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At a glance
- Developer
- Tobias Kilian, a one-person project
- Category
- Productivity, plus Music
- Platform
- iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later, Mac with macOS 15 or later
- Release
- November 3, 2026
- Price
- Free. Pro is a one-time purchase in the app, not a subscription.
- Languages
- 16: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish
- Online
- lofi-days.app · @lofi-days.bsky.social
- Press contact
- support@lofi-days.app
- App Store
Short description
Soft Focus plays calm lo-fi music for work, study and reading, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Every sound is made right on the device, the moment it is tapped. The app is free and ad-free, needs no account, and plays without internet.
About the app
Choose a sound, start a focus session and stay with the task: Soft Focus keeps playing in the background and can be controlled from the Lock Screen, headphones and AirPlay. A session lasts 25, 50 or 90 minutes or runs open-ended; the time left shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and in the menu bar on the Mac.
The music is not a recording. Each of the 30 included sounds is made on the device as it plays; nothing is downloaded. Train and rain ambience and noise to mask the room come with them. Single layers of a sound can be taken out and brought back, instruments included.
Soft Focus is free and ad-free, with no account, tracking or analytics. Two sounds of your own are included. Pro is a one-time purchase in the App Store: keep up to fifty sounds of your own, extend a sound’s length, play only favorites or one category, export sounds as audio files, sync them through iCloud, add layers to a bundled sound that its recipe never had and swap an instrument where another one fits. One payment. No subscription.
Playback, settings, and sounds of your own work without internet. Everything stays on the device unless iCloud sync is switched on; it is off by default.
Soft Focus is a one-person project by Tobias Kilian.
Features
- 30 lo-fi sounds for the day, made on the device
- Focus sessions of 25, 50 or 90 minutes – or open-ended
- Train and rain ambience, plus noise to mask the room
- Take single layers out of a sound and bring them back
- The time left on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and in the menu bar on the Mac
- A “Now Playing” widget, Siri and Shortcuts, AirPlay
- Create sounds of your own: two without Pro, up to fifty with Pro
- No account, ads, or tracking
Logo and artwork
The logos have a transparent background. Key art and app icon carry no text.
Screenshots
Captures from the app at the device’s full resolution, without captions, in the language of this page.
iPhone
Listen: Half-Written Afternoon is playing
Create: a draft to listen to, with a style and layers to adjust
Adjust: the layers of a sound, each with its own level
The focus session: 25, 50 or 90 minutes, or open-ended
iPad
Listen: Half-Written Afternoon is playing
Create: a draft to listen to, with a style and layers to adjust
Adjust: the layers of a sound, each with its own level
The focus session: 25, 50 or 90 minutes, or open-ended
Mac
Video
A short cut from the app, with lines overlaid in the language of this page.
Usage
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Contact
Questions, interviews or material that is missing here: an email is all it takes, in English or German.
support@lofi-days.appNews about the app is posted on Bluesky.