Rain sounds for studying, focus and sleep

What you can hear

Mix your own weather. Every layer has its own switch and level.

Rain

From a light drizzle to a heavy downpour, shown in millimetres per hour, with its own volume.

Lo-fi music

Slow, warm chords that sit under the rain without pulling your attention.

Thunder

Distant or close. The rumble arrives after the flash, timed by how far away the strike is.

Wind

Gusts that change direction now and then, and you hear them move from side to side.

Rain on the window

The muffled sound through glass, with taps and drips on the pane.

Mud and puddles

Soft squelches, and now and then someone walking through.

City traffic

A low city hum with cars passing on wet roads.

Keyboard

Someone typing nearby, in short bursts, for that library feeling.

Dogs and cats

Distant barks and the odd meow from across the street.

Or start from a preset: Drizzle, Steady rain, Downpour, Thunderstorm, City night or Lo-fi focus.

The room

A rainy street seen from your window, by daylight or in the evening. Switch the desk lamp and the street lamps on or off (one of the street lamps flickers). Raindrops gather and run down the glass, lightning lights up the clouds, and when the wind picks up, a clear umbrella sometimes drifts past.

Made for long sessions

• Focus timer of 25, 50 or 90 minutes, with a gentle chime at the end.
• Keeps your screen awake while the rain plays, and the controls fade away when you're not using them.
• Lock-screen controls to play and pause from your phone's lock screen.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Space play or pause, L call a lightning strike, H hide the controls, D switch between day and evening.
• Your listening time: sign in with Google, if you like, to see how many hours you've spent in Rainroom and a list of your sessions by date.

How it works

Rainroom uses the Web Audio API to build every sound from noise and simple tones as you listen. Raindrops arrive at random like real rain, thunder is shaped by distance, and the music is played note by note. Because nothing is a recording, there's no loop to notice, even after hours. The rain scene is drawn with WebGL on your device.

Free and private

Rainroom is free, has no ads and needs no account. If you sign in, it stores only your listening sessions (when they started and ended, how long they were and which preset you used) so it can show your listening time. The small "online" counter uses an anonymous random ID, never your name or email.