7 iPhone Apps to Help you Sleep Like a Baby

Getting some decent shut eye can improve your concentration, your memory and your mood during the day. It can even help you to lose weight. There are so many benefits to a good night’s sleep but that doesn’t make drifting off any easier.

Many people suffer daily from sleep deprivation. But even those without a chronic sleep problem get the odd night of insomnia – wide awake at 2am and unable to switch off. If this sounds like you, these iPhone apps may be just the ticket for getting a calm and restful night’s sleep:

DigiPill

This app prescribes a “pill” based upon your particular problem, be it insomnia, a mind cluttered with worries of the day or an inability to lose weight. The “pill” is a 15 to 30 minute recording that helps you to meditate and acts as self-hypnosis. Following the meditative instructions of the sleep pill you’ll soon find yourself drifting off into a deep and happy sleep.

Slumber

Slumber offers a vast selection of meditation programs and bedtime stories to lull users to sleep. The app has a dark interface so you don’t have to worry about the light from your phone waking you up. There is also an option for playing white noise throughout the night which can help to block out other, harsher sounds if you’re sleeping somewhere noisy.

Sleepio

Designed for those with more serious sleep problems, Sleepio helps you to diagnose and rectify the things that are preventing you from getting a good night’s sleep. The app can help you to examine your lifestyle and environment for sleep preventing characteristics and develop cognitive techniques to conquer your own personal sleep issues. You can also create your own personalised 24 hour schedule that maximises your chances of sleeping well throughout the night.

Pzizz

With binaural beats and psychoacoustics, Pzizz promises to help users fall asleep and wake feeling rested and rejuvenated. The app will play a mix of music, voiceover and sound effects to calm your mind and help you to sleep. You can tell the app if you’re planning to sleep for the whole night or are just grabbing a quick power nap during the day and it will play a relevant combination of sounds and music to optimise your sleep time.

Sleep Cycle

The Sleep Cycle alarm clock doesn’t help you to get to sleep. It does however, by analysing your breathing pattern and the depth of your sleep, choose to wake you up at the lightest point of sleep within your specified window. Waking when you are only sleeping lightly means you’re much more likely to get up feeling refreshed and ready to face the day. This app saves a lot of data on your system so you may want to unlock the iCloud account if you’re struggling for space on your handset.

Rain Rain Sleep Sounds

If you always manage to get to sleep when you can hear rain against the window, this is the app for you. Rain Rain Sleep Sounds is a self-explanatory app that plays you the sound of rain falling. This acts as a white noise, blocking out other noises and provided a soothing soundscape to help you fall asleep.

Sleep Genius

This app is one of the most popular sleep apps around. It uses up-to-the-minute neuroscience and sleep research to help users get an optimal night’s sleep. A carefully crafted program of sounds and visuals soothes you to sleep and then gradually wakes you up in the morning.

Whatever your sleep problem, there’s an app out there for you. Find the right one and you could soon be sleeping just like a baby.