A 2022 Survey of Commercially Available Smartphone Apps for Sleep: Most Enhance Sleep

Tracy Jill Doty; Emily K. Stekl; Matthew Bohn; Grace Klosterman; Guido Simonelli; Jacob Collen

doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2023.05.008

A 2022 Survey of Commercially Available Smartphone Apps for Sleep: Most Enhance Sleep

Tracy Jill Doty^*, Emily K. Stekl, Matthew Bohn, Grace Klosterman, Guido Simonelli, Jacob Collen

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Commercially available smartphone apps represent an ever-evolving and fast-growing market. Our review systematically surveyed currently available commercial sleep smartphone apps to provide details to inform both providers and patients alike, in addition to the healthy consumer market. Most current sleep apps offer a free version and are designed to be used while awake, prior to sleep, and focus on the enhancement of sleep, rather than measurement, by targeting sleep latency using auditory stimuli. Sleep apps could be considered a possible strategy for patients and consumers to improve their sleep, although further validation of specific apps is recommended.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-384
Number of pages	12
Journal	Sleep Medicine Clinics
Volume	18
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsmc.2023.05.008
State	Published - Sep 2023

Keywords

Consumer sleep technology
Mobile technology
Reduced sleep latency
Sleep tracker
mHealth
Sleep
Mobile Applications
Telemedicine
Humans
Smartphone

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