Sleep
Rain, ocean waves and brown noise to drift off to.
Your calmest night starts here
Soothing sounds, guided breathing and a gentle sleep timer. Everything you need to switch off, in one app.
Download on theApp StoreRated 4.7 on the App Store. 20,000+ people sleeping better.
What do you need tonight?
Play a short sample. The full mixes, 100+ sounds and timers are in the app.
Focus
Brainwave tones and lo-fi for deep work.
Relax
Soft piano and ambient music to unwind.
Breathe
Guided box breathing to slow your mind.
Wake
Gentle dawn sounds and a quote for the day.
Calm you can measure
What published sleep studies found about the sounds you'll hear in Zen Melodies.
38%
Faster to fall asleep
With steady broadband sound playing, people fell asleep 38% faster (median) than with ordinary room noise.
Messineo et al., Frontiers in Neurology, 2017. 18 healthy adults, transient-insomnia model.
3×
Bigger memory boost overnight
Soft pink noise timed to deep-sleep brain waves tripled how much older adults improved at recalling words the next morning.
Papalambros et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017. 13 adults aged 60–84.
2.8 points
Better sleep quality
Across 10 trials and 708 people, bedtime music improved scores on the 21-point Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
Jespersen et al., Cochrane review, 2022.
These studies tested the type of sound, not the Zen Melodies app itself.
A night with Zen Melodies
From switching off to waking up, here's how people use it.
110:30 pm
Breathe
Two minutes of box breathing to slow down.
210:40 pm
Mix
Layer rain, piano or brown noise.
310:45 pm
Drift off
Brainwaves and a timer that fades the mix out.
46:30 am
See your night
Sleep stages from Apple Health.
56:31 am
Wake to wisdom
A short quote to start the day.
What brainwave sounds do
Each track is tuned to a frequency band your brain moves through during the day and night.
Delta0.5–4 Hz · sleep
Theta4–8 Hz · drifting
Alpha8–13 Hz · calm
Beta13–30 Hz · focus
It helps me a lot for the sleeping method. Even I met the sleeping issue and I have tried many other apps. Vote 5 stars for this app.
Katharina Yuktonis Cross, Hanoi
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Sleep better, starting tonight
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