Sleep is for the weekend. At least, that’s what we want to believe. Unfortunately, sleep doesn’t come to some people when they tuck themselves in for the night. Whether it’s a bad case of insomnia or you just find yourself falling into some night owl habits that you want to break, there’s something out there that can bring you a good night’s rest.
Here are 5 apps that can help you sleep better at night:
What is it?
SleepTown is an app from the developers of Forest app. Its sole purpose is to help you attain a healthy, regular sleep schedule. Construct buildings just by achieving your bedtime and wake-up goals every day.
Keep a regular sleep schedule in just 3 steps:
1) Set a challenging bedtime and wake-up goal
2) Open SleepTown before your bedtime goal and start constructing a building
3) Wake up before your wake-up goal, shake your phone to clear your mind, and see which building you built last night
4) Repeat these steps every day to keep a regular sleep schedule and create a livelier SleepTown
With SleepTown are interesting features such as:
- Set-up a bedtime reminder and alarm clock
- Claim revenue from your SleepTown after every successful construction. The amount of revenue you can claim increases with the number of successful consecutive construction days.
- Spend your earned coins to build a building of your preference.
- Redeem tickets to significantly increase your chances of constructing a rare building
- View your SleepTown and all your sleep statistics on the town page.
Review
SleepTown is a cute little interactive game that really engages it’s user with promoting better sleeping habits. It keeps track of when you’re going to bed based on your phone activity and rewards you for going to bed on time with constructing a little town. It really guilts you when you don’t go to bed on time by destroying the town that you worked so hard on.
Check out the iOS version here & the Android version here!
What is it?
Lucidity is a lucid dreamer app with innovative features to help you lucid dream, keep a dream journal, and analyze your dreams.
• Elegant UI to enjoy writing and reading your dreams, with Android’s latest navigation and design guidelines
• Password-protected dream journal
• Tag, search and filter your dreams with custom labels
• Morning reminder: have a notification ready to immediately write down your dreams once you wake up
• Evening reminder: it’s important to read your passed night dream in the evening, to develop a better dream recall
• All Day Awareness feature: never again forget to be aware!
• Import/export all your dreams to your SD card in only one click
• Nice statistics: who doesn’t like to watch cool and colorful graphs about his data?
• Find recurrent dream signs. Lucidity can analyze your dreams and find recurrent words and patterns
• Record your dream entries by audio with Lucidity Premium
Review
I’ve always been interested in the science behind lucid dreaming. This app really explores the concept of it through your own personal dreams and trains you to grasp lucid dreaming. This also counts as a sort of dream journal that helps you keep track of your status. There are certain premium features that you don’t have access to unless you add it on, but I think all the free features have a lot to offer when you start off.
Check out the Android version here!
What is it?
Tide is a physical and mental health app on a theme of nature sounds, which helps you to keep focused, reduce stress, relax and sleep better in the busy daily life. There are two primary functional modules combined with various nature sounds scenes that makeup it: “FOCUS” and “SLEEP”. It is a way you enter another peaceful time-space away from the fast-paced current moment.
- Nature Sounds:
– Selected high quality sounds from nature world, create a trip through time-space.
– With the original functionality of music fusion, you can enjoy the white noise simultaneously with music playing. - Sleep & Nap:
– Various nature sounds help you get a good sleep.
– Through day and night, you can switch between quick nap mode and sleep mode
– Lightly wakeup makes it much easier to get up. - Focus Timer:
– Efficient work mode: Based on the Pomodoro technique, we set a timer consist of a twenty-five minutes concentration followed by a five-minute break.
– Historical focusing analysis: Review your every focused time. - Daily Inspiring Quotes:
– Selected daily inspiring quote, with respect to everyone who mindfully living. - Tide Diary:
– Every moment is recorded by visible data report.
– Fine sharing card makes the journey emerged.
Review
I probably need more time to adapt to this app but I find a lot of the features that it has to be interesting and innovative. I think it’s a lot easier than searching high and low for a Youtube video that has the various amount of soothing sounds that I need to study or work. This also can be used as a journal so that you can reflect on your journey.
Check out the iOS version here & the Android version here!
What is it?
Pzizz delivers sleep at the push of a button. Using the science of psychoacoustics, the app’s patented system plays you “dreamscapes”— a sleep-optimized mix of music, voiceover, and sound effects that changes each night, to quickly quiet your mind, put you to sleep, keep you asleep, and then wake you up feeling refreshed.
Review
This app is similar to the Tide app except this one focuses more on scheduling your naps and maintaining your focus during a certain amount of time. I found the focus timer to be a really helpful resource for just settling myself in. I don’t think the app is as helpful with distractions though and it’s more independent on the user’s part to maintain that focus during that scheduled time.
Check out the iOS version here & the Android version here!
What is it?
SleepTime provides insight into your sleep patterns. By tracking your level of movement throughout the night, SleepTime generates customized sleep data in easy-to-read charts. SleepTime analyzes your movement throughout the night, graph your sleep cycles, and learns to wake you up at the perfect moment of your lightest sleep phase.
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