# lockd

> lockd is a $5 macOS menu-bar app that plays focus music and ambient sound together: curated lofi, jazzhop, ambient, chill electronic, trance and drum & bass radio from Audius, mixed with rain, fire, café, ocean and white, pink or brown noise, under a small animated scene that reacts to the mix.

A small menu-bar app for Mac. Lofi radio, rain and fire, and a little scene that listens to your mix. Price: $5 once, no subscription, free updates. Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later; universal app for Apple silicon and Intel. Sold directly on https://lockd.poordevs.com/ (not on the Mac App Store). A separate iPhone app, lockd for iPhone, is free on the App Store with an optional lockd+ subscription; there is no iPad version. Made by Poor Devs (https://poordevs.com).

## Links

- [lockd website](https://lockd.poordevs.com/): live demo with the real sounds, scenes, stations and FAQ
- [Buy lockd for $5](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_rkjiDtm1A1TNIrzU2nn1iyOl1OTeCiedDT87r0addAp): one-time purchase via Polar, download right after checkout
- [lockd for iPhone on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/lockd/id6818541153): free download, optional lockd+ subscription

## Features

- 6 curated music stations from Audius: Lo-Fi Beats, Jazzhop Café, Ambient Drift, Chill Electronic, Trance and Drum & Bass
- 12 ambient sounds with their own volume: rain, thunder, wind, fire, birds, crickets, stream, ocean, café, white noise, pink noise and brown noise
- 5 animated scenes that react to the mix: Rainy city, Campfire, Night forest, Café and Deep focus
- Presets: save a scene, a mix and a station together
- Pomodoro focus timer in the menu bar (25 minutes of focus, 5 minutes of break)
- Sleep timer that fades out after 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes
- Pauses when a call starts or the screen locks, and resumes after
- Global hotkeys: Open lockd, play or pause, and switch scenes from any app
- Media keys and Now Playing: Your keyboard’s play and skip keys and Control Center just work
- Launch at login: It’s there when you start your day
- Light and dark: Native macOS glass, tinted by the scene
- No account, no tracking: No sign-up and no analytics. The app only talks to Audius, for music, and checks for updates once a day
- Ambient works offline: Rain, fire and noise play without a connection

## Music

Curated stations from artists who publish on Audius, streamed under the Open Music License. Every track shows who made it, with a link to them. No YouTube, no gray-area streams.

- Lo-Fi Beats: Warm, dusty beats for long sessions.
- Jazzhop Café: Brushed drums, soft keys, a little swing.
- Ambient Drift: Slow pads for deep work.
- Chill Electronic: Light, steady, never in the way.
- Trance: Long builds and bright melodies to keep you moving.
- Drum & Bass: Fast breaks and deep bass for a sprint.

## Scenes

Each scene is a screenprint that moves with its sounds. Turn up the rain and it rains harder; feed the fire and it grows.

- Rainy city: Rain on the window, the city still awake.
- Campfire: A small fire, pines, a sky full of stars.
- Night forest: Moonlight on the stream, crickets in the grass.
- Café: A warm cup by the window on a wet evening.
- Deep focus: Low sun, slow waves, brown noise.

## Focus and pause

A Pomodoro timer counts down right in the menu bar: 25 minutes of focus, then a 5-minute break. A sleep timer fades everything out after 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes.

When a call starts, lockd pauses. When it ends, the rain comes back. It pauses when you lock your screen, too.

## FAQ

### What is lockd?

A menu-bar app for Mac that plays focus music and ambient sound together. Mix rain, fire or brown noise with lofi, jazzhop, ambient, chill electronic, trance or drum & bass radio, run a Pomodoro timer, and watch a small scene react to your mix. It costs $5, once.

### What does lockd need?

A Mac with macOS 26 Tahoe or later. It runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

### Which sounds are in it?

Twelve: rain, thunder, wind, fire, birds, crickets, a stream, the ocean, a café, and white, pink and brown noise. Each has its own volume. Five scenes come with their own mixes, and you can save yours as a preset.

### How much does it cost?

$5, once. No subscription, and every update is free. You get the download right after checkout.

### Where does the music come from?

From Audius, where artists publish their own music. lockd plays curated stations of those artists under the Open Music License and credits every track.

### Is there an iPhone or iPad version?

There is an iPhone app: five rooms with the same sounds and radio, free on the App Store, with an optional lockd+ subscription for every room and sound. It’s separate from the $5 Mac app. There’s no iPad version.

### Does it work offline?

The ambient sounds do. Music needs a connection.

### What does lockd collect?

Nothing. There are no analytics and no account. The only network requests go to Audius, to stream music, and once a day to ask whether there’s a new version.

### How do updates work?

lockd checks once a day. When a new version is out, a small chip appears in the panel and nothing pops up while you work. Install it whenever you like.

### Lost your download?

Open polar.sh/poordevs/portal and sign in with the email you bought with. Your purchase and the latest lockd download are there, free, as often as you need.

### Where are the sounds from?

Rain, thunder, birds, the stream, the ocean and the café are CC0 and public-domain recordings from Wikimedia Commons. Wind, fire, crickets and the noises are synthesized in the app. Full credits are at the bottom of this page.

## Good fit for

- People who want rain sounds, white noise or brown noise and focus music playing together on a Mac, controlled from the menu bar
- Deep work, studying, writing and coding sessions with a Pomodoro timer
- Anyone looking for a one-time-purchase alternative to subscription focus-music apps, with licensed music and no account