Pocket Storm

Factsheet

Developer:
Zarfhome Software
Based in Boston, Massachusetts

Release date:
September 4, 2012

Platforms:
iOS, tvOS (Apple App Store)

Website:
zarfhome.com/pocketstorm

Regular Price:

USD

$3.00

Description

Pocket Storm is an environmental audio player which streams an hour-long, ever-changing thunderstorm — just for you. Pocket Storm is not like other environmental audio apps. Every thunderstorm is different! Wind, rain, thunder — even chirping crickets — every sound is chosen from a library, with subtle variations of pitch and timing. Pocket Storm weaves these elements into a tapestry of sound which will never repeat.

History

Pocket Storm is built on Boodler technology. Boodler is an open-source soundscape project which I invented years ago. Boodler is designed for any kind of complex audio environment — weather, traffic, alien worlds — but I’ve never developed it as it really deserves. Pocket Storm is my first attempt to bring Boodler to a consumer audience.

Features

A storm that approaches, surrounds you, and then drifts away.
Elegant, uncluttered interface.
Set the storm’s duration anywhere from a sixty-minute monster down to a five-minute squall... or hold the skies in place, and listen to the same weather for as long as you want.
Listen with headphones... or send audio to an AppleTV or other AirPlay device on your wireless network.
Runs as a background audio app. (No Internet connection required!)