Create and Theme Presets
Save your favorite ambient sound mixes as presets in Blankie, then give each one its own artwork and accent color. Create, edit, theme, favorite, and switch soundscapes for focus and sleep.
A preset in Blankie is just a mix of sounds with their volumes saved together. Rain for focus, ocean for sleep, a café for work. One click and you're in a different one. Every preset can also carry its own artwork and accent color, so the moment you switch mixes the app looks the part too.
Create a preset
- Click the button at the top of the sidebar (Mac and iPad) or in your Library (iPhone) and choose New Preset.
- Give it a name. You can add a creator name and artwork too, if you want.
- Tap Choose Sounds to pick what goes in it.
- Click Create.
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Already have something good going on the default preset? Hit its Edit button and Blankie will offer to spin up a new preset from whatever you've got playing.
Edits save automatically
When a preset is active, anything you change (flipping sounds on or off, nudging volumes) gets saved to it right away. No save button to forget.
Rename, edit, or delete a preset
Right-click a preset on Mac, or touch and hold on iPhone and iPad, then choose Edit Preset or Delete Preset. The edit sheet handles the name, sounds, artwork and theme, all covered below.
The built-in default preset can't be renamed or deleted, but it'll still take custom artwork and theme settings.
Add artwork
Open the preset's edit sheet (right-click → Edit Preset on Mac, touch and hold on iPhone and iPad) and use the Artwork row to pick an image.
That image follows the preset wherever it goes:
- The Now Playing screen and your lock screen while the preset is playing
- The preset's thumbnail in your Library
- CarPlay, where artwork makes a preset easy to spot at a glance
On iPhone and iPad you can choose animated artwork instead, a gently moving scene that plays on your lock screen in place of a still image.
Customize Theme
The Customize Theme section takes over from your default theme whenever the preset is active:
- Accent Color: a color that tints the whole app while this preset plays (all platforms)
- View Mode: lock the preset to a Grid or List layout (iPhone and iPad)
- Background Blur: decide whether the artwork backdrop is blurred (iPhone and iPad)
Leave a toggle off and the preset just follows your app-wide settings.
Favorites
Tap the star on any preset row to drop it into the Favorites section, which lives at the top of your Library. You can reorder favorites in Edit mode, and they're also the presets that come up first in CarPlay.
Keep reading
Share Presets with Friends (.blankie Files)
Export any Blankie preset as a .blankie file and share it. Sounds, volumes, artwork and even your imported custom sounds all travel along with it.
Read the guide Add Your Own SoundsImport Your Own Sounds on Mac
Add your own audio files to Blankie on macOS. Import MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, or OGG and mix them right in with the built-in ambient sounds.
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Drift off to rain, waves or white noise and let Blankie pause for you. Set the sleep timer on Mac, iPhone or iPad and it stops on its own.
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No ads, no paywalls and no privacy tradeoffs. Mix your own ambient soundscapes for focus, rest, and sleep on iPhone, iPad, CarPlay and Mac.
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