Lucidly

I’ve been using this app for about 2 or so weeks now. At first I though it was straight trash. Then I played around with the haptic alarm length, delay, and used “theater mode” on my watch to prevent any accidental turn offs. It works wonderfully now!! It definitely wakes me up mid dream during the latter part of my sleep cycle. This has improved dream recall significantly. I’ve still not had a lucid dream yet, but I do fee closer to that goal and I do feel this does accurately wake you up during REM cycles. I’ve had no issues with exercise data being recorded as I saw in other reviews. Sleep recording on the Health app also seems to be entirely unaffected by using this app.

I want to like this app so bad. I’m signed up for a subscription and everything, but it just doesn’t do what it says it does. The watch app and the phone app will not stay connected to each other. Once the watch dims the phone app will say that the watch app needs to be in the foreground. Well it is, but the screen on the watch is going to dim after a while, no matter what you have set in settings (it’s just how the watch works) and as soon as the screen dims the phone app loses connection like it can’t see the watch app anymore. I’ve restarted both devices multiple times and Bluetooth is definitely working, so I don’t know what else to do, but I’m definitely canceling my subscription until this works the way it’s supposed to. Update: uninstalling and reinstalling the app on the watch seems to have fixed the connection issue. However I still sometimes get an alert about it not being able to write to the health app and to check my Bluetooth. When this happens I have to restart my watch and it works again. Hopefully these bugs will get sorted out soon. Second update: the developer response was useless. I’ve already done things the way he describes to do them and the apps will NOT stay connected. I’m not stupid and know how to follow instructions. Blaming the user for your app’s problems is not a good business strategy.

I wish this had more options. It only allows you to have a 270 minute session. I can’t remember my dreams when I use this app. But it does issue alerts. I am having trouble getting the settings right but I’m still trying and hopeful. It would really help me if I could extend its detection to the whole night. That’s when I lucid dream the best, carrying from rem cycle to rem cycle.