24 curated listings
Sleep and relaxation apps help users build a bedtime ritual with stories, soundscapes, breathing, meditations, and gentle guided rest.
We favor low-friction bedtime flows, calm sound design, and libraries that are easy to replay night after night.
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Calm is a mainstream mental wellness app with sleep stories, guided meditations, breathing tools, music, and relaxation content.
Sleep sounds, stories, meditations, and tracking
BetterSleep focuses on sleep sounds, bedtime stories, guided meditations, breathing, and sleep tracking features.
Headspace offers guided meditation courses, mindfulness practice, sleep content, movement, and focus tools.
Large free meditation library and teacher marketplace
Insight Timer offers a broad library of meditations, sleep tracks, music, courses, yoga nidra, and teacher-led practices.
Personalized mental wellness and sleep app
Aura combines meditation, sleep, CBT-style resources, hypnosis, breathwork, coaching, and personalized recommendations.
Meditation, sleep, hypnosis, and life coaching audio
Breethe combines meditation, sleep stories, music, hypnosis-style content, and life coaching audio.
Personalized meditation plans from The Mind Company
Balance offers personalized meditation plans, sleep singles, and daily practice tracks based on user goals and experience.
Bedtime stories, sleep sounds, and meditations
Sleepiest focuses on bedtime stories, sleep sounds, sleep meditations, and family-friendly relaxation content.
Sleep stories, meditations, and relaxing sounds
Slumber offers bedtime stories, sleep meditations, soundscapes, and relaxing audio for nightly wind-down routines.
Dynamic sleep, nap, and focus audio
Pzizz creates sleep, nap, and focus audio experiences with voice, music, and sound effects.
Personalized soundscapes for focus, relaxation, and sleep
Endel generates adaptive soundscapes for focus, relaxation, sleep, and movement contexts.
Interactive sleep stories and wind-down experiences
Loona focuses on immersive bedtime scenes, stories, coloring-style interactions, and sleep-friendly relaxation.
Functional music for focus, relaxation, and sleep
Brain.fm offers functional music designed for focus, relaxation, meditation, and sleep sessions.
Meditation and wellness app for pregnancy and motherhood
Expectful focuses on meditation, sleep, and wellness support for fertility, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
Guided breathing exercises for health and performance
Breathwrk offers guided breathing exercises for calm, energy, focus, sleep, and performance routines.
Christian Hypnobirthing combines birth preparation, relaxation audio, and faith-centered framing for pregnancy support.
Customizable meditation sessions from Down Dog
Down Dog Meditation offers customizable guided meditations from the same ecosystem as the Down Dog yoga apps.
Mindset Health hypnosis program for hot flash comfort
Evia is a specialized Mindset Health program built around hot flash comfort with hypnosis-style audio practice.
Guided hypnosis and meditation audio library
Harmony Hypnosis offers hypnosis and meditation sessions across relaxation, sleep, confidence, and personal growth themes.
Hypnobabies is a structured hypnobirthing education and audio program for pregnancy and childbirth preparation.
Free meditation app from the Medito Foundation
Medito provides free meditation courses, sleep content, breathing exercises, and mindfulness tools.
Yoga nidra, NSDR, and sleep meditation app
Nidra focuses on yoga nidra, sleep meditation, and guided deep rest sessions.
Glenn Harrold hypnosis and meditation recordings
Relax and Sleep Well is built around Glenn Harrold's guided hypnosis and meditation audio for sleep, relaxation, and self-improvement.
Yoga nidra and deep relaxation audio app
Yoga Nidra: Sacred Sleep focuses on yoga nidra, deep relaxation, body awareness, and guided rest practices.
This directory covers consumer wellness and self-care apps. It is not medical advice, and listed apps should not replace qualified medical, mental health, or emergency care.
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Open ranked guideSleep apps can support wind-down routines, but ongoing insomnia or daytime impairment should be discussed with a qualified professional.
Low interaction, reliable playback, gentle audio, and the ability to save favorites matter more than a large library alone.