Apps designed to help users sleep can range from trackers that monitor your rest to those offering white noise and more. Many also include tutorials for relaxation techniques like meditation and breathing techniques.
Calm is an easy and popular solution to help users relax before bed. You can listen to soothing bedtime stories read aloud by famous voices such as those found on Calm; alternatively you can download podcasts that you can listen to during the night.
Sleep Reset
Sleep Reset is a new app created to assist adults in getting better rest. Using an individualized approach, Sleep Reset uses lessons, meditations and exercises designed to relax you as well as tips on improving your sleeping habits – ideal for people suffering from chronic insomnia who have tried other solutions unsuccessfully.
This app is available for iOS and Android devices and features a vast library of narrated stories designed to help you fall asleep more quickly, sleep sounds and lullabies, soothing voices and ambient noises that help prepare you for restful slumber. It has an ambient noise function to eliminate distractions from keeping you up at night and play ambient noises as needed – all designed to promote restful slumber.
Easy and effortless for busy individuals alike, SleepTracking Pro features an automatic logging feature to record every night’s rest and wakefulness, plus reminds for going to bed and rising up. Notifications will notify of any changes in your sleeping patterns and recommend adjustments based on history; while an alarm feature alerts of any abnormal changes.
Sleep Reset’s program uses cognitive behavioral therapy to tackle the root causes of your insomnia and provide relief. Many apps claim they offer solutions, yet improving sleep requires much more than simply tracking habits or playing white noise.
Sleep Reset stands out from other apps by providing a real person to guide users through the process. Plus, there’s both a free trial period and monthly subscription fees to consider!
Stella Sleep
While traditional bedtime stories may help your kids fall asleep more quickly, this app takes a more comprehensive approach. The content is developed based on research into children’s sleep and includes stories, lullabies and background music that support it. Furthermore, parents will receive guidance for developing an effective sleep routine and managing issues associated with it. Available only on iOS with a subscription model available.
Contrary to other sleep apps, this one employs a soothing voiced narrator who can relax children and help them fall asleep more easily. The library features stories that cover anxiety, fear, family issues and more – perfect as part of bedtime routine. Breathing and relaxation exercises are expertly integrated into each story for optimal listening pleasure and results in sound sleep for its listener.
Apart from soothing stories, this app also provides sleep-related podcasts and articles. Additionally, there is a library of soothing sounds including white noise, ambient and nature music, binaural beats as well as guided breathing and meditation sessions that have been proven to assist sleeping. Furthermore, its timer/looping functions ensure audio continues playing throughout the night.
This app is free to download, with monthly or annual subscription unlocking all its features. Content updates regularly, making this ideal for kids ages 2-8. Bedtime Buddy can help create a consistent bedtime routine while encouraging independence at night. Furthermore, mental health benefits include stress reduction, self-esteem boost and encouraging social and emotional learning as well as helping overcome worries that keep children up at night and lessen nightmare frequency.
Calm
Calm is a meditation and sleep app designed to help users de-stress, fall asleep quickly, and remain alert throughout the night. It offers various meditation sessions and programs targeted towards anxiety, relationships, work stress relief and bedtime stories as well as breathing techniques, music and bedtime stories. Available both for free on Apple App Store and Google Play stores – Calm boasts high ratings from users both beginning and experienced meditators alike!
This app’s additional features include mood check-ins and self-assessments to assess emotional well-being, journaling and mindful breathing exercises to promote emotional balance. In addition, workplace wellness features mindfulness exercises, lo-fi music playlists and professional guidance on how to rest after an exhausting day; plus guided meditations from soothing narrators who also appear throughout other tracks of the app; as well as kids-specific content, yoga stretching video and audio, plus expert guidance to reset after long days at work. Additionally, kids have their own dedicated section as well as accessing content created exclusively for them with kids-oriented yoga stretching video and audio for them – something this app doesn’t provide.
Launched in 2012 by entrepreneurs Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew who were experiencing burnout, SleepWell Meditation App is currently the top meditation app available both in Apple App Store and Google Play Store with millions of downloads and thousands of five-star reviews.
Mission of this fast-growing startup is to make the world happier and healthier, specifically targeting anxiety and stress. Their app boasts numerous studies about its benefits of mindfulness meditation.
Pzizz
Pzizz has been featured in The New York Times, WIRED, Engadget, Gizmodo Product Hunt Lifehacker Mashable Newsweek Sports Illustrated as a revolutionary way to provide sleep at the push of a button. Utilizing psychoacoustics (see their website for further details), Pzizz plays relaxing “dreamscapes” to ease into sleep quickly while keeping it peaceful throughout. Wake up feeling rested!
To achieve this goal, this app utilizes music, binaural beats, and voice-overs to guide you through progressive relaxation and hypnosis. Soundscapes can be fully customized; volume can be changed, voice gender can be adjusted as needed, 3D effects added or turned off – creating an entirely personalized listening experience! Furthermore, multiple sleep duration options can be chosen; when your predetermined time expires the app will stop playing automatically.
The company’s founders created their technology to address personal difficulties with sleep. Starting off by designing $400 hardware, desktop software, first-generation mobile apps and finally this hugely popular app. NBA pros, veteran journalists and celebrities are among those who swear by it, citing how it helped overcome insomnia, improve sleep quality and ease traumas.
This unique system works by combining four sections of a dreamscape, each featuring its own audio track. These tracks are designed to be effective at specific points during your sleep cycle to prevent you from becoming too immersed and sleeping too late, producing a restful slumber that leaves you feeling refreshed and prepared to face the day ahead. Though listening without headphones may work just as effectively, earbuds may offer better performance for maximum results. Although free to try out initially, unredeemed licenses can be returned within 30 days for store credit refund.
Sleepzy
Sleepzy app is an advanced sleep tracker that assists individuals in improving their sleeping habits and feeling refreshed each morning. It tracks individuals’ sleep cycles, wakes them during their lightest phase and analyzes quality to detect any disturbances such as snoring. Furthermore, this application offers relaxing sounds and classical melodies to help users wind down before sleep – as well as synching with Apple Health to back up and restore data when necessary.
The free version of the app offers basic features, while upgrading to premium subscription unlocks more advanced statistics and snore detection as well as goal creation and progress monitoring features. Furthermore, premium subscribers enjoy classical music selections, special breathing techniques and no ads; Android and iOS compatible.
Sleepzy makes using an app simple, enabling users to set their desired wake-up and bedtime times, as well as monitor daily activities that could potentially interfere with sleeping cycles; such as too much caffeine consumption or medications which affect restfulness. Sleepzy also tracks daily activities to identify any factors which could disrupt our cycles, such as coffee intake or medication that interferes with rest, so if these can negatively impact restfulness it will notify users accordingly.
Sleepzy is an invaluable aid for people struggling with insomnia. Its soothing sounds and scientifically proven brain stimulation methods provide a way to quickly relax the mind and fall asleep quickly – helping users sleep at a reasonable hour so they can remain productive throughout their day. Downloaded from Play Store, however it is best used with headphones in order to prevent disturbing others while using this app.