Foyer: ambient sound you place around yourself, from the menu bar

Problem. I work better with background sound, but every mixer I tried is a stack of sliders: rain at 40, fire at 60, all of it landing in the middle of my head. After an hour that flat wall is its own kind of tiring and I'd end up turning it off.

Foyer puts each sound on a canvas as an orb you drag around yourself. Distance sets the volume, left and right sets the pan, so you build a room by placing things in it instead of balancing faders. It's real binaural spatial audio. It lives in the menu bar, so switching rooms or setting a sleep timer never opens a window.

Comparison.

A Soft Murmur is the classic free mixer: ten sliders, no account, and an App Store privacy label that reads Data Not Collected, same as mine. If sliders do the job for you it's genuinely fine, and it's free. The difference here is placement rather than level, plus a native menu-bar presence and rooms that carry over to the iPhone.
Endel is the other direction: a subscription, an account required, and an App Store privacy label listing identifiers used to track you, with advertising among the stated purposes. Foyer has no account, no analytics in the app, and one payment.

Pricing. The free tier does not expire: the whole 12-sound library, three sounds per room, five saved rooms, menu-bar control and sleep timer, AirPods head tracking, and shareable rooms.

$9.99 once unlocks unlimited sounds and rooms, scheduling, Shortcuts and Focus filters, and iCloud sync. One purchase covers Mac and iPhone. No subscription, no account.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6779207564?mt=12

Screenshots: https://usefoyer.app

Disclosure: I'm the developer.

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