10 Awesome Android & iOS Apps to Help You Get A Better Nights Sleep

If you take a long time to get to sleep at night, often sleep lightly or wake up feeling grumpy in the morning then it may be worth looking at apps which will relax you and help your quality of sleep. There are a number of phyiscal and mental benefits to getting the best possible sleep each night, so these awesome Android and iOS free and premium apps that will help you get a better nights sleep are definitely worth checking out.
Sleep Genius (iOS $4.99, Android free) 
Sleep Genius is a wonderful sleep app that uses neurosensory algorithms to help you get ready for sleep, guide your brain through sleep cycles and wake you up with an alarm. The app has been developed by neuroscientists following their work with helping NASA astronauts sleep and is designed to create the most beneficial sleep.
Relax & Sleep (iOS free, Android free)
This app is a hypnosis recording by self help author Glenn Harold that’s designed to relax you into sleep by calming stress. The free app for sleep has a 27 minute recording designed to help you reach physical and mental relaxation so that you can fall to sleep easily and quickly every night.
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Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock (iOS $0.99, Android $0.99)
This is one of the greatest apps to track your sleep as monitors your movement during sleep to give you detailed statistics and graphs for each night of use. The app also uses your movements to wake you in the morning by sounding your alarm during a 30 minute window that will allow you to wake refreshed instead of grumpy.
Insomnia Cure (iOS $2.99) 
This sleep helping app has almost 3 hours worth of audio that will provide a hypnotic relaxing sessions to curb insomnia and low quality sleep. Max Kirsten is a top self help expert and Insomnia Cure also includes a 40 page better sleep PDF that will teach you good thoughts and habits to enable you to help yourself into a better quality of sleep. This is a great app that will help sleep so you can wake up feeling recharged.
SleepBot (iOS free, Android free) 
SleepBot not only tracks your movements during sleep but also your sounds too to create unique movement and sound graphs that you can view for every night of use. The app has a wealth of graphs and analyses to help you make sense of your sleep and find out what may be disrupting your good nights sleep. In addition you can set and customise multiple alarms for you and your partner, plus sync your data to mysleepbot.com
Timely Alarm Clock (Android free)
Timely is a great looking alarm clock that can synchronise with your other devices to make sure your alarm always goes off at the right time. You can also set challenges to turn off the alarm so that you definitely wont drift off again and oversleep.
aSleep (iOS free)
Nature sounds can be incredibly relaxing and aSleep features 65 different sounds from nature to smooth melodies that will help you unwind. Using this nature sound app before bed will help you to drift off easily and the app also includes a timer, alarm and night clock.
Sleep Better (iOS free, Android free)
Sleep Better includes a host of features from tracking sleep to waking you up and also allows you to add notes including daytime activities and morning moods. You can track and view your time awake in bed, your movements during sleep, length of sleep and also moon phases. The Smart Alarm will wake you up at the most optimum time during a preset window and Sleep Better also keeps a tracking log for all events over long time periods such as weeks and months. This makes it a brilliant app to help with sleep and one of the best sleep tracking apps on our list.
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Long Deep Breathing (iOS $0.99)
The technique of long deep breathing can help the body in a variety of ways including health stimulation as well as being relaxing for the mind. Deep breathing can help create a calm state that will make it easier to let go of worry and stress so you can sleep well at night. You have control over the length of inhale, exhale and pauses with this app that has simple graphics so you can fully focus on your breathing.
Twilight (Android free)
The Twilight app helps to filter blue light emitted from your device which can cause you to stay awake later at night and stop you sleeping well. This app for sleeping well has the ability to change the brightness, colour temperature and colour intensity of your device along with choosing when the settings will come into effect. It can be preset to enable and disable itself at the setting and rising of the sun or at any times you choose. Additionally, Twilight has the ability to change the brightness of screens beyond the capability of the device itself so it can be used in dark rooms for reading or other activities without straining the eyes.