources and the medical disclaimer.