Meditation & Sleep: best apps and software

Brain.fm

Brain.fm is a music app that uses neuroscience to create tracks that enhance focus, relaxation, meditation, and sleep.

Calm

Calm is a mental wellness app that offers guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, and mindfulness courses to help users manage stress and improve sleep.

Insight Timer

Insight Timer is a meditation app offering 100,000+ guided meditations and music tracks, connecting users with teachers and community support for mindfulness and well-being.

Hallow

Hallow is a Catholic meditation and prayer app that offers guided meditations, daily readings, and community challenges to help users deepen their faith and prayer practice.

Headspace

Headspace is a mental health app offering guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and sleep aids to help users reduce stress and improve overall well-being.

Meditopia

Meditopia is a mindfulness and meditation app offering over 1,000 guided sessions to help users manage stress, anxiety, and improve sleep.

Abide

Provides Christian guided meditations, prayer and sleep meditations, and Bible reading resources to support daily spiritual practice.

BetterSleep

BetterSleep is an app that helps users track and improve their sleep with sounds, meditations, and sleep analysis for better rest and daily performance.

Endel

Endel is an app that creates personalized soundscapes to help users focus, relax, and sleep, adapting to factors like time, weather, and heart rate.

Meditation - Down Dog

Meditation - Down Dog offers customizable guided meditation sessions to enhance mindfulness practice, suitable for relaxation, focus, and stress relief.

Waking Up

Waking Up is a meditation app by Sam Harris offering guided sessions and lessons on mindfulness, philosophy, and meditation principles for varied experience levels.

Simple Habit

Simple Habit is a meditation app with over 5,000 guided sessions designed to improve mindfulness, reduce stress, and enhance sleep for users with busy lifestyles.

Deep Meditate

Deep Meditate is a meditation app that offers guided sessions and music to help users reduce stress, improve sleep, and enhance mental wellbeing.

InnerNow

Guided meditation and self-care app that offers personalized routines, mood-based practices, and emotional tracking to help users reduce stress, improve sleep, and build daily mindfulness.

Calmer

Calmer provides clinically informed tools to manage anxiety: in-the-moment calming techniques, an AI therapy chatbot, guided breathwork, programs, daily routines, sleep stories and meditations.

Art of Living

The Art of Living app offers breath, meditation, and yoga tools to help users manage stress and promote personal development, suitable for all levels.

Aura

Provides personalized guided meditations, CBT-based exercises, breathwork, sleep sounds and stories, and coaching for sleep, stress, anxiety, depression, and mindfulness.

The Mindfulness App

The Mindfulness App provides guided and silent meditations, courses and sleep stories; customizable session length and sounds, reminders, progress tracking, multilingual content and offline access.

Happier Meditation

A meditation app offering personalized, adaptable guided sessions for stress reduction, sleep, focus and emotional regulation, with goal setting, progress tracking and varied session lengths.

A moment with God

A weekly multilingual African meditation app offering 3–5 minute sessions with music, scripture readings, guided imaginative prayer, and prayer prompts for brief spiritual reflection.

Moments

Moments [Beta] uses AI to generate personalized meditations based on your current feelings, guided by a soothing voice.

Ten Percent

The Ten Percent app offers guided meditations and courses to support mindfulness practices for all experience levels, aiming to improve mental well-being.

Clearmind

Clearmind is an emotional health platform that offers guided journaling, mood tracking, voice input, and multilingual support to help users manage their emotions.

Llama Life

Llama Life is an app that improves focus and productivity while integrating mindfulness and relaxation techniques for better daily task management.

Calmy Leon

Calmy Leon is a free app that provides relaxing music, white noise, guided meditations, and breathing exercises to support mental well-being and stress management.

Binaural Beats Factory

Binaural Beats Factory is an AI-powered app that helps users create customized audio tracks for personal development, relaxation, and meditation.

HeartMath

HeartMath app monitors heart rhythms to improve emotional balance and mental clarity, offering real-time feedback, guided meditations, and session tracking.

Zen Moment

Zen Moment is a free browser-based meditation timer and breathing guide that runs locally with no account, offering presets/custom durations, guided techniques, local stats, and offline use.

ZENmix

ZENmix is an app that allows users to create custom meditation music and soundscapes to enhance relaxation and mindfulness.

earth.fm

Earth.fm offers a library of natural soundscapes for relaxation and meditation, while supporting environmental charities.

Meditation Timer Online

Web-based customizable meditation timer that sets session lengths, plays gentle start/end sounds or interval bells, tracks progress, and runs in a browser without downloads.

Calmaria

Calmaria is an app that helps users manage stress through guided breathing exercises to promote relaxation and improve mental well-being.

Open

Open is a mindfulness app that offers meditation, music, breathwork, and movement to help users enhance their awareness and stay present.

Breathworkk

Guided breathing app offering short, structured exercises to reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost focus; tracks progress and shows inhale/hold/exhale timing.

White Noise Generator

Produces continuous white noise and ambient sounds to mask environmental noise, help sleep, improve concentration and relaxation; offers customizable sounds and background playback.

Rainy Mood

Rainy Mood is an app and web service that plays continuous rain sounds for sleeping, studying, and relaxing.

Sounds True

Sounds True is an app providing audio programs, podcasts, and meditations focused on spiritual growth, mindfulness, and personal development.

Breathworx

Breathworx is an app for guided breathing exercises aimed at reducing stress, improving focus, and enhancing well-being through customizable sessions and progress tracking.

Huma Meditation

Guided meditation and breathwork app offering customizable sessions, progress tracking, reminders, and audio guides for stress, focus, sleep, and general well-being.

Breathhh

Breathhh is a browser extension that guides timed breathing sessions with visual and audio cues, adjustable pacing, and session history to help manage stress and improve focus.

Gabby

Gabby provides guided meditations, courses, live coaching, podcasts, and resources from Gabrielle Bernstein for spiritual growth, anxiety management, and personal development.

Rainyscope

Rainyscope app features sounds of rain to aid in sleep or study, creating a calming atmosphere.

Meditation Studio

Meditation Studio is a guided meditation app offering sessions from over 40 teachers, tailored for stress relief, focus, and well-being.

WiredVibe

WiredVibe offers music aimed at enhancing focus, relaxation, and sleep, claimed to be effective within 15 minutes of use.

Ceerly

Ceerly is a mental wellness app that provides personalized tools for managing stress and emotions, offering mindfulness exercises to support daily mental health.

The Muse

The Muse app helps companies hire diverse talent by showcasing employer brands and offering a recruiting platform with access to a curated community of knowledge workers.

Timefully

Timefully is a meditation timer and habit tracker that helps users schedule, time, and track unguided meditation sessions with ambient sound options and simple progress records.

Ritual

The Ritual app provides information on health supplements, detailing ingredients, sources, and the scientists involved in their formulations.

Reviving Mind

Reviving Mind is a telehealth app offering virtual support groups and lifestyle medicine coaching for seniors facing loneliness and chronic illness.

Nightsounds

Nightsounds lets you listen to the long-running late-night radio program with Bill Pearce on your mobile device, offering episodes that address everyday stress and related topics.

MindMelo

MindMelo allows users to create personalized soundscapes by combining nature sounds, like rain and birdsong, to enhance focus and productivity.

Purrli

Purrli simulates the sound and presence of a cat purring online, providing a soothing experience for users.

YouMatter

Private AI wellness app for chat, journaling, mood tracking, breathing exercises, and guided support for reflection and everyday emotional wellbeing.

BeddyStories

BeddyStories offers a library of bedtime stories for children, promoting relaxation and comfort, with features like categorization, bookmarking, and offline listening.

BeGuided AI

BeGuided AI allows users to create personalized guided meditations quickly using prompts, featuring multiple AI voices and a straightforward interface.

Hypnotes

Hypnotes is an all-in-one platform for therapists to take notes, e-sign documents, schedule appointments, accept payments, and conduct secure video sessions.

Hypnothera

AI hypnosis app that creates personalized audio sessions for sleep, focus, stress, confidence, habits, and relaxation in multiple languages.

RelaxFrens

AI app that generates personalized guided meditations, adaptive breathing exercises, and nature/lofi sounds for sleep and anxiety, adjusting sessions to your mood, situation, and feedback.

Solace Wellness

Solace offers adults practical tools to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, including breathing exercises, mood tracking, grounding, and guided reflection.

Defonic

An ambient noise app for playing and mixing background sounds like rain, ocean, forest, and café noise for focus, relaxation, sleep, or work.