Elsewhere: Ambient Nature Sounds for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By stuckfly

  Best in class and responsive support

  I've tried several of these, some from the Windows App Store and some not; and I think Elsewhere is the best implementation of an ambient sound app for the Windows. CON: It worked on my laptop one time, then the volume slider broke and the sounds take several minutes to get going—this may be a conflict with one of my other apps though. Limited ambient themes (but in-app purchases of additional sound themes might be the whole strategy—to earn a living I suppose; I'm going to buy the Rain one and I'd pay for one with more birds and…I dunno…bees.) PRO: It works perfectly on my wife's Windows—and when I say perfectly I mean the UI is simple, efficient, and all features of the app work as expected. The ambient themes are excellent; I suppose they repeat but I haven't noticed (and that's the main thing that disappoints with other apps like this—I have tried them ALL). Sound quality is superb. I like the in-app purchase option for more themes and I hope they do more! As for the problem with Elsewhere on my PC, I posted a support request via their online form and they got back to me next day. Pretty good support for a free app!

  
  
• By MRArellano

  CPU hog: Incompatible with 10.9.2

  According to the information provided by the App Store, it lists Elsewhere's as "Compatibility: OS X 10.7 or later”, yet when I reported the app hogging 100% of my CPU, causing my fans to almost constatly operate in overdrive, I was informed by customer service that Elsewhere is not compatible with Windows OS 10.9.2, but that they may add the compatibility in the future. It’s a great, unique idea with almost excellent execution, save for this lack of compatibility with causes CPU and fan issues.

  
  
• By Homeworld

  Decent, but controls are inoperative

  The Pause control is simply inert. Similarly, the keyboard strokes to invoke are also useless. The only way I can get it to Pause is to go into the info settings, toggle a checkbox, pause again, toggle again... at which it pauses and then fades back in a few seconds later. I have to launch the menubar every time I want to use it, and Quit it every time I want to pause. Very cumbersome. I'd rather just route Thunderspace audio to my speakers from my iPad via Bluetooth.

  
  
• By vilinskyy

  Why i supported you earlier?

  I like nice apps in this store. I was using your app for few years and to support yu i bought extension (rain mode). But after a while, you didn’t updated you application and it works awfully on Yosemite. It glitches, creating strange animation effects and totally unusable. Shame that i spend (dont think im greedy) 0,99 on this unworking app. Fix it pls. There’s much better free alternatives in Windows AppStore, but i prefer your, if you fix it.

  
  

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