Somnideck
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Somnideck - Record and loop your world

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Record any sound, loop it seamlessly, and fall asleep to it. Somnideck is a tape-deck looper, original field recordings, and Nocturne, a 45-minute composition written to settle a newborn. Parents get calm in ten seconds. Creatives get a real audio sketchpad: pitch, reverse, studio reverb, denoise, and seamless WAV/AAC export straight into Logic or Ableton. The looper and synthetic noise are always free. No accounts, no tracking, everything stays on your device.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋, I'm Amy, and I'm hunting Somnideck because I've watched it come to life from the very first 3 AM shush. My husband, Ben , and I had just had our second baby, and we were deep in the middle-of-the-night feeds, shushing our son over and over the way you're supposed to. Ben is a film and game composer, and one of those nights he thought: wouldn't it be cool if something could just do this? He works with tape loops all day, so he started building a shush machine that worked like a real tape deck. That became Somnideck. He did all the coding and composed the music. I was his right-hand tester through the whole thing, running it at bedtime with our kids, and giving notes on the design, the sounds, and what actually works when you're exhausted. The whole idea is that you shouldn't have to learn anything at 3 a.m. Open the app, press record, make your sound, and ten seconds later it's looping. But underneath the simple part, it grew into a real instrument: 🎚️ Loop Mode: trim on a draggable waveform, tune pitch, EQ, on-device denoise (handy if you already run a noise machine in the room), reverb, and reverse playback 🌊 Noise Mode: 5 synthetic colors, 9 field recordings made with some of the quietest mics in the world, and Nocturne, a 45-minute sound bath Ben composed 📤 Export seamless WAV/AAC loops straight into Logic or Ableton, or turn anything into a ringtone Who it's for: Parents who need calm, fast Anyone trying to settle, focus, or wind down Musicians who want a real audio sketchpad on their phone A surprise along the way: it turned out to be a ton of fun with a toddler. Our 4-year-old sings into it and watches her voice melt and loop, and it buys us a genuinely happy fifteen minutes every time. The looper, the synthetic noise, and one field recording are always free. Studio unlocks the full effects rack, all 9 recordings, Nocturne, export, and the sleep timer, at $3.99/month, $29.99/year, or $69.99 lifetime. No accounts, no tracking, everything stays on your device. I'd love your honest feedback, especially from other parents and anyone who makes music. What would you reach for it to do next? Ben and I will both be in the thread all day.
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Hey Product Hunt - Ben here, maker of Somnideck.

Amy told the origin story better than I could, so I’ll add the maker side.

This started as a very practical problem: I wanted something that could take the tiny, human sounds we were already making for our baby - shushes, hums, little made-up melodies - and turn them into a calm, seamless loop without making a tired parent think about audio software at 3am.

Because I write and produce music for a living, I knew the hard part wasn’t “record a sound and loop it.” The hard part was making it feel instant, forgiving, and warm. I wanted it to behave more like a little tape deck than a utility: simple on the surface, but with enough depth that you can shape the sound if you want to.

A few things I cared about while building it:

  • No account, no cloud, no tracking. These are intimate little recordings, and they should stay on your device.

  • The free version should be genuinely useful, not just a teaser.

  • The app should work for an exhausted parent, but still be interesting enough for musicians, sound designers, and kids who just want to hear their voice melt into a loop.

  • The sounds should feel made, not stock. I composed Nocturne, built the synthetic noise, and recorded the field recordings with the same level of care I’d bring to any score.

The funniest surprise is that Somnideck became less of a “baby app” than I expected. It’s still very much for sleep and soothing, but it also turned into a powerful creative instrument - and one with DAW-quality export. I use it like a sketchpad during the day, and at bedtime it’s still just a way to make the room a little calmer.

I’d genuinely love feedback from this community, especially on two things:

  1. Does the balance feel right between “dead simple” and “actually powerful”?

  2. What would you want this to become next: more sleep-focused, more music-making focused, or something in between?

Thanks for taking a look!