Driftwood
Driftwood
Gapless lullabies, white noise, and nature sounds that keep playing with the screen locked, then fade out gently on a timer.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Driftwood is a bedtime sound player for parents of babies and toddlers. It plays lullabies, white, pink, and brown noise, and gentle nature sounds in a seamless loop that runs all night — no gap of silence between repeats, no interruption when the screen locks.
One tap starts your child's fixed bedtime playlist. When it is time for quiet, a sleep timer fades the sound down gradually over the final minute instead of cutting it off, so the room never changes abruptly.
The player is built on a hardened audio engine with lock-screen and Control Center transport controls, so you can pause, skip, or stop from outside the app — standing over the crib in the dark, without lighting up a screen full of menus.
Tracks loop with zero silence between repeats, using scheduled audio buffers rather than a simple player. The sound your child fell asleep to is the sound at 4am.
Background audio keeps running when the phone locks or you switch apps, with Now Playing controls on the lock screen and in Control Center.
Choose 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, or play until you stop it. The volume ramps down gently over the last minute instead of stopping mid-note.
Build a fixed sequence of your child's favorites, reorder it, and loop the whole list — the same routine every night, started with one tap.
A curated library of original instrumental lullabies plus white, pink, and brown noise and soft nature sounds, all recorded to loop cleanly.
A deep plum night scene with a sleeping bunny and softly twinkling stars — dark enough to sit beside a crib, alive enough to show the timer winding down.
Pick the lullabies and sounds your child settles to and put them in order. Save it once; it becomes the one-tap routine.
Tap play as the bedtime routine ends. The playlist loops seamlessly, and the phone can be locked and set down.
Choose how long the sound should run. A gold ring counts it down, and the audio fades to silence instead of cutting off.
Pause, skip, or stop from the lock screen or Control Center — no need to unlock the phone in a dark nursery.
The app playing the sound has to support background audio and loop its tracks without gaps — many simple players stop when the screen locks or leave a beat of silence between repeats. Driftwood uses a scheduled audio engine that loops gaplessly and keeps a proper background audio session alive, so playback continues through a locked screen until you stop it or the timer runs out.
iOS suspends apps that have not registered for background audio playback, which silences them the moment the screen turns off. An app built for overnight use keeps a playback audio session active and recovers from interruptions like route changes. Driftwood is engineered around exactly this: lock the phone, set it down, and the loop keeps going.
Gapless playback means the next repeat of a track starts the instant the previous one ends, with no moment of silence in between. That gap is exactly the kind of sudden change that can rouse a lightly sleeping baby. Driftwood schedules looping audio buffers back-to-back so the sound is continuous for as long as it plays.
Yes. Driftwood's timer offers 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, or an all-night mode that plays until you stop it. When the timer ends, the volume ramps down smoothly over the final minute rather than stopping mid-note, so the room drifts to silence instead of snapping to it.
Yes. You choose the tracks your child settles to — lullabies, noise, nature sounds, in any mix — put them in a fixed order, and save the playlist. Each night you start the same sequence with one tap, and the whole list loops seamlessly until the timer fades it out.
They differ in how energy is spread across frequencies: white noise is even across all frequencies and sounds like static, pink noise shifts energy toward lower frequencies and sounds softer, and brown noise goes lower still, like distant surf or a rumble. Many parents find the deeper tones less harsh for a nursery. Driftwood includes all three, each recorded to loop cleanly.
Common guidance is to keep continuous sound moderate — around the level of a quiet shower — and to place the speaker across the room rather than next to the crib. Driftwood's fade-out timer also lets you use sound only for the settling period instead of the entire night if you prefer. For questions about your own child's sleep, ask your pediatrician.
Yes. Driftwood publishes full Now Playing information, so play, pause, and skip are available on the lock screen and in Control Center. You can adjust the sound with the volume buttons and never have to unlock the phone in a dark room.
Yes. Driftwood plays through whatever audio route your iPhone is using, including Bluetooth speakers and AirPlay targets, so the sound can come from a speaker in the nursery while the phone stays with you. The engine handles route changes gracefully instead of stopping playback.
Yes. The track library is stored on the device, so nothing needs to stream and playback does not depend on a connection. It works in airplane mode, in a cabin with no signal, or anywhere else a bedtime happens.
No. Driftwood contains no ads of any kind, so nothing ever interrupts playback or lights up the screen mid-loop. The player's entire job is to keep the sound steady from the moment you tap play until the fade-out finishes.
Yes. The library consists of original instrumental lullabies and noise and nature recordings produced for the app, made to loop without an audible seam. There are no covers of copyrighted songs and no licensed-artist tracks.
One tap at bedtime, steady sound all night, and a fade to silence when it is time.
Coming soon to theApp Store