SleepTown

• Price: $1.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 1466 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5Current Issues With This App That I Want To Like

   As it stands currently, this app has only frustrated me. I was excited my first night using it— I hit sleep and I turned off strict mode just in case because I didn’t want anything to be messed up. I wake up at 7:30 and start using my phone. I forget to hit wake up and at 8am the alarm set in the app does not go off!!!!! So I open the app at 8:13 and my building is demolished. I’m heartbroken. Too strict! I just want the building back. And the kick in the teeth is the demolished building stays there until you remove it for 100 coins… that I don’t have because it’s DAY TWO OF USING THE APP and you only get coins from successfully building a building. So I can’t even remove it and have to look at it and be reminded that the whole point of the game doesn’t even matter because I slept the amount of time I should have. Just features like the alarm did not work and just because I didn’t TAP the wake up button at 8:00 or before means I didn’t succeed. Even though it’s better if I did get more hours of sleep than needed. Which did not happen btw bc I woke up at 7:30 to an emergency phone call. Very frustrating. I hope my building can be restored.

   Grd.dmg · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Gets you to put your phone down

   If you need motivation to put the phone down at night and wake up on time in the morning, this is a nice little aid. It won’t make you sleep — only you can do that — but if you want to see a cute little building built overnight, it’ll remove one major obstacle: futzing with your phone. You choose the sleep and wake times *before* you’re in a spiral of doomscrolling. So far, wanting to see a building built has been pretty good motivation. Have I already found some “loopholes” to my own detriment? Sure. But that’s not the app’s fault. It has helped me start to shift a long engrained habit that I was too stuck to undo without this little app. I hope to break the habit and establish new sleep habits before the app loses its appeal (which I’m guessing it will at some point, but maybe I’m wrong and it will keep surprising me and help me stick to bedtime). The basics of the user interface are intuitive and easy to use. I haven’t done a deep dive into selecting buildings or creating new towns, figuring out the coin system, etc. That part is less intuitive and isn’t explained — I’ve just been clicking around. But my goal is not to play with it too much (and thereby add another phone distraction), but to use the element of surprise as a motivation to get off the phone. Waking up to a cute little ramen restaurant on my screen was very satisfying and keeps me waiting for more creative builds.

   NohLady · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5Wish there was more flexibility

   I’m really bad at staying on my phone when I’m in bed so an app like this is really helpful in helping build a habit. However, there are a few things that really make it hard for me to like this app. I really enjoy the “game” aspect of it and how it’s a challenge because it really incentivizes me, but it’s just not realistic to check-in when I go to bed every single time. For example, tonight I missed going to bed by 1 minute and that automatically constitutes as a failure. The problem with this is that now I don’t have an incentive to not be on my phone. I could just move my sleep time to 11pm, but that defeats the purpose of it. While ideally my sleep time is 10:30pm, it’s just not realistic for me to go to bed at exactly that time and sometimes it’s just a matter of forgetting to check in (even with the notification). I would like there to be an option for a “smaller” incentive if you miss your bedtime goal but still don’t want to use your phone at night. i.e. maybe it should count towards half a building or something similar. Unfortunately, this app just isn’t working completely for me at this time but I will keep on using it with the hope it will help.

   Stephiiiiiii · 31 Jul 2026

4. 3/5A bit too strict

   It’s a nice app but it’s so strict, if you miss by a couple minutes, even if you still get to bed in roughly the same time, the building will be destroyed. Another thing I don’t like is that once you missed my sleeping time that’s it, you failed the night and there’s nothing else you can do. But really, even if I missed my sleeping time by hours, it still helps to just click “build” and put down the phone when I do decide to sleep. I want to use this app for helping me get away from my phone, and i still want to use this feature even if I did miss my sleeping time. But right now “missing you sleeping time” is just the end of the story. I don’t even want to open this app after not being able to build a single house for three days. There’re tracking apps more forgiving rewarding and helpful than this one. ————————— What I think might help is to add a period in which you want to go to bed, then a deadline by which you have to get off your phone. Say you want to sleep at 10pm, it may help to give you a period between 9:30 to 10:30 in which you can hit sleep and start building the house, but still allow you to have some flexibility, say I can still reply to a text at 10:05. But then by 10:30 is the hard deadline after which the house will be destroyed if you look at your phone again.

   Mains bodkin · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Probably my favorite app?

   I genuinely don’t even know if I had this regular of a sleep schedule when I was a kid. I have ADHD and would regularly spend until four in the morning researching whatever that week’s new interest was on my phone instead of sleeping. The novelty of getting new buildings, the frustration of a house collapsing, and the desire to keep consistent so I have the funds to configure new areas of my town are all strong enough to keep me from blowing it off, which is a pretty huge feat. Also, when I did hit a patch of not using it for awhile, I discovered the Circles function, and having friends build projects with me gave me the added element of public accountability. The only fundamental way this app could be better would be if you were somehow able to download it onto other devices and your desktop so that you can’t hop from your phone to somewhere else, but also, like, an app can’t actually be a full adult for you, so 🤷🏼‍♀️. (That said, developers, if you could give the option to edit the sleep goals for Circles groups every couple of weeks in case of slight schedule changes in the group, I would love you forever.) Anyway, it’s an incredible app, and my mental and physical health are measurably better for it.

   Cptfunk · 31 Jul 2026

Privacy

Accessibility

No accessibility labels collected yet.