BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep

I’ve been using this app for 8+ years. It was the best and free forever. Used it every night for those 8 years religiously. Last year they had a 80$ payment for a lifetime (one time) subscription. Now it’s asking for 3$ a month? This app was great and it’s fallen from the heavens. Sad to say it’s not worth it anymore. Also sends a ridiculous amount of notifications at midnight (up from 1 a few years ago). One is okay- stop sending 4-6 every single night. I hate to see it go- used the same mix every single night. Lost my business. Also @corp- stop responding saying you need to update the app. It’s legit a 5 min sound recordings played on a loop :(. Stop adding bad extra features!

I paid for a premium plan back in June 2025 as a forever plan and now it’s acting like that never happened and now wants a recurring subscription. Been using this for years and all the changes and trying to get more money out people is going too far. Removing this from my phone.

Disappointed. This app really is not useful. Provides incorrect sleep insights. Collects data during onboarding but dumps you into a wide pool of resources for you to figure it out. Hopefully you provide better guidance and useful help.

When I first started using this app all of the sounds were free. Then they started doing the subscription for the meditations.. now you have to pay for the subscription to use everything except for 3 sounds ☹️ very disappointing!! I just ended up deleting the app.. tired of having subscriptions for everything.

I really love the is app, but just became super bummed out to see that my presets (mixes) that I’ve used for YEARS for FREE have now been sat behind another pay wall….. i can’t even use the app anymore smh. Lost my subscription and service by adding more pay walls to stuff that was originally FREE! Smh I WILL BE UNINSTALLING

If there is anything that you need to know about this app or the service you’ll receive if ever needed it is that there is no other better. I have been using this app since 2019-2020 and it has so much to offer its users. It’s very user friendly, extremely updated, and has bountiful features and content for all users. Sleep stories is for me, but I have used the variety of different meditations as well as just the sounds and created my own soundscape. If you ever need to get help with anything you will receive the best customer service and support from the team. They have helped me with things that were seemingly impossible to me and they made them easy to understand and fix. The team really shows you that they care about your wellbeing. I would not recommend anything other than BetterSleep to anyone. You have nothing to lose and great things to gain especially Better Sleep.

I’ve used, loved, and (off and on for years) paid for this app. I love the variety of sounds and the ability to mix them as well as the flexible timer. There have always been some sounds behind a paywall and occasionally I’ve decided I’d like to use those and paid for a year. Then some years I’ve used only what’s free. As of today, 6/8/2026, there are now only 6 free sounds. Sad to see it go but I’m not interested in being forced to pay for something for even the minimum enjoyment.

Been using this app for years and they suddenly push all the sounds I’ve been using behind a paywall. Count me out.

Been using this app for years. Loved it, sounds were great. All of a sudden you have to pay an egregious amount to use the sounds now. It’ll be a struggle to adjust to new sounds but I’m not paying another subscription for just some sounds, that’s absurd.

As a person who benefits from winding down and preparing for sleep, I was really looking forward to this app. The first night I found this great brain wave sound that was very calming but the next night I tried to find the same thing and couldn’t. For me, there’s too much music and too much guided meditation. Those things actually bring out unpleasant feelings for me. I really just want calming, relaxing sounds. The app was complicated to navigate. It would be nice to just be able to find your history and return easily to what works for you. Lots of choices, but for me, it was overwhelming.

I use this app daily for almost 5 years and when they took away a huge chunk of the free items it ended up permanently ruining my circadian rhythm and subsequently affecting my health. It took me years to heal from the damage from it occasionally the sound will go back on for free, but I can’t use this app because the moment they take the sound away again my health collapses. Don’t develop too much of a reliance on this app because it will backfire on you big time. They basically made a pay to sleep and requirement so he’d my warning change. Your sounds often or pick a different thing because they definitely are not gonna care about you and you’re not going to get “better sleep”.

I have been using this app for over 10 years. It’s been amazing. Last year they got me for the $5 for 1 year subscription and now it’s an intro price of $1.99 a month for basically 90% of the sounds? Absolutely not. Deleting this app.