Insomnia or a disturbed sleep can affect your physical and mental health as well as your productivity during the day. Learning about your sleep patterns can be the key to a good start.
Healthline has selected a list of some of the best apps for Android and iPhone.
Sleep Cycle
Monitors your sleep patterns and provides detailed statistics and daily sleep charts, so you can get a better understanding of what is happening when you sleep, or what might interfere with a good night's sleep. The app also features an intelligent alarm clock created to wake you up gently when you are in the lightest sleep phase.
Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep
This Android-only app will help you start your audio therapy. Choose between high quality water sounds, nature sounds, animal sounds, "white noise" and more, all created to help you relax and sleep.
Sleep as Android
this Android app was created to track your sleep cycle and measure its quality in terms of duration, deficit, percentage of deep sleep, snoring, efficacy and irregularity. This knowledge about your sleep patterns can help you make changes for better sleep.
Sleepa
Sleepa features an excellent collection of sounds that can be mixed in relaxing environments with a timer created to automatically stop the app. You can choose between 32 sounds in four groups - rain, nature, city and meditation - plus three types of white noise and the lesser known pink and brown noise frequencies. You can also set soft alarms.
Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds
The app includes 5-day programs that help you sleep faster and better, coupled with other qualities.
Pillow Automatic Sleep Tracker
Pillow is an intelligent waking assistant for iPhone users. The app analyzes your sleep cycles automatically through Apple Watch, or simply when you hold your phone close while you sleep. Features include an alarm to wake you up during the easier sleep phase, sleep trend tracking, sounds that help you sleep, and personalized knowledge and tips for better quality rest.
Sleep Sounds
The app contains soothing sounds to put you to sleep and automatically shuts off after a certain duration.
Other applications similar to the above are:
- Slumber: Fall Asleep, Insomnia
- White Noise Lite
- Tide
- Nature Sounds
- Sleep ++ etc.
Source: Healthline
