App review: "Sleep as Android"

SLEEP AS ANDROID

“An alarm clock and sleep cycle tracker, wakes you gently in optimal moment for pleasant mornings"

1.   Review

Sleep as android is an alarm clock and a sleep cycle tracker with many other features. The main features are listed under here with a short explanation.

·         Sleep cycle tracking and smart wake up in optimal sleep phase

The app tracks your sleeping cycles during the whole night and calculates the best time to wake you up in the easiest sleeping phase to wake up.

·         Sleep deficit stats and time to bed notification

It collects data and shows you graphs about your sleeping habits. You can see if you sleep too long or too short and it can give you advice about when to ideally go to bed.

·         Nature sound lullabies for fast fall asleep (+binaural beats)

The app will play sleeping songs to make you fall asleep faster.

·         CAPTCHA: gets you out of bed on time (QR code, NFC tag, shake phone, math)

The app can force you to go out of bed with a QR code or force your brain to wake up using simple mathematic problems.

·         Gentle alarm, wake up with light and nature sounds playlists

The alarm clock in the morning will wake you up as smooth as possible by using light and relaxing sounds.

·         Sleep talk and snoring recording, snoring stats and anti-snoring, room noise stats

All sounds at night are being recorded and the app can recognize different sounds like snoring.

·         smart watch (Pebble) sleep tracking and smart light (Philips HUE) wake up

There are features to connect the app to hardware like a smart watch or smart light.

·         Sleep advice, rating and tagging

The app will gather all information and distillate an advice about your sleeping rhythms.

2.   Target group

The target group is primarily people who are having trouble with their sleeping habits and would like to gather information about that. The target group has a smartphone or tablet that can receive android apps.  The target group are people that search an alarm clock that does more then only waking you.

3.   Recommendation

If you want an alarm clock that does more then only waking you up, an alarm clock that tracks your sleep cycles, that helps you find your perfect sleeping pattern and bring your sleeping problems to the light then this is the app for you. Easy to use and easy to understand while it gives you a professional look on your sleeping habits.