Sleep Bug

Sleep Bug is a Metro-style application that acts as a white noise machine. It comes bundled with a wide range of ambient music and sounds to help you sleep, study, work, work out or perform other activities that require your undivided attention by blocking any outside noise.

The app can be installed from the Store, since it's signed by Microsoft. However, it's wrapped in a pretty large package, so it may take a while to download it.

As far as the Modern UI is concerned, Sleep Bug focuses on simplicity. It has a dark layout and shows all sound themes in a list, accompanied by a description and representative image.

This way, you can choose the sounds that best fit your activity, such as beach, music box, zen, river, forest, jungle, classical, fire, and waterfall noises.

Each musical theme is made out of several instruments and noise types, such as birds, waves, bells, piano, guitar, chirping, flute, frogs, lightning, insects, howling wolves, monkeys, violin, fire, thunder, and snowing.

Worth noting is that any instruments and noise types from any theme can be deactivated by just clicking on the corresponding button. The noises made by the current theme can be heard even after returning to the main menu.

However, they are immediately changed with the next theme as soon as you click it. There is no pause or stop button implemented into this app; the theme is replayed as soon as it finishes (repetitive).

Additional noise themes are available for those willing to purchase the full product. These include horror, city, dreams, clock, train, sci-fi, airport, outback, winter, white noise, underwater, and dark drone sounds.

All things considered, Sleep Bug proves to be a simple, yet sophisticated tool for shuffling a noise making machine to help you focus on various activities by creating a distraction-free zone as far as sounds are concerned.