The sleep app that wants you to put it down.
Sleep stories, body scans, breathing and gentle soundscapes — one good suggestion each evening, and a button for 3am. No streaks, no scores, no tricks. Made in the UK.
Free, forever: the nightly suggestion · the 3am button · morning check-ins · offline listening
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Two screens that matter.
Tonight gives you one good pick. And if you wake in the small hours, one button takes you somewhere built for exactly that.
Tonight
One pick. That's the whole decision.
The Lighthouse Keeper
Story · 45 min · read by Arlo
You're awake. That's okay.
Nothing is needed from you right now.
The worst moment of the night,
finally taken seriously.
Most sleep apps are 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.
The composition is long out of copyright, and the performance is the app's own — no recording is sampled.
Choice is the enemy at midnight.
Many apps hand you hundreds of 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.
Launching with 90 sleep stories
Lighthouses, night trains, snowed-in signal boxes, harbour walls at low tide. Each story is built to run 45 minutes — Arlo reads in slow passages across the first half hour, then 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, tempo and arrangement — composed so no two nights sound alike, and nothing plays on a loop.
I kept waking at 3am, reaching for my phone, and finding nothing built for that moment — just libraries to scroll and streaks I'd broken. So we built the app I wanted at 3am: one good pick at bedtime, one button for the small hours, and nothing that asks anything of you. If it helps even one bad night feel less lonely, it's done its job.
— Hourglow's founder
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
The short answers.
We're building now. The waitlist hears first — one email, the day it's live.
The nightly suggestion, the 3am button, morning check-ins and offline listening — free, forever. Plus unlocks the full story and session catalogue.
Yes — in your app store, in under a minute. We remind you two days before the trial ends, and it's monthly billing only: no surprise annual renewal.
No. Hourglow is a wellbeing app — comfort for hard nights, not healthcare. If sleep is a serious struggle, your GP is the right first step.
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Launching soon on iPhone and Android. One email when it's live — nothing else, ever.