Some warnings 5 users report trouble cancelling; 8 users report an aggressive ad load and 1 more report. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 17.63 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 17.63, updated 2026-10-19.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Struggling with sleepless nights? Join the community of 7 million+ people who have turned to Sleepiest, a solution recommended by doctors and sleep scientists to help you achieve a tranquil slumber each night.
Discover the calm within you with Sleepiest. Our app is your bedtime companion that aids you to fall asleep faster and improve the quality of your rest. This is achieved through a fantastic range of over 3120+ immersive bedtime stories, soothing sleep meditations, and ambient sleep sounds, designed for adults, kids, and even babies.
Our selection of bedtime stories will transport you to magical forests, calm ocean vistas and beyond. Narratives crafted to cater to different tastes, from age-old classics to unique tales, every story aims to send you off to a restful sleep. Listen to one as you settle into bed, letting the relaxing narratives lull you into a peaceful slumber.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 63 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 100 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 100 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Adds — This app makes me watch adds
Too much ads — Multiple ads before you can even hear any sample. And anytime you want to sample a different track you have to endure more ads.
Was Good Up Until It Stopped Working — Used this everyday to relax and sleep. Now it won’t work. None of the sounds show up and are blank. When living a sounds the screen tries to go to the sound but flickers and doesn’t. It’s like it…
Scam App! — Will not allow you to Cancel tour free trial and then makes it VERY difficult to cancel. There is no Cancel selection in the app store either.
No way to Cancel! — This app makes it impossible to cancel your subscription.
Hard to find where to cancel — Easy to do 7 day Trial but hard to cancel so the cost doesn’t continue.
Great — Was great until everything got locked behind a paywall. You accidentally back out congrats another ad right before bed
ad? — why ads? everything is locked already
Luvvv this app — It helps me sleep and is amazing but I don’t like how all the stuff is locked I feel like stuff should be more free but other that that yea
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 17.63 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 17.63, updated 2026-10-19.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Sleepiest, now made for iPhone Duo! This update brings full support for iPhone Duo, with features built around the fold. Bedside Mode: Fold your Duo into a tent and stand it on your bedside table while it charges, and Sleepiest becomes a calm night clock. You'll see the time and your alarm at a glance, with play, pause and your sleep timer right there. There's no need to pick up your phone. Play screen, laptop style: Half-fold your Duo and the play screen splits across the fold. The artwork and story details sit on the top half, with the controls on the bottom half where your thumb can reach them. Mixing desk: Half-fold your Duo on the mixer and the bottom half turns into a mixing desk.…
Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.
Appworthy
sleepiest-meditation-for-sleepAssessed 2026-10-27 from 500 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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