You are not alone if you are having trouble sleeping, as every night millions of people toss and turn longing for a better night's rest. The best sleep-tracking apps can help you relax, meditate, and start dreaming quicker.
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Research has proven again and again that there are many benefits to getting better sleep such as improved energy, mood, focus, and productivity. Sleeping better also helps to improve your creativity, helps you maintain a healthy weight, and reduces hunger cravings.
Your Apple Watch does a pretty good job with this. But, the data it collects can be used to better effect with apps.
Here are of few of the best sleep-tracking apps available for your iPad and iPhone.
Sleep Cycle
If you wake up feeling groggy, Sleep Cycle may be just the sleep tracking app for you. Sleep Cycle analyzes sleep patterns to detect snoring, and sleep talking.
The app also includes an intelligent alarm clock that gently wakes you up during light sleep.
Sleep Cycle helps users improve sleep patterns.
Sleep Cycle allows you to understand your sleep patterns with detailed tracking analysis. Sleep Cycle also provides users with a library of music, sleep stories, guided meditations, and relaxing sounds.
Use the Sleep Cycle app to analyze your sleep patterns and resting heart rate, detect snoring, sleep talking, and other sleep sounds.
Sleep Cycle is available for free on the App Store. A premium subscription costs $39.99 per year
Sleep Reset
Sleep Reset is an app for those who suffer from insomnia and need to get a better night's sleep. Sleep Reset is a personalized digital sleep clinic and is designed by top sleep experts from leading clinics and universities.
App users have access to information on why you may sleep poorly, learn about sleep hygiene, and receive tips from sleep experts.
Sleep Reset helps users get to the root cause of their sleep issues.
Sleep Reset also offers users a sleep assessment to discover sleep patterns and ongoing issues to its users. Users of the app learn to improve sleep habits through guided meditation programs and sleep coaching.
Sleep Reset also tracks sleeping data for its users. App users have access to personalized coaching and tutorials based on sleep needs, meditation, and breathing exercises before bed, as well as information on sleep science and sleep hygiene.
Sleep Reset is a free download from the App Store. A premium Sleep Ritual Program is a $229.99 in-app purchase.
Pillow
Pillow is the smart sleep assistant you need if you are having trouble sleeping. App users can analyze sleep cycles, access a smart alarm clock, and record audio events including snoring, sleep talking, and sleep apnea.
Pillow provides multiple ways for users to track sleep patterns within the app.
Millions of people worldwide use Pillow to achieve a better night's sleep.
Pillow offers sleep stage analysis, heart rate analysis and provides respiratory rates. Pillow app users can access audio recordings and an expanded collection of meditations, stories, soundscapes, and music to help prepare for a better's night's sleep.
Pillow is free on the App Store. Pillow Premium is $39.99 annually, $6.99 monthly.
ShutEye
ShutEye is a great sleep tracker and snore assessment tool. App users learn better sleep hygiene and discover personal causes and solutions to snoring.
Monitor sleep stages using the ShutEye app on iOS.
ShutEye is a personalized sleep app that allows users to relax and track sleep cycles. The app provides an in-depth look at your night's rest by monitoring your sleep cycles and snore patterns.
ShutEye provides sleep coaching, smart alarm, and a wide variety of sleep sounds, sleep stories and meditations.
App users have access to personalized CBTI coaching, real-time biometric data collection and analytics based on your night's sleep. ShutEye allows users to access sleep quizzes assessing stress levels, sleep quality, and sleep apnea.
You can get ShutEye free on the App Store. ShutEye Premium is $59.99 per year or $9.99 per month, but has a limited-time offer price of $29.99.
BetterSleep
BetterSleep is another great sleep tracker helping users create a personalized sleep experience for a more restful night through a night-time recorder and soothing sounds, music, and guided meditation content.
Track patterns and create effective bedtime routines with BetterSleep.
Through BetterSleep, users can discover chronotype (sleep preferences), track patterns, and create effective bedtime routines. App users have access to rich audio content, guided stories, and relaxation techniques for improved sleeping patterns.
There is also a sleep tracker, night recorder, soothing sounds, music, a variety of calming soundscapes, and science-backed relaxation techniques at your disposal
BetterSleep is free on the App Store. Premium packages range from $9.99 to $79.99.
Sleep Meditation Apps w/o sleep trackers
There are many sleep apps available designed for the purpose of helping users achieve relaxation and to reduce anxiety and stress through meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness. Although these apps do not include sleep trackers, each provides beneficial resources for achieving a restful night's sleep.
Calm
Calm, a sleep and meditation app designed to improve your overall health and happiness, is one of the best apps available on iOS for relaxation and meditation. Calm also provides tips to improve your quality of sleep.
Calm provides relaxing sleep stories to help you fall asleep.
Calm includes bedtime stories for adults and children, a relaxing music library, and soundscapes to help you fall asleep. App users also have access to sleep stories, updated content added weekly, and breathing and stretching exercises.
There are also guided mediation programs great for easing stress and anxiety.
Additionally, the Calm App offers app users relaxing stories read by celebrity readers, including Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, and Harry Styles.
Calm is free on the App Store. Calm Premium starts from $14.99 and rises to $69.99.
HeadSpace
HeadSpace offers users meditation, mindfulness, stress, and anxiety support. This meditation and sleep app includes hundreds of meditation programs.
Additionally, the sleep feature included helps users achieve a better night's sleep.
HeadSpace provides meditation, sleep stories and music to help you drift off to sleep.
App users have access to sleep sounds and meditations to relax and create the best conditions for restful sleep. HeadSpace also includes calm and tranquil sleep music and soothing sleep nature recording sounds, and a wide range of articles on healthy sleeping habits to support a good night's sleep.
HeadSpace users have access to diverse meditation programs, relaxing sounds, and exercises to help users unwind before falling asleep.
HeadSpace is free on the App Store. The HeadSpace monthly subscription is $12.99, annual is $69.99, and HeadSpace Plus is $94.99.