What's in the Hatch Restore sound library?

Short answer: every sleep sound is free. The Restore ships with its full white, pink, brown and green noise set plus rain, ocean, fan, dryer and forest sounds, and none of that has ever sat behind a paywall. What Hatch+ adds is the library around the sounds - sleep stories, meditations, podcasts, sound baths, music, and the large majority of the wake-up alarms. It costs $5.99 a month after a free first month, and without it the device still works as a sunrise alarm and a sound machine.

That distinction is the whole of this page, and it gets muddled constantly - partly because Hatch markets the subscription hard, and partly because the free tier is more generous on sleep sounds than people assume and much thinner on alarms than they expect.

The sleep sounds you get free

Hatch publishes the breakdown itself. In its support article on what is free versus what needs Hatch+, the Sleep section is unambiguous: the device “comes with a wide variety of Sleep sounds, and no Hatch+ subscription needed to enjoy.” The list Hatch gives for the Restore 2 runs to twenty-seven entries, and it is the part of the device most people actually use:

Two things are worth drawing out of that. First, all four noise colors are free - which puts the Restore on the short list of machines that genuinely carry pink and brown noise without an upsell. Second, you can pair any of these with any light setting or with no light at all, so the basic “sound machine plus a dim glow” use case is entirely free.

Hatch’s published list is for the Restore 2. The Restore 3 is the current generation and we have not seen a model-specific list of equivalent detail from Hatch, so treat the table above as the documented Restore 2 set rather than a guaranteed Restore 3 inventory. We would rather flag that than quietly present one device’s list as the other’s.

What Hatch+ actually adds

A lot, and almost none of it is noise. Hatch’s own membership page advertises 2,500+ sleep sounds, meditations and audiobooks with new releases weekly. Working through the free-versus-paid tables, the subscription content falls into these buckets:

• Sleep stories and audiobooks. The Great Gatsby, Little Women, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a long list of original series.
• Meditations and breathwork. Several dozen programs - body scans, racing-mind meditations, guided breathing.
• Bedtime podcasts and sound baths. Original Hatch productions, released on a schedule.
• Music and soundscapes. Sleep beats, piano, jazz, and long-form location recordings.
• Most of the alarms. This is the one that catches people out, and it has its own section below.
• Unwind routines and the wider Cue to Unwind library. A handful of cues come with the device; the long list does not.

The alarm catch

If you bought a Restore primarily as a sunrise alarm, read this part twice. Hatch states it plainly in its support note on what sounds you can wake up to: subscribers “will be able to play any piece of content shown, while those without Hatch+ will still be able to freely choose from the sounds found under ‘alarms’.”

The free alarm set is short. On the Restore 2 breakdown it amounts to a handful of entries - Cityscape, Retro Beep, Carson’s Backyard, Morning Bird and Ocean Shore - alongside the sunrise light itself, which is always included. Everything else on that very long alarm list, including most of the nature wake-ups and all the novelty ones, is subscription content.

The sunrise is the important exception. The light ramp is the actual mechanism of a wake-up light, it is free, and it works with any of the included alarm sounds. If you want the full argument for why the light matters more than the audio, that is on how sunrise alarm clocks work.

What it costs, and what happens if you stop

Hatch’s membership page lists Hatch+ at $5.99 a month, with the first month free. We do not publish prices on this site - we have no live price feed and will not print a number we cannot keep current - so treat that as the figure Hatch advertised on its own page at the time we checked it, and verify it before you commit.

The arithmetic is the part worth sitting with. At that rate a subscription costs more over two years than a good standalone sound machine costs outright. If the only thing you will ever use is brown noise and a sunrise, you are paying a monthly fee for a library you have no use for.

If you cancel, the device does not stop being a device. The free sleep sounds, the sunrise light, the clock, the reading light and the free alarms are properties of the hardware. The subscription library goes away, which is exactly what a subscription library does, and nothing you paid for separately is removed.

Should you subscribe?

Our honest read, and it splits cleanly in two.

Subscribe if the routine is the point. If you want to fall asleep to a story or a meditation, or you want a rotating library so bedtime does not become monotonous, that is genuinely what Hatch+ is for and nothing on the free tier replaces it. People who use the Unwind routines tend to keep using them.

Do not subscribe if you wanted a sound machine. The noise colors are free, the rain is free, the sunrise is free, and the thing you were going to use every night is already included. Take the free month, find out which of those two people you are, and then cancel without guilt if the answer is the second one.

And if the subscription model is the objection rather than the price, you are not stuck with it. A machine that names its noise colors costs once, and a sunrise alarm without an app or an account does the light half. The two devices together are a different kind of purchase from one device with a monthly fee, and for a lot of people they are the better one.