Sleeping well at night helps you tackle every day with energy and enthusiasm, performing at the top of your game. Over the longer term, getting a good night’s sleep every day will help to reduce your exposure to the risk of health conditions like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart attack and stroke.
If you’re struggling to get the shuteye you need, there are sleep and relaxation apps that can help. Whether you’re battling insomnia or just want to enhance sleep quality, there is an app for you.
TCL looks at some Android apps to help you track your nightly sleep, transform your sleeping habits, and get into the right headspace for bedtime.
BetterSleep
BetterSleep helps you fall asleep easily, sleep soundly and develop better sleep habits with its dreamy soundscapes, narrated stories and relaxed meditations. The app will track your sleep, understand how it works, and propose ways to improve it. It helps you to learn about the science behind your unique sleep needs.
Calm
Calm is an app for sleep, meditation and relaxation. Its guided meditations, sleep stories, soundscapes, breathwork and stretching exercises are designed to help you manage stress, balance moods and sleep better.
Goodsomnia
You can easily record and analyse snoring using Goodsomnia Lab. This snore recording app helps you identify if you or your partner snore and what factors affected your snoring the most. Track and replay your snoring sounds, dive into your sleep report details and share it with your doctor – all from your Android phone.
Headspace
Headspace is a guide to mental health, mindfulness, and meditation. At bedtime, use the app to create a space for better sleep. The app lets you destress with sleep sounds, relaxing nature sounds, calming sleep music, and guided deep sleep meditations. There are hundreds of sleepcasts, meditation tracks and bedtime soundscapes to choose from.
Loóna
From when you wake up and during your busy day, Loóna will support your emotional states with playlists and immersive stories. Each night, you’ll have a guided session that bundles together cognitive therapy, activity-based relaxation, storytelling and sleep sounds. Complete it to shut the world out and create the perfect mood for sleep.
Shut Eye
Shut Eye Sleep helps you understand and improve your sleep with its premium sleep sounds, amazing stories and soothing meditations. There are more than 200 sleep sounds and music tracks to choose from.
Sleep Cycle
Sleep Cycle is your personal sleep tracker and smart alarm clock with a range of features (including snore recorder, sleep recorder and sleep sounds) to help you get a good night’s rest and wake up easier. You will be in a better mood and feel recharged and focused during the day.
SleepScore
The SleepScore app provides personalised information about your sleep cycles so you can make manageable lifestyle changes to improve your sleep. It uses your microphones and speakers to analyse your movements and breathing patterns to generate your sleep score. The app has a smart alarm clock to gently wake you at the ideal time in your sleep cycle.
Slumber
Slumber includes 800+ sleep-inducing calm bedtime stories, guided sleep meditations and soothing noises that will help you to improve your sleep habits.
