SoundPainter.io
The world's first TTRPG Audio Sandbox
How It Works
Type
Describe what you want. "Campfire" "Ocean waves" "Goblins"
Hear
Sounds appear instantly from 600,000+ sounds. Pick the one that fits.
Place
Drag sounds around the board. Spatial audio places your players inside the scene.
The Audio Sandbox for
tabletop storytellers.
The first app built to house a bottomless bag of scenes. Official scenes, community scenes, and yours.
Stream straight to your players
Set it up once and it's done.
Podcast-safe. Always.
All sounds are copyright-free. Record your session. Upload it anywhere. No takedowns. No licensing fees. No "check the terms." Ever.
Features
600,000+ sounds, all copyright-free
No attribution required. Commercial use included by default.
Real-time stereo mixing
Drag sounds around a 2D board. Place rain on the left, fire on the right. Your players hear direction, not just volume.
Board mechanics
Proximity zones, stereo effects, reverb, muffled effects. Move through the scene and the mix restructures around your perspective.
Audio fog of war
Distance dims, walls muffle, and the listener token sets your perspective. Walk it from one room to another and the soundscape walks with you, with nearby spaces bleeding in as you cross between them. No other TTRPG audio tool does this.
Random tables
The “Third Eye” tool drops sounds into your scene based on a temperature slider: sounds that fit, sounds that surprise, or sounds that change the game world entirely. Your soundscape can shape the story, not just follow it.
Works with everything
Not locked to D&D or Pathfinder. No IP deals. Works with any game, any system, any story.
Built & maintained by 1 person
I answer your emails, and I'm building this app for you. Tell me what you want to see and we can make it happen.
Sonic DM screen
When you're streaming or broadcasting, preview sounds without your players hearing them.
Session journal
Every session is saved into a diary of the places your players have visited. Revisit old scenes or use them to shape future sessions.
What this is not
Never paid sound packs
SoundPainter will never try to sell you anything on a per-sound basis. Give me a break!
No AI ever
The app organizes and presents things to you the good old-fashioned way, by thinking about data smartly.
Not a soundboard
SoundPainter is laid out to not look like an Excel spreadsheet. A few intuitive controls and mechanics surface the sounds you want when you want them, and adjustments are easy.
"Highly manipulatable, revisitable audio environments that function more as places than soundboards."Big Sister
Coming from YouTube?
YouTube
Already running fantasy music or audio from YouTube at your table? Bring the player right into SoundPainter and layer scene-specific sounds on top, on the fly, for free.
How We Compare
| Fantasy+ | Opus | Syrinscape | SoundPainter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99/mo | $8.29/mo | $12.99/mo | Free or $3.99/mo |
| Library size | ~8K | ~7K | ~55K | ~600K |
| Type | Pre-made | Semi-flexible | Semi-flexible | Fast & Flexible |
| Effort | Low | Medium | Heavy | Flexible |
| Copyright-clear | Yes | Check terms | Check terms | Always |
| Discord | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Foundry VTT | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microtransactions | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Scene transitions | No | No | No | Yes |
| Spatial audio | No | No | No | Yes |
| Session journal | No | No | No | Yes |
Who This Is For
GMs & Dungeon Masters
Your game world is not a spreadsheet, and your sounds shouldn't live in one. SoundPainter lays out your audio the way your world is laid out. Works with D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, your homebrew. Improv-ready.
Actual Play Podcasters & Streamers
Every sound is copyright-free, always. Upload your session to Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts. No takedowns, no licensing, no worry.
Indie Game Developers
Prototype your game's audio in minutes. Every sound is copyright-free. Use it in your shipped game commercially, no licensing step. Search "forest ambience," find it, ship it.
Writers, Meditators, Naturalists
Build the soundscape of the place you're writing about. Assemble a morning walk by species and season. Create a breathing session with ocean and wind. The sandbox is yours.
"The potential that you've created here is actually mind-boggling. It's really, REALLY good."Dominic of The Dominomicon
"If you're creative enough to be a GM, you're creative enough to be using SoundPainter."Aaron W.
"The potential that you've created here is actually mind-boggling. It's really, REALLY good."Dominic of The Dominomicon
"If you're creative enough to be a GM, you're creative enough to be using SoundPainter."Aaron W.
"The potential that you've created here is actually mind-boggling. It's really, REALLY good."Dominic of The Dominomicon
Why SoundPainter?
If you want flexibility, we have that. Search for anything, hear it instantly, place it on the board. Tabletop is about improvisation, so the audio should be too.
If you want zero prep, we have that too. Show up five minutes before your session and throw 30 scenes your group may encounter into a session. Choose from lots of "official" scenes, and we hope soon, from thousands of scenes created and shared by other creatives crafting with SoundPainter.
If you want depth on top of both of those... the ability to craft environments from the ground up, create real-time creative effects in intuitive ways, all while keeping an archived audio journal of the places your players visit, we're the only choice that makes any sense.
Completely optionally
$3.99/mo
All scenes free. All sounds free.
No tiers. No Standard vs. Pro. Everything is free.
$3.99/mo just gets you extra room to plan, organize, and archive.