Do you want a peaceful sleep at night after a long, tiring, stressful day at work? Are you an insomniac and just can’t sleep at night whatsoever? It is necessary for our body and mind to relax after functioning well all day and for that, an adult must sleep on an average of 7-7.5 hours. But many of us can’t get the recommended hours of sleep due to various reasons. Don’t worry because if this is the case with you then I assure you that you have come to the right place!
Here is a list of the top 10 sleep apps that you must use to get the recommended hours of a peaceful sleep every day and improve your sleep pattern.
Top 10 sleeping apps
- Digipill
Digipill is somewhat like a self-help app, it might help you to reduce stress, lose weight and stay fit, always stay focused and motivated, or monitor your sleep cycle. It contains around half an hour-long audio tracks which they call ‘pills’ that help you activate your subconscious and alters your perception making you release all the stress you have and thus, making you mind free.
To have a peaceful sleep go for the “sleep deeply pill” which contains audios to soothe your mind and helps to go into a deep sleep. If you have a busy day and quickly want a power nap then choose the “power nap pill”.
- Pzizz
Pzizz has very unique techniques to help you go to sleep as quickly as possible. It has various well-designed music, voice-over and sound effects for every night. The narratives and the music help you calm down, go to sleep, have a peaceful sleep throughout, and wake up refreshed and energetic. This app is very helpful even when you want to take a power nap to boost your energy during the day.
Pzizz offers you a 7-day sleep challenge so that you can first be satisfied with their service and purchase their premium pack without any confusion in mind.
- Relax Melodies
Relax Melodies can help you very well to treat your insomnia and make you sleep all night long. On this app, you can create your own sleep-inducing soundtrack! Select some soundtracks from your regular playlist according to your taste, add a little nature sounds with it, combine it with a Melody, and done! You now have your personalized sleep track ready. What a beautiful idea of combining one’s favorite songs with nature in order to calm their mind down. You can also discover some relaxing sound combinations that are available on the app itself.
- Recolor
The Recolor app is surely different from all the other apps present on the list. It focuses on channeling your anxiety towards doing something productive so that your mind is calm after some time and you go to sleep very relaxedly and stress-free.
There are more than 1,000 pictures on the app which are alphabetically arranged by themes that have various categories like patterns, sceneries, sea life, pictures of food, and also sports and pop culture available for you to fill in colors into them. After selecting the image you like the most, you are presented with a color palette that has a wide variety of shades and hues that makes you put all your focus and concentration to color your masterpiece.
- Sleepa
Sleepa offers 30+ sounds from four different categories that are: rain, nature, city, and meditation all of which are well created. The app also has a built-in alarm clock feature which helps you create gentle alarm notifications, which can be selected from the 30+ soundtracks plus three kinds of white noise, pink noise frequency, and brown noise frequency to help you relax.
This app holds a huge collection of high-definition sounds that can be mixed up with the peaceful and calming sounds in nature, with a timer that will automatically stop the sounds when you go into the arms of sleep.
- Pillow
Pillow is your specially designed smart-sleep assistant specially designed for iPhone users. It is connected to your Apple device and can analyses your sleep cycle automatically through your apple watch or you can just keep your smartphone beside you when you go to sleep.
It also has an alarm clock feature to wake you up when you are in your lightest sleeping stage so that you don’t feel groggy and irritated all day by waking up by your regular alarm clock. It also tracks your sleep trend and gives you personalized tips in order to get a night of better sleep.
- Slumber
Remember the old days as a child, your grandmother used to tell you bedtime stories? That very “bedtime ritual” is what this app focuses on. It has a collection of various stories that are designed to induce sleep. In order to get a restful sleep all night long, you can adjust the nature sounds and the background sound effects too.
As some people believe one should meditate to calm their mind, this app contains soundtracks that you can play while meditating to soothe your mind just before going to sleep.
- Sleep Tracker ++
The Sleep Tracker ++ app is again for the iPhone and Apple watch users out there. It connects with your Apple Watch or your iPhone to sync your sleep cycle data. This app also has a feature for you to add notes and hashtags in places where you think you must change or improve your sleep behavior in your sleep pattern.
For data tracking to be more accurate one can adjust the sensitivity and sensors to get better results.
- Tide
Our minds always wander here and there all day long. But it that happens at night this can be a major problem as it keeps you away from getting restful and calm sleep at night and in order to get a long sleep during the night your mind ends up puzzled in your thoughts itself.
This app has many features like timers, soothing and sleep-inducing soundtracks, meditation practices and also breathing exercises to relax your mind and body totally and focus on sleeping quickly.
- Headspace
Headspace is a well-known app that is used by many people for meditation practices. But it also has “sleep casts” in which you can get to hear stories that are basically around an hour long. They make you visualize scenes like a slow-moving train or a walk through a garden with the peaceful sounds of the winds blowing.
The best part about this app is that it has a new story every night for you to listen to so that you don’t get bored listening to the same old stories on repeat.
These were the top 10 sleep apps that actually work and are worth giving a try.
Conclusion
Phew! That was a long list. But you must understand that no matter how busy you are and how much pending work you have you must get some sleep at night because if you don’t do that you must end up feeling jittery, irritated, and groggy the next day and can’t give your 100% in your work and day to day activities. Go through the list above thoroughly and choose the sleep app that you think will suit you the best.
