Sleep Cycle alarm clock
- Sleep Cycle alarm clock
- iTunes
- 0.99 USD
- iPhone, iPod touch
- Maciek Drejak Labs
Description
Waking up made easy.
An intelligent alarm clock that analyzes your sleep and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase – the natural way to wake up feeling rested and relaxed.
We now help more than a million people wake up rested!
Featured in: CNN, Wired, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The New York Times and many more.
#1 Top Paid app in Japan
#1 Top Paid app in Germany
#1 Top Paid app in France
#1 Top Paid app in
Russia
#1 Top Paid app in Netherlands
#1 Top Paid app in Taiwan
#1 Top Paid app in South Korea
#1 Top Paid app in Sweden
#1 Top Paid app in Norway
...and many more.
"It just works. Period. It does exactly what it advertises which is absolutely amazing."
-- 5/5 stars
on 148apps.com
Sleep cycle is continuously rated as the best intelligent alarm clock, Sleep Cycle is now the worlds most used intelligent alarm clock.
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* Sleep Cycle monitors your movement during sleep using the extremely sensitive accelerometer in your iPhone.
* Sleep Cycle then finds the optimal time to wake you up during a 30 minute window that ends at your set alarm time.
* Look at the screenshots for recommended iPhone placement.
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As you sleep you go through different phases, ranging from deep sleep to light sleep. The phase you are in when your alarm goes off is critical for how tired you will feel when you wake up.
Since you move differently in bed during the different phases, Sleep Cycle can use the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor your movement and determine which sleep phase you are in.
Sleep Cycle wakes you when you are in your lightest sleep phase.
Sleep Cycle was developed using proven sleep science and years of research and development.
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MAIN FEATURES
– Waking up made easy! Sleep Cycle analyzes your sleep and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase.
– Detailed sleep statistics and sleep graphs for every night.
– 15 carefully selected, high quality, alarm melodies.
– Use iPod music as wake up sound
– Snooze by shaking or tapping the phone lightly.
– Customizable wake up window. From instant (regular alarm clock) up to 90 minutes.
– Background mode - set your alarm and exit Sleep Cycle - sleep analysis will continue in the background
– Sleep notes: see how events such as drinking coffee, eating too much or having a stressful day affect your sleep quality
– Long term graphs: track sleep quality over time, see which days of the week you sleep best and much more
– Export sleep data to Excel for detailed analysis
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REQUIREMENTS
Ability to charge your phone by the bed
Ability to place your iPhone according to the
instructions (see screenshots)
What's New
Version v4.1.1 (Mar 28, 2013)
* Fixed an issue with daylight saving time
* Fixed a "keychain" crash which affected Runkeeper users
Version 4.1 (Dec 12, 2012)
iPHONE 5 SUPPORT
Enjoy the full screen of the iPhone 5 or the new iPod.
SLEEP AID
Having trouble falling asleep? Sleep Cycle plays carefully selected soothing sounds until you fall
asleep.
WEEKEND MODE
Choose weekdays to run Sleep Cycle without alarm
Other minor changes:
* Renamed White noise to Sleep aid
* Added 12 new Sleep aid melodies
* Added Intelligent and regular mode
to the Sleep aid sound duration
* Added pure white, pink and brownian noise to Sleep aid
* Smoother fading of
the Sleep aid sound
* Slower increase of volume to maximum level if the user does not wake up
* At the end of
the wake up phase, the phone vibrates on snooze attempts (works only in foreground mode)
* Airplay and external
speakers works again
* Alarm is not routed from headset / external speaker to the phone speaker anymore
*
Improved the sound quality of all melodies
* If the users is having more than 20 nights, the landscape graphs are
defaulting to All
* Sleep notes view is automatically updated if the user would leave the view and adjust the Sleep
notes under Settings
* Vibration starts directly when the maximum volume is reached
* Grey "slide to stop
alarm", easier on the eyes in darkness
* Time zone handling
Bug fixes:
* Background stability improved
* Fixed sound compatibility issues with iOS 6
* Fixed a rare crash when
generating the graph in the morning
* Several alarm volume / sound bugs fixed
* Fixed an error with
non-existing mp3 songs selected as alarm melody
* Sleep Cycle remembers where the user is while deleting
nights
Version 4.0.1 (Oct 2, 2012)
4.0.1:
* Added Vibration as backup
* Fixed sound compatibility issues with iOS 6
4.0:
SLEEP QUALITY
Track the quality of your sleep each night
FULL BACKGROUND SUPPORT
Set your alarm and exit Sleep Cycle – analysis will continue in the background.
SLEEP NOTES
See how events such as drinking coffee, eating too much or having a stressful day affect your sleep
quality
LONG TERM GRAPHS
Track your sleep quality over time, see which days of the week you sleep best and much more
NEW MELODIES
7 new carefully selected wake-up melodies.
DATA EXPORT
Export your sleep data for detailed analysis in, for example, Excel.
USER INTERFACE
Improved and simplified UI.
PERFORMANCE
Vastly improved general performance and graph loading.
Other new features:
* Random alarm melody
* Delete specific nights
* Wake-up mood – track how you feel each morning
*
Simplified navigation between nights with list view
* Simplified and improved volume management
* Statistics
view shows best, worst, longest and shortest night
* Stop alarm without leaving Sleep Cycle
* Unintentional PM
alarm time warning
* Too little movement warning
* Low battery warning
* Turn off various reminders
* Delete entire database
* Improved support for headsets
* Improved saving of alarm time for future
sessions
* Now also available in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Swedish
Bug fixes:
* Fixed issues with Facebook posting
* Fixed a crash when using your own alarm sound
* Fixed various
wake-up volume issues
Version 4.0 (Sep 20, 2012)
New in 4.0:
SLEEP QUALITY
Track the quality of your sleep each night.
FULL BACKGROUND SUPPORT
Set your alarm and exit Sleep Cycle – analysis will continue in the background.
SLEEP NOTES
See how events such as drinking coffee, eating too much or having a stressful day affect your sleep
quality.
LONG TERM GRAPHS
Track your sleep quality over time, see which days of the week you sleep best and much
more.
NEW MELODIES
7 new carefully selected wake-up melodies.
DATA EXPORT
Export your sleep data for detailed analysis in, for example, Excel.
USER INTERFACE
Improved and simplified UI.
PERFORMANCE
Vastly improved general performance and graph loading.
Other new features:
* Random alarm melody
* Delete specific nights
* Wake-up mood – track how you feel each morning
*
Simplified navigation between nights with list view
* Simplified and improved volume management
* Statistics
view shows best, worst, longest and shortest night
* Stop alarm without leaving Sleep Cycle
* Unintentional PM
alarm time warning
* Too little movement warning
* Low battery warning
* Turn off various reminders
* Delete entire database
* Improved support for headsets
* Improved saving of alarm time for future
sessions
* Now also available in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Swedish
Bug fixes:
* Fixed issues with Facebook posting
* Fixed a crash when using your own alarm sound
* Fixed various
wake-up volume issues
Version 3.0.1 (Oct 11, 2011)
We are hard at work on the next big update to Sleep Cycle, in the meanwhile here is a minor update that fixes problems with iOS 5.
Version 3.0 (Nov 12, 2010)
Major improvements:
+ intelligent snooze
+ adjustable wake up phase length
anything
from 0 minutes (regular alarm clock mode) to 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes
+ Sleep Cycle is now up to 5x
more sensitive to your movement
this is great news because better sensitivity means better wake ups
+ no need to recalibrate Sleep Cycle when changing bed, pillow or mattress anymore
+ full support for the iPod
touch
+ full iPhone 4 retina resolution support
+ possibility to use music from your iPod library as alarm
sound
+ Sleep Cycle no longer mutes music or audiobooks that are playing in the background
+ no alarm mode -
use Sleep Cycle to graph your sleep, without using the alarm
Also improved:
+ added swipe to navigate
between graphs
+ added vibration settings ("As Backup", "No vibration", "Only vibrate")
+ more detailed and
smoother sleep graphs
+ improved performance
+ screen now fades to black on iPod touches when the device is
placed with the glass down
+ advanced accelerometer calibration
Sleep Cycle needs one or two
nights to automatically calibrate to your accelerometer
+ updated graphics for buttons and other UI elements
+ added a regular alarm clock sound in addition to the normal wake up melodies
+ if you shut down Sleep Cycle
during the night and start it up again it will continue on the same graph
+ warning shown on nights that are too
short (less than 2.5 hours)
+ warning shown on nights that Sleep Cycle has sensed no or very little movement
+ small gray line below sleep graph to indicate when the alarm window started
+ calculation of average total
time is now done in background
+ possibility to log out from Facebook (button in advanced settings)
+ added
a default subject line when sharing graph by email
+ removed "dreaming" from graph legend
we've
done a lot of research around this with help from sleep scientists and determined that
Sleep Cycle
cannot reliably detect when you are in REM sleep
+ fixed bug: fixed problems with non-gregorian calendars (like
thai and japanese calendars)
+ fixed bug: AM/PM being clipped in statistics view
+ fixed bug: navigation
arrows in statistics are now always correctly dimmed
+ fixed bug: correct day of week displayed in statistics
+ fixed bug: accelerometer was too sensitive on some devices producing incorrect sleep graphs
this
is fixed by calibrating to the accelerometer during the first two nights
+ fixed bug: when shutting off the alarm
the home-button now works even if the iPhone is covered by a sheet (proximity sensor problem)
+ fixed bug: problem
when posting to Facebook when user has changed Facebook password
+ fixed bug: crash when trying to share graph by
email and no email accounts where set up
Version 2.0.2 (Feb 24, 2010)
Version 2.0.2 is a minor release that fixes several bugs:
- Graphs not being displayed after 30-50 days (these graphs will show up once you upgrade).
- Average sleep time is more accurate now.
- Width of alarm spinner fixed for South Korean users.
- Corrected various spelling errors.
- Several other minor fixes.
Version 2.0 (Dec 3, 2009)
Sleep Cycle 2.0 is finally out!!
The big feature in 2.0 is a detailed sleep graph for every night you use Sleep Cycle.
Changes:
+ Added sleep graph and sleep statistics
+ Steps in the alarm spinner changed from 1 minute to
5
+ Fixed a bug when using Sleep Cycle over a daylight savings change
+ Fixed a bug when displaying Japanese
AM/PM characters
Version 1.2 (Sep 18, 2009)
Version 1.2 is a minor update:
* added four new wake up melodies
* added more detailed instructions
We are happy to announce that we just started working on version 2.0 that will add your most requested features: statistics such as average sleep time and a graph over your sleep cycles each night.
Version 1.1 (Aug 15, 2009)
Version 1.1 keeps the phone cool and charged during the night.
* The screen is now completely turned off when the phone is placed in bed - this reduces the heat produced by the phone considerably. The screen is turned off automatically.
* New placement recommendation that keeps the phone cooler.
* Vibration is now only used as a back up when the wake-up melody has played for about a minute
Don't forget to use the new recommended placement!
