Find Your Perfect Sleep App: Top Picks for 2025

Sleep apps are a simple way to improve your rest with features like soothing sounds and sleep tracking

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Published on January 11, 2025
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If you’re struggling with insomnia and looking for ways to improve your sleep, there are plenty of excellent sleep apps available for iOS, Android, Windows devices, and even the Apple Watch.

Some of the best sleep apps feature relaxing music or soothing ambient sounds, while others focus on calming breathing exercises and function more like hypnosis tools.

Here are four sleep apps worth trying to help you relax and get some rest.

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White Noise: Best White Noise App

Binaural beats generator in the White Noise Windows app

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What We Like

  • App also works on Xbox.

  • Sound files are very high-quality and loop perfectly.

What We Don't Like

  • The app is easy to navigate but isn't very attractive.

  • Basic timer feature.

White Noise is, as its name suggests, a white noise app that's free on Windows 11 and Windows 10, as well as Android and iOS. The app features a clean, easy-to-use design and provides users with 50 high-quality sound files that seamlessly loop for continuous relaxation.

Sound files range from flowing water and blowing wind to insects and birds; there are even mechanical devices such as airplanes and air conditioners.

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BetterSleep: Best App With Calming Sleep Music

Relax Melodies app on iPhone

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What We Like

  • iOS version also supports Apple TV.

  • Includes Apple Health integration.

What We Don't Like

  • Some users may find the audio mixing features to be unnecessary and confusing.

BetterSleep (formerly Relax Melodies) is an app that lets users mix and match a variety of calming sound effects and music to create the ultimate bedtime hit single. Sounds can be played individually or together with others, and combinations can be saved for quick access in a future relaxation session.

This sleep app also features timer and meditation features, while the iOS version of BetterSleep can sync Mindful Minutes data to Apple Health.

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AutoSleep: Best Apple Watch Sleep App

AutoSleep Apple Watch and iPhone sleep app

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What We Like

  • Automatically turns on when you go to bed, unlike other apps.

  • Attractive and informative visual design.

What We Don't Like

  • Requires iOS 11 or higher.

  • It costs.

AutoSleep is an Apple Watch sleep app that's almost completely hands-off. After the initial installation and setup, AutoSleep automatically detects when you go to sleep and wake up, and can even analyze the quality of your sleep using the Apple Watch's sensors.

Surprisingly, AutoSleep also provides some functionality for people who don't like to wear wearables to bed by estimating how long you sleep based on when you took your Apple Watch off and when you put it back on the next morning. This same functionality also works with the iPhone and iPod touch by simply unlocking them when you wake up.

This app is $8.99.

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Pzizz: Easiest Sleep App to Help You Power Nap

Woman sleeping on her couch with the Pzizz app on her iPhone

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What We Like

  • Streamlined design that's fast and easy to use.

  • High-quality audio content with a lot of variety.

What We Don't Like

  • 80% of the app's features are removed after the 7-day free trial ends.

Pzizz is an iOS and Android sleep app that emphasizes getting to sleep quickly and easily. The app uses a combination of randomly mixed sound effects, music, and spoken word files to help you get to sleep quickly and users can specify if they're ready for a long sleep session or a quick power nap.

Interestingly, Pzizz also features a Focus mode, which encourages you to focus on a single task for a set period while you're awake. It's a strange inclusion, but it works very well.

The Pzizz app features an extremely clean design, placing its main features front and center. The app's text is large and easy to read, and very little effort is required to navigate from one screen to the next, making it a great sleep app for the elderly who often find themselves asking someone for help with their apps.

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