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Relaxing Websites

Sometimes the web is best when it asks very little of you. These websites are good places to slow down, settle your attention, and spend a few quiet minutes without feeling pulled in ten directions at once.

  • By Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam

    Open a random window somewhere else on Earth.

    View through an old window overlooking a narrow village street lined with stone buildings and parked cars, with green countryside visible in the distance.
  • By Jonathan Puckey, Moniker + 1 more

    Drift between live radio stations across the planet.

    Radio Garden's globe centred on North America, dotted with green live-radio stations, with a Boston station playing in the lower-left controls.
  • By Van Düke and Plain Theory, Inc.

    Continuous rain, distant thunder, and a quiet atmosphere.

    Rainy Mood’s interface showing a blurred green view through a rain-covered window, with a central play button and the words “Rainy Mood.”
  • By Gabriel Brady and Sleepy Rabbit LLC

    Mix rain, waves, wind, and distant ambience into your own atmosphere.

    A Soft Murmur interface showing ambient sound controls for rain, thunder, waves, wind, fire, birds, crickets, coffee shop, singing bowl, and white noise.
  • By Stéphane Pigeon

    A virtual cat whose purring fills the room with calm.

    A close-up photo of a cat resting with its eyes closed.
  • By Marc Balaban

    Release a thought into space and watch it slowly drift away.

    Starry dark webpage with a glowing white star, the prompt “Put a stressful thought in the star,” and a text box asking “What’s bothering you?” above a Done button.
  • By Nikolaus Baumgarten

    An endless field of softly drifting procedural flowers.

    Colorful surreal landscape with lush trees and flowers, rocky mountains, blue water, and a vivid pink, purple, and orange sunset sky.
  • Paper Planes

    Mobile only

    By Active Theory, Droga5 + 1 more

    Send and catch paper planes drifting across the world.

    Light blue webpage with paper-plane graphics and the text “Throw and catch paper planes with people around the world.”
  • By Andreas Schumann, Eero Pitkänen + 13 more

    An endlessly zooming dreamscape painted by multiple artists.

    Surreal 3D scene with a winding gray roadway and orange ribbon-like paths weaving around a futuristic white structure, with a small rider or vehicle on the right.
  • By Maze Heart

    Generate soft environmental atmospheres for focus, calm, or quiet wandering.

    Dark webpage titled “Ambient Sounds for Focus and Calm,” with an “84 Sounds” label and a row of circular sound-category icons.
  • Slow Roads

    Desktop only

    By Anslo and Topograph Interactive Ltd

    Endlessly drive through quiet procedural landscapes with nowhere particular to go.

    Nighttime driving scene viewed from behind a gray car on a winding two-lane road, with headlights illuminating the curve ahead and an “Autodrive” indicator below.
  • By Stéphane Pigeon

    A vast collection of soundscapes for focus, relaxation, and imagination.

    myNoise webpage showing categories for focus, relaxation, sleep, white noise, tinnitus relief, and stress relief, with example soundscapes in each section.
  • Explore art through themes, moods, symbols, and unexpected connections.

    The Last Museum webpage showing a classical landscape painting above a short description explaining its semantic search for museum art.
  • By Mat Jarvis and Yuri Vishnevsky

    Paint symmetrical flowing silk with your cursor.

    Abstract kaleidoscopic artwork on a black background, with symmetrical neon blue, green, pink, and orange light trails forming a glowing geometric pattern.
  • By Beige Elephant Ltd

    Create beautiful sand art by slowly pouring colored grains onto a canvas.

    Thisissand webpage with layered, colorful sand-like mountains, a large “THISISSAND” title, and a green “Play Now” button.
  • By Max Bittker

    Experiment with sand, water, fire, and several other materials and discover surprising interactions.

    Pixel-art landscape filled with colorful wildflowers, dense green vegetation, rolling hills, and purple mounds beneath a pale sky.
  • By Jono Brandel and Lullatone

    Turn words into soft looping musical patterns as you type.

    Webpage showing a large on-screen keyboard beside a blue text panel asking what words sound like when typed out and how a favorite song might spell.