Pocket Escape: Vacation Sounds

Vacation sounds for sleep, focus, and calm. Ten destinations, three free. Most apps in this category offer you noise. Pocket Escape offers you somewhere to be. The difference is specificity. A generic rain track is a machine pretending to be weather. Open the Mediterranean Beach instead and the surf rolls in slow, children splash in the shallows, a radio hums from the beach bar, and the air, if you let it, smells of coconut sun cream and warm salt. Open the Forest Trail and a stream keeps pace beside you while a real dawn chorus goes on above, robin and wren and chaffinch, each one named and recorded in the field. Open the Night Train and the rails click along beneath you the way they do on the old sleeper line, and the miles do the rest. Every destination is hand-designed and recorded in high definition. There are ten at launch, and we keep adding rooms to the building. Three are free,…