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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 StoreiPhone and Apple WatchiOS 26 or later
01 The dial
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.
02 The sound
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. These are finite files and they do loop; the app tells you how long each loop is rather than pretending otherwise, and they are mastered to the same loudness as the generated sounds, so bringing one into a mix never makes it lurch.
03 All night
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.
04 The mix
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.
05 The light
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.
Four themes ship free: Cabin Red, Ember, Moonlight and Forest.
06 The morning
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.
07 Everywhere
WaveSleep reaches the places you actually use at night, rather than asking you to open the app.
Digital Crown control and complications. It is a remote for the phone in the other room, not a second player.
Lock Screen and Home Screen. One tap picks up last night's mix.
The timer counting down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Play, pause, set the timer, set the volume, adjust one sound, start a named mix.
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.
Lock Screen and Control Center transport, and the route picker where you expect it.
08 What's free
The free tier is a complete sound machine, and it does not expire.
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$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
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 WaveSleep's 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.
WaveSleep's own documents live at alphaoriginal.co/wavesleep/privacy and alphaoriginal.co/wavesleep/terms. They are the same documents that ship inside the app. The AlphaOriginal company privacy policy is a separate document covering this website and the company.
WaveSleep
WaveSleep has its own site, with support, the full feature story and every sound in the library.