Nature:sounds around the world Reviews

Badly initiated. So few choices, first of all. The world is large, your sounds are few! And, it would matter immeasurably if it said WHERE the sound was taped! Where ARE we? We get numerous photos of beaches. WHERE? Water hitting sand is pretty generic unless we know we’re in Maui. We need to know not only the KIND of sound being generated and recorded, but how, where and why? TITLES like, “An Icelandic glacier melting”. “A beach in Santa Monica”. “A storm off Cape Cod, MA, USA”. What is the POINT otherwise? Now it’s just a noise machine with photos. Generic photos. I have traveled the world and know the hushed, active tingle of the wind passing through the Mayan ruins in Cancun. The many sounds; sails ruffling, water shifting, ropes twisting, as a large sailboat circles the Komodo Islands. The cacophony of children’s voices experienced by visitors to Timbuktu. The voices of THOUSANDS of seals sunning themselves off the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. The overwhelming a-train-is running-you-over sound of a Cape Cod Nor’easter. What is the POINT of just showing us tight shots of woods and beaches if we don’t know WHERE THEY ARE? Every photo NEEDS context. An explanatory paragraph. What YEAR were the sounds recorded? Do reps from your app travel to specific places or do they just press “record” on their iPhones when they’re in the back yard?
You are ONTO something, but SO FAR OFF.

Brilliant app. Kudos to the developer. Anyone who wants the name of locations were where the sounds were recorded, dates, the camera used, the name of the photographer... let us see your talent in creating an app.

You can’t please everybody, there will always be people out there to rain on the parade. Ignore the negative critics, they are a bunch of sad people.

There is a variety of sounds such as forest, rain, ocean, city, airplane, fan and white noises. It takes a while to download the sounds individually though and some sounds take longer than others.

Small photos match the sound and you click on them. However, I wish there were more sounds such as: piano, lullaby, guitar, bell, wind chime, winter and zen. Other than that it’s a pretty good app overall.

Takes a while to load some tracks and probably would have been easier to have everything pre-loaded or streamed live but it does the job. The timer and alarm functions are not very intuitive also. So all in all, Nature needs works but the various tracks are nice to listen to - very relaxing when about to go to bed.

UPDATE: Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this. I had been very busy and also thought I had already done it. The color change for the alarm and the timer buttons is what I needed to know. I still can’t set the alarm (as mentioned below and as the developer has addressed)—but since my only real concern was not being forced to leave it set and because it’s apparently an iOS problem, I’ll change my rating from 3 to 5 stars. (I actually prefer my alarms to be the phone’s standard beeping—for complex reasons that I won’t bore you with.)

ORIGINAL REVIEW: This is one of my favorite apps, but I had to (temporarily) delete it last night. After tapping the “alarm” option (accidentally or on purpose), there are two serious problems: (1) The alarm can’t be set. No matter which dial I turn, or in which direction, it springs back to 12:00 a.m. (2) Once the alarm setting window is open, there’s no way to cancel the alarm (or at least nothing telling me it actually is canceled)! There’s only an “Okay” button. And when I tap it, I have to assume by that (and by the fact that the “alarm” option in the top right is still highlighted) the alarm is set. Well, I had gone to bed early for some much-needed catch-up sleep and didn’t want to risk the alarm going off at midnight (since it was impossible to set to any other time)! So I had to delete it, which is annoying. (I’ve yet to see which settings or downloads I need to redo, if any.) Please fix or let me know what I’m doing wrong!

Overall, nice, good quality sounds but most clips are only a few minutes long! I don’t know if they can be put in playing loop as this would work on many clips, such as rain, fan etc..

Very responsive developer.

It took me a while to figure this out. At first I couldn’t figure out whether alarm was set to sound. Turned out white highlight is “off.” Dimmer and blue is “on.” The basics are good, it’s just not quite 100% there.

Have only started using Nature and am not impressed with this one by one downloading. Why isn’t there a way to download all the sounds in bulk? Why aren’t they tagged so you can easily scan to see which ones you don’t have yet? It shouldn’t take an hour just to get the sounds.

- Loops are too short and breaks at the ends. Would have been better if they faded into the start of the loop.
- unsure what has been downloaded or not. A color boarder or another r indicator would help.

Great app to block out ear ringing and to fall asleep to and no data collected.

Very good app and I highly recommend it.

It would be nicer if it can add some photos.

very nice

Had to delete app since there was no sound at any volume level.

Great