WaveSleep — One dial.
Sound all night.
A sound machine for your nightstand, with the knob still on it. Thirteen sounds made for sleeping through, layered four deep, run from one dial you can turn with your eyes closed.
Coming to the App Store iPhone and Apple Watch · iOS 26 or later
01THE DIAL
One dial runs the whole night.
The whole app is a single machined ring with haptic detents. Turn it for volume, hold it for the timer, tap a layer to shape it.
Big targets, warm light, nothing to read. It is built for one thumb at 3am, not for browsing at 9pm.
02THE SOUND
Covers whatever keeps you awake.
Traffic, a restless partner, a room that is never quite quiet. Thirteen sounds, layered up to four at a time.
Seven are generated in real time — white, pink, brown and green noise, a fan, an air conditioner and an airplane cabin, built sample by sample for as long as you play them. There is no file underneath, which is why they never settle into the short, obvious loop you eventually stop being able to un-hear.
Six are real field recordings — waves on rocks, ocean, gentle rain, night crickets, morning birds, a dawn chorus. Nothing generated sounds like actual water on actual rock. These are finite files and they do loop; the app tells you how long each loop is rather than pretending otherwise. They are mastered to the same loudness as the generated sounds, so bringing one into a mix never makes it lurch.
03ALL NIGHT
Still playing at 4am.
Infinite playback is the default, not a setting you have to find.
A stop timer is there when you want one — 30 minutes, 45, one hour, two, eight, and it fades out over 30 seconds instead of cutting. Playback survives calls, headphone changes and AirPlay handoffs.
04THE MIX
Shape it now, or any night after.
Stack up to four sounds. Tap any one to set its volume, tone and swell live while the rest keep playing; hold it to solo it.
Auditioning a sound in the library never disturbs the mix you already have — it comes right back when you close the sheet.
05THE LIGHT
Red light, on purpose.
The interface is red-orange on true black because long-wavelength light is the kind your eyes recover from fastest in the dark. It is the same reason classic car dashboards glowed red.
Three other themes ship free: Ember, Moonlight and Forest.
06THE MORNING
A morning that takes two taps.
Rate the night on a four-point scale and get on with your day.
After a week there is enough signal to name the mix you actually sleep best with, and the card says so in one line — never as a score, never as a streak.
07EVERYWHERE
The crown turns the same dial.
Apple Watch
Digital Crown control and complications. It is a remote for the phone in the other room, not a second player.
Widgets
Lock Screen and Home Screen. One tap picks up last night's mix.
Live Activity
The timer counting down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Siri and Shortcuts
Play, pause, set the timer, set the volume, adjust one sound, start a named mix.
A real alarm
Armed through AlarmKit, so it rings whether or not WaveSleep is running and breaks through silent mode and Focus. Then the app crossfades your wake sound in over the mix.
AirPlay
Lock Screen and Control Center transport, and the route picker where you expect it.
08WHAT'S FREE
Free is a whole app, not a trial.
Free, forever
- All seven sound generators
- Gentle Rain
- The wake alarm
- The full timer
- Four-layer mixes, one saved
- All four themes
- The morning check-in
That is a whole sound machine, and it does not expire.
WaveSleep Plus
- Every recorded sound
- Unlimited saved mixes
- Insights on your own nights
- A custom theme hue
- New sounds as they land
$29.99 a year · $4.99 a month
Both prices are on the paywall, and so is “Maybe later” — the same size as the button that takes money.
Every other recorded sound auditions as a ten-second preview before you decide. Letting a subscription lapse hides nothing you made: your mixes stay, you just cannot save a new one.
PRIVACY
No account. Nothing to sign in to.
Your mixes, your settings and your sleep journal are stored on your device and are never sent to us. Deleting the app deletes all of it — we have no copy. The generated sounds are made on your device, so they work with no connection at all.
WaveSleep does send a small number of anonymous usage events, and the privacy policy says exactly which ones, including the one that carries the number you tap at the morning check-in. There is no advertising identifier, no cross-app tracking and no third-party ad or attribution SDK in the app.