Your recordings on every device, sounds that come back if your baby wakes crying and a dim night light for feeds. One price, no subscription.
Shwssh is a sleep sound app for the small hours.
Pick one sound or build a mix. Thirty-five are included, sixteen sounds and nineteen songs, and each keeps its own level, so the rain can sit under the lullaby instead of on top of it. Four starter mixes are there for when you would rather not decide at 3am.
RECORD YOUR OWN
Hold the microphone, or tap once to start and again to stop, and shush, hum or sing. Whatever settles your baby lands at the top of My Sounds, plays straight away and mixes with everything else exactly the same way.
A TIMER THAT FADES
Set it and the mix winds down rather than cutting off. Add ten more minutes without getting up.
A PASTURE THAT LISTENS
Behind it all is a hand-felted night scene, animated and slow. Play the rain and it rains. Play the storm and it rolls in over the hills. Play the train and one crosses the viaduct. Sheep jump the fence and count themselves. Turn the whole scene off and the app uses noticeably less battery overnight.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
White noise: shwssh, light rain, thunderstorm, ocean waves, ocean storm, lake waves, whale song, winding stream, windy night, forest walk, jungle safari, warm fireplace, heartbeat, train ride, vacuum cleaner, sailboat
Songs: Wool and Lamplight, The Long Field, Milk and Moon, Down the Lane, The Little Boat, Counting Slowly, Under the Hill at Dusk, Sailor's Call Home, Siren's Song, Brahms Lullaby, Für Elise, Greensleeves, Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy; and for October: The Friendly Dark, Tiptoe, Pumpkin Light, The Cobweb Waltz, Something in the Hedgerow
Your own recordings, as many as you like
BUILT FOR HOW IT GETS USED
Plays in the background and all night
Lock screen and Control Center controls
Works with the screen off and with no connection at all
Your recordings on every iPhone and iPad through iCloud
Sounds that come back on for a cry, if you want them to
A dim night light for feeds
One price, no subscription
No account, no ads, no tracking and nothing collected
Siri, Shortcuts and a Control Center button
Widgets, StandBy and Apple Watch
Spooky Time through October, only if you want it
A nursery volume limit that keeps every sound at half volume
iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo
I haven’t even tried out all of the sounds yet, but the Shwssh puts my newborn right to sleep and keeps him asleep. I know this because when I pause it, those little eyes creep open. Once I play it again, right back to sleep. 10/10 thanks for the sleep.
Love it!
Nina Chappel
I couldn't find an app that would let me record my own voice until I found this one! And I love that I can layer it with ocean white noise too, my baby girl loves it.
Great for newborns
Ortonjoey
Great sounds to get a newborn to sleep, and the mixing of multiple sounds is great for white noise for us parents.
Works wonders!
Woodzy6
Working on getting newborn to sleep through the night and these sounds are perfect to help soothe. If the phone is laid by the baby the motions are neat as well for the baby to watch the lambs go by and the words swing back and forth!
YOUR RECORDINGS ON EVERY DEVICE
Your own recordings now travel through iCloud to your other iPhones and iPads. It is on in Settings, and turning it off or signing out never removes anything from this phone.
SOUNDS BACK ON FOR A CRY
An optional setting. After the sleep timer has faded out, Shwssh listens for crying for up to four hours, and if it hears your baby the same sounds fade back in with the same timer. It listens on the device and records nothing. In the morning the timer balloon and a little bubble in the pasture show how many times it happened and how each one went. It can miss a cry or hear one that isn’t there, so it isn’t a baby monitor.
A NIGHT LIGHT FOR FEEDS
The moon button on the player fills the screen with a dim, warm glow. Drag to make it brighter or dimmer, tap to turn it off.
A WIDGET FOR BEDTIME
A new widget puts on a starter mix, or your last mix, with one press. The widgets now look like the player, with the timer's balloon beside the pause button.
SMARTER AT NIGHT
The lock screen card waits for bedtime, and after about five nights learns when bedtime is in your house. Battery saver now starts on, and you can change it in Settings.
MORE ROOM
Turn your iPhone on its side for the player and your sounds side by side. iPad shows both at once, and Shwssh is ready for iPhone Duo, open or closed.
ON YOUR WRIST
When your phone is not nearby, the Apple Watch app’s Play button starts one of its own sounds.
A NEW FELT ICON
Stitched in purple wool for October.
Version 2.2.0
The developer, Joey Chappel, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Joey Chappel
Size
276.7 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.