# Coffitivity review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Cafe and ambient background sounds for writing and study

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Coffitivity plays background audio recorded to resemble a busy cafe, for people who work better with some ambient noise. Its library also includes soundscapes, sound colors and brain-wave tracks. The free plan limits listening to one hour a day, and paid plans lift the limit.

- **Category:** Focus Apps
- **Made by:** Coffitivity (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://coffitivity.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you listen all day, because the free plan stops at 1 hour.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Coffitivity has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.99 per month, billed yearly ($35.99).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1 hour of streaming per day and limited track access.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on every subscription plan, cancel during it for a full refund.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 per month | 1 hour of streaming a day and a limited set of tracks. |
| Plus | $2.99 per month, billed yearly ($35.99) | Unlimited daily streaming, but still a limited set of tracks. |
| Premium | $3.99 per month, billed yearly ($47.99) | Unlimited streaming plus all cafe tracks, soundscapes, sound colors and brain waves. |
| Lifetime Premium | $239.99 one-time | Everything in Premium with a single payment and no recurring charges. |

Read from https://coffitivity.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Coffitivity before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly billing saves 40%** (Annual discount): Coffitivity's pricing page marks yearly billing as a 40% saving over monthly. Source: https://coffitivity.com/pricing
- **Lifetime Premium** (Lifetime license): A one-time payment of $239.99 gives Premium access with no recurring charges. Source: https://coffitivity.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Cafe ambience:** Free tracks such as Morning Murmur, Lunchtime Lounge and University Undertones are named on the homepage.
- **Soundscapes, sound colors and brain waves:** Premium unlocks all soundscapes, sound colors and brain-wave tracks, beyond the cafe recordings.
- **Free daily allowance:** The free plan allows 1 hour of streaming per day, without an account purchase.
- **Use-case pages:** The site has pages aimed at writers, students, remote workers, developers and teachers.

## Good for

- Writers and remote workers who miss the hum of a cafe
- Light listeners who can stay inside the free hour a day
- People who would rather pay once than subscribe

## Worth knowing

- The free plan caps streaming at 1 hour per day and offers a limited track set.
- Plus removes the daily cap but keeps the limited tracks; the full library needs Premium.
- Only the yearly prices were readable: the pricing page has a Monthly toggle whose figures were not captured, and the page says yearly saves 40%.
- No mobile or desktop app was found; it is used in the browser.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Coffitivity plays recordings of a busy cafe in your browser to help you work. The free plan gives you one hour a day and a limited set of tracks, and the full library costs $3.99 a month on yearly billing.

- **Value for money: C.** Plus is $2.99 a month billed yearly and Premium $3.99, where the middle for focus apps is $3.99. Plus keeps the track list limited, and Lifetime Premium is $239.99, well past the $10 middle for one-time prices.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 1 hour of streaming a day and limited tracks, which you will hit within a working afternoon. Paid plans carry a 7-day trial with a full refund if you cancel during it.
- **Features: C.** Cafe tracks, soundscapes, sound colors and brain waves. It plays sound and nothing more: no timer, no tasks. The full library needs Premium.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. Open the site and press play, with nothing to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. No phone or desktop app was found, and nothing connects to anything else.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Coffitivity's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among focus apps

- Coffitivity's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 8 of the 83 other focus apps we grade, and level with 14.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 22 of 83) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 5).
- Its paid plans start at $2.99 a month, against a middle price of $2.96 for the category: 25 of the 49 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 21 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/focus

## Keep it, or make your own?

**You could make this.** A focus timer at its plainest counts down 25 minutes and keeps a log. What Coffitivity does at its core is plain work, and that is the kind of thing an AI app builder makes well. You would give up one thing, listed below, and little else. It costs $35.88 a year. An AI app builder starts at about $20 a month on our listings, and you only need it while you build.

- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: A library of sound you would have to license.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Focus music, One-time purchase

## Alternatives

- [Noisli](https://toolgpa.com/tools/noisli): Ambient sound mixer with a session timer and text editor. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coffitivity-vs-noisli)
- [A Soft Murmur](https://toolgpa.com/tools/a-soft-murmur): Ambient sound mixer for the browser, iPhone and Android. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a-soft-murmur-vs-coffitivity)
- [myNoise](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mynoise): Adjustable background noise and soundscape generators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coffitivity-vs-mynoise)
- [Rainy Mood](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rainy-mood): Rain sounds for studying, sleeping and relaxing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coffitivity-vs-rainy-mood)
- [Brain.fm](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brain-fm): Functional music for focus, relaxation, sleep and meditation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brain-fm-vs-coffitivity)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://coffitivity.com/
- https://coffitivity.com/pricing

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/coffitivity
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).