Chicken Noise

Overview

It's not silence that keeps people up or breaks their focus, it's the unpredictability: a door slamming, traffic outside, a neighbor's footsteps. Chicken Noise is a simple app built around one idea: a steady, uniform layer of sound that masks those sudden spikes, so your brain stops flinching at every noise and settles into sleep or deep work instead.

Approach

I kept the product deliberately narrow. One screen, a curated library of sound profiles (white, pink, and brown noise alongside rain, fan, and ambient variants), a play button, and a sleep timer. No accounts, no onboarding, no clutter competing with the one thing the app is actually for. Playback keeps running in the background and from the lock screen, since the moment people need it most is usually after they've put the phone down.

Outcomes

The result is a small, focused tool that does one job well: it fades the unpredictable noise of a room into something steady and easy to ignore, whether that's for falling asleep faster or holding concentration through a long stretch of work.