2 1/2 years since an update? Abandonware?

I’ve had both the iOS app and the Mac app for a long time and use them pretty frequently. In fact, I was an early beta tester of the Mac app before it hit the App Store or was available for public release. I enjoy using both in a wide variety of settings, mostly to drown out noise when I’m studying and doing work. The app functions basically fine, more or less - it performs the simple task of playing sound effects just fine. However, the fact that it hasn’t been updated since 2012 (nearly 2 1/2 years since this writing, a long time for software development) is concerning, and in the interim it’s fallen very far behind. It’s not Retina compatible at all, and there is still no way to sync custom sounds between the iOS version and the OS X version (something that should be fairly simplified now that iCloud Drive is available). There’s also no way to use the Mac’s keyboard controls (or connected headphone controls) to play/pause the sounds, as you can on the iOS version, which is annoying when you’re used to hitting the headphone remote to pause the sound on one device and the same action does nothing on the other device. In short, this app gives you no real benefits that you wouldn’t already have playing a track on repeat in iTunes or an .mp4 file via Finder.

Ambiance has a lot of potential (and had a lot more potential when the app was still being updated several years ago), and comes with an extensive and useful library of white noise sounds which can be a real benefit for lots of people, but the fact that the developers seemingly haven’t touched this app in years has greatly reduced the confidence I once had in this software. If we go much longer without any updates at all, I’ll likely be looking for an alternative.

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