Track your sleep quality with a free app

How well do you sleep? Sleep is far too important to your health to leave its monitoring to a gut feeling.

Our memory is notoriously unreliable, so it makes sense to hand off such important data to a machine that can do it reliably, discreetly, and with very little effort.

Our memory is notoriously unreliable, so it makes sense to hand off such important data to a machine that can do it reliably, discreetly, and with very little effort.

This is where your smartphone comes in.

It can sit there on your night table and quite reliably track your sleep quality simply by listening to you. The deeper your sleep the less you will be moving around. The Sleep Cycle app that I have been using for several years and which exists for both the iPhoneand android phones, is clever enough to differentiate between the sounds you make when turning over and all other sounds that may be around during the time you sleep.

It gives you an objective view of your sleep quality – this was a good night I had recently:

Get the Sleep Cycle app or a similar tracker for Android now and give it a try. The results may surprise you and motivate you to find ways to improve your sleep quality.