Slumber

The Slumber application has been designed and developed primarily as a sleeping aid and is therefore dedicated to Joseph Zachary Morris who was born February 17th 2013.

Fun Fact: The fetal heartbeat sound contained within Slumber is the actual recorded heartbeat of the developer’s new-born son, recorded from the womb via a fetal doppler machine.

Main Slumber Features:

∙ Access to a number of calming, soothing sounds.
∙ User specified time for how long each sound should play for.
∙ Multi-frequency white noise generation.
∙ Adult or fetal heartbeat playback.
∙ Background abilities that allow sounds to continue playing on lockscreen or when app is closed.
∙ Ability to output the playing sound to an AppleTV on the same network through AirPlay.
∙ Simple, extremely elegant user-interface with iPhone 5 and Retina support.

Slumber app contains three sections, each of which are intended to offer a selection of soothing sounds with the intention being to bring about a state of relaxation and slumber to those using the app:

∙ A selection of soothing and atmospheric sounds.
∙ White noise generation.
∙ Adult or fetal heartbeat.

*** Soothing Sounds ***

Soothing, ambient sounds have been proven to have a calming and relaxing effect on adults, children and small babies. Version 1.0 of Slumber contains the following:

∙ Garden crickets.
∙ Thunderstorms.
∙ Relaxing water creek.
∙ Crashing ocean waves.
∙ Crackling fire.
∙ Singing birds.
∙ Water fountain.
∙ School yard chatter.
∙ Ticking clock.
∙ Whale calls.
∙ Soothing piano loop.
∙ Mysterious, dark loop.

*** White Noise ***

The generation of multiple frequency white noise that has been shown to have a significant calming effect on new-born babies and young toddlers who are having difficulty sleeping.

*** Adult and Fetal Heartbeat ***

Slumber app allows the choice of either an adult heartbeat or the accelerated pace of the fetal heartbeat.