As of August 1st, 2013, the free version of Gnaural for Android is no
longer a feature-disabled demo, it has all the functionality of the pay
version, just perhaps not updated as frequently. The decision was made
to give it away because the primary goal of Gnaural, throughout my 15
years of developing it and it's precursors, has always been to get
everyone meditating. Two years ago, it took some incentive to spend the
months required to write from scratch the Android code capable of
playing Gnaural presets, because dealing with audio, GUIs, and XML in
Java was entirely foreign to how I'd written Gnaural's C code. While
charging for it never did exactly compensate in the way I'd hoped, I am
thankful it at least got me to undertake the tedious endeavour (which
also got me to invent two brand new Voices that then made their way in
to Gnaural - Water and Rain!). And I am also dearly thankful for all
those who did spend the cost of a cup-of-coffee to help support it. But
the kind words are worth even more. From now on, it is hoped that that
people who genuinely love Gnaural will voluntarily elect to support it
by purchasing the pay version. But of course, that is absolutely
voluntary. Enjoy Gnaural!
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