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Calm, offline.
Faraday turns your phone into a calm white-noise machine that works offline. It also makes the radios you leave on visible, so switching them off feels like tidying a room.
Faraday
Be present. Focus. Relax. Sleep.
A calm white-noise machine that works offline.
Coming soon to iPhone
Why we made it
It started with a box.
It started with small, round white-noise boxes that helped our kids sleep. Traveling with several of them was a pain, and travel is exactly when data is weakest.
So we asked whether the phones we already carry could do the job offline. Using it had a side effect: we put our phones in Airplane Mode, stopped scrolling around bedtime, and spent better time together.
Faraday should feel like an object someone cared about: the plastic, the glass, the coil, the haptics, the sound. It does one job, then gets out of the way.
Press play
Hear one here.
Soft Fan is a small room fan: a broad, airy whoosh, with a faint pulse from the blade and the hum of its motor. Press play and the coil turns as the fan’s hub, moving air out across the room.
It’s made right here in your browser, by the same recipe as the app’s. The other twenty-one sounds live in the app.
Twenty-two sounds
Every sound has its own room.
Every loop lives on your phone and plays in the background, with controls on the lock screen. Each one paints the room in its own colors, with its own light moving through it.
9:41
Now showing White Noise
Sleep timer
The coil is the timer.
One ring for every fifteen minutes, as the rings unwind from the center. Choose 1h, 2h, 3h, 4h or ∞, like the buttons on the machine. It only counts while sound is actually playing.
The rings nest like a gimbal, each on its own sphere about a shared center, so they sway around one another without touching. Turn the phone and they lag behind it, the outer ones first.
2h 00m left
Containment
Trap the radios.
Radios that are on leak interference into the artwork. Switch one off and Faraday pulls its interference into a block of ice, with the radio frozen inside. When every radio is trapped, the room is clean.
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Wi‑Fi
A radioactive haze, pooling at the floor and rolling out in waves. It crackles.
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Cellular
Static, torn rows and a rolling bar, with bursts of corruption. It buzzes like a speaker near a phone.
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Bluetooth
An oily, iridescent slick that shifts as the phone tilts. It chirps.
Faraday never switches anything off for you. Phones don’t let apps do that, and we wouldn’t want them to. It only watches, so the choice stays yours.
The details
Small things, done carefully.
Night light
Turns the flashlight on at its dimmest, from the brightness controls.
Lock screen
Plays in the background, with controls and artwork on the lock screen.
Feel and sound
Every control has its own haptic and a soft key-press sound.
Min and max
The ends of the brightness and volume sliders jump there, and back again.
Honest timer
It counts only while sound is playing, so a pause never costs you sleep.
Light and dark
Follows your phone, or pick one. The glass floats above the artwork as you tilt.
Nothing to sign up for.
No account. No ads. No analytics. Every sound lives on your phone, so Faraday works in Airplane Mode, which is rather the point. The only thing it ever downloads is the small print, when you open it.
Be present. Focus. Relax. Sleep.
Coming soon to iPhone