Features
Record your affirmations in your own voice.
Record your affirmations and hear them played back in your own voice. SOMOTE loops them quietly in the background while you watch a movie, play a game, listen to music or work in silence. Nothing else is paused or turned down.
Record as many as you like, choose which ones play and in what order, and set the silence between them. Included with Plus.
Record
Name each one, and check the ones you want playing.
Arrange
Drag them into the order you prefer, or shuffle. Set the silence between them, from zero to thirty seconds.
Balance
Your voice has its own volume control, so you can balance it against the binaural or bilateral sound. They play together.
Your recordings stay private
SOMOTE respects your privacy. Your recordings are saved locally as ordinary audio files on your own computer/device. Delete one in the app, and the file is gone forever, meaning you are fully in control of your data.
Windows 10 & 11 · Android
Your recordings
The Voice tab, inside the app
Your recordings play in the order you set, with your chosen silence between them, underneath whatever else you are listening to.
Binaural Beats
Open the Sound tab to choose from five presets (Calm, Focus, Attention, Sleep and Meditation) or set your own frequencies. You can put a session on a timer so it fades out on its own.
Binaural beats play two tones a few hertz apart, one in each ear, and the brain perceives the difference between them as a single slow pulse. Steady exposure to that pulse, called brainwave entrainment, is among the most studied approaches to deliberately shifting your mental state. Each preset pairs the state it aims for with the brainwave band it targets. A 2019 meta-analysis of 22 studies found a medium positive effect on anxiety, cognition and pain: the average person using binaural beats reports less anxiety than about two thirds of the people who do not.
Headphones or both earbuds are required.
Bilateral sound
New in Plus
Bilateral sound is a soft sound that moves gently from one ear to the other at a pace you choose: Drift, Settle, Sway or Pulse.
It is meant for relaxation and focus, not as a substitute for treatment by a medical professional.
Headphones or both earbuds are required.
Sanctuary clears everything else from your screen.
Sanctuary clears the screen. Your desktop, your open windows and the taskbar are hidden, and your own phrases and photos are all that is left, at the size, color and rhythm you already chose. Your screen will not sleep while it is open, so nothing dims or interrupts. Click anywhere, or press Esc, to go back to what you were doing.
Most of the day SOMOTE works underneath whatever you are doing. Sanctuary is for the few minutes when you want to give it your full attention instead: first thing in the morning, before something difficult, or at the end of the day. Try playing music, or turning on Sound or Voice, before you open it. Binaural beats and bilateral sound need headphones.
It is included with Plus, and it opens with one click from the app or from the SOMOTE icon in your system tray.
SOMOTE works across multiple screens.
You can show phrases on your main display, a side monitor or all of them. Choose under Display → Screens, and the overlay follows the screens you picked.
This is available in both Foundations and Plus.