Driftwave
Meditate5–15 min
Stillpoint
Anchor your attention in the present.
Alpha · Steady 10 Hz pulse
Light & sound brainwave entrainment
Drift into calm.
Gentle brainwave entrainment — pulsing light and sound, working with your brain's own rhythm. Meditate, relieve stress, and ease into sleep — entirely on your device.
One app, three ways to drift.
Pick what you need right now. Driftwave pairs slow, pulsing light with a live soundscape, tuned to guide you there.
Settle into stillness
Stillpoint
Anchor your attention in the present · Alpha · steady 10 Hz pulse
Your brain hums with rhythm.
Every state of mind has a tempo — alert beta, relaxed alpha, drowsy theta, deep-sleep delta. Driftwave plays to that rhythm with synchronized light and sound, a technique studied since the first EEG recordings in 1929.
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Choose a goal
Meditate, relieve stress, or sleep. Driftwave picks a session tuned to where you want to go.
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Rest your eyes
Set the phone down, close your eyes, and let soft light and sound pulse together in perfect sync.
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Your brain follows
Through the frequency-following response, your brainwaves gently align with the rhythm — easing you from alert, down through calm, toward sleep.
This technique is called brainwave entrainment — sometimes neural entrainment or audio-visual entrainment. Research suggests rhythmic light and sound can measurably guide brain activity, though scientists are still mapping how far the effects go. Read the science.
Do not use Driftwave if you have epilepsy, a seizure disorder, or photosensitivity. Stop if you feel unwell, and never use it while driving or operating machinery.
Six sessions, tuned by hand.
Each session ramps its pulse in real time — from where your mind is to where you want it to be.
Meditate10–20 min
Deep Presence
Sink into a quiet, meditative theta.
Theta · 8 → 6 Hz descent
Relieve Stress6–18 min
Unwind
Release the day from your shoulders.
Alpha · 10 → 7 Hz descent
Relieve Stress5–12 min
Reset Breath
A short reset for a racing mind.
Theta · 7 → 6 Hz descent
Sleep15–30 min
Descent
Glide from waking down into sleep.
Delta · 8 → 2.5 Hz descent
Sleep20–45 min
Deep Night
Slow delta waves for deep rest.
Delta · 3 → 2 Hz descent
Everything stays on your device.
No account. No cloud. Your sessions, streaks, and preferences live on your phone and nowhere else — and every soundscape is generated offline, so Driftwave works in airplane mode.
Read the privacy policyFrom the journal.
The science of brainwave entrainment, sleep, and calm — in plain language.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Alpha Waves and Meditation: What a Steady 10 Hz Actually Does
Meditators have shown elevated alpha activity for decades of EEG research. Here's what alpha waves are, why meditation raises them, and what entraining alpha with light and sound can and can't promise.
Read the article →
July 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Brainwave Entrainment for Sleep: Can Rhythmic Light and Sound Help You Drift Off?
Falling asleep is a shift in brain rhythm. Here's what the research says about using pulsing light and sound to encourage that shift — plus how to try it tonight, and the honest limits of the evidence.
Read the article →
July 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Brainwave Entrainment vs. Solfeggio Frequencies: What the Evidence Says
Both promise calm through sound, but only one proposes a mechanism you can measure. A fair comparison of brainwave entrainment and the 528 Hz solfeggio frequencies — including where each claim actually comes from.
Read the article →
Tonight, drift.
Your first session is free. Settle in, close your eyes, and let the rhythm carry you down.
