Calming music for cats, free
Soft, slow, steady music for the hours your cat spends home alone, for fireworks and storms, vet trips and bedtime. Free, with a sleep timer that fades out gently.
Pet the cat to start. While the music is off, the cat watches your pointer.
Awake · watching you
Sessions
Each session is a hand-picked run of the calmest tracks for that moment, with a few tips.
While you’re out
A long, steady run of the softest tracks, for the hours your cat spends without you.
22 tracks · about 60 min
Softening sudden noise
Even, warm music to sit under the bangs and rumbles, so the room never goes from silence to boom.
32 tracks · about 91 min
Carrier, car and waiting room
A short, quiet set for the carrier, the car and the waiting room.
12 tracks · about 31 min
Settling in
Soft background sound for a new place, a new housemate, or the first nights after a move.
22 tracks · about 62 min
Wind down together
The very calmest tracks, with a sleep timer that fades out so nobody wakes to silence-then-noise.
17 tracks · about 46 min
For the youngest and oldest
Warm, low and mellow tracks for kittens learning to nap and older cats who like a quiet day.
12 tracks · about 32 min
Sleep timer
Pick a time. In the last minute the music fades to nothing, so the room goes quiet slowly instead of all at once. The timer keeps running as you move around the site.
Off
Music keeps playing
The calm filter
The honest bit
47 cats
In a 2015 study, cats oriented towards and approached speakers more, and sooner, when they played music composed for cats than when they played human music.
Snowdon, Teie & Savage, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2015
20 cats
During vet exams, cats had lower stress scores while hearing cat-specific music than with classical music or silence. A blood marker of stress didn’t change.
Hampton et al., Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2020
Our take
Purrple Cat’s music is lofi made for people, not cat-specific music. We choose its gentlest tracks and suggest a low volume. Treat it as a calm background, not a treatment, and watch your cat.
Questions
Some research says it can help. In a 2015 study, 47 cats paid more attention to music composed for cats than to human music, and a 2020 study of 20 cats at a vet clinic found lower stress scores with cat-specific music than with silence or classical. Every cat is different, so watch yours. Read the full guide for the details.
No, and we’d rather be honest about it. These are Purrple Cat’s lofi tracks, made for people. We pick the softest, slowest and steadiest of them for cats: few sudden sounds, gentle dynamics and an even pulse.
Quietly. Cats hear much better than we do, so aim for the level of a soft conversation, and give your cat a way to leave the room.
Yes. Start the Home alone session, put it on repeat on a speaker your cat isn’t sitting right next to, and keep the volume low.
Yes. Every track is free to stream and download. Purrple Cat has 500+ songs, licensed CC BY 4.0. You can use them on social media and livestreams with credit, but never upload them to music streaming services.
Yes, with the credit “Music by Purrple Cat” and a link to purrplecat.com. The music isn’t in Content ID.
