Waqar Ali's blog : 4 Great Free iPhone Apps for Binaural Meditation
This app gives users the opportunity to customize their binaural beats experience by creating their own tracks out of a combination of binaural beats, background noise, and ambient sounds to customize Medito your own theme. You can also customize further by configuring how loudly each layer of sound is played (meaning you can set a higher volume for background noise and enjoy those sounds instead of only binaural beats). Also you can set ambient noises to play on a loop and time the application to shutdown after x number of minutes and then fades out.
7 Preset Themes with Binaural Beats:
Pre-Sleep Induction
Headache Killer
Quick Relaxation
Study Aid
Deep Meditation
Memory Helper
Busy Thinking
7 Background Noise Tracks:
Autumn Wind
Calm Sea
Heavy Rain with Thunder
Hurricane
Rain Forest
Soft Tide
Underwater
18 Ambient Sound Tracks
Birds
Bubbles
Campfire
Clock
Corbie
Creek
Crickets
Owl
Rain
Rain (heavy)
River
Seagulls
Thunder
Waterfall
Wind in Trees
Dolphin
Whale Song
2. iBrainWave SE - Binaural Beats and White Noise
This app is fantastic because it not only lets you reach brain states such as Sleep, Meditate, Relax, Normal, Energize, and Active, but also lets you do it from the comfort of your own iTunes (meaning you can play binaural beats behind your iTunes music).
Other features include:
Automatic save and restore for sessions so you can answer a phone call or send a text without interrupting your session A reduced amount of battery life is needed to run the app Volume control for binaural beats separate from your iTunes music
3. Pure Meditation Premium* | AmbiScience. Binaural & Isochronic Ambient Meditation Utility
AmbiScience has many different binaural beats apps but this is the only one that is currently free in the app store. The app also is the only one of its kind that provides both binaurals and isochronics. Isochronics work similarly to binaural beats but specifically lower brain frequencies and thus allow people to reach states of relaxation and peace similar to that of deep meditation.
Main Features:
30 professionally created ambient tracks
3 noise tracks and 2 sound tracks
14 entertainment tracks (7 isochronic and 7 binaural) with low and high pitch changes
Ability to create your own custom programs
Multi-tasking capabilities which allow the binaural beats to be played in the Background while performing other tasks on your phone
Countdown timer with a fader and end chime to indicate the end of a binaural or isochronic session
A function to adjust the independent volumes of each track (binaural/isochronic, ambient backgrounds, and other sounds)
Free updates to the application
Minimal file sizes with the highest possible audio quality
4. Binaural Beethoven Lite
For classical music fans who are interested in binaural beats this is the app for you!
This application includes three classical pieces:
Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Op. 27/2 ("Moonlight")
Piano Sonata No.26 in E-flat- minor, Op. 81a ("Les adieux")
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat- major, Op. 31/3 ("La Chasse")
Users can combine these with binaural beats:
Sleeping
Meditation
Recharge
Brain Starter
Additionally, a third section of the app Medito includes natural sounds that can be added to the combinations.
The natural sounds included are:
Jungle
Burning Fire
Wind Blowing
Crickets
Lastly, the app includes these sleep/wake-up features:
- Built in alarm that has snooze capabilities and a flashlight
- A timer for fading out tracks
- A night-screen mode for the alarm