mySleepButton®

CogSci Apps Corp.

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About this app

Don't Count Sheep, Shuffle Your Thoughts to Sleep.

LifeHacker calls mySleepButton®, "surprisingly effective". The NY Times, The Guardian, Forbes Magazine, Government of Canada, The BC Medical Journal online, and many others have featured mySleepButton. Popular Science says it is "Just better". CoolTools (KK.org) says it "just knocks me out".

The purpose of mySleepButton is to help you fall asleep. And to return to sleep. It's easy: Just push the "Put Me to Sleep" button and imagine the rich variety of images that mySleepButton prompts you to visualize. This dreamy stream of images may distract you from your worries and put you in a state that is conducive to sleep. This is known as "the cognitive shuffle", because it involves shuffling your thoughts.

mySleepButton offers three different cognitive shuffle modes. You can imagine a variety of "simple things" (like a river, mountain and stars), scenes (like walking on a trail, or watching someone play guitar), and even imagine yourself drawing things. It's a surprisingly pleasant way to fall asleep.

Getting sufficient sleep can improve your cognitive productivity and overall well-being. So why not try mySleepButton?

mySleepButton uses both recorded human voice packs and synthetic voice packs. The synthetic packs use Android's built-in or installed Text-to-Speech function, which can be customized in various ways, including changing the voice between female and male. See https://mysleepbutton.com/support/ for details.

Updates to the built-in packs are an additional charge (lowest charge next to zero that Google Play allows).

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Ratings and reviews

Helpful, but I agree with another commenter that the "a/an" before many words was distracting. I'm also having an issue where sometimes the app seems to freeze--for whatever reason there will be a much longer gap between words, and often it will play two words at once after the freeze, which is doubly distracting. Also, how big is this word list? I've used this app only about five times, and I'm already tired of thinking about "parliament."

The ONLY app I found that works with the Cognitive Shuffle technique. One complaint though is the sets of words used in all the categories are quite limited, resulting in them repeating after only 5 mins. This can be distracting and works against the whole purpose.. please release some sets of random words/phrases about 4 times as long, especially to users that purchased the human voice sets. Would be a nice touch to be able to use custom lists of words using text to speech.

Does not keep running. It was recommended by a friend who got it for free on her iPhone. I paid $4 and it seems to have fewer features and, more importantly, stops playing after about a minute. It stops whether the phone goes into lock screen or not. I left it running while trying to find a solution and it still quit while the phone was in use. I tried all of the suggestions listed in reviews and none worked. This was a complete waste of money.

What’s new

Updated to API level 35. Fixed UI layout issues. Fixed crashes.