If you want to improve your sleep quality, apps that track sleep cycles and provide soothing sounds and guided meditations may help – but some may make you anxious about poor quality rest.
Calm is an accessible app designed to promote sleep. With stories and soothing music dedicated to relaxation, a subscription unlocks even more content such as ASMR stories and yoga classes aimed at aiding sleeping.
Sleep Cycle
Sleep Cycle is an iOS and Android app that analyzes your movement to identify the optimal time to wake you. Additionally, it tracks how much light, deep, REM sleep you get every night as well as other features like nature sound lullabies, snoring/sleep talk recording capabilities, as well as providing helpful sleep advice.
The app is easy to use: Just turn it on before bedtime and place your phone next to your pillow (not under it, as this could interfere with its movement sensors). As soon as light sleep begins, the app begins tracking movements when entering light sleep phases – then, at just the right time, gently wakes you up while still in light sleep state – providing more natural waking up experience than traditional alarm clocks as it keeps deep or REM sleep from being interrupted.
Sleep Cycle can also help you understand and improve your habits through daily insights. It provides a consistent approach with sleep goals and tailored Sleep Programs designed to teach better sleeping techniques. Plus, listen to recordings of yourself snoring or talking while sleeping to gauge how much of it contributes to overall snores!
Oura is an advanced non-wearable sleep tracker designed to monitor heart rate monitoring, motion and temperature sensor technology and smartphone app integration to provide sleep, activity and hydration insights that enable informed lifestyle decisions that improve health and well-being.
Slumber
Slumber is the ultimate sleep app with everything you need for sound sleep – programs & guides, tracker, sounds and school. All this in just one app!
Slumber offers an expansive library of highly relaxing bedtime stories and meditations designed to combat insomnia, fall asleep quickly, and improve overall health every night. Each episode is professionally written, designed, and recorded to guide you into deep slumber – easily adjust the background ambiance and music for an ideal slumber experience! Furthermore, Slumber syncs up with Apple Health’s mindfulness minutes via HealthKit for added peace of mind.
Are you visiting grandma or friends for an overnight sleepover? Slumber is the ultimate travel crib, simple to set up, pack away and take with you. Starting out as a newborn bassinet it quickly transforms into a toddler crib then playard – giving your little one their favorite space to rest anywhere they please!
Tide
Tide is a new business account provider offering an alternative to traditional banking. Their app-based bank account is perfect for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) as well as freelancers who require separate personal and business finances, earning them a 4.3 out of 5-rating on Trustpilot out of over 16,000 reviews. Customers appreciate how simple it is to open an app account, how quickly physical cards arrive in the mail, as well as excellent customer service experience; in addition, the app offers features tailored specifically towards business owners including auto categorisation capabilities as well as integration with accounting software.
Tide was established as a fintech venture in 2015, and since then has experienced tremendous growth. Their accounts are provided by ClearBank which is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under e-money regulations; as such, Tide is protected up to PS85,000 against insolvency. Tide’s main mission is to assist small businesses achieve their dreams; their app-based business account features such as no monthly fees or foreign transaction charges and integration with accounting software make this account perfect for modern businesses.
Growing quickly, Monzo already boasts over half a million UK customers. Ideal for small business owners and freelancers dealing with many UK companies or sending multiple invoices; as well as those needing to integrate banking software. Unfortunately it may not suit those requiring frequent cash deposits/transfers.
Bedtime Stories
Bedtime stories for kids might seem old-fashioned in today’s high-tech environment, but they still can play an invaluable role in their development. Reading aloud together helps strengthen bonding while giving their brains a workout – both essential for future life success. Furthermore, bedtime stories provide the perfect way for parents and children alike to enjoy an extraordinary bonding experience together!
Though some parents have drifted away from bedtime storytelling in favor of television or computer gaming, many still see this time as an invaluable way for them to bond with their kids. Reading can help children feel more at ease and provides an effective means for discussing difficult topics – making for an invaluable conversation starter about how characters in stories may have responded in similar circumstances and what effects those decisions had on them personally.
The Bedtime Stories app is an adorable mobile platform that provides children with a delightful selection of fictional sleep stories to help them fall asleep easily. It includes classic fairy tales as well as fables and other stories to help children drift off quickly at bedtime, plus soothing melodies, sleep sounds, guided meditations and guided relaxations to help facilitate restful slumber. Downloading is free; creating an account must be created first in order to use the app effectively.
Similar to Sleep Cycle’s app, Yours App features an extensive library of “sleep stories”, featuring kid-friendly fairy tales and fables as well as positivity-focused programs designed to address topics like self-esteem and shyness. Furthermore, Yours App also offers more advanced options like sleep tracking and alarms – though these require subscription to use.
NapBot
NapBot was developed by Majid Jabrayilov, the creator of popular heart-tracking app CardioBot. Unlike Apple Watch’s built-in apps, this sleep tracker provides more advanced features. Automatically tracking sleeping patterns and health metrics, while providing richer analysis than Apple’s own app; also offering melodies to wake you up to as well as notifications displaying sleep analysis at a glance; can be used free or purchased with monthly or yearly subscription for even deeper analysis and tracking capabilities.
NapBot stands out among sleep trackers by its ability to detect sleep disorders like obstructive sleep apnea. By measuring breathing rate, sensors on your watch measure it and help determine if its impact has on your quality of restful slumber is negatively impacted. Furthermore, NapBot offers useful tutorials in yoga, light stretching, and meditation that may help ease you into relaxation for bedtime.
NapBot stands out from its competition in several ways: using on-device machine learning, it detects your sleep patterns, provides detailed analysis of deep and light sleep phases, analyzes environmental sound exposure to determine its effect on your rest, provides an HR summary chart based on HR zones, and can display sleep trends visually in beautifully designed overviews.
Some of the best sleep tracking apps offer features such as coaching, sleep and lifestyle programs, audio content libraries and synchronizing with Apple Health to incorporate data from other fitness and wellness apps into their analysis of how your behaviors influence sleeping patterns.
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