Fall asleep in the mountains. Wake up at home.
Find your flow by the sea. Without leaving your desk.
Portal brings the magic of the natural world into our everyday lives - from cloud forests in Costa Rica to volcanic vistas in Iceland. With immersive Spatial Audio, cinematic motion visuals and smart lighting, it's designed to make nature feel present - transforming your space into somewhere calmer, more peaceful and inspired.
Decades of research have shown how deeply connected we are to nature: it can improve our focus and spark creativity, ease anxiety and help us sleep better.
Portal helps reconnect us.
Whether you’re chasing flow, unwinding after a long day, drifting off to sleep, or looking for a moment to breathe, Portal immerses you in some of the most beautiful and peaceful places on Earth.
Already loved by over a million people worldwide - and recognised by Apple as an Editor’s Pick and Mac App of the Year finalist - Portal is helping people turn distraction into focus, stress into calm and restless nights into peaceful ones.
REAL STORIES FROM THE PORTAL COMMUNITY
FOCUS
The tech professional who found focus almost impossible amid the noise, stress and distraction around him.
“Portal provides me with something I haven’t had in years: mental clarity and peace. It’s an instant ‘on switch’ for being able to focus and do deep work.”
RELAXATION
A woman undergoing treatment for stage III breast cancer.
“Portal literally lowers my heart rate and lets me escape while I’m receiving chemotherapy. Thank you for bringing nature’s calm back into my world during a time I can’t go outside.”
SLEEP
A mother living in a war zone, using Portal to help her children fall asleep while the sound of bombing can be heard in the distance.
“Thank you for bringing peace to the chaos of our world.”
ADHD
A university student struggling with their ADHD.
“I achieved a First Class this year of which I am very proud and forever grateful for the help Portal has given me. It’s better than any medication, therapy or treatment for my ADHD brain!”
OTHER POPULAR USES
Creativity, mindfulness, meditation, stress and anxiety relief, PTSD, tinnitus, insomnia, SAD management and childbirth.
KEY FEATURES
- 100+ portals to beautiful and peaceful corners of our planet, including Costa Rica, Iceland, St Lucia, Scotland, England and Slovenia
- Circadian Flow: brings the rhythm of the world outside indoors, from sunrise to sunset
- Immersive, true-to-life Spatial Audio recordings
- Stunning retina-quality ultra high definition motion visuals
- Philips Hue, HomeKit and Nanoleaf smart lighting integration
- Webby Award-winning design
- Virtual sunrise wake-up alarm
- Sleep timer
- Pomodoro timer
- Meditation and breathing exercises
- Mix Portal audio with music, podcasts, audiobooks and guided meditations
- Offline use
- Siri Shortcuts
- Family Sharing
- Privacy conscious: no third-party tracking, targeted ads or collection of personal data
MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
Portal Open Access: free access to 3 portals, refreshed monthly.
Portal Premium: unlimited access to our growing Library. Available as a Monthly, Annual or Lifetime purchase. Premium includes access to Mac, iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro apps.
Try Premium free for 7 days: no upfront payment details, no auto-subscribe and no need to cancel. After your trial, continue with Open Access or become a Premium Member.
OTHER NOTES
Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled in your App Store account at least 24 hours before your Membership ends.
Dynamic (head-tracked) Spatial Audio requires compatible headphones that support head-tracking (AirPods (3rd Gen & up), AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, Beats Fit Pro).
OUR MISSION
We’re a small indie team based in the UK, on a mission to bring nature’s magic back into our daily lives.
Every detail of Portal is crafted with care, inspired by science, technology and the natural world.
Terms of Use: portal.app/terms
Privacy Policy: portal.app/privacy
Need to get away—or just focus? Portal immerses you in 3D audio from incredible locations around the globe. On iOS, tap for full-screen visuals (and the prettiest clock you’ve ever seen); on Mac, click to transform your desktop into gorgeous 4K video. Bonus: Pair compatible AirPods to experience it all in Spatial Audio.
Incredible for Sleep and Getting Work Done
QuantumElectron
This app was a game changer for me. I’ve always struggled to go to sleep. I have tried music, sleeping masks, white noise, muscle relaxation, etc. This app was really helpful in transporting me to beautiful, serene locations, putting my mind at ease, and finally allowing me to sink into the depths of unconsciousness at night, It’s soundscapes are beautifully realized visually, with varied, 3D immersive sound. I discovered that some of the soundscapes, especially the barley field and the cloud rainforest, were great aids to helping me write and work without getting distracted. Overall, the app has been a great improvement to my quality of life, which I did not expect initially.I initially got the free version and was really satisfied with the included features, so I upgraded. I have to say the monetization model was really wonderful, encouraging me to support developers without making me feel like I had to pay for a good experience. Recently the app was updated with tons of new sounds from Scotland and Slovenia. It now includes a subscription model, but for the quantity and quality of content, it seems well worth it, especially because it will help the developers flesh out the app even more. On top of that, they gave everyone who had purchased the app free access to everything, which is incredibly generous! I look forward to great new content in the future. Thank you so much!
Developer Response
Hi Quantumlightgamer06, thank you so much for sharing your Portal experience and not least your incredibly kind words. Knowing that Portal has helped improve the quality of your life has put the biggest smiles on our faces - it's a goal that we hoped and dreamed Portal would achieve when we first launched and remains our driving ambition going forward! Thank you for your feedback and for being one of our early paid adopters, without your trust, support and encouragement during those early days it's unlikely we would have been able to grow Portal to where we are to-date. We hope you enjoy escaping to the beautiful Slovenian Alps and the Scottish Highlands, as well as a lifetime of escapes around the world to come! Nick.
I’ve been waiting....
99Solutions
I’ve been waiting to review this app, since I wanted to spend a fair amount of time with it before I did. I remembered that I downloaded this app a while back when it was featured, but never used it. It came in clutch one night when I was at a friend’s house, couldn’t sleep at all, and all I could hear was the extremely loud crickets outside his door. It was not the nature sounds that I needed! Anyway, that night it saved me since I had a huge day the next day and was on a flight all the night before. I put on the fireplace sounds (I’m a sucker for the warm crackle of a fire) and I was OUT. I’ve since used it for everything from focusing on a really important deadline (ADHD is no friend of mine) or to escape when I’m feeling anxious. This app has been a beautifully designed, well curated panacea to many of my life’s ills. It’s tough for me to describe the impact that this simple ambient sounds app has had on my life. But I just want to say thank you to the wonderful humans who made this possible. I also upgraded to the premium version of the app, well worth the $. If you guys have other packs that you release, I would pay more happily. XO, John.Note for the devs: please please please make the place descriptions more accessibility after downloading the portal itself, maybe from the pop up menu where you can change from sleep, focus and escape in the portal itself? I love reading the descriptions, but it’s tough to find later when I’m really enjoying a particular portal since I have to navigate back to the collection to do so.
Developer Response
Hi 99Solutions, thank you so much for your incredibly kind words and your insightful and thought provoking feedback. We created Portal with the ambition of starting a venture that made a postive difference in people's lives and in doing so, working on something that we could all be proud of. So it means a great deal to the entire Portal team (just 4 of us) to hear our ambition coming to life through your words and the impact Portal's having in your life - it really does drive and inspire us to do more - thank you! On your point about new collections, we've got some exciting ones lined up and we can't wait to share them - we hope you love them as much as we do! However, please note that for everyone that has an active Portal Membership there won't be any additional charges for any new content we release - so no worries on that front :) We absolutely agree with your suggestion to make the portal descriptions more readiily accessible - the good news is we're currently looking into this, so hopefully this will be something to look forward to sometime in the future! Many thanks for your support and encouragement - it means a lot to us, Nick.
Great app! Great developers!!
LCLMomma1392
Update: Everything said before still goes! A year (or more?) later and developers still staying true to their customers! And thankyou for update on new sounds coming, I can not wait!!! And thankyou for taking in customer feedback and adding more variety of sounds💛 Previous review: I just wanted to update review since last app update and say again, it was refreshing to see an app devoloper stay consitent, although they switched to a subscription model they did add a way to pay a 1 time fee, and although its more then the $4, still compared to other apps $30 for lifetime is far more reasonable. But most important thing to note is they allowed the users who previously paid the $4 to buy the app to keep the full version along with all the updates, so when you purchase from this devoloper you can be assured you will keep what you paid for regardless of any future changes in the pricing model, and that is hard thing to come by now a days in the apple world, so thankyou! Suggestions: I also would love to see some more light autumn/forest sounds, maybe without birds (or at least light bird sound in distance and spread out a bit) in future, there are lots of water ones wich are great but more like the barley field one (wich is PERFECTLY done!) I would love!
Developer Response
Updated reply: 👋 Hi Michelle, so lovely to hear from you! Absolutely delighted to hear that the first batch of St Lu portals have gone down so well :)And we really appreciate your patience with things and sorry about the tease - definitely not our intention. The super exciting news though is the second batch is on its way in the next few weeks along with our new Iceland collection and Spring collection - together these will more than double the number of portals in the Library to over 100 destinations for you to escape to and immerse yourself in. I know I'm biased, but I think they're some of our best yet! So lots to look forward to, which will hopefully make the wait worthwhile. 🤞 you love them when they land.As always, a massive thank you for all your support and enthusiasm for what we do - means a huge amount to us.Previous reply: Hi Michelle, thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback - we're incredibly humbled by your kind words and your support - it really does mean a lot to us :) So pleased that you're a fan of the Devon Spring Barley Field portal - it's one of my favs too! The field happens to be close to where my wife grew up and her parents still live, so it brings back lots of great memories of years gone by. Great suggestions for future content! I'll be sure to add these to our ideas board and we'll keep them in mind as we plan out our content strategy for the year aheads. Thanks again for your support and enthusiasm - it's infectious and motivates us to continually strive to push the envelope and develop Portal in a way that we can be proud of, Nick.
A small update with fixes and improvements to make Portal v4 even smoother.
What’s new in v4.0.1
- Better Alarms: improved wake-up alarm reliability, including more dependable backups and helpful guidance on first set-up.
- Smoother Playback: fixed an issue that could prevent background video playback from resuming when returning to the app, as well as controls disappearing on first play.
- Improved iPad Experience: Settings now remembers your last-used tab, while you can swipe between portals in Now Playing using the iPad trackpad.
- Better Scrolling: improved performance throughout, and tapping the top of a scrolled Library screen now takes you straight back up top.
- More Polish: fixed the Now Playing layout when using zoomed mode on iPhone, improved Breathing exercises with a clear glass interface, and made it easier to cancel an alarm with a long press of the timer icon.
Thank you to everyone who kindly shared their feedback. Special mention to Marc from Spain and Blake from NY, USA, who helped with some particularly sneaky bugs.
*Portal v4*
Portal has always been about bringing the natural world a little closer to home and into our daily lives, because we believe nature is fundamental to our health, our wellbeing, and a quiet part of what it means to be human. And so we’re thrilled to share our biggest update since Portal launched over 7 years ago - one that touches every part of the experience, making Portal feel more immersive and more in tune with the wild world beyond our walls.
Here’s what’s new:
- All-New Liquid Glass Design: building upon the biophilic principles at the heart of Portal, Liquid Glass brings the fluidity and dynamic physicality of the natural world throughout the app, and in turn helps create an experience infused with a deeper sense of presence and connection. Liquid Glass requires iOS 26/iPadOS 26 and up.
- Circadian Flow: rooted in circadian science, you can now sync Portal with your local time of day. Circadian Flow plays a curated sequence of portals that follow the rhythm of the world outside - from energising mornings to restorative evenings - gently aligning you with the natural flow of the day.
- Streaming Playback: portals can now be played instantly without downloading first, making it quicker and easier to immerse yourself in nature.
- Playable Collections: you can now play entire collections and enjoy a seamless journey from one place to the next. Choose your preferred duration, and Portal will transition from one scene to another.
- Audio Normalisation: new controls balance volume levels between portals, creating smoother transitions.
- Favourites: save the portals you love most in one place.
- Search: finding the places you’re looking for, or discovering new ones just got a whole lot easier.
- Widgets: new Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Control Centre widgets for quick and easy access.
- Timers & Alarms: a new Pomodoro timer and enhanced alarm controls make it easier to focus, wind down in the evening, or wake up gently with nature. iOS 26 required for AlarmKit support and even more reliable alarms.
- Handoff: pick up where you left off and move seamlessly between your devices.
- Philips Hue Bridge Pro Support: expanded smart lighting support for that ultimate immersive experience.
- Improved Siri Integration: use Siri to play portals, search the Library and interact with Portal using on-screen awareness.
- Orientation Enhancements: landscape views supported on iPhone, portrait on iPad.
- Window Resizing: supported on iPhone and iPad.
This update represents one of the biggest steps forward since we launched and we couldn’t be more excited. However, none of it would be possible without the incredible patience and support of our beta testers - from the bottom of our hearts, thank you! Their feedback, bug reports, and good humour have helped us create something that we’re incredibly proud of - and are delighted to share with you today :)
Andy, Alex, Nick & Stu - Team Portal
Version 4.0.1
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