Wild Journey - Nature Sounds

Let’s be very clear - I love the soundscapes, the artwork and the UI of this app. They have done an excellent job introducing ‘amateurs’ like me to mindfulness. However, there are only 4 or 5 soundscapes available on the free version, with a painful subscription fee to fully unlock the app. Let’s not get carried away here - expecting people to pay nearly £80 a year in recurring monthly fees is outrageous to the point of greedy. PERHAPS somebody who religiously used the app every single morning/evening could justify a subscription, however 99% of people could not. I would pay a one-off to unlock new soundscapes as and when required however. Another beautiful app has sadly been spoiled by the modern day insistence in technology that you can’t really buy and own a product - you merely rent or borrow it. What a shame!

Lovely sounds and visuals but unfortunately ruined by the annoying music, which can’t be turned off. As other reviewers have noted, this is a baffling and intrusive design decision. You can’t even change the music volume!

I’ve used it for a while to focus on reading in noisy or busy spaces, with headphones on. I once read for hours on end with one of the rain soundtracks on and it was really conducive for that. However, the sounds have now been overlaid with music - why?! Maybe it’s what some people want for help with sleep or relaxation - but it’s a bugbear for me and I rarely use the app now as a result.

When this app was released all those years ago it was absolutely amazing. Beautiful sounds of nature, so relaxing and amazing art work to help. I had all the apps and really used to love listening to them to relax and help anxiety, I especially loved Sonus Island and listening to the sea waves and crickets. Then one day out of the blue they added music over the top which you were unable to turn off, which destroyed that nature sound for me, and months and months passed by with no updates or abilities to turn it off I cancelled my subscription and moved onto other apps, which is a shame because of how wonderful this once was. Now almost ten months without any app updates I’m afraid this is a long forgotten app by the developers and the dream of it being reverted to what it once was has been lost. A shame, don’t waste your money supporting an app which won’t support you back.

Please make more stuff free

This is a great app however after an update the nature sounds now have added music, the ability to switch this off and just have the nature sounds would be a welcome addition to the app.

This app was phenomenal. Then one day, somebody decided to add “relaxing” meditation music into the mix of what were stunning sounds of nature. The whole point of this app was to relax and meditate to the sounds of the natural world. Instead, now you are transported into the waiting room of a massage parlour. It’s honestly the most bizarre development decision anyone could have made. Avoid this app, they don’t deserve your hard earned money

Another app, another yearly subscription. Seriously where does this end...

I ADORE this app - it’s beautifully designed and the soundscapes are the best I’ve encountered (and I’ve searched a lot!) I was about to finally subscribe but you added music without the option to choose to turn it on or off. Please consider this in a future release. Sadly can’t give you 5 stars because of this 😐

Was an excellent app for nature soundscapes until the addition of the jarring and annoying music in the background. I specifically got this app for the nature sounds and it worked great until this addition. It’s now completely useless to me as I don’t find the music relaxing or calming at all. There are hundreds of apps with single note meditation music but this was unique in the quality of actual nature sounds. I hope someday this stupid decision gets reverted but seeing as it’s been months of people complaining about it, it doesn’t seem the developers care.