AuroraCalm: Sleep & Relax
Smart Alarm Clock & Sounds
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Wake up gently in your lightest sleep phase – and wind down under eight living northern-light skies with calming sounds. On iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
Wake up gently, fall asleep calmly – beneath a living northern sky.
AuroraCalm pairs a smart alarm clock with eight aurora worlds rendered in real time on your device. No video and no loop: the northern lights move while you watch.
WAKE UP GENTLY
• Smart wake on iPhone: if you like, the alarm wakes you at your lightest sleep moment within a 15 to 45 minute window before your wake time – and never later than the time you set.
• Choose your wake time and weekdays, and the alarm clock takes care of the rest.
• Sleep tracking stays on your iPhone.
WIND DOWN
• Eight aurora worlds, from a glacial fjord and a mountain panorama to a clear night sky.
• Mix up to four sounds such as rain, sea, fire or white noise and set each volume separately.
• Follow a guided breathing exercise with the aurora.
• A sleep timer and dimming let picture and sound fade out gently in the evening.
ALSO ON YOUR TV
AuroraCalm has a dedicated Apple TV app for the aurora and sounds in your living room. The alarm and sleep tracking are iPhone features.
Explore the app after setup. Some features require a purchase; current plans and prices are shown in the app before you buy.
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more New in 4.5: more detailed landscapes, deeper aurora displays, livelier waves and twinkling stars. Create a saved routine for unwinding, sleep or focus, and return to your favorite scene and sound mix. Try three guided practices with written prompts and optional device voice. Start with a shorter welcome flow and keep completed practices in your history.
4.5 Sep 30
New in 4.4: Explore AuroraCalm after setup. The eight aurora scenes now have finer, directional motion, calmer stars, and livelier reflections on the water. Personal night mode dims the aurora and landscape 30 minutes after your chosen bedtime. After onboarding, try the app for five minutes before the purchase screen appears automatically.
4.4 Sep 24
The northern lights are rebuilt from scratch.
The curtains are alive: they breathe, change width and shape, and never repeat. No pattern comes back, not even after hours.
Also in this version:
- The scene “Pure Night Sky” now carries a screen-filling aurora
- The stars twinkle visibly again
- The waves on the water can be seen, not just in the reflection
- On Apple TV everything moves noticeably smoother and faster
- Old technology is gone — everything runs on a single path
4.3.3 Aug 16
The northern lights are rebuilt from scratch.
The curtains are alive: they breathe, change width and shape, and never repeat. No pattern comes back, not even after hours.
Also in this version:
- The scene “Pure Night Sky” now carries a screen-filling aurora
- The stars twinkle visibly again
- The waves on the water can be seen, not just in the reflection
- On Apple TV everything moves noticeably smoother and faster
- Old technology is gone — everything runs on a single path
4.3.2 Aug 13
The night sky has been rebuilt.
The northern lights now stand as real rays and curtains instead of soft bands. They build, flare and fade away again, and the whole movement is calmer and slower than before.
The mountains are no longer black silhouettes. They are built from real elevation data, with snow and rock you can make out, and they brighten and darken with the sun over the course of the day. The water below picks up the light above it, and the moon shows its real surface.
The stars are finer, there are more of them, and they twinkle instead of standing still.
Also in this version:
- The app starts much faster
- Sunrise and sunset are right for where you actually are
- Steadier, smoother motion on every device
- A repeating alarm is no longer lost when you quit the app
4.3.1 Aug 8
The night sky has been rebuilt.
The northern lights now stand as real rays and curtains instead of soft bands. They build, flare and fade away again, and the whole movement is calmer and slower than before.
The mountains are no longer black silhouettes. They are built from real elevation data, with snow and rock you can make out, and they brighten and darken with the sun over the course of the day. The water below picks up the light above it, and the moon shows its real surface.
The stars are finer, there are more of them, and they twinkle instead of standing still.
Also in this version:
- The app starts much faster
- Sunrise and sunset are right for where you actually are
- Steadier, smoother motion on every device
- A repeating alarm is no longer lost when you quit the app
4.3 Aug 7
AuroraCalm now speaks 31 languages — the interface arrives in your language, with no detour through English. New: Catalan, Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese.
Plus smaller fixes and polish.
4.2.2 Aug 1
New in AuroraCalm 4 — noise, sleep journal & more
• NEW: White, pink & brown noise — generated on your device, instant and offline
• NEW: Morning check-in — capture how you feel with one tap
• NEW: Lifestyle tags (coffee, exercise, stress …) reveal your sleep patterns
• NEW: Export all sleep data as CSV — your data is yours
• NEW: Lock Screen with titles & playback controls
• NEW: Siri Shortcuts — "Start sleep mode", "Start breathing", "Change scene"
• NEW: Family Sharing — one purchase for the whole household
• Home Screen shortcuts: sleep mode, breathing & scenes
• Now in 12 languages — plus even more beautiful aurora worlds
4.2.1 Jul 24
The biggest AuroraCalm update ever is here.
Everything for better sleep - in ONE app. We've grown AuroraCalm into a complete sleep & relaxation platform:
NEW: Smart Alarm
Wakes you in your lightest sleep phase - a gentler morning, instead of being torn out of deep sleep. Opt-in, fully on your device.
NEW: Sleep tracking, Sleep Score & weekly insights
Understand your sleep: a nightly hypnogram, Sleep Score and weekly trends - with Apple Health and heart rate from your Apple Watch. All private, on-device: no account, no login, no data sold.
NEW: Snore & sleep-sound recorder
Detects snoring, coughing and talking through the night and sums it up in a morning summary.
NEW: Aurora breathing exercise
A breath-synced aurora orb to help you wind down (4-7-8 / Box / Coherent).
NEW: Tinnitus relief
A one-tap broadband masking mix - can pleasantly mask and ease tinnitus.
NEW: Redesigned sound mixer
20 curated, science-backed sounds to layer on top - mix up to 4 at once, each with its own volume. Opens full-screen on iPhone.
NEW: Goal-tuned in one tap
Pick your goal (fall asleep faster / gentler wake / focus & calm / let go of stress) - and the app instantly tunes the aurora world, sound mix and the right smart setting to it, with a one-tap "Start now".
NEW: Premium dashboard everywhere
iPhone, Apple TV and Android TV now share one beautiful full-screen hub: now-playing, breathing, goals, sleep times and insights at a glance.
NEW: Intelligent auto-adapt
Senses when you fall asleep - dims the scene and eases the sound back.
Also in this build:
- Even more flawless aurora worlds - a crisper horizon across all 8 worlds, more photorealistic than ever
- Smoother & cooler - buttery navigation, even on Apple TV 4K and entry-level iPhones
- Rock-solid - fixes for launch-from-notification, sleep analysis and the alarm
- Continuously animated AuroraCalm wordmark flowing through living aurora colors
- Set your location for accurate sunrise/sunset and wind-down timing
- Realistic water & waves, finer stars, calmer shooting stars - plus lots of polish
Try it free for 7 days. For iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
4.02 Jul 17
The biggest AuroraCalm update ever is here.
Everything for better sleep - in ONE app. We've grown AuroraCalm into a complete sleep & relaxation platform:
NEW: Smart Alarm
Wakes you in your lightest sleep phase - a gentler morning, instead of being torn out of deep sleep. Opt-in, fully on your device.
NEW: Sleep tracking, Sleep Score & weekly insights
Understand your sleep: a nightly hypnogram, Sleep Score and weekly trends - with Apple Health and heart rate from your Apple Watch. All private, on-device: no account, no login, no data sold.
NEW: Snore & sleep-sound recorder
Detects snoring, coughing and talking through the night and sums it up in a morning summary.
NEW: Aurora breathing exercise
A breath-synced aurora orb to help you wind down (4-7-8 / Box / Coherent).
NEW: Tinnitus relief
A one-tap broadband masking mix - can pleasantly mask and ease tinnitus.
NEW: Redesigned sound mixer
20 curated, science-backed sounds to layer on top - mix up to 4 at once, each with its own volume. Opens full-screen on iPhone.
NEW: Goal-tuned in one tap
Pick your goal (fall asleep faster / gentler wake / focus & calm / let go of stress) - and the app instantly tunes the aurora world, sound mix and the right smart setting to it, with a one-tap "Start now".
NEW: Premium dashboard everywhere
iPhone, Apple TV and Android TV now share one beautiful full-screen hub: now-playing, breathing, goals, sleep times and insights at a glance.
NEW: Intelligent auto-adapt
Senses when you fall asleep - dims the scene and eases the sound back.
Also in this build:
- Even more flawless aurora worlds - a crisper horizon across all 8 worlds, more photorealistic than ever
- Smoother & cooler - buttery navigation, even on Apple TV 4K and entry-level iPhones
- Rock-solid - fixes for launch-from-notification, sleep analysis and the alarm
- Continuously animated AuroraCalm wordmark flowing through living aurora colors
- Set your location for accurate sunrise/sunset and wind-down timing
- Realistic water & waves, finer stars, calmer shooting stars - plus lots of polish
Try it free for 7 days. For iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.
4.0 Jul 7
Whats New in Version 3
We have spent weeks refining every pixel of AuroraCalm to bring you the most realistic northern lights experience yet.
Rebuilt Aurora Visuals
All seven aurora scenes have been completely rebuilt. The aurora now flows as true 3D ray marched curtains with realistic multi color layering including green violet pink and red tones moving at a natural pace.
Truer Night Skies
Deeper blacks sharper stars and no more light pollution. The aurora stays above the horizon and no longer overlaps mountains or the top of the screen.
Cinematic Camera Motion
Each scene now has subtle camera movement. Slower for calm views and more dynamic for coastal scenes.
Smarter Sleep Dimming
The display dims automatically thirty minutes after bedtime and brightens before wake time. Brightness can go down to ten percent.
Cleaner Audio Experience
Clearer audio selection and a fix for overlapping sounds.
Under the Hood
Improved performance HDR rendering and removal of old code paths.
Sweet dreams
3.0.1 May 12
What's New in Version 3
We've spent weeks refining every pixel of AuroraCalm to bring you the most realistic northern lights experience yet.
Rebuilt Aurora Visuals
All seven aurora scenes have been re-engineered from the ground up. The aurora now flows as true 3D ray-marched curtains with authentic multi-color layering — green, violet, pink and rare crimson coronas, each cycling through palettes at the slow, organic pace of real auroras.
Truer Night Skies
Deeper blacks, crisper starfields, and no more light pollution washing out the sky. Aurora stays where it belongs — dancing above the horizon, no longer bleeding into mountains or smearing against the top of the screen.
Cinematic Camera Motion
Each scene now breathes with its own subtle camera rhythm — slower for meditative alpine vistas, livelier for chromatic coastal bursts. A gentle entry-dolly draws you into every scene.
Smarter Sleep Dimming
The display now automatically dims thirty minutes after your bedtime and gradually brightens back thirty minutes before your wake time — deeper sleep dimming (down to 10% brightness) while keeping enough aurora glow to feel alive in the room.
Cleaner Audio Experience
The audio selector is now clearly labeled, and a fix addresses a rare audio leak where generative sleep tones and soundscape music could overlap.
Under the Hood
HDR rendering throughout, per-scene color LUTs, and a full pass to remove debug code and legacy paths — making AuroraCalm smoother, more efficient, and ready for anything you throw at it on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
Sweet dreams.
3.0 Apr 28
Sleep Phase Mode — All-new generative brainwave audio. Binaural beats with headphones, isochronic entrainment on speaker. Guides you through a natural 90-minute sleep cycle in real time. No loops, never repeats.
6 Audio Modes — Intelligent, Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep, Sleep Phase. 40 curated soundscapes. Intelligent mode adapts to your time of day.
Water Reflections — Aurora, moon, and stars now reflect on water surfaces. Organic shorelines, calm waves, shimmering stars.
Refined Moon — Warm golden tone, crater detail, limb darkening. No more aurora wash-out.
Alive Aurora — Multi-directional movement, richer colors, organic curvature. Improved performance.
Polished UI — Compact audio mode indicator, refined landscape layout, subtler interface.
2.9.7 Apr 17
Sleep Phase Mode — All-new generative brainwave audio. Binaural beats with headphones, isochronic entrainment on speaker. Guides you through a natural 90-minute sleep cycle in real time. No loops, never repeats.
6 Audio Modes — Intelligent, Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep, Sleep Phase. 40 curated soundscapes. Intelligent mode adapts to your time of day.
Water Reflections — Aurora, moon, and stars now reflect on water surfaces. Organic shorelines, calm waves, shimmering stars.
Refined Moon — Warm golden tone, crater detail, limb darkening. No more aurora wash-out.
Alive Aurora — Multi-directional movement, richer colors, organic curvature. Improved performance.
Polished UI — Compact audio mode indicator, refined landscape layout, subtler interface.
2.9.6 Apr 16
Sleep Phase Mode — All-new generative brainwave audio. Binaural beats with headphones, isochronic entrainment on speaker. Guides you through a natural 90-minute sleep cycle in real time. No loops, never repeats.
6 Audio Modes — Intelligent, Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep, Sleep Phase. 40 curated soundscapes. Intelligent mode adapts to your time of day.
Water Reflections — Aurora, moon, and stars now reflect on water surfaces. Organic shorelines, calm waves, shimmering stars.
Refined Moon — Warm golden tone, crater detail, limb darkening. No more aurora wash-out.
Alive Aurora — Multi-directional movement, richer colors, organic curvature. Improved performance.
Polished UI — Compact audio mode indicator, refined landscape layout, subtler interface.
2.9.5 Apr 10
Sleep Phase Mode — All-new generative brainwave audio. Binaural beats with headphones, isochronic entrainment on speaker. Guides you through a natural 90-minute sleep cycle in real time. No loops, never repeats.
6 Audio Modes — Intelligent, Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep, Sleep Phase. 40 curated soundscapes. Intelligent mode adapts to your time of day.
Water Reflections — Aurora, moon, and stars now reflect on water surfaces. Organic shorelines, calm waves, shimmering stars.
Refined Moon — Warm golden tone, crater detail, limb darkening. No more aurora wash-out.
Alive Aurora — Multi-directional movement, richer colors, organic curvature. Improved performance.
Polished UI — Compact audio mode indicator, refined landscape layout, subtler interface.
2.9.4 Apr 10
Sleep Phase Mode — All-new generative brainwave audio. Binaural beats with headphones, isochronic entrainment on speaker. Guides you through a natural 90-minute sleep cycle in real time. No loops, never repeats.
6 Audio Modes — Intelligent, Morning, Daytime, Evening, Sleep, Sleep Phase. 40 curated soundscapes. Intelligent mode adapts to your time of day.
Water Reflections — Aurora, moon, and stars now reflect on water surfaces. Organic shorelines, calm waves, shimmering stars.
Refined Moon — Warm golden tone, crater detail, limb darkening. No more aurora wash-out.
Alive Aurora — Multi-directional movement, richer colors, organic curvature. Improved performance.
Polished UI — Compact audio mode indicator, refined landscape layout, subtler interface.
2.9.2 Apr 8
Water surfaces now show true mirror reflections of the aurora, moon, and stars, with organic shorelines and calm lake-like waves that feel natural. Stars shimmer softly on the water. The moon has been refined with a warm golden tone, visible maria and crater detail, and proper limb darkening — aurora no longer washes it out. Aurora dynamics are more alive with multi-directional movement, richer color variation, and organic curvature changes across all layers. Shader performance has been improved and terrain no longer bleeds through in water areas.
2.8.2 Apr 6
Water surfaces now show true mirror reflections of the aurora, moon, and stars, with organic shorelines and calm lake-like waves that feel natural. Stars shimmer softly on the water. The moon has been refined with a warm golden tone, visible maria and crater detail, and proper limb darkening — aurora no longer washes it out. Aurora dynamics are more alive with multi-directional movement, richer color variation, and organic curvature changes across all layers. Shader performance has been improved and terrain no longer bleeds through in water areas.
2.8.1 Apr 5
Water surfaces now show true mirror reflections of the aurora, moon, and stars, with organic shorelines and calm lake-like waves that feel natural. Stars shimmer softly on the water. The moon has been refined with a warm golden tone, visible maria and crater detail, and proper limb darkening — aurora no longer washes it out. Aurora dynamics are more alive with multi-directional movement, richer color variation, and organic curvature changes across all layers. Shader performance has been improved and terrain no longer bleeds through in water areas.
2.8 Apr 4
Redesigned sleep cycle: aurora gently fades to starlight over 30 minutes at bedtime and gradually returns before your alarm. Continuous sleep audio throughout the night. Stunning new moonshine glow effect. Vastly smoother tvOS navigation with precision time picker. Enhanced aurora rendering with natural arcs.
2.7 Apr 2
This update significantly expands AuroraCalm. New immersive scenes, refined soundscapes and major performance improvements create an even deeper sleep and relaxation experience. Bug Fixes
2.6.5 Mar 26
This update significantly expands AuroraCalm. New immersive scenes, refined soundscapes and major performance improvements create an even deeper sleep and relaxation experience. Bug Fixes
2.6.4 Mar 26
This update significantly expands AuroraCalm. New immersive scenes, refined soundscapes and major performance improvements create an even deeper sleep and relaxation experience. Bug Fixes
2.6 Mar 24
This update significantly expands AuroraCalm. New immersive scenes, refined soundscapes and major performance improvements create an even deeper sleep and relaxation experience. Bug Fixes
2.02 Mar 22
New in 4.5: more detailed landscapes, deeper aurora displays, livelier waves and twinkling stars. Create a saved routine for unwinding, sleep or focus, and return to your favorite scene and sound mix. Try three guided practices with written prompts and optional device voice. Start with a shorter welcome flow and keep completed practices in your history.
more Version 4.5 Sep 30
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