Sleep Time+ app review: wake up feeling well-rested and full of energy

Sleep Time+
 

Price: $1.99

Sleep Time+ Alarm Clock and Sleep Cycle Analysis with Soundscape for Health and Fitness by Azumio Inc. is designed to wake you up when you enter the lightest phase of your sleep cycle, helping you to wake up feeling more refreshed and energetic than ever before. It was updated to version 2.2.1 in mid-March of 2013.

Carefully selected sleepscapes will also help you drift off to sleep with soothing sounds playing in the background.

User Experience
This app is designed to work in sync with your body’s natural rhythms by analyzing your sleep cycles with a clever featured called Sleep Lab™ to determine when you are in the lightest phase of sleep, enabling you to wake up at the appropriate moment feeling wide awake and ready to take on the day.

Features
You can set the alarm clock with just a single gesture, and the alarm will sound even if your device is left in silent mode while you sleep. There are 20 alarms that come included with this app, and you also have the option of using a song of your own.

This app provides detailed analysis of your sleep cycle in the form of weekly and monthly graphs, and the latest update added integration with the Instant Heart Rate app, enabling you to measure your pulse upon waking.

What’s more, this app also includes a selection of soundscapes including white noise to help you quickly and easily drift into a deep sleep with relaxing sounds.

Update Info
Sleep Time+ Alarm Clock and Sleep Cycle Analysis with Soundscape for Health and Fitness is currently running on Version 2.2.1.

The latest update included the addition of integration with the Instant Heart Rate app which enables you to measure your pulse upon waking. There have also been various minor bug fixes and improvements, such as weekly and monthly sleep totals and light/deep sleep times.

Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments
Sleep Time+ Alarm Clock and Sleep Cycle Analysis with Soundscape for Health and Fitness currently has 893 customer ratings with an average rating of 4.5 out of five stars.

Feedback has generally been very positive, with users commenting on how useful the app is for tracking your sleep patterns in an accurate and detailed manner.

Personal Comments by Reviewer
I am definitely impressed with this app. I don’t personally have much use for the soundscapes but the sleep analysis graphs are fantastic; the detail is great and having a better understanding of your own sleep cycle definitely helps to improve the quality of your sleep.

While there are aspects of this app that don’t appeal to me, there is a lot of great content here, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone whose sleep quality is sub-par.

Pros

• In-depth analysis of your sleep cycles
• Alarm clock to wake you up at the perfect time
• Soothing soundscapes to help you sleep
• Very easy to use, with no prior experience needed

Cons

• No space for adding notes, such as if you are sick, on vacation, or have a late night out

For: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. Sleep Time+ is optimized for iPhone 5.