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In Spain, one in three inhabitants suffer from some type of sleep disorder according to a report, published in 2017, revealed by the Spanish Association of Neurology. At least 10% of these suffer from a severe or chronic disorder. Insomnia is the most common pathology among Spaniards: its causes are diverse, although the predominant one, of course, is the stress to which we are subjected in our daily lives. Sometimes 'sleeping on' our problems is not the best when what we really need is sleep and rest.
And since our phone can be one of the reasons why we have insomnia (checking the phone at night can affect the sleep cycle due to the light emitted by its screen) we are going to try to give it a benefit. We are going to go to the Android application store and search among the best 5 applications to sleep or, at least, the most curious that we could find.
Shleep
If you look closely, the name of the app is quite curious: it is formed by combining the words 'Sheep' and 'Sleep' which mean in Spanish, respectively, 'Oveja' and 'Sleep'. Based on recent scientific studies about sleep habits, Shleep wants to become your personal sleep coach. The app will teach you how to change bad habits that influence your sleep. And your coach will be, of course, a nice sheep.
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The sheep will ask you for personal information about your daily habits. Depending on the answers you give (for example, the sheep asks you how many times it is hard for you to fall asleep, or if you use your mobile phone in your room) our sheep coach will develop a personalized plan for you to start change your habits and start resting properly. The only bad thing about the application is that it is not available in Spanish, but that way you also have an excuse to put your English into practice.
Shleep can be downloaded totally free from the Android app store although it has purchases inside. The installation file has a weight of 3 MB so you can download it whenever you want without your mobile data suffering too much.
Fabulous: Motivate me!
A complete application that tries to make you change your life habits, to modify your behavior to achieve small things, first, and big things later.Of course, with the ultimate goal of making you sleep much better. With this application, you set the goal you want to achieve: it could be feeling more energetic, concentrating more on your work, losing weight and, of course, sleeping better, which is what interests us here.
The main attraction of Fabulous is its colorful and extremely attractive design: it is one of those applications that catches the eye. Also its operation is very simple and intuitive. You need to register with your email account to start using a trip that can change your life.
The application has a life change plan that you must comply with, little by little, to complete the challenges it poses and thus be able to continue completing plans. The first plan that we must do is to increase our energy: the application will ask us for a series of things that we must do in the next three days, such as drinking water as soon as we get up, having a good breakfast, going for a walk, etc.
The Fabulous application is free although there is a premium mode for 10 euros per month, with which you can save your progress. The installation file of the app is 40 MB, so we advise you to download it under a WiFi connection.
Sleepy Time: calculate your sleep
A tremendously simple application with which you will calculate what time you should get up, go to bed or calculate what time you should get up if you go to bed at this very moment. It is an application with an functional interface to the extreme: you apply the time and the app automatically calculates the best options according to that time.
For example: we tell the application that we are going to go to bed at 11 pm. Then, according to its calculations, it informs you that you should get up, for example, at 0:44 if you want to sleep only a little, or at 6:44 if you want to rest up to 5 sleep cycles.The app calculates that it will take you to fall asleep a quarter of an hour, but this you can modify in the settings, in addition to acquiring the version without which costs 80 cents.
With Sleepy Time you can get up just when you feel better, calculating sleep cycles of 90 in 90 minutes. The application is free although, as we said before, it has an option to unblock ads. Its installation file is less than 3 MB so you can download it whenever you want.
White noise
From the hand of the developer Relaxio we find a peculiar application that can help you fall asleep earlier and better. With ‘White Noise’ we have at our disposal a series of environmental sounds that can even help you with your productivity. Interference noise, cafeteria environment, fire crackling, rain, sea... In addition, these noises can mix with each other: for example, if you want to pretend to be in a cafeteria while it's raining outside.
You can choose from among all the sounds which ones you want as favorites in order to have them more at hand. This application is free although with ads inside. And its installation file has a weight of 12 MB so you can download it whenever you want without your data suffering too much.
Night Filter
The light from our mobile screen can confuse our brain and make it think that we are not ready to go to sleep. That is why it is convenient to use an app to place a filter and dim said light. With 'Night filter' you can apply a light filter of the color you want (you can modify it in the settings). We recommend that you use a blue or orange filter, colors that are not aggressive. Although the best thing you can do, directly, is to avoid using your mobile in bed.We can also tell the application to activate the filter automatically at a certain time.
The 'Night Filter' application is free although it contains ads inside. Its installation file is less than 7 MB, so you can download it whenever you want.
Which of these 5 sleep apps do you prefer?
