App Profile: Sleep Cycle Bedtime Calculator

JimSpeedy1Dino

Rating: 4/5

Where I found this app helpful is, I noticed I naturally wake up near 7:40 am most days. If that’s normal for me, then I might consider being in bed by a certain time. It is something to try for be better sleep health. The app offers two choices.

Wendyannh

Rating: 2/5

All this app does is tell you how many hours of sleep you’ll get at 6 possible times based on what time you tell it you want to go to bed, or the exact reverse, what time you need to go to bed if you want to wake up at a particular time and want to get X hours of sleep. IOW, all it does is 1st grade arithmetic, which you can obviously easily count yourself, whether forwards or backwards, by just adding or subtracting X hours from your desired bedtime or wake up time. It actually skips two hour twice in each section, so if you want a time in between those pairs, you’ll have to manually calculate it anyways. In fairness, that’s really all it says it will do, and the changes are instant, as you turn the dial. The problem is the app came up when I searched on “sleep tracker” - and it just doesn’t actually track anything at all, so it seems that the developer has miscategorized it. But s/he *did* say it’s a sleep tracker, so the fact that it definitely isn’t what I’m basing my stars on. *And* the thing about the skipped hours.

Silver Crimson

Rating: 5/5

Compared to other apps that are free to use this one lives up to the name of being advertisement free. Such a breath of fresh air to have an app not distract me before bed with ads and to provide accurate data that I can adjust to my individual behaviors!