It Makes Noise1.9.2 - App Store

It Makes Noise is a simple background noise app for your iPhone and iPad. It’s designed to be the most unintrusive way to add gentle sound to your environment-whether you're working, sleeping, or just trying to tune things out. There’s not much to it-and that’s the point.

Here’s what It Makes Noise does:
. Makes background noise

Here’s what It Makes Noise will never do:
. Ask you to create an account
. Include in-app purchases
. Require a subscription
. Send you notifications
. Ask you to rate the app
. Collect any information or track any of your usage

It just makes noise. That’s it.

Version History This is a maintenance update and should not change/impact your experience in any way. 1.9.2 12/01/2025 New nature sounds, updated icons and bug fixes related to binaural beats playback

- Four new tracks nature sounds for your listening pleasure: Jungle at night, Thunder, Water drops, and Waterfall
- Updated Forest rain to include more rain and less thunder
- Brand new icons in the sidebar for each track
- A slimmer app payload to make downloading updates faster
- Fixed an issue where binaural beats tracks would intermittently fade in/out during long playback
- Fixed an issue with the dock creating artifacts during scroll 1.08 09/21/2025 More bug fixes and refinements related to scrubbing through audio

- Added a seek overlay view when scrubbing through the progress bar during iCloud playback
- Fixed an issue where the floating add button would hide on iPad when noise begins playing
- Fixed an issue where the progress bar would not update during iCloud playback
- Fixed an issue where the top scrim displayed over the track list scrollbar 1.07 09/17/2025 Minor UI improvements to Now Playing controls, navigation and icon color contrast

- Tuned the icon colors for Color noise items
- Updated the controls for iOS’ Now Playing controls to only make iCloud files seekable and display time/duration
- Drastically improved the smoothness of scrubbing the progress bar for iCloud file playback
- Added the ability to swipe back from the detail view to return to the home screen for iPhone and iPad in portrait orientation 1.06 09/03/2025 New languages, bug fixes and improvements to the dock UI. 

Here's the full list of changes:
- Localized the app into 10 languages: Chinese (Simplified), Dutch (for my in-laws), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovenian, and Spanish.
- The now playing dock on the home screen now provides access to the timer (thanks, Sophie)
- The now playing dock is now dismissible by swiping down. When dismissed, playback stops. It’s not perfect though–doing so also triggers iOS to display the Notification Center. I'll continue to massage this feature.
- Fixed an issue where the last added iCloud audio file would not be navigable to the detail screen until the app was restarted (thanks again, Sophie).
- Fixed an issue where a deleting the currently playing iCloud file would cause the dock to stop functioning correctly.
- Fixed an issue where duplicate iCloud files could show up in the list view. I’m faily certain this is a bug that only shows up in development, but I added some checks just to make certain. 1.05 08/26/2025 A ton of quality-of-life improvements to make your noise-listening experience just that much better.
- Made numerous improvements to transitions and motion treatments
- Added a primer to what the floating plus button does within the app (Psst: It allows you to add audio files from iCloud)
- Fixed an issue where the album art in Now Playing was blank
- Fixed issues related to reordering iCloud files in the playlist
- Fixed an issue where the app wouldn’t return to the playlist if a timer is set and hits zero 1.04 08/19/2025 1.03 08/18/2025