Sleep Cycle alarm clock

 
 

Sleep Cycle alarm clock

By Northcube AB

Price: $0.99
Category: Health & Fitness
Updated: Jan 09, 2014
Version: 4.4.1
Size: 25.3 MB
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
Seller: Northcube AB
© 2010 Maciek Drejak Labs AB
Rated 4+

Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Top In-App Purchases
1 year SleepSecure membership $9.99

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.

Sleep Cycle helps millions of people to 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 United Kingdom
#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 Canada
...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 smart 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 aid - helps you fall asleep. The intelligent mode detects when you fall asleep and automatically fades the sleep aid sound.

√ Support for the M7 co-processor - measure your daily physical activity and calculate how it affects your Sleep quality

√ Heart rate monitor - measure your resting heart rate (RHR) every morning using the camera and flash in your device.

√ 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 in Version 4.4.1

- Fixed a bug causing flat sleep graphs for some users.
- A few fixes for heart rate and activity long term graphs.
- A fix for time zone error in the long term graphs.
- A fix for silent notifications: Activate AirPlay support under Settings/Advanced and keep Sleep Cycle in the foreground without locking your phone during the night.

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News in Sleep Cycle 4.4:

SUPPORT FOR THE M7 CO-PROCESSOR
Do you own an iPhone 5s? Sleep Cycle will automatically measure your daily physical activity and calculate how it affects your Sleep quality. Includes long term graphs over your daily steps.

INTEGRATED HEART RATE MONITOR
Measure your resting heart rate (RHR) every morning using the camera and flash in your device. The morning heart rate can be used to avoid overtraining, track the results of your basic training and overall health (activate under Settings, iOS6 and above).

SUPPORT FOR TIME ZONES
Sleep Cycle automatically adapts your graphs to the local time zone. Perfect if you travel a lot (will not be applied to your old nights).

MINOR CHANGES
- AirPlay support is back, let the alarm sound in your external speakers (activate under Settings/Advanced).
- Major update to SleepSecure for backing up your entire database or transferring your database to a new device
- Graphs slightly redesigned and a new app icon without gradient
- Several other design and stability improvements

Customer Reviews

Fantastic app that just keeps getting better!
**edit to original 5 star review (below)** Dear Developers: Please design a new feature that allows you to choose "go back to sleep" when you wake up. (I just now woke up and picked up my phone and touched the screen to see what time it was only to accidentally turn off sleep cycle. So sad!) Or if we could choose to combine two sleep periods that would fix the problem, too. There are times when I've gone back to sleep for an hour or so after the time for which I originally set my alarm-- it would be nice to be able to combine two sets of data. Thanks & keep up the great work!

Absolutely love this app. I have been using it almost every night for the last 3 years so I've seen it go through many transformations. What was simply a movement monitor avoid waking you during deep sleep, now also allows you to integrate sleep notes (notes about your day) to correlate them with sleep quality. Most recently they have included an option to test your heart rate in the morning, and are incorporating "activity" which is automatically tracked (both iPhone 5 or later). While this particular note hasn't quite been refined yet (I don't always have my phone on me so this will be an underestimate for a lot of us), knowing these guys it will be soon! I highly recommend this app! Especially to people who like data :)

To the developers: Thanks for all the hard work and wonderful app!!

Sleep Cycle
I have used this app for about 190 nights now and I enjoy the graphs and data it offers you. I never really had problems getting up in the morning like some people so the variable alarm time didn't drastically change my morning well-being like I hear it does for some folks. Sometimes when I wake up I feel like I'm trapped - if I make any slight movement it will go off and I will have to get up...
At best for me this app is a nice alarm with many more features than Apple's app with some nice default alarm sounds. The data is cool to see but doesn't really give me useful data that I can use to change my habits. Still, for the price it is at the very least a fun experiment to test on yourself, maybe to learn a bit about what helps your nights go by easier. I will continue to use this app every night when I can. Other reviews mention some needed features such as napping accommodations and the ability to edit notes (when I'm tired I tend to forget to click them all) and maybe a "continuing the last night" command in case you only used the alarm to get up for a moment before sleeping some more.

Nice App but needs some tweaks!
GREAT ALARM CLOCK/SLEEP ANALYSIS APP!! I Love this App, I've used it for a couple of years, and I've had trouble getting "enough sleep", and this helps me really see how much I'm getting or lack there of. I am ecstatic over the "New" Resting Heart Rate Monitor, that measures your heartbeat as soon as you shut off the alarm. VERY COOL, & as an athlete that's important to me!! Unfortunately this app still needs a few tweaks: 1)The Sleep Notes are "Way Off"base, and there's no way to adjust them. :( 2)The app picks up when I toss & turn, and also if my hubby gets up, so it's not always accurate. (We're in a queen size "sleep #" bed). 3) I would LOVE IT if there was an option to let your "SLEEP SOUND" PLAY ALL NIGHT, espec when you're traveling, b/c this could block out unfamiliar sounds) and maybe "fade off" near your alarm time? 4) Last but not least, on one of those rare times where you have the option to go back to bed "After" you've shut off your alarm, it would be great if you could "resume" your sleep w/out messing up your sleep data, in other words "connect" the same data for the same day! Thanks for an otherwise Great App! P.S. I love the variety of sound options!