For when you need to focus.
I built soyo™ for the hours your work keeps you indoors.
Benefits:
• Sharper focus. Natural scenes restore directed attention during long work blocks.
• Lower stress. Nature sound shifts the body out of fight-or-flight faster than silence.
• Better sleep. Ambient nature audio helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.
• Calmer mind. Even brief nature exposure measurably reduces cortisol and anxiety.
Backed by decades of research on nature exposure.
A rainforest at dawn. Tide coming in off a basalt shore. Wind across a peaceful mountaintop. Every scene is filmed on location. Nothing is AI-generated.
Featuring original field recordings by Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has spent forty years capturing the world's last quiet places.
Real natural soundscapes are layered and specific in ways synthesized audio can't be, and that texture is what your nervous system recognizes as outdoors. For someone whose working day runs on a screen, through notifications and office hum, that's the input your body is craving.
Good for coding, writing, research, design work, long focus blocks. Winding down. Sleeping to rain, thunder, or surf. A wild place to step into when you can't step outside.
soyo™ is a one-person project. I'm super grateful to anyone supporting its growth.
Every contributions is directly invested into recording new locations.
Powered by nature, sweat and tears.
terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/soyo™
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Crashes
OrnateOwlie
Great idea, but it’s unstable on my device. It freezes sometimes on my M1.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry about the crashes. That's not the experience I want for you. I haven't been able to reproduce this yet but I'm actively investigating. Feel free to reach out at shervin.shafii@gmail.com if you'd like me to look into your specific case.
- new menu bar app mode
- audio equalized across scenes
Version 1.2.31
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