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title: "Pocket Storm - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Pocket Storm is an environmental audio player which streams an hour-long, ever-changing thunderstorm.  It starts with a calm summer night. Soon you’ll hear thunder in the distance, then wind and a spa"
---

# Pocket Storm — United States
> Ambient Thunderstorm Audio

![Pocket Storm App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/b0/01/94/b0019478-d4d5-f19d-887f-b208c29e5722/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-85-220.png/400x400bb.png)

**Developer:** [Andrew Plotkin](https://apptail.io/developer/andrew-plotkin-wxd)
**Category:** Health Fitness
**Rating:** 5.0/5 (11 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.eblong.boodler
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.7.8 (released 2025-10-08)
**Original Release:** 2012-09-05

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id547095034)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/united-states)

## Pocket Storm Description
Pocket Storm is an environmental audio player which streams an hour-long, ever-changing thunderstorm.

It starts with a calm summer night. Soon you’ll hear thunder in the distance, then wind and a spatter of rain. After half an hour you’ll be in the thick of the storm. By the end of the hour it will have faded into the night again. Then the cycle begins again.

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. The Pocket Storm weaves these elements into a tapestry of sound which will never repeat.

- 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.
- Never-ending, ever-changing soundscape generated right on your iOS device.
  ...(No Internet connection required!)

Pocket Storm is also available for your new Apple TV. It's a joint iOS/tvOS purchase – buy either version and you can download both!

All the sounds in Pocket Storm's library are Creative Commons licensed audio samples from Freesound.org.

Use the Pocket Storm for white noise, tuning out distractions; for relaxation, meditation, or going to sleep. Tune your desert to rain, or your city street to chirping crickets.

## Pocket Storm Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/9c/6f/5f/9c6f5fac-6156-fd0a-f2c8-6ab4ded8347e/mzl.oyoexblj.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/78/3e/30/783e3008-c2dd-a4ef-7c46-06f1d3e107e0/mzl.khrsvvkx.png/640x960.png)

## Pocket Storm Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 11 (100%)
- 4 stars: 0 (0%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 0 (0%)

## Pocket Storm Reviews in United States

### ***** "A nice little ambient noise generator from the great Andrew Plotkin"
No ads! No ai! No crypto! No tracking! No upsell to a premium subscription! Just randomized nature and rain sounds, for free. If I have a complaint it’s that I often do feel aware of the artifice of it – that I am hearing sound files from different locations fade in and out rather than a wholly organic soundscape. Still, I enjoy chilling out to this and find myself using it often.
-- MSG and Garlic Powder, 2025-09-20

### ***** "Unbeatable!!!"
I’ve tried so many ambient sound apps, but this one is the absolute best for storm sounds! It doesn’t loop so I don’t get bored with it or annoyed by it. I have chronic pain and anxiety, and this has become my daily go to relaxation tool! To the creators and developers, thank you for all the time and effort that you gave to this project! I truly appreciate all your hard work!
-- Aunt Christie, 2021-07-30

### ***** "newest update no longer works on Iphone 6"
ok, had an okd version and silly
me, decided to update to the
newest version. Big Mistake.
no longer works, even with the
reinstall thing, reboot and so on.
Using ios 9.2.1
-- bookyman63, 2019-06-28

### ***** "Love this!"
Truly THE PERFECT STORM
-- Andrew Weishaupt, 2016-02-24

### ***** "Excellent app"
I use it daily. Not sure I would ever get much sleep without it.
-- Ednoria, 2014-11-02

### **--- "Meh"
Good idea. I just wish the rain actually sounded like rain. Love the idea of a developing storm, but the stock audio used to generate the "storms" are abysmally bad. Naturespace's thunderstorm recording "sheltered" is light years better in sound quality.
-- Sattlerreader, 2014-10-17

### ***** "Love this soundscape!"
I really like how this slowly builds a very natural, full-throated storm, in a non-repetitive or 'predictable' way.  I use it to sleep in distracting sound environments, and my wife uses it to focus on writing.
-- CyberFOX!, 2014-01-17

### ***** "Awesome App!"
I've several other ambient, white-noise generators and this by far one of the best that I've used. The interface was VERY simple and say to use.

Some of the ambient "animal noises" (frogs, crickets, etc...) were a little loud at certain points. Didn't bother me enough to deduct a star...
-- myles7701, 2013-07-31

### ***** "Excellent App!"
I have had this app for a couple of weeks now and I think it is a great concept and it works flawlessly on my iphone.  It doesn't just play a prerecorded soundtrack, but rather dynamically mixes various sounds to create a unique thunderstorm each time.  The creature sounds (crickets, frogs) that you hear during the "calm" cycle are also terrific.  I highly recommend this app if you are looking for a one-of-a-kind ambient sound experience.  My highest compliments to the author.

I would love to see a future app or option that has rainforest/bird creature sounds.
-- Eric D. Morgan, 2012-10-07

### ***** "Typical Zarfiness…"
…which is to say, interface-wise, a fiendish mix of the cheerfully whimsical and the subtly clever, in this case topped off with a dollop of the surprisingly useful.

I fell asleep to this for the first time last night, and awoke feeling perky and refreshed. Coincidence? I think not.

You wouldn’t think that a dynamically-generated soundscape would have a mental effect all that different from a well-recorded static one, and yet it does. It’s the acoustic equivalent of playing with a kaleidoscope, versus sitting in the  theater and watching an IMAX movie of someone else playing with a kaleidoscope.

All kidding aside, I think Zarf’s approach is the future of ambient-sound apps.
-- Steeljack, 2012-09-05

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## Pocket Storm Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/united-kingdom)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/australia)
- [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/sweden)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/azerbaijan)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/belgium)
- [Bulgaria](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/bulgaria)
- [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/brunei)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/brazil)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/belarus)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/canada)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/switzerland)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/chile)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/china)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/colombia)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/czechia)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/germany)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/denmark)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/algeria)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/ecuador)
- [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/egypt)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/spain)
- [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/finland)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/france)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/greece)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/hong-kong)
- [Croatia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/croatia)
- [Hungary](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/hungary)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/indonesia)
- [Ireland](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/ireland)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/israel)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/india)
- [Iceland](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/iceland)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/italy)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/japan)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/south-korea)
- [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/kuwait)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/lebanon)
- [Lithuania](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/lithuania)
- [Latvia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/latvia)
- [Madagascar](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/madagascar)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/mexico)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/malaysia)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/nigeria)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/netherlands)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/norway)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/new-zealand)
- [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/peru)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/philippines)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/pakistan)
- [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/poland)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/portugal)
- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/romania)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/russia)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/saudi-arabia)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/singapore)
- [Slovenia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/slovenia)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/thailand)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/turkey)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/taiwan)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/ukraine)
- [Uzbekistan](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/uzbekistan)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/vietnam)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/united-arab-emirates)
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/south-africa)
- [Armenia](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/armenia)
- [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/argentina)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/pocket-storm-BXsc/austria)

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