SleepSpace: Deep Sleep Tonight

I was allowed to use this for two nights before the app became locked and demanded $99. I have trouble sleeping and do whatever I can to get sleep. So I turned the automatic 7:30 am alarm off. The next night it turned itself back on and woke me up at 7:30. There was no clear way to stop the thing from playing loud music. If you hit snooze it just played loud music 5 minutes later. I tried turning the volume down on the phone and that didn’t work either. There was no way to navigate away from the alarm screen either- so I was stuck with blaring music until the app decided to make an “I’m awake” button appear. Waking to a glitchy app is the opposite of why someone would want an app like this. Then I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to turn the alarm off permanently (because it’s not intuitive) and experienced clunky navigation and poorly explained features. Just when I thought it was set up properly to really give it a try, it stopped working entirely because it’s impossible to move past the screen where you have to pay for it. They should be paying ME for waking me up because they designed such a horrible app. It’s disappointing because the idea behind the app is amazing- but there is NO excuse for such a horrible design.

I’ve been tracking my sleep closely, and since using the SleepSpace app, I’ve seen a noticeable improvement in both deep and REM sleep. Just comparing two nights — my deep sleep increased from 1 hour (12%) to 1 hour 24 minutes (17%), and REM sleep jumped from 2h 8m (27%) to 2h 41m (34%). That’s actually incredible, I’ve tried so many things and nothing had such a measurable impact. What’s impressive is how SleepSpace helps optimize your sleep environment and timing. I use it in airplane mode and still benefit from the sound features — no need for EMFs or always-on connectivity. The sleep latency, efficiency, and overall restfulness have also improved. Highly recommend this app if you’re serious about improving sleep quality in a natural and science-backed way. I genuinely wake up feeling more refreshed and recovered.

I’m amazed this app has such a high rating. It is so buggy! It has a lot of great features but nothing seemed to work properly. Didn’t import/incorporate data from my apply watch. I couldn’t do the daily sleep diary first thing in the morning (as they suggest), but once they started sending notifications for me to do it, they would keep coming ALL day, even after I had completed it. I wasn’t excited about the fact that they tell you that the sleep coach and customer support is an AI bot (Dr Snooze), yet even that was a let down! The one big benefit from that should at least be the fact that it’s available 24/7 (as they state), but each time I tried to connect with it, the reply was that someone would email me within a few hours- they never did. There were lots of other glitches, but I’m TOO TIRED to write it all out! But if anyone at the app is reading this, please feel free to reach out! The app has a lot of great intentions and I’d love to see the tech behind it worked out. The one feature that worked which I really enjoyed was the ability to set a soundscape to help me wind down, and then switch to a different one to play throughout the night. That was great, but I’m not going to pay the full subscription fee just for that.