Coffitivity

Coffitivity plays the gentle chatter of a coffee shop so you can pretend you are working in a cafe. When you arrive, you pick a cafe type and the hum takes over: low voices, clinks, and the soft bustle of a place where other people are being productive. The pitch is that a moderate amount of ambient noise can help some people be more creative than total silence, and the site says it is based on research along those lines. Whether or not that works for you, it is a surprisingly effective way to make a quiet home office feel less lonely. It is a simple site, with a single purpose and little to learn. If you want fuller control over your soundscape, other pages on our list let you mix sounds, but this one gives you the cafe in one click. Put on headphones, open a document, and let the barista you never see do the work.