The sleep app that wants you to put it down.
One good suggestion each evening. A button for 3am. No streaks, no scores, no tricks. Made in the UK.
One email at launch. No marketing drip. Your address is stored on UK-governed infrastructure and never shared.
The worst moment of the night,
finally taken seriously.
Every sleep app is built for bedtime. Hourglow is also built for the lonely hour after — one tap, sound starts instantly, the screen goes near-black, and nothing asks anything of you.
You're awake. That's okay.
Nothing is needed from you right now.
A real minute of it — slow Debussy on a lone piano and far-off water. No voice at 3am, on purpose: nothing should ask anything of you. Arlo's stories are just below.
Choice is the enemy at midnight.
Other apps hand you 500 options when you can barely keep your eyes open. Hourglow chooses one good thing for tonight — a story, a body scan, or a soundscape — and that's the whole decision.
90 nights of sleep stories
Lighthouses, night trains, snowed-in signal boxes, harbour walls at low tide. Every story runs 45 minutes — the voice ends, the music carries you the rest of the way.
Read by Arlo
One narrator across the whole app — low, steady, and far slower than anyone reads aloud in daylight. You'll know his voice by night three.
Music that belongs to each story
Every session has its own key, instrument and arrangement — no two nights sound alike, and nothing repeats on a loop.
Honest billing, in writing.
The sleep app business has a reputation problem: surprise renewals, cancel mazes, trials that charge early. We built the opposite, and we're happy to be held to it.
- No ads, no ad trackers, no analytics brokers
- No streaks, no scores, no guilt
- No surprise annual renewal — it's monthly, full stop
- No locked crisis help, offline mode, resume or rewind — those are never paywalled
- Your notes stay on your phone unless you choose to sync
Be first to know.
Launching soon on iPhone and Android. One email when it's live — nothing else, ever.