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Find the Perfect Sleep App for You

Fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up feeling refreshed.

Catching enough z’s can be easier said than done. Here are a few apps to refresh your bedtime routine.

Wake up at the ideal time with Sleep Cycle

Rather than yanking you from your slumber like an alarm clock, Sleep Cycle analyzes your sleep patterns using the microphone in your iPhone or iPad, then rouses you gently when you’re in your lightest phase of sleep.

Sleep Cycle can sense when you’ve been snoring or talking in your sleep and charts that data for you. Daily insights suggest programs like “Relax from stress” based on your data.

Crash course: Sleep-tracking sessions are accompanied by soothing audio tracks that help relax the mind and coach you into more restful sleep.

Pay down your sleep debt with RISE

RISE helps you get your best rest by addressing your sleep debt—the gap between the shut-eye your body needs and what you’re actually getting each night.

The app is filled with resources for improving your sleep health. Check your energy schedule to optimize each hour of your day.

Crash course: RISE helps you hit your ideal bedtime with planning that takes your entire day into account. Learn when you should start winding down with relaxing, blue-light-limited activities (reading, taking a hot shower) and when to skip that last cup of coffee.

Dismiss distractions using Endel

Many soundscape apps deliver audio to help you relax, focus, or sleep. But Endel is one of the few with an algorithm advanced enough to customize its tracks for you in the moment.

Tap to shape soundscapes into adaptive audio for focus or relaxation—or engage three senses (hearing, seeing, touching) to ease stress in exercises like Calming Taps.

Crash course: The app’s Sleep audio moves through three stages to help you drift off: Gentle chimes tell your brain it’s time to wind down, calming melodies ease you into sleep, and colored noise blocks out environmental distractions.

Get sounder sleep with BetterSleep

Put your sleep woes to bed by creating your own lullaby from BetterSleep’s huge library of sounds and music.

Customize your sleep goals and select the Sound Journey you want to carry you off.

Crash course: The app offers a range of ready-made soundscapes, like Campfire Rain, in which fire crackles as raindrops fall gently on a tent. But the real magic happens when you craft your own mixes or turn on Smart Mix, which subtly fades each sound in and out.

Enjoy a bedtime story with Calm

With a wealth of guided meditations, blissful soundscapes, and peaceful music, this hugely popular meditation app offers many ways to cultivate that inner ahhhh (and zzzz).

Calm includes more than meditations—check out its impressive library of relaxing stories and lullabies.

Crash course: The app’s Sleep Stories are narrated by notably calming voices. Try drifting off to Cillian Murphy’s soothing voice as he (drowsily) describes the lush landscape passing you by in “Crossing Ireland by Train.”

Drift off with Loóna

Part bedtime story, part dreamy interactive activity, Loóna calms your mind with comforting sounds and snooze-inducing tales.

Simply tap to bring sleepscapes vividly to life.

Crash course: Get lost in a fairy-tale kingdom, an enchanted forest, or a cozy cabin. The app’s Escapes include 3D dioramas filled with simple coloring activities that quiet your mind after a long day.

Gotta catch some z’s in Pokémon Sleep

Snagging a Squirtle has never been easier than in Pokémon Sleep: Just hit the hay! The longer (and better) you sleep, the more you’ll power up your Snorlax and attract new monsters.

Draw a wider variety of sleepy Pokémon—each one has its own adorable sleep style.

Crash course: Place your iPhone next to your pillow and check back in the morning to see the quality of your rest (dozing, snoozing, or slumbering)—and all the Pokémon that have flocked around your snoozy Snorlax.