7 Apps to Help You Sleep Better

Sleep is an essential part of overall health and getting a good night’s sleep should be one’s topmost priority as it reduces the risk of major and minor health problems, relieves stress and improves a person’s overall mood. In this day and age, when a good night’s sleep should be a top priority, many people struggle with it because of bad bedtime habits such as using tech devices just before bed, binge eating before bed, stress and caffeine consumption, etc. 

Fortunately, there are many apps and services that can help you to sleep better. In this blog, we have covered nine such apps which many people across the globe use. These offer many features from producing green and brown noise to sleep tracking. They will help you to fall asleep quickly and will also assist you in maintaining healthy sleeping habits.

7 Best Sleep Apps

Let’s start with one of the most popular apps on our list.

Calm

Calm is a subscription-based app designed as an all-in-one tool. Calm includes several sections, including sleep stories to help you fall asleep quickly. Meditation contains various exercises, ranging from anxiety and depression relief to guides on how to meditate”. These are well designed and guide you to sleep meditation, which helps you fall asleep faster and can also help with stress relief. Calm also has a music section where you can create a playlist of the music that will help you fall asleep faster. The music section has a good catalog of soundscapes and soothing sounds.

In short, it’s a fantastic tool. It offers many helpful features, from guided meditations to great sleep stories and soothing soundtracks, but everything is locked behind a paywall. The app has a free version, but the catalog is tiny compared to other free apps. Some users have also mentioned that the app constantly nags you to subscribe when you’re between sessions.

We believe the Calm app is worth it only if you can get the premium version. Otherwise, our list has better alternatives that will help you sleep better.

Headspace

Headspace is another subscription-based app that offers a variety of content, guided meditations, mindful activities and stories (sleepcasts). It’s very similar to the Calm app and both help you improve your sleep habits so you can sleep better. When you start using Headspace, you’ll find that the app is very goal-oriented. There are several guided meditation exercises, some mindful activities you can do while you work, and sleep casts (basically sleep stories).

The content library is huge, and there are helpful guides to help you better understand and use the app. The app ensures that you get the best night’s sleep possible. The content is updated daily, and each day the Headspace app introduces new exercises ranging from latitudinal work to yoga and fitness. There is also support for mindfulness content for families and children. There is also a podcast section featuring professionals and meditation experts.

The Headspace app has some great content and exercises to help you improve your mindfulness and sleep. All of this comes at a price, and that’s the worst thing about this app. It costs 70 USD per year. There is also a 14-day trial period, but just like the Calm app, the free version is very limited and most of the content is hidden behind a paywall. Although the app has helped many users sleep better, you can take advantage of the 14-day free trial and if it works for you, you should invest in the Headspace app.

Slumber: calm stories and sleep

Slumber is also a paid app, but it offers a free version, and sticking with the free version is a great idea. Meditation should be free, yet most apps are paid and come with a premium version. Slumber is quite the opposite. The free version has a great catalog of soothing sounds, meditation activities, and nighttime stories. The app is made by keeping sleep wellness as the main focus. The entire user interface shows this. It’s not too complicated to use and has some great features like listening to stories and music with soothing background sounds.

The app is constantly updated with new content, and if you want to listen to old content, you can do so with the premium version. We love Slumber and think it’s a great app if you’re struggling to get a good night’s sleep. Give it a try. It will help you sleep better.

Sleep Tracker – Sleep Recorder

Sleep Tracker: Sleep Recorder is an easy-to-use sleep tracking app, unlike the other apps in our list that focus on providing content for you to help you sleep better. Sleep Tracker is a personal sleep cycle monitoring app. It’s not smart enough to automatically start recording your sleep. So you have to start it manually, but it can record sleep stages and analyze your sleep trends. The app also has a feature that allows it to record your snoring and dream conversations, but you should disable it as it automatically backs up this data to Google Drive.

The app does what it is supposed to do very well. There are several apps that do the same thing, but in our opinion the user experience is better with Sleep Tracker – Sleep Recorder. We think if you want to track your sleep manually, this app could do the job for you. It’s free to use, but a minor annoyance is the full-screen ads, and it takes a while to skip these ads. If you can deal with this minor inconvenience, Sleep Tracker – Sleep Recorder could help you sleep better.

Note: This app is only available on Android.

BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep

BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep works on the principle that if you sleep better, you feel better. It is an app that works according to the principle “if you can do everything, you can do nothing “. It comes with a user-friendly interface. The app contains several important functions that many people use to improve their sleep quality.

The app has an integrated sleep tracker that works well, sleep sounds and calming guided meditations. All of these features are important because most people use them a lot. BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep is a great app if you don’t feel like using multiple apps for different activities like sleep tracking and sleep tunes. There is a free and a paid version of the app. The only difference is the lack of soothing music, as the catalog is not particularly large, but it does the job.

We love this app, and you should give it a try. It has its flaws, and it is not perfect by any chance. It should get the job done and will help you sleep better. It could be a solid contender for other apps on the list.

My Noise

My Noise is one of the largest platforms for immersive and soothing soundscapes that can not only help you focus better, but also sleep better. My Noise is a library of soothing sounds created by passionate sound engineer and audio enthusiast Stéphane Pigeon. My Noise is an exceptional website that contains many different types of sounds that not only help you sleep better, but also relieve stress, anxiety and depression.

Hundreds of sounds will help you concentrate better as they are very carefully curated. There are sounds for every purpose, from sleep aids and meditation to overcoming ADHD if you dream a lot or if you have problems with certain sound frequencies. You can overcome all sorts of things with this website.

It’s a real gem of a website. There is no point deduction because it is a website and not an app. It’s accessible on any device that has an internet browser and a speaker. It makes no sense to limit this website to smartphones.

My Noise

Rise

What’s the point of getting a good night’s sleep if you walk up and feel like crap. It happens to the best of us. Rise is a premium app that helps you perform all the things correctly at the right time throughout your day so that you can sleep better and wake fresh with a lot of energy.

Rise has a great and intuitive UI, and before you use the app, it collects a lot of data. This includes, for example, your sleep and wake-up times, the type of work you do, the changes you undergo in your daily activities, your age, etc. It then calculates your sleep deficit and tries to reduce it by asking you to perform certain actions throughout the day.

The app also records your sleep and works as a gentle alarm clock. It is easy to use and is sure to help you break your bad sleeping habits so you can sleep better and wake up refreshed.

Use these Apps to Sleep Better

We’ve introduced all the apps to help you sleep better. While some of these apps are paid and can only be used for a subscription fee, some of them are free to use. If you struggle with bad sleeping habits, the free apps should be enough for you. If you want to understand and improve your sleep cycle, sleep habits and sleep stages, we recommend the premium apps, as some of them have real coaches and a large community behind them, which is very helpful. Try all these apps to find out which one suits your needs.

FAQs about Sleep Apps

1. What is the best app to help me sleep?

You can try all the apps mentioned above and find the one that best suits your needs. Then start using the app daily. Over time, it should help you improve things like your sleep habits and even overall sleep quality.

2. Is there a free better sleep app?

While there are many free apps for better sleep, we prefer the one with a balanced mix of all the features you need in the free version, and if you like it, you can unlock more features by paying for the premium version. Our recommendation would be Slumber: Quiet Stories and Sleep. It’s an overall great app with all the important features and a great user interface.

3. What color noise will help you sleep better?

Green noise and Brown noise will help you fall asleep quicker and faster. Brown noises also help you to stay asleep. There are also white noises that help you block other sounds from external sources so that you can sleep peacefully.

4. Should I even track my sleep?

Yes, only if you if you are having any kind of sleeping disorder, or if you are not getting enough sleep and you wake up and feel like you have no energy. If that’s the case then tracking sleep could help you to find out and fix the root cause behind all the sleeping problems. Otherwise, it’s not worth it.