48 calming websites

Build your own weather out of ten ambient sliders

Sixteen strange brushes and almost no control

The specific hum of a café, minus the queue and the cost

Two dozen ambience layers, mixed on one dark screen

Hundreds of live animal cams, from bear falls to puppy rooms

A sketch tool whose brushes join up your strokes

Fling paint across a white wall with your mouse

One button. Press it and everything is made OK

Jellyfish, sea otters and a kelp forest, streaming live

Open-source ambience with no ads and no upsell anywhere

Paint with fire that keeps burning after you stop

Colour-shifting background noise with a plain writing pad

Scroll a roll of toilet paper. That is the whole site

A sun-bleached 90s Mac desktop that plays summer radio

A cat purr you can tune, built by a signal-processing PhD

Hand-picked, hand-sequenced radio with no advertising

Two sliders, one café, endless rain outside the window

Two decades of rain, still the reference recording

Draw with sand, water, fire and plants and step back

Live HD cameras on piazzas, volcanoes and coral reefs

A grid of squares where nothing you play sounds wrong

Press one button, hear a forest somewhere else on Earth

Write a sentence and hear the note each letter makes

Drag your cursor through coloured smoke that swirls back

Look out of a stranger's window for as long as you like

Click a grid of squares and it becomes a melody

A breathing pacer that gets out of the way immediately

Thick oil paint that smears and mixes like the real thing

Today, then the month, then the epoch, then everything

Split circles into smaller circles until an image appears

Calibrate the noise to the exact shape of your hearing

Sixty seconds in a park, filmed by whoever was there

A sealed glass ecosystem that keeps going without you

Type what is bothering you, watch it shrink into space

Tonight's real sky, from your exact spot, in a browser tab

Pour coloured sand and let it pile up in drifts

Draw walls and let a million photons find their way

One long essay a day, on the questions without answers

Fan-made soundscapes of fictional rooms you can sit in

A world map where every pin is a field recording

Watch one nest from first egg to first flight

Twelve hundred nature recordings, kept free by a charity

Twenty-five years of only the good half of the news

Numbers along the edges, a picture hiding in the grid

A world map where every pin is a woodland recording

Ordinary people interviewing the people they love

Retired circus elephants, doing nothing in particular

Two decades of one person reading and taking notes