No sound, no screen to stare at, no score to chase. Your Apple Watch reads your heart and vibrates just under it, and your pulse follows the vibration down.
BeatSleep does one thing. Your Apple Watch reads your heart, then vibrates on
your wrist just under your own rate. Your pulse follows the vibration down, and
you fall asleep.
No sound, and nothing to watch. The screen exists only to prove it is working,
and it fades away once you no longer need it.
HOW A NIGHT GOES
For the first 45 seconds nothing vibrates, while BeatSleep measures the rate you
are actually resting at. Then the cadence anchors there and sheds four beats
every ten minutes, staying just under your pulse: far enough to lead, close
enough to be followed. If a noise wakes you, it stops pulling and re-anchors to
your real heartbeat within a minute.
Apple Watch gives an app only a handful of vibration patterns, and most carry a
tone through the speaker. BeatSleep uses the one that does not, so the person
beside you sleeps through your night.
The night closes itself five minutes after your pulse has settled. A hard
fifteen minutes, or the whole night, are yours to set instead.
IN THE MORNING
Health will tell you that you slept seven hours. BeatSleep will tell you that
forty minutes of them were awake in eleven separate pieces, how long you took to
fall asleep, and how far your pulse fell below your resting rate. It reads Apple
Health, so there is something to show you on the very first morning.
NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICES
No account. No server. No analytics, no advertising identifiers and no
third-party SDKs. Your heart rate is read from HealthKit on the watch, the
summary is computed there overnight, and it travels to your iPhone over Apple's
encrypted device link. If you turn on iCloud sync, your nights go to your own
private iCloud, in encrypted fields, never to us. You can export everything as a
file, or erase it for good, at any time.
BEATSLEEP PRO
Free leads three nights in any seven days, and they are whole nights: the same
descent, the same failsafe, the same morning summary. Pro lifts the count to
every night, and adds your full history, every month behind you, the Thrum and
Hush waveforms, a breath with your own four counts, iCloud sync, and the rest of
the colours.
BeatSleep Pro is €3.99 a month or €24.99 a year, billed to your Apple Account
and renewing until you cancel, which you can do at any time in Settings.
Terms of Use: https://javi7899.github.io/beatsleep-web/terms.html
Privacy Policy: https://javi7899.github.io/beatsleep-web/privacy.html
Requires an Apple Watch. BeatSleep is not a medical device: it does not
diagnose, treat or prevent any condition.
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Seven languages. BeatSleep is now read in French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese as well as English and Spanish, on the phone, the iPad and the wrist. Translated by hand, screen by screen, and not only the words: what the watch does on your wrist is a vibration and never a tap, in all seven.
One hour, and the hour you should keep. Waking is one exact time now, one per day of the week, instead of a window with two ends. And BeatSleep can tell you what it should be: a button that reads the hour your nights actually end from Apple Health and offers you the week they describe.
The vibration is one beat, and what you choose is its shape. There was a firmness control, and before that a bar of five, and before that three chips. None of them worked: on a wrist the stops felt alike, because firmness on this hardware is only how many clicks land and how close together, and there is no range in that, only one fused thud and one series of taps. So there is no firmness now. There is one beat, the one that has been shipping and working since 1.4, and three shapes that are three different kinds of thing: Tide is a single dense swell, Thrum is a heartbeat with a rest inside it, and Hush is three separate taps you could count if you tried.
Your pulse, following. While a night is running there is a tab on the phone for it, and on it two dots beat at the two real rates: one at the cadence your wrist is being asked for, one at the pulse you are holding. Watching them fall into step is the one thing this app claims, and it was the one thing it only ever asserted. Under them, both lines over the night so far. The Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island draw them too.
A light ground. The app can be turned over, from Advanced settings, and dark is still what it starts in. The watch stays dark either way: a wrist at three in the morning is the one screen a light ground has no argument for.
A free week of Pro. Seven days of everything Pro is, once, with no card, nothing to renew and nothing to cancel. At the end the app goes back to three nights a week on its own.
Larger Text, honestly. Three places where the largest text sizes broke a number away from its unit or a word in half are fixed, including the one that showed the wrong date in Japanese.
Fewer things to decide. The four sliders behind the advanced door are gone, and so are the notifications and the wake-up. They were the constants the descent is built out of, each with one right answer the app already knew; three notifications nobody had asked for; and a quickening in the half hour before your hour, which was an alarm in everything but its name and was never reliable. BeatSleep now asks for no notification permission at all, and it never offers to wake you. Your hour stays, because the bedtime is worked back from it and the night ends at it.
Older watches. BeatSleep runs on watchOS 10 and iOS 17 now, instead of asking for the newest release of both.
Version 1.5
The developer, Javier Torres Rubio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Javier Torres Rubio
Size
15.9 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.