Guide · The long night

10 hours of rain

People search for "10 hours of rain" because they've been burned: the video ended at 4 a.m., or worse, it didn't — an ad did. There's a better shape for this.

Videos end. Weather doesn't.

A 10-hour video is a workaround for platforms built around things that finish. You're not looking for a duration of rain — you're looking for rain that's simply there until you're done with it. That's what a player is: press play and the rain continues until you stop it or your sleep timer fades it out. There is no 10-hour mark, no autoplay roulette deciding what your ears get at dawn, and no mid-roll ad waiting for your lightest sleep phase.

The part nobody mentions: data

Streaming a rain video for 10 hours pulls roughly 1–3 GB, video you never watch included — every single night. Our player downloads each sound once (about one megabyte each), keeps it on your device, and loops it locally. After the first visit it can run entirely offline: airplane mode is actually the ideal sleep configuration, and it costs your data plan nothing.

"But loops sound like loops"

Badly cut loops do — that little hiccup every minute is what gives them away. Ours are long real recordings joined with a slow crossfade, so the seam is spread over several seconds of overlapping rain instead of a cut. Combined with rain's natural sameness, there's no landmark for your brain to latch onto. If you ever do catch a pattern, layer a second sound (a touch of wind, or brown noise) — two unsynchronized loops effectively never repeat together.

Set it up for a full night

Phone: start your mix, lock the screen — playback continues, with controls on the lock screen. Put it on the charger.
Timer or not: most people only need sound to fall asleep — the sleep timer fades out after 30–90 minutes. If you genuinely want it all night, just don't set one. Both are fine.
Volume: quiet. All-night sound should sit just above your room's noise floor, not above your thoughts.

Start all-night tent rain

Honest note: we'd rather you sleep than stream. If a video with a fireplace visual is what actually gets you there, use it — but for audio-only nights, a local player is the right tool.