Getting Started with Better Sleep
Better Sleep is a cross-platform app (iOS, Android, and Web) that helps adults sleep better through education, habit building, sleep tracking, and personalized insights. It combines curated sleep science articles with citations, structured evening and morning routines with streak tracking, manual sleep logging, and weekly summaries that connect your habits to your outcomes.
How the App Works
Better Sleep addresses four core problems:
- Most people don't understand sleep science or know where to start
- Tips are easy to forget without a structured habit system
- Without logging, there's no way to know what's actually affecting your sleep
- The connection between poor sleep and daytime problems (fatigue, mood, focus) isn't obvious until you see your own data
The app gives you a content library to learn from, routines to follow, a sleep log to track, and insights that connect it all together.
First Launch
When you open Better Sleep for the first time:
- Accept the medical disclaimer. The app shows this once. It confirms that Better Sleep is for informational purposes only — not a substitute for medical advice. Tap "Accept" to continue.
- Complete the sleep quiz. Five quick questions about your current sleep patterns: your usual bedtime, wake time, quality rating, biggest challenge, and optional caffeine habits. This takes under 2 minutes and personalizes the tips and insights you'll see.
- Take the feature tour. A 4-screen tour highlights the Learn, Sleep, Routines, and Insights areas of the app. You can skip it if you prefer to explore on your own.
- Land on the Home tab. Your dashboard shows your active routine, last sleep log, and current streak. Everything works from the start — no account required.
You do not need to create an account or sign in to use the app. An anonymous session is created automatically when you first launch.
Key Screens
Home Tab
Your daily dashboard. Shows your active evening or morning routine with its checklist, your most recent sleep log entry, a personalized insight or tip card, your current streak, and quick-action buttons to log sleep or open your routine.
Learn Tab
The sleep science content library. Browse 15+ long-form articles and 50+ bite-sized tip cards organized across 9 categories: Sleep Basics, Light & Sleep, Temperature, Nutrition & Caffeine, Exercise & Sleep, Stress & Relaxation, Sleep Environment, Sleep Schedules & Consistency, and Common Sleep Myths. All content cites reputable sources (NIH, Sleep Foundation, Mayo Clinic, peer-reviewed studies). You can search by keyword and bookmark articles to revisit.
Sleep Tab
Sleep logging and history. Log last night's sleep by entering your bedtime, wake time, and a 1–5 quality rating — the whole entry takes under 30 seconds. Your full history is listed here, sorted newest first. After a week of logs, trend charts appear showing your duration, quality, and bedtime consistency over 7, 14, or 30 days.
Routines Tab
Pre-built evening and morning routine templates, plus a custom routine builder for Plus subscribers. Select a routine as your "active" routine and it appears on your Home tab as a checklist. Check off steps as you complete them. Your streak increments each consecutive day you complete your routine.
Settings Tab
Notification settings (morning log reminder), sign-in options (Google, Apple, Magic Link), subscription management, and legal documents.
Free vs Plus
Better Sleep uses a 4-tier model. The two most common tiers are:
| Feature | Free (Tier A) | Plus Subscription (Tier C) |
|---|---|---|
| Sleep science articles and tip cards | All content | All content |
| Sleep logging | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Pre-built routine templates | All templates | All templates |
| Streak tracking | Yes | Yes |
| 7-day trend charts | Yes | Yes |
| Morning reminder notification | Yes | Yes |
| Banner and interstitial ads | Yes | None |
| 14-day and 30-day trend charts | Locked | Unlocked |
| Custom routine builder | Locked | Unlocked |
| Extended weekly insights and summaries | Locked | Unlocked |
| Data sync across devices | No | Yes |
Tier B (Ad-Free) is a one-time purchase that removes all ads. You keep all core free features permanently without subscribing.
Tier D (Pro) is reserved for future AI-powered features and is not yet active.
To remove ads, tap "Remove Ads" in Settings. To unlock custom routines and extended insights, tap "Subscribe" in Settings. Both flows require creating an account (Google, Apple, or Magic Link) at the moment of purchase.
Building Your First Routine
- Go to the Routines tab.
- Browse the evening templates: Wind Down (5 steps: dim lights, stop screens, read, breathing exercise, bed), Quick Relax (3 steps), or Active Decompression (light stretch, journal, sleep music).
- Tap a template to preview its steps, then select it as your active routine.
- That evening, open the Home tab and check off steps as you complete them.
- When all steps are checked, the routine is marked complete for the day and your streak increments.
Start logging sleep the next morning to connect your routine habits to your sleep quality over time.
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