Sleep is essential to overall health. Apps such as Somryst offer users access to professional sleep coaches who tailor personalized strategies for better restful slumber that will remain effective over time.
Other apps help guide users towards restful sleep with guided meditations, white noise and soothing music – such as Pzizz, Slumber and Relax Melodies, all offering subscription options.
SleepScore
SleepScore app is a free download that helps users enhance their restfulness by monitoring and analyzing data about their sleeping patterns and providing tools that support these goals. Users can track sleep patterns such as when they go to sleep and wake up; track other factors influencing restfulness such as caffeine intake; as well as track patterns associated with restful restfulness such as time of fall asleep/wakeup.
Each morning, this app analyzes user sleeping patterns to generate a SleepScore for them based on scientifically established ideal averages based on age and gender. In addition to monitoring sleep quality overall, the app tracks light, deep, REM sleep time as well as body movements while recording heart rates during restful slumber; all of which is then fed back into an algorithm to produce their daily SleepScore rating.
SleepScore also provides daily motivational quotes and Pillow Talk polls to help users improve their sleep and lead healthy lifestyles. Furthermore, its sleep report can assist healthcare professionals in diagnosing potential issues or sleep disorders that may exist for any given user.
The key benefit of the app is its ability to identify and monitor sleep habits over time. Furthermore, this feature can also assist in pinpointing any factors contributing to poor quality rest such as late-night snacking or excessive alcohol intake that might hinder quality rest.
While SleepScore app does not sell CPAP devices or corrective equipment directly, it has partnered with ResMed’s Better Night sleep study center in San Diego so users can receive more comprehensive assessments. In addition, this platform gives recommendations of partner products and services like innovative pillows or solutions for snoring reduction.
Pillow
Pillow is one of the most comprehensive third-party sleep tracking apps for Apple devices, featuring both automatic and manual sleep analysis as well as detailed trend analysis with personalized recommendations.
This app tracks your sleep cycle using accelerometer and gyroscope on your device and records audio to detect snoring and sleep talk, providing metrics to analyze it and generate an overall sleep quality index score that also accounts for caffeine intake, physical activity and weight.
Smart Wake Up analyses your movement and heart rate to pinpoint the perfect moment for you to awaken, then wakes you up a few minutes prior to setting an alarm clock. Furthermore, this app also allows you to customize its wake up period according to your schedule.
Pillow’s tracker feature seamlessly integrates with the Health app, so that you can view your sleep data along with other metrics in an easily navigable interface. Furthermore, weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshots provide insight into your performance – plus its user-friendly design provides plenty of useful data.
Loona may not see itself as a sleep tracker, but its creators would certainly call it that. With its collection of playlists and immersive stories designed to ease users into restful sleep, Loona certainly helps people relax their minds before bedtime.
This app uses your iPhone’s sensors (or Apple Watch’s sensors) to track your sleep, then displays the results in a colorful chart. Additionally, there are helpful features such as trend visualizations and an alarm reminder system for going to bed and getting up. While downloading and using it for free are both possible options, upgrading to unlock additional features like detailed sleep reports as well as audio recordings of any snoring.
Bedtime
Sleep is an integral component of living a healthy lifestyle, yet can often prove challenging without proper tools. If you’re having difficulty falling asleep, need assistance staying asleep through the night, or want to wake up feeling revitalized and awake in the morning, there are numerous apps out there to support you and provide just what’s needed.
One of the most acclaimed sleep aid apps, Slumber, offers soothing narrations and soothing sounds to help users relax, drift off quickly, and experience deep restful sleep. With settings including white noise and nature sounds that you can customize according to your mood, as well as melodies shared by community users and incorporating personal music for an immersive audio experience.
Sleep Cycle is another effective solution that provides gentle slumber stimulation during the lightest phase of your sleep cycle, helping ensure you enjoy restful nights’ rest. In addition, this app tracks your cycles and offers comprehensive reports about overall health and fitness – plus it’s accessible from iPhone Clock app!
Pzizz, for instance, provides multiple functional aspirations such as sleep, nap and focus to help users relax and rejuvenate. Pzizz uses “dreamscapes”, which combine music, voices and sound effects based on scientific research into psychoacoustics, with stories like Dreamy Myths or Sleep Journeys from which to choose and the freedom to customize all aspects of the experience from desired narrator selection to length of story playback.
Apple Books
Apple Books app provides an ideal destination for ebooks, book store access and now audiobook listening. Featuring an intuitive design with user-friendly navigation features that many have found easy to use; plus integration with iCloud allows your library to remain synced across your Apple devices.
This app gives you complete control of your reading experience by customizing font size and type, background color and scrolling view – providing continuous movement rather than page flipping to reduce eye strain, particularly at nighttime.
No matter if you’re reading or listening to audiobooks, this app also has several sleep settings to help you wind down before bed and get a great night’s rest. Set a sleep timer or use Sleep Focus’s soft sounds/haptics wakeup feature if needed to get you up in the morning.
Oprah Winfrey fans will also appreciate that this app includes her favorite audiobooks that will notify them as soon as they’re available. All iOS users receive access to Apple Books at no additional cost, making getting started easy and affordable.
Calm is another widely used meditation and mindfulness app, featuring relaxing sleep stories read aloud by well-known celebrity voices as well as relaxing music and visuals to aid relaxation. Furthermore, Calm can teach guided meditation techniques as well as assist with mindful movement practice such as stretching exercises. While downloading Calm and using it is free of charge, subscription options may be worthwhile if it will become part of your regular routine.
Headspace
Headspace is best-known for its daily meditation sessions, but its sleep content can help you unwind before bed and get better zzz’s. Their ‘Sleep’ library features Sleepcasts – audio stories that take your mind on an audio tour through dreamlike landscapes – with each listen being subtly different each time, wind-downs to prepare your mind for restful slumber and music tracks to help calm you before sleeping; wind-downs feature soothing voices like co-founder Andy Puddicombe narrators – with options for female or male narration voices such as co-founder Andy Puddicombe narrators!
Sleep Radio provides more than 8 hours of calming rain, ocean and music sounds designed to aid relaxation and aid sleep. Furthermore, Nighttime SOS sessions provide 10-minute guided mediations when you wake during the night to address nightmares or release any unresolved worries.
Sleep content is unique among meditation apps in that it is narrated by a team of professionals, which adds greater depth and consistency. Furthermore, the app offers various single programs such as guided meditations for preparing to give presentations or conquering pre-flight anxiety; its progress tracking feature updates your minutes meditated after every session.
Headspace costs approximately $30 a month and can be purchased either in the App Store or directly on its website. Available for both iOS and Android devices, it includes a 30-day free trial period. Studies conducted on Headspace have proven its efficacy by increasing compassion while decreasing aggression and stress; making it an excellent way to start meditation practice; however it may not suit those seeking one-on-one life coaching or advanced techniques.
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