Sleep is essential to enjoy good physical and mental health, however, it is not only about sleeping, but it is also necessary to sleep well. In fact, the quality of sleep is as or more important than the hours we spend asleep. Or have you never woken up after a long night's sleep feeling tired and sick? And when this happens, the rest of the day goes downhill and without brakes: we find ourselves in no mood, in a bad mood, apathetic, tired ...
Fortunately, among the many functions provided by smartphones is to help us sleep better. Indeed, there are applications with which we can monitor our sleep, both the total time we spend asleep and our deep sleep cycles, the number of times we have woken up, and so on. By themselves they will be of little use, however, knowing aspects like this we can begin to take measures in the right direction. Let's see some of these apps for better sleep, also known as "sleep tracker".
Sleep Better alarm clock
"Sleep Better" is an application developed by Runtastic that connects to it in such a way that we can use both applications to track sleep and physical activity. Sleep better includes a function of sleep monitor, but also a smart alarm to wake you up at the best time, when you are in a phase of light and not deep sleep; We can even record caffeine and alcohol intake, both enemies of good sleep and rest, and draw conclusions. You will also be able to observe your state of mind, closely related to sleep.
Like most of these apps, you will need to take it with you in bed so that you can track sleep accurately but calmly, works in airplane mode. It is free to download but it also has a pro version for € 1,99. What's more, it is compatible with tablets and it syncs between devices, perfect in case you have to charge your phone at night.
SleepBot - Sleep Cycle Alarm
Sleepbot It is an application to monitor sleep much less known than the previous one, however, it has support for multiple alarms, widgets, works with airplane mode activated and you can set reminders to make sure you go to bed in time to get enough sleep.
Once you start using it you will have graphics that will allow you to know if you are restless at night, the clicks of deep sleep and light sleep, the times you have woken up and even it records you if you speak in your dreams, so see what you say! It also makes backup copies of data in the cloud, it is free without in-app purchases but with ads.
Sleep cycle alarm clock
"Sleep Cycle alarm clock" is one of the most popular and most user-friendly sleep tracking apps, but also one of the most expensive if you want premium features. The outstanding feature is that will try to wake you up at the best time, just like "Sleep Better" does, but also offers a comprehensive sleep analysis with graphs and the ability to set multiple alarms.
The free version is just right, but maybe you don't need more since the premium version requires a subscription of € 29,99 per year, so you have to think about it a couple of times before.
Sleep as Android
"Sleep as Android" is one of the newest applications to keep track of your sleep cycles, something that it will do normally like the rest of the applications seen and others in its categories. Offers device support Android Wear, Pebble and Gear, and their app can be integrated with Google Fit and Samsung Health.
One of its most outstanding functions is that can make binaural sounds to help you sleep, and it even works as an alarm clock that forces you to solve a captcha before the alarm goes off, thus making sure you don't turn it off even in your sleep.
You can try it for two weeks and then, if it convinces you, you will have to pay for it.
