Rise — Sleep Better

Rise Science

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About this app

Become a better sleeper using 100 years of sleep science. Teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, MLS, SEC, ACC, BIG10, BIG12, PAC12, Fortune 500 trust Rise to help their people become better sleepers.

FROM THE RISE COMMUNITY:

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Chase M.
"Rise helped me understand how vital sleep truly is. In only a few weeks, I found myself more focused, energetic, and productive at work."

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Becky G.

"I could see where sleep debt was causing issues, temper short, not comprehending things, moving slowly.
 I had an epiphany... I'm getting 45min more sleep on average than I was before Rise."

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Katie B.

"I never thought too much about the impact of sleep on my mood. Using Rise I saw a very fast improvement in my sleep which impacted my relationship with my kiddos."

FEEL BETTER
There's one thing that matters most to get the benefits of sleep. Surprisingly, it's not sleep stories, meditations, a new mattress, getting 8 hours of sleep, following sleep hygiene or your sleep score.

The most important thing is called Sleep Debt. It's not a score we made up. It's one of the most important findings in the last century of sleep science. It's important because when your sleep debt is low your daily quality of life is better and you live longer. When that number is high, the opposite happens.

Rise teaches you what Sleep Debt is, how it works and how much you have. You'll finally understand why some days you feel great and others not so much. You'll know the days when you want to prioritize sleep and the real impact of staying up later.

GUIDANCE JUST FOR YOU
Everyone has different sleep challenges. Maybe your mind is active at night or you might be staying up late scrolling or watching Netflix.

Based on your input and the latest sleep science, we'll recommend habits that help you finally feel better.

Sleep Challenges we can help with include:
- Getting to bed on time
- Difficulty Falling asleep
- Waking up during the night
- Feeling groggy in the morning & during the day

OPTIMIZE YOUR DAY
Every one of us has a clock in our brain. It tells every cell when to be alert and active and when to be recovering. We all have unique times during the day when we feel and perform our best. We also have individual times when we should be sleeping and waking up. We use advanced algorithms to let you know when your peaks are and the best times to be sleeping.

AUTOMATICALLY TRACK SLEEP
Using data already stored on your iPhone we automatically track how much sleep you get. No buttons to push, nothing to wear, or charge. We integrate with Apple Health, Fitbit, Oura, Garmin, Sleep Cycle, and other sleep trackers to put the data you already have to use. Rise integrates with Google Fit for step and activity data related to your sleep.


OTHER FEATURES
- Configure habit notifications through SMS.
- Keep track of your sleep quality.

WHY WE STARTED RISE
We started Rise because we’re in the midst of an insufficient sleep epidemic (CDC, 2014) that is getting worse since we started tracking in 1985. The current epidemic is leading to higher mortality rates (Cappuccio, 2010) and we’re performing worse in nearly all aspects of life (RAND, 2016).

Today, most of us think of sleep as a luxury. Rise is creating a world where healthy sleep is standard.


Terms of Service available at: bit.ly/rise-sleep-app-tos

Ratings and reviews

Unfortunately, I realized that this hadn't free functionality, a big no for me, I'm not going to spend 60 dollars a year regardless if they give me a 1 week free trail, issues might start popping up, bugs, some people hear loud noises from the monitors. Pro tip, don't have them connect their entire fitness data and account before asking for money. Nice try though, it seems to have really great potential, but not for penny pinchers.

Too costly and too short of a trial to know the benefits. A one week trial is not enough to understand how effective an app is; I sure wasn't going to sign up for a year especially since other reviews expressed how wonky the app could be. If the trial was a month, and the subscription was on a monthly basis where (like Personal Zen and other apps and not gym contracts), I may have stuck around longer. I did appreciate the emphasis on sleep debt/etc., and that helped me make a few changes.

Fitbit connect and sleep debt insights are worth it. But it's not worth $60/year for a barely functional Android app. Notifications don't work despite the inelegant hack of a persistent (and expanded!) notification (which seems unnecessary w/ Fitbit connect) taking up the top of your notification panel, the habits section disappears if you swipe down with no way to bring back w/o reopening, the back button not working. The iOS app is updated daily (4.6 stars), Android not since May (2.9 stars).

What's new

We're always making improvements to our app experience. Always happy to hear from you if you run into any trouble, want to share feedback, or just want to talk sleep! You can reach us at [e-mail]