When it comes to getting a good night's sleep, there are countless apps on the market that claim to help. Two of the most popular are Sleepiest and Insight Timer, both of which offer a wide range of sounds and meditations to help users relax and fall asleep. But which app is the better choice?

The Offerings of Sleepiest vs Insight Timer

Sleepiest and Insight timer both offer bedtime stories and sleep meditations to help you sleep, although Insight Timer's focus is far broader in that it tries to address mental health very broadly, addressing everything from anxiety to depression, while Sleepiest focuses purely on sleep aid content.

One of the biggest differences between Sleepiest and Insight Timer is the approach. Insight Timer acts as a market place for meditation providers - with a wide range of creators able to upload content to the Insight Timer platform. Insight Timer boasts that is has "over 100k guided meditations". This is as much to Insight Timers downfall as it is to it's benefit...

The amount of content in Insight Timer is very broad, and very extensive, however there is limited quality control to make sure the content it's offering is fit for purpose, or of a high quality. By comparison, Sleepiest is a curated experience, with their content team writing original scripts and hand picking narrators best suited for each and every bedtime story and sleep meditation. This means the experience you get from Sleepiest is arguably more refined, with content consistently of a high quality, as opposed to Insight Timer where you may need to dig around within the app to uncover the higher quality content from the vast quantity of user submissions on the Insight Timer platform.

Insight Timer's broad focus also makes it less ideal if you're specifically looking for content to help you sleep. The focus is on mental health as a whole, with the creator-submitted sleep offerings making up only a small portion of the content available.

Insight Timer principally focuses on meditation content. Bedtime stories and sleep sounds are sparse on the platform, and therefore it's unlikely to be as good a fit if this is what you're looking for.

Sleepiest also offers a sleep sound creation tool, allowing you to layer sounds to build the ideal soundscape for you to sleep to; a functionality Insight Timer doesn't provide.

Finally, unlike Insight Timer; Sleepiest offers passive sleep tracking; this allows you to analyze your sleep data both for the week before you installed Sleepiest, as well as after you start using Sleepiest. This level of transparency provides confidence that the Sleepiest offering is tangibly improving your sleep; in-fact sleep tracking data shows our customers on average get 29 minutes more sleep each night when using Sleepiest compared to the week before they joined!

Additionally by combining sleep content with sleep tracking; the team here at Sleepiest are able to refine content based on the tangible impact it's having on improving the sleep of our customers.

The price

Insight Timer costs $59.99/yr and $9.99/mo, while Sleepiest costs $49.99/yr or $9.99/mo. So Sleepiest is slightly more affordable on a yearly basis, while they're the same price if you go monthly.

Ratings

Both Sleepiest and Insight Timer have millions of downloads. Both also have a high user ratings with the vast majority of ratings being 5*. The interface of both apps is of a high quality, providing simple navigation and ease of use.

Detailed comparison

Conclusion

Insight Timer has significantly more content available than any other app in the mental health or sleep space; but this high quantity comes at a cost. By acting as a very broad marketplace for meditation content, the quality of content suffers.

Insight timer accepts over 80 new bits of content onto it's platform each-and-every-day, this level of release cadence comes at the expense of quality control, with Insight Timer being bloated with a large amount of of content that's not of as high a quality when compared to many other apps in the market.

By comparison Sleepiest releases 10 new bits of content every week; however each bit of content has been vetted by our internal team. With script writers producing each bit of content internally, us hand selecting the best voice actors in the world to narrate each script. Each recording is then professionally mastered by our sound engineers... The result? A higher quality and more refined experience when listening to content within Sleepiest where you can be ensures of a high quality experience no matter what story, sound or meditation you pick.

When using Sleepiest, you can be guaranteed a high quality listening experience.

Sleepiest has a laser focus on sleep; it's in our DNA. All our content is specifically geared towards getting you to sleep quicker, while Insight Timer takes a broader approach as a meditation app, offering help for a range of topics from screen-time to anxiety and depression. If you're looking for a broader offering to help your mental health as a whole then Insight Timer could be worth trying.

Sleep tracking is available within Sleepiest, a feature not available within Insight Timer. The fact we measure sleep data and the effect our content has on your sleep allows us to refine and focus our content offering to center on content proven to provide a tangible benefit to sleep health.

Our sleep sound creation tool is another feature not offered by Insight timer, which allows you to craft the prefect soundscape to drift off to as you fall asleep tonight.

Overall; if you're looking for a high quality app specifically to help you sleep then Sleepiest is likely the better option. If you're looking for a broader offering to help with a range of mental health issues, and if you like meditations; Insight Timer could be worth trying... But be prepared to dig through a lot of content to find the creator that works for you.

Both apps offer ample free content without requiring you to start a free trial. So why not try Sleepiest tonight and see if it can help you get the great night's sleep you've only dreamed of?