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music for sleeping.

sleep music shouldn't have an ending. flowy doesn't.

the worst feature of sleep playlists is that they end. you drift off, the music stops, the silence wakes you. then you spend fifteen minutes finding the right thing again.

flowy keeps going. as long as the tab is open (or the subscription tier covers it), the stream runs overnight. for sleep specifically, scenarios like 'deep ambient, slow breath', 'thunderstorm cozy reading', or 'snowy cabin fireplace tea' produce slow instrumental output that doesn't pull you back up.

lock-screen controls let you pause and resume without unlocking the phone. on iOS and Android pwa installs, the screen dims with the page and the audio keeps going.

moments that work for sleeping

tap any of these to start the stream. each one is specific enough that the model has something to anchor to, and the music begins playing right away.

why this works

  • say 'slow', 'ambient', 'no vocals', 'deep'. the more sleep-coded words in the moment, the more reliably the output stays sub-attentional.
  • weather scenes (rain, snow, fog, storm) bias the stream toward ambient textures.
  • keep the screen face-down. the player darkens with the page.

questions about music for sleeping

does the music stop while I'm sleeping?

No, that's the design. As long as the tab is open and the subscription covers streaming, the stream keeps going overnight.

what if my phone screen turns off?

Audio keeps playing on lock. Flowy uses the standard Media Session API so play/pause/skip work from lock-screen controls. Adding Flowy to your home screen (iOS Share, then Add to Home Screen) gives the smoothest background-audio behavior.

what's the best music for falling asleep?

Slow ambient with no vocals and no abrupt dynamic changes. Scenarios that work: 'deep ambient slow breath drifting off', 'thunderstorm cozy reading', 'snowy cabin fireplace tea'. Avoid scenarios that name song-shaped genres ('rock', 'pop', 'electronic dance').

does Flowy do white noise or rain sounds?

Not pure white noise. Flowy makes music, not field recordings. But weather-scene moments ('thunderstorm', 'rain on tin roof') produce music that weaves those textures into the ambient layer.

will it wake me up with a loud track?

The stream stays in the style you describe, so a 'slow ambient' moment won't suddenly produce a loud techno track. Check the first three or four tracks before drifting off. Once they land in the right register, the rest of the night follows.

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