Where the listening actually happens.

Every soundscape is rendered as a 48 kHz / 24-bit FLAC master. The companion plays that master at full lossless fidelity — no on-device transcoding, no streaming-grade compression, no perceptual artefacts in the headphone induction or the breath-paced amplitude movement. The therapeutic content is doing precise work; the delivery has to keep up.

Free-tier playback in the browser carries an audible Soundscaper watermark — a brief spoken identifier at the close — to mark unsubscribed use. Subscribed playback in the companion app is **fully unwatermarked**: the close tapers to silence as composed, with no voice and no logo.

Tap a soundscape in your library to download it for offline use. The full FLAC master lives on device until you remove it. Take an 8-hour overnight onto a long-haul flight. Settle a panic spike in airplane mode. Run a full meditation block in a basement studio with no signal. The soundscape plays the same as it does on Wi-Fi.

Storage is yours to manage. Each session shows its file size in the library; long-press to remove what you no longer need. Recordings stay accessible in the cloud for the duration of your subscription plus the 90-day grace period after lapse.

Most music players are optimised for browsing, skipping, queuing. The companion player is optimised for the opposite: knowing where you are in a multi-phase composition without watching the screen, then disappearing into the background. Calm play / pause. Phase-aware timeline showing the current sub-phase. Lock-screen controls that don't tempt a skip. Resume across launches.

Sleep mode for sessions that taper to silence — no wake-up; the player stops cleanly when the composition ends. Care mode for sessions delivered to someone you're caring for — larger controls, fewer affordances, same audio. Headphone reminder before induction phases. Safe-volume guidance when device volume is high.

The journal is where listening becomes practice. Three entry modes, each with its own posture:

Entries are private to your device unless you opt in to the future Insights surface. Even then, only structured fields (entry type, optional stress / energy values) are aggregated — never the body of your entries. Long-press an entry to delete it with a confirm.

For sessions of twenty minutes or more, two optional in-session cues are available: a soft in-key tone (the gentle gong) at the midpoint, and a softer, lower-pitched cue five minutes before the close begins. Both are off by default. Switch them on per session in the wizard, or set defaults in Account → Settings.

The cues honour the safety posture in the research backbone: suppressed by default for trauma-aware support areas (panic aftercare, grounding-after-trigger, sleep anxiety, headache-safe decompression, grief and heartbreak); unavailable entirely for sleep-onset, dementia comfort, and sundowning — where a cue would defeat the point.