The best sleep app is the one that suits you best, either if you want to have a more restful sleep, listen to soothing sounds to relax, or relieve anxiety and stress.
In an increasingly hectic world, we can hardly rest at night and more and more people are experiencing insomnia. If you know more data about how you sleep, it’s easier to have a more restful sleep.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends that healthy adults get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep a night, while babies, young children, and teenagers need even more hours for their growth and development.
Unfortunately, most adults do not even get close to the minimum threshold of 7 hours of sleep per night, which over time leads to health problems and worsening of current ones.
You can improve your sleep in many ways from choosing a mattress that your back will like to the ambiance of your room.
But a sleep app will also help you fight insomnia, especially if your smartphone is connected to a smartwatch or fitness tracker for more accurate monitoring and to gather as much data as possible to make your sleep more enjoyable.
We have chosen for you the best free apps for iOS and Android but also paid apps to give you as many details about your sleep as possible. Some also offer pleasant sounds to help you fall asleep quickly and easily. Also, some also give you pleasant sounds to fall asleep as easily and quickly as possible while others give you the best time to fall asleep or wake up according to REM for a restful sleep.
Loona
The first thing the app asks you when you use it for the first time is what you are using it for: to fall asleep, to feel better, to relieve stress, to calm your mind, to feel relaxed, or to reduce anxiety.
The app reports that 73% of its users feel better after completing their first sleepscape and 83% claim to have a deeper sleep after the first week of doing sleepscapes.
You can connect it to your smartphone’s health app to discover how much sleep you get on average and understand your sleep patterns. Also, this app will give you recommended content around your needs.
The app will ask you a series of questions to customize the sleepscape visuals to your lifestyle and tastes. You can choose between nature, water, wildlife, urban, and even ASMR for sounds. Finally, the app will ask you to set your sleep schedule and you are ready to use the app.
With the free version of Loona, you will get only a sleepscape that includes three stories and three playlists. For the full version, you have to pay a subscription of $12.99 per month or a full-year subscription with 7 days trial for $39.99, subscription price may vary by country.
Cost: $12.99/month or $39.99/year
Sleepa
Sleepa is a great app for insomnia or people who have trouble with anxiety or overthinking. This app has 32 natures and meditation sounds that make your mind clear and calm you instantly.
The free version will provide you with high-quality mixed sounds and creates relaxing ambiances to give you a soothing and restful sleep, but for more features, sounds, and meditation classes a subscription is required.
The app is ad-supported and if you want to get rid of ads, have a sleep timer or enjoy more sounds, the monthly subscription costs $2.99, and the annual subscription costs $24.99.
Cost: $2.99/month, $24.99/year
White Noise Deep Sleep Sounds
The app claims that using it will help calm a fussy baby during naptime and bedtime to help engage your babies calming reflex and form positive sleep associations.
With the free version, you can make a mix with a maximum of two overlapping sounds but with a subscription, you remove this restriction and on top of that you unlock hundreds of other sounds that will help you and your baby have a restful sleep.
You can even record your own sounds for Android and Apple users for free, and for more features, the weekly subscription is $0.99, the monthly subscription is $2.99 and the annual subscription is $19.99. It also has the Family Sharing feature for $29.99/year and if you’re not sure, you get a 7-day free trial to check out the features.
Cost: $0.99/week, $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or Family Sharing for $29.99/year.
Pillow
Pillow is a smart sleep assistant that helps you discover the life-changing benefits of great sleep. In order to receive more personalized analysis and insights, you need to share some additional information about yourself with the app.
The app will notify you at the time you set when the previous night’s sleep report is ready, a useful tool. The monthly subscription costs $6.99 and $39.99 per year to unlock features such as complex sleep details, a power nap function for shorter bursts of sleep or to export your sleep sound recordings.
Being an iOS-only app, the app integrates apple’s built-in Health app, and with the data collected gives you important information about sleep, REM and deep sleep, heart rate recordings, and other useful information.
Cost: $6.99/month, or $39.99/year
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Breathwrk: Breathing Exercises
Breathwrk customizes your experience to your needs, so you can choose to manage stress and anxiety, sleep and recovery, have more energy and focus, performance and endurance, or improve your health. You need to set up the schedule for each to let the app build a custom program for you.
The app is free, but for offline access, advanced statistics, and recommendations, guided programs with coaches you must pay a subscription fee of $7.99 a month or $38.99 a year. Also, with a subscription, you unlock all music, sounds, and visuals, 100+ premium exercises and classes, and 3 new courses every day.
We believe that with the free version you have all the tools you need to have a successful day and get things done.
Cost: $7.99/month or $38.99/year
Headspace
An internal study claims that after just 10 days of Headspace happiness improves by 16% and reduces stress by 14%. In the app, you can connect with your friends and 60 million other users around the world.
This app can help you manage everyday anxiety and stress, to be more active, or to stay focused for the whole day with music and soundscapes or meditation classes.
You can also track your stress and anxiety over time with monthly check-ins, a useful tool if you ask us.
The first 14 days in the app are free and after that, if you want to enjoy the Headspace experience you have to pay a $12.99 monthly or $69.99 yearly subscription.
Cost: $12.99/month or $69.99/year
Breethe: Meditation & Sleep
If you want to use the app to remedy your sleep, and anxiety, give yourself a boost of happiness or use it for therapy, Breethe is the perfect app for you.
The app helps you fall asleep faster, get a better night’s sleep or reduce the use of sleep aids.
After you choose your goals, you can use the app with a 14-day free trial after the monthly subscription it will cost you $12.99, the yearly one $89 and if you want to pay once in a lifetime it will cost you $170.
Cost: $12.99/month, $89/year, or $170/lifetime
Calm
The app has a user-friendly interface that you won’t get lost in. The meditations and bedtime stories last between 3 minutes and 40 minutes and are narrated by celebrities such as LeBron James, Prince EA, Matthew McConaughey, Jay Sheety, Harry Styles, and Stephen Fry.
Besides these, you get soundscapes, check-ins, breathing exercises, movement exercises, relaxing music, and even meditations for kids. For these features, an annual subscription will cost you $69.99; if you want to pay once in a lifetime, it will cost $399.99.
Cost: $69.99/year (7-day free trial), or $399.99/lifetime
Sleep Cycle
Sleep Cycle analyses your sleep and will wake you up in your lightest sleep phase so you feel rested and refreshed at the same time.
The app will use your device’s microphone to listen to your movements and other sounds like coughing or snoring during sleep and help you understand your sleep patterns.
The app is based on a $9.99 per month or $39.99 per year subscription with a 7-day free trial and gives you valuable information about your sleep, will help you fall asleep more easily with their soothing sounds, will automatically track your nights with Apple Watch and you will receive statistics on your progress and identify changes over time.
There are many options the app gives you, but it’s best to try them out.
Cost: $9.99/month or $39.99/year
Balance: Meditation & Sleep
In the beginning, the app will ask you a few questions to customize your tutoring program. Like any sleep app, you need to set your goals: to reduce stress, improve sleep, increase focus or improve mood.
Based on a survey of members who use the app 5 times a week, of those, 95% report less stress, 82% report better sleep, 75% report increased focus, and 92% report improved mood.
The app will make you a personalized program based on how often you feel stressed, and how often you experience stress, which is the biggest source of it.
The app comes to your support, it is free for the first year of use after which it will cost you $11.99/month and $69.99/year.
Cost: $11.99/month and $69.99/year
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