Description

Sleep Tracking Alarm Clock (previously knownasLight Sleep Alarm Clock) is a smartphone app that will monitoryoursleep patterns and will try to wake you up gently, while youare ina light sleep phase. And you do not have to keep the phoneon yourbed while sleeping, like with other similar sleeptrackingapps.
During the night we pass through multiple phases of light anddeepsleep mixed with brief periods of awakening and REM sleep(thesleep stage when dreaming occurs). Those stages change atdifferentpoints each night for different people. When you are wokenup inthe morning, it is best that this happens during a lightsleepphase or when you are already almost awake. Being woken upfromdeep sleep is a stressful experience, which can explain whythereare mornings when you feel especially sleepy and tired.
This app tries to improve the quality of your sleep bymonitoringyour sounds and movements during the night and gentlywaking you upin the last half hour before the set alarm time - ifit senses thatyou are in a light sleep phase or even awake for ashort moment andnot letting you get into deep sleep again justbefore the alarmrings. With this app most of the time you will bewaking up duringyour optimal sleep phase, which will help you havepleasantmornings and feel refreshed.
Unlike many similar sleep-tracking apps that use theaccelerometerof your smartphone, with Sleep Tracking Alarm Clockyou do not haveto keep the phone on your bed or under your pillowwhile you aresleeping. Instead this sleep tracking app uses yourphone’smicrophone to monitor the smallest changes in the soundlevelsaround it and tracks your sleep cycles this way. No moreworryingif you will accidentally smash or drop your smartphoneduringsleep. Your phone should stay on your bedside table and noton yourbed. Just start the app while you are charging your phoneovernightsomewhere close to your bed. The night display mode of theapp isspecially designed not to bother you with bright lights whileyouare sleeping and to save power on AMOLED displays. Inspired bythe“quantified self” movement, this clock app will provide a lotofdata about the quantity and the quality of your sleep. In thesleepsummary dashboard you will see how much time you spent in bedandthe actual duration of your sleep. Also a sleepefficiencypercentage will be displayed as well as a graphicalrepresentationof your sleep patterns during the night, showing whenand for howlong you were awake or in a very light sleep phase. The‘Sleep Log’feature provides additional historical information foryour sleepin the past days. This clock app also features deskdockintegration that can start the alarm clock automatically whenyouput your phone on a dock for charging.