Sights and Sounds of the Sea Relaxation and Sleep

Fall alseep or just relax with the sights and sounds of the sea. This app is a fun and relaxing way to immerse yourself in a beautiful, customisable, ever-changing scene, set by the sea. Use it to take a few minutes 'vacation' during the middle of a busy day, or turn off the screen and just listen to the sounds of the sea as you fall asleep.

What do people say about our app? Below is just a small selection of recent reviews from happy App Store customers:

~ Beautiful, Mindful and visually pleasing ~
~ This app is amazing. Thank you for the relaxing sounds of weather ~
~ Simply beautiful… ~
~ This is a lovely app. The sounds effects are wonderful, very relaxing and the different options make it even more appealing ~
~ Very nice to look at when you just want to relax for a few minutes ~
~ It is attractive and extremely relaxing to listen to either day or nigt ~
~ I can turn this on and just play it awhile and all my stresses just vanish ~
~ The most beautiful relaxation and sleep aid app I've ever used ~

Children and adults will enjoy playing with the different settings. You can make it rain or snow, watch a spectacular lightning storm, add fog or just listen to the calming sound of the waves breaking the shoreline while sea gulls glide overhead — all from the comfort of your chair, sofa, or bed!

Here are some ways you can enjoy this app:
~ put on your headphones, connect it to your Bluetooth device or dock, and enjoy the relaxing sounds of waves and the sea
~ put it on your desk or beside your chair, set the scene to change automatically, and you'll have a beautiful ever-changing screensaver to look at whenever you like
~ put it beside your pillow or on your bedside locker at night and let it keep you company as a nightlight to fall asleep to
~ set up the sleep timer, turn off the screen, and let the background ambient sounds of the sea take you to dreamland

Features include:

- 5 different lighthouses in total:
- the original Lighthouse by the Sea
- Poolbeg lighthouse, Dublin, Ireland *
- Créac'h lighthouse, Finistère, Brittany, France *
- Souter lighthouse, Tyne and Wear, England *
- Haceta Head Light, Orgegon, USA *
- lots of different weather options to chose from including:
- clear
- cloudy
- rain *
- lightning storm *
- snow *
- fog *
- random scene generation
- automatic scene change mode with timer *
- landscape and portrait* mode
- all original artwork, especially designed for iPad and iPhone Retina displays
- audio soundtrack changes with the scenes
- daytime or nighttime* settings
- during the clear night* sky you can set the phase of the moon, including a lunar eclipse
- shooting stars option
- floating things (dandelions and cherry blossoms)
- sleep timer so you can use it as nightlight — your device will to sleep by itself after the time you've set
- sound/mute option

* = in-App purchase

The app is designed to work with as many iOS devices as possible but because of the graphical requirements performance may not be optimal on older devices (we haven't had any reports of this so far, but if you experience it, please get in touch at lighthouse@portablepoetry.com).