Is there a good app for wind down with sleep sounds?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
76
Opportunity /100
86
Demand /100
53
Competition /100
88
Execution gap /100
4
Apps serving it
23
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to wind down with sleep sounds, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| sleep sounds now paid | price | 2 | why do I have to pay money to gets sounds to sleep |
| sleep sounds rarely works | reliability | 1 | Sleep sounds only works 2% of the time |
| sleep sound stops playing during night | bug | 1 | The sound didn't play all night. It kept stopping |
| need more sleep sounds without birds | missing-feature | 1 | need more with no birds |
| sleep music stops after a few seconds | bug | 1 | I couldn't get the music to continue |
| no option to listen to recorded sleep sounds | missing-feature | 1 | doesn’t give the option to listen |
| sleep sounds no longer stop after set timer | bug | 1 | the sounds played to help go to sleep no longer turn off after a set time |
| free sounds ineffective for sleep | price | 1 | The only things you can use is infinity, wind in trees, and birds. None of those help me sleep |
| sleep sound stutters and cuts out at start | bug | 1 | the sound I use always has a few stutters in the beginning and stops playing sounds for a second |
| sleep sound playback paywalled | price | 1 | downloaded this app to hear the noises I made while sleeping just to find you have to pay for that feature |
| cannot track sleep while white noise plays | reliability | 1 | sleep data that can't even track a nights sleep while using white noise |
| sleep timer missing on sleep soundscapes | bug | 1 | the sleep timer on the sleep soundscapes disappeared. Can t have the sound on all night |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShutEye®: Sleep Tracker, Sound | 4.8★ | 347,963 | Free |
| BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep | 4.7★ | 390,373 | Free |
| SleepWatch - Top Sleep Tracker | 4.7★ | 328,518 | Free |
| Calm | 4.8★ | 1,957,659 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 76 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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