Hear who is calling before you look.
Short notification sounds that each say the app’s name: “Claude”, “ChatGPT”, “Grok”, “WhatsApp”… You know which app is waiting for you without looking at the screen. Free, WAV and MP3. Quiet enough to stay under your music.
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Why I made them
I work with several AI tools at once. When each one finished and called me with the same Windows chime, I never knew which window to go back to. Now each one says its name, and I know who is waiting without looking up.
These are the same sounds I use on my own computer. They are deliberately quiet, so they reach you over background music without making you jump.
Where to use them
Android: Copy the file to the Notifications folder on your phone. Then open Settings → Apps → the app → Notifications, choose the notification category and change its sound. Menu names vary by phone maker.
Telegram: Lets you upload your own notification sound. According to Telegram’s announcement, the sound must be shorter than 5 seconds and no larger than 300 KB; the MP3 files here are under that limit.
Windows: Windows lets you choose only one general notification sound; there is no separate sound per app. I solve this on my own computer with a small helper that watches Windows notifications and plays the matching sound. There is no download for it, but you can have an AI coding tool build the same helper on your computer with the prompt below.
About the files
The sounds were generated with Google Gemini text-to-speech (the Zephyr voice), in English. Each file is about one second long, 24 kHz mono. There is 0.2 seconds of silence at the start so some headphones do not swallow the first syllable.
You are free to use and share them. A link back to this page is appreciated.
App names are trademarks of their owners. These sounds are unofficial and I am not affiliated with those companies.
Set it up on Windows yourself: a ready prompt
Paste the text below into Claude Code, Codex or a similar AI coding tool. It sets up the method I use on my own computer: it watches the Windows notification store, finds the app that sent each notification and plays that app’s sound.
The tool will create files and run commands on your computer. Approve each step as you go; the prompt asks it to list the apps on your computer and check with you first.
On my Windows computer, set up a small helper that plays a short sound saying the app's name whenever a desktop app sends a notification.
Method:
1. Read notifications from the Windows notification database: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db (SQLite). Open it read-only and never write to it.
2. Watch the Notification table for new rows using the [Order] column (checking once a second is enough). At startup take the highest [Order] so old notifications are not announced.
3. Match Notification.HandlerId to NotificationHandler.RecordId; PrimaryId tells you the app.
4. Before building anything, list the PrimaryIds on my computer and ask me which apps I want announced.
5. Download the sounds from https://oguzerol.com/bildirim-sesleri/bildirim-sesleri.zip (wav folder). For an app that is not in the pack, generate a short sound with the free edge-tts.
6. Play at most one sound per app every 15 seconds. Some apps mark their interim messages with silent="true" in the Payload; let me skip those per app. Do not apply this to every app automatically: some apps mark all their notifications that way, and then that app would never play a sound.
7. Use Python and winsound; no accounts, cloud services or paid APIs.
8. Start it without a window when I sign in (a .vbs in the Startup folder). Also give me a command to stop it.
9. When done, play each app's sound once as a test and briefly summarise what you installed and where.Rather not set it up yourself?
I build small desktop tools like this, and web applications that several people in a company use together. If you or your team need a tool like this, tell me what you have in mind.
Get in touchSources: Telegram announcement on notification soundsGemini API terms