Endel: Focus, Sleep, Relax 4+

I wish some of the soundscapes were a little less repetitive, and more dynamic at times, but I find myself enjoying them regardless after a while.

As much as I enjoy the Plastikman deep focus space, it often feels quite dark and unpleasant… So I would love to see some higher BPM soundscapes with brighter synth elements that tickle the brain. Maybe something with fast and technical percussion? Think IDM or atmospheric drum and bass would make a great focused energy mode.

Regardless, I absolutely love this app, and can’t wait to see what kinds of soundscapes the Endel team curates next!

Hi there! Thank you for your positive feedback! We are pleased that you like how we implement our ideas. We are adding your wish for a new soundscape for focus to our feature requests list for our sound team to investigate. Enjoy your use of Endel, and keep informed of all the latest updates on socials and in the app. Have a nice day!

Endel is ruined by an increasingly bloated UI that is antithetical to the products intended mission.

Good products generally have good design, and if well executed this should generally lead to success! Endel’s product managers and higher ups don’t seem to have the confidence to focus on the long term quality of the app, letting their team implement the best possible design and allowing it to speak for itself and build strong customer relationships over time.

Instead they’re clearly data obsessed and highly reactionary. Incessant promotional banners stop you from using the app to do what you’ve paid for it to do, discouraging natural discovery and engagement with new features. User interface seems driven by quantitative analysis and is completely changed each time the user has opportunity to become used to it. The features aren’t well marketed and this bleeds through onto their design and implementation, making it difficult to understand what it’s possible to do in the app, how to do it, and why any of it is worth using.

I may as well just save recordings of the soundscapes I like and save them to my iTunes library - that would be far better of an experience at this stage 😒

Death by analysis. This is a bloated and schizophrenic product that is an absolute chore to use.

Hi there,

thanks for your thorough feedback!

We're changing the app's interface based on user feedback and are constantly improving it. We will definitely consider your review, too, when discussing future versions. Thanks again for flagging our weaknesses.

Have a good week!

Amazing. I could write an essay about how this app should be used in clinical studies to establish efficacy, (degree, further research directions etc) in the treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders.

Though as I’m short on time, all I’ll say now is:

CRSD’s despite being widely acknowledged as a serious medical problem, possibly the causative factor in basically any number of mental and/or physical health conditions:

It is very rarely acknowledged, let alone diagnosed nor treated as such..

“Sleep hygiene improvement”. Nice idea. But generally when patients are provided with a treatment plan, it comes with recommendations including utilities to assist.

This very well could lead to a paradigm shift in recognition and treatment of CRSD’s.

Happy to hear it won app of the year, deserved it.

PS: Reason I was led to write review: repeatedly told me “Smart alarm, didn’t work for some reason, contact Endel”.

Amazing work to all involved, and thank you.

Hi Chris,

thank you for your thorough feedback! We are happy that Endel helps you in your daily life!

We will continue our scientific research to make our soundscapes even more effective and help as many people as possible make their lives a little better!

We are already looking for the cause of this error regarding the smart alarm message, and we hope to find it and fix it soon.

Thanks again for your positive feedback! Have a good week ahead!