White Noise Baby: monitor crying, play sounds
White Noise Baby is an application for Google Android and Apple iOS devices that provides you with soothing sounds and monitoring options.
The application looks like any other "white noise" application on first glance, but if you dig a bit deeper, you will notice that it offers features that the bulk of apps don't support.
The main idea behind the app is simple: play sounds or classical music to help your baby sleep better. While it is designed with babies in mind, nothing is keeping you from using it for yourself, or other people instead.
If you have a hard time sleeping or relaxing because of background noise -- noisy neighbors, busy street, people chatting, construction work, electronic devices -- you may benefit from white noise apps as these tend to block distracting noise.
White Noise Baby
The application's interface may be a bit confusing on first run. White Noise Baby displays the available sounds on first start. You will see ads at the top, as the application is ad-driven unless you upgrade, and the controls at the bottom.
A tap on any of the available sounds -- you can scroll to list more -- starts playback right away. You get the usual assortment of white, brown and "insert color" noise sounds, but also sounds of everyday items such as a vacuum cleaner, air conditioner, or truck ride.
You may switch to music instead, to play classical music instead. This includes soothing works by Mozart, Beethoven or Chopin that you may play instead with a tap. The only controls provided are to increase or decrease the volume of the sound.
White Noise Baby supports an add-on app that is called White Noise Market. The add-on is available for free, and allows you to download hundreds of songs using it.
Please note that you need to sign in with Google or Facebook for full access. A "download as guest" option is provided, but it is limited when it comes to the number of downloads. The market app is pretty heavy on the full screen ads front, so keep that in mind as well.
But White Noise Baby has more to offer than that. You may open a baby rattle with touch and shake controls, or use the monitoring feature.
The monitor works as follows: it tries to recognize crying noises, and if it does, starts to play soothing sounds automatically. This is obviously not something that replaces parents, but it can be useful for times where you may not notice the crying right away.
The app features a timer furthermore, a log, and a set of preferences to enable left handed play mode, enable baby mode for fewer interruptions by setting the ringer and notification volume to silent, or setting it to auto-play on launch.
Closing Words
White Noise Baby is a handy mobile application not only to soothe babies, but for anyone else who benefits from filtering out noise in the environment. It comes with interesting extras, monitoring especially, which you may find useful in some situations. I cannot say how well the crying detection works on the other hand.
Now You: Do you use white noise applications or devices?
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?