The Focus Station

Brown noise, binaural beats, Pomodoro — for ADHD brains.

Eight soundscapes ADHD adults reach for, with a Pomodoro timer built in. No signup, no login, no app. The research is real — we cite it on every card. The player runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

Focus block

25:00

Block 1 of ∞

40%

Soundscapes

Brown noise

Most-requested ADHD soundscape. Stochastic resonance evidence is strongest in children (Söderlund 2010); adult self-report is consistent.

generated 1/f² spectrum

Pink noise

1/f spectrum, softer than white. Used in sleep research and some attention studies. (Söderlund 2007)

generated 1/f spectrum

White noise

The original NICE-hypothesis soundscape. Strongest individual evidence in inattentive children. (Söderlund 2010)

generated flat spectrum

40 Hz binaural

Gamma-band binaural beats. Some studies show short-term vigilance benefit (Lane 1998); effect is individual.

generated headphones

Rain on roof

Stable broadband mask. Subjective autonomic-recovery benefit (Alvarsson 2010).

synthesized filtered noise

Fireplace

Low-frequency broadband mask. Similar mechanism to rain.

synthesized filtered noise

Coffee shop

Mid-frequency human-presence ambience. Ties to body-doubling and social facilitation literature.

synthesized filtered noise

Forest at dawn

Variable nature sound. Lower stress reactivity (Alvarsson 2010).

synthesized filtered noise

Every sound here is synthesized in your browser via Web Audio — no downloads, no telemetry, no MP3 hosting. Headphones recommended for binaural.

The research

The cognitive lift from broadband noise in inattentive brains is the most reliable effect in this literature — the Noise-Induced Cognitive Enhancement (NICE) hypothesis (Söderlund, Sikström, et al. 2007, 2010, 2014). Most studies are on children; adult ADHD evidence is mechanistically plausible, smaller, and ongoing. Binaural beats and lo-fi music are individually variable. We cite the actual papers, we don’t overclaim.

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