Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz
I recently learned about some fascinating research done at MIT for potentially treating Alzheimer’s using light and sound stimulation at 40 hertz. Nothing has been proven yet, but it seemed compelling to me, especially given the safety and simplicity of the treatment (i.e., no drugs, no electrodes, just looking at light and hearing sounds). I wanted to try it myself, but was surprised how hard it was to find something free and easy to use to generate such pulses. Which is odd because I remember some freeware DOS program I tried back in the 90s which did all this kind of stuff (anyone know…
Alzheimer's Buddy generates flashing light and sound stimulation at 40 hertz, based on MIT research exploring this frequency's potential effects on Alzheimer's disease. The tool is designed for older adults interested… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Brain.fm▲957Music for the brain to improve focus, meditation & sleep
2015 · brain.fm · its alternatives →
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🎧 Music + AI for focus and sleep - backed by science
2017 · brainfm.io · its alternatives →
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hum▲117White noise for sleeping, studying, relaxing, babies
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Soundwave▲194Tap the mic and speak your mind w/ async short social audio
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A portable brain stimulation device
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I suffered from chronic insomnia for over a year and tried everything from cutting coffee, blocking blue light, to taking melatonin and antihistamine, but couldn’t find anything that worked. I even bought a $500 research-grade EEG device to track my sleep, which was honestly kind of depressing because it showed that I was sleeping less than 4 hours per night for weeks straight. In the day, it took an immense amount of energy for me to perform even the most mundane of tasks, such as doing my laundry or ordering groceries. At night, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness and…
2022 · slumber.one · its alternatives →
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Two years ago, someone on HN shared an interesting ADHD hack: a tiny LED that blinks at 120 bpm and gradually slows to 60 bpm, supposedly helping your brain sync and calm down into focus mode. I found Qiaogun's implementation (ADHD_Blink) for M5StickC Plus, and adapted it for the newer M5StickC Plus2 with some tweaks - simpler 50% duty cycle flash, configurable ramp-down, auto sleep, etc. Honestly, I'm not sure if it actually works. I'll be trying it out myself to see. But the building process itself was quite fascinating. I used Claude Code for the entire implementation - from reading the…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pulsetto▲118Reduce stress, improve sleep & relax in under 4 minutes
2023 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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shush▲102Room-aware noise. Quieter. Smarter. Better REM sleep.
Apr 2026 · shushapps.com · its alternatives →
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OptySleep▲105Sleep smarter: AI driven sleep insights based on your habits
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Noise Smith▲72Bring modern native macOS 26 visual effects to Electron App
2022 · bytemyth.com · its alternatives →
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Wearable to boost your memory, focus and creativity
2019 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I've been having trouble sleeping lately. Tried various white noise apps but most are either paid or cluttered with ads. So I built my own. https://whitenoiseforsleeping.rest Features: - Mix 6 nature sounds (rain, thunder, fire, wind, stream, birds) - 7 ambient scene backgrounds - Sleep timer with fade-out - Settings auto-saved to localStorage - No signup, no ads, no tracking Tech stack: React + Vite, hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The rain + fire combo works surprisingly well for me - usually fall asleep within 20 minutes now. Would love to hear your feedback or suggestions…
Jan 2026 · whitenoiseforsleeping.rest · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m a new developer with Aphantasia (no mental imagery). A side effect of this is that regaining focus after a distraction takes me a long time (the "23-minute lag"). I tried standard binaural beats, but I discovered a technical flaw: streaming compression (AAC/MP3 on Spotify/YouTube) often muddies the specific phase differences required for effective entrainment. I realized that to get effective entrainment, I needed lossless audio. Since I couldn't stream lossless easily, I decided to generate it locally. I built Phantas – a browser engine that uses the Web Audio API to…
Dec 2025 · phantas.io · its alternatives →
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Modulates any music to tune your brainwaves. Sleep or Relax.
2018 · its alternatives →
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Customisable sounds to help adults or babies get to sleep
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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