Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock brings restful sleep to Android

Popular iOS app Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock is now debuting on Android to help you manage your sleep so you can awaken to the day feeling refreshed. Costing $1.99 in the Play Store, the app helps users track their sleep without the need for additional hardware and will wake you up in your lightest sleep phase so you can start your day feeling good and not groggy.

To track your sleep and see how restful your sleep is through the night, Sleep Cycle says that it uses your phone's accelerometer to see how much you move around. As such, the company recommends that you place your phone on your bed at night. This eliminates the need for a sleep tracking wristband or additional hardware.

"Sleep Cycle then finds the optimal time to wake you up during a 30 minute window that ends at your set alarm time," the company said noting that the app intelligently "wakes you in the lightest sleep phase."

With the rise of connected, health, and fitness apps and accessories flooding the market, will you be turning to Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock to feel refreshed?

Chuong H Nguyen
33 Comments
  • aand have apparently now pulled it straight away?
  • Seems like a good idea. I've never tried anything to do this, other than trying to go to bed so I'll wake up during the right part of sleep cycles. Has anyone out there tried this or something like it? How well does it work? And how do you compensate for a second person in bed with you? Or dogs?
  • Great until you knock it off the bed Posted via Android Central App
  • Can't be installed in my area. Tosh.
  • I also get the error "can't install in your country". I'm in USA Posted via Android Central App
  • "incompatible with my device". I am using galaxy s3 from Malaysia.
  • Same here. Can't wait to try it though since several iPhone friends love it. And I think we're paying $1 more for it now, so maybe more features in android version!
    Posted via Android Central App - Verizon S5
  • Been using 'Sleep as Android' for years, no reason to change My M8 posted this
  • Exactly, and they just gave it a nice UI update too. Posted via Android Central App
  • Well, tell him to give you your phone back; he's talking nonsense!
  • I've been using the Sleep as Android group of apps for 6 months
    They do all of what this app does and mre. No I don't work for them
    But I use this app every day.
  • When I originally switched from android to iOS in the froyo days I used this app every night. Now that I'm on android for good; I missed the app. Good to see it back. Posted via Android Central App
  • How can it be back if it was never here to begin with? :p
  • In his life would probably be the ending to his sentence. Posted via Android Central App
  • I figure my mattress is pretty good... how will it feel my motion??
  • That was my first thought! If I can jump on my bed and not spill a glass of wine, how on earth is this app going to be effective?!
  • I've been using sleep as Android along with a CPAP machine for several months. It works great, tracks your snoring, and movement & bunch of other stuff. Don't remember what it costs but it does have a free trial. Posted via Android Central App
  • How do we get it in the USA? Posted via Android Central App
  • That's weird. It's available for me Posted via Android Central App
  • Putting your phone in bed with you. Useful for those with wifes/girlfriends/kids/dogs and so on. Got to say that that part of the app is idiotic. Posted via Android Central App
  • If only it was in my region of merica'. Posted via Android Central App
  • I've been beta testing it for about 3 months. Stopped using my alarm clock completely and have been solely using this. Hasn't missed a beat once. Wakes me when I'm lightly sleeping rather then dead tired.
    Also, my girlfriend sleeping right next to me has also been using it. Haven't had any issues at all with it detecting each other.
    Posted via Android Central App
  • Tried to download ... "Can Not Install in your area" Posted via Android Central App
  • Will it work with phone and data off, so that I won't get zapped with extra radiation between the... sheets? Posted via Android Central App
  • Yes. Posted via Android Central App
  • This is all well and good unless you share your bed with someone. I prefer to use a wristband so that the system doesn't pick up my girlfriend's movements and interpret them as my own.
  • I've been using the last 3 months without any problems from my girlfriend. In fact, she uses it as well on her phone and wakes at a completely different time. No problems what so ever. Posted via Android Central App
  • I sleep on the floor does it works?
  • Hahaha I'm right there with you buddy. You're not alone. Posted via Android Central App
  • Sleep as android destroys this app by a pretty large marginal, so this is a big step down unless you want something very basic if you ask me.
  • I use sleep as android. Seems like the more comprehensive package. Posted from Germany via Android Central App on my Moto X.
  • back in my IOS days, I was a huge fan of sleep cycle but a bigger fan of Sleep as Android which gets regular updates and better with each release. Wont be switchin back. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  • Another +1 for Sleep as Android!