River Sleep: Kids Bedtime App

ACMG Wellness

In-app purchases

About this app

River Sleep is a bedtime app for children ages 0–12 and their parents.

No ads. No tracking. No bright screens. Just better sleep for them and you.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Guided sleep meditations that weave literacy boosting and educational components with evidence-based techniques such as progressive muscle relaxation, breathing exercises, and body scans that are shown to increase both the quality and duration of sleep.

Classic bedtime stories from A.A. Milne, Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, and more read aloud by a dad to his daughter.

World-class orchestral music, remastered historical music, and ambient sounds such as brown noise, rain, gentle streams that seamlessly loop for all night sleep support.

A Parent's Corner with adult meditations, NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), breathing exercises for parent and child, relaxing puzzles (Sudoku and Word Bloom), and articles on children's sleep.

Dark by design — the minimalist, dark-theme interface is engineered to avoid disrupting melatonin production at bedtime

Offline downloads — save everything once, no Wi-Fi needed at bedtime

Custom playlists — stack a meditation, story, and ambient sound into a nightly routine

Bedtime Mode — extra-dim screen for pitch-dark rooms

Background audio — plays all night, even when the screen is off

No ads, no tracking, no data collection — your family's bedtime is private

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Schools, hospitals, pediatric offices, and sleep consultants can provide River Sleep to the families they serve. Organization partners get custom branding, curated playlists, and usage metrics. Visit riversleep.app/partners to learn more.

BUILT BY A FAMILY , FOR FAMILIES

River Sleep started as a homeschool project between a dad and his 10-year-old daughter. She picks the stories. He reads them aloud. What began as a bedtime experiment became an app that treats bedtime as the most important learning moment of a child's day.

Every feature exists because our family needed it. Every design choice — the dark interface, the offline downloads, the zero tracking — comes from lived experience putting a real kid to sleep every night.

Available on Android, iPhone, iPad, and the web at app.riversleep.app.

Download River Sleep and turn bedtime into the best part of your child's day.

What’s new

River Sleep 5.0 is a major update:
- Engineered to avoid blue light exposure at bedtime, with warmer colors and gentler contrast
- Organizations can now provide River Sleep to families with custom branding
- Word Bloom — a new relaxing word puzzle in Parent's Corner
- VoiceOver and TalkBack support, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, and 44pt touch targets throughout
- Performance and stability improvements across the board
From our family to yours, sleep well.