An App a Day, Keeps the Doctor Away

Let's bring sleep health into the 21st century. 

Another night of sleep gone, but never forgotten. Getting the right amount of sleep seems impossible, especially to do every night. So the cycle goes of getting good sleep one night and restless sleep the next. We all know we need sleep but it’s never a priority, and instead it is just something you try to squeeze in at the end of your busy day. It’s either stress, or work, or Netflix that keeps you up at night, but nothing that easy ever puts you to sleep.

What if I told you there was something that could get you to fall asleep faster and improve sleep quality?

What if I told you it was as easy as clicking on an app?

Finally, our cellphones are doing something good for our sleep cycles!

Sleeping better has never been easier with the use of sleeping apps. Together, let’s break down the top three apps you can download on your phone that can change the game in sleep health.

1.Calm

The Calm app was developed by Calm.com and is Editor’s Choice on the Apple app store. This is one of the most well known sleeping aid app on the market. This app provides personalized goal options like reducing stress, increasing happiness, and sleeping better. This provides a way to create a unique platform that is specialized to your needs when it comes to sleep quality. This app provides an area to track sleep, meditate, listen to calming music, listen to bed time stories, and practice breathing and relaxation exercises. Not only does it help you sleep better, it can help you relax at the end of the day and unwind. This app is very easy to navigate with well described sections and easy to discover options. This app achieves its goal of creating a calming environment for anyone to able to drift off into sleep.

Cost: Free for some features or a 7-day free trial; $70/year for full access.

Get it today for iOS or Android.

2. Sleep Cycle

The Sleep Cycle app was developed by Sleep Cycle AB and is known as Editor’s Choice for alarm apps in Apple’s app store. This app is able to track your sleep routine and analyze how you are sleeping. Each day you can open the app and see how much sleep you got that night and what that can mean for your health. Along with this, this app provides an alarm that gently wakes you up in the morning with a gradually increasing volume that allows for a gentler waking up process and the ability to feel more rested throughout the day. This app is easy to use with four sections that provide a sleep journal, sleep statistics, an alarm, and your personalized profile. With this app you can track your sleep habits so can sleep better and wake up easier with the alarm. No more excuses for not having a sleep schedule!

Cost: Free for full access

Get it today for iOS or Android.

3. Sleep

The Sleep app was developed by Bending Spoons Apps IVS and is one of the top rated sleep sounds app on Apple’s app store. This app provides a wide variety of sounds that can help you relax, unwind, and helps you fall asleep faster and stay asleep easier. It gives access to bedtime stories, relaxing meditation sounds, sleep sounds, and bedtime reminders. You can fall asleep to a personalized customizable combination of sleep noises and once you are asleep the app provides a fade out effect that will allow for the noises to stop or transition without disrupting your sleep. This app is extremely easy to use and make customized sleep sounds that ranges from nature sounds, to coffee shop background noise, to white noise. If your a person who needs noise to fall asleep, this is the app for you!

Cost: Free for some features or 7-day free trial; $2.99/week for full access

Get it today on iOS or Android.

Now you have no excuse not to sleep more and sleep better. With these three sleep apps at your fingertips, there is nothing stopping you from getting a goodnight sleep!

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