GoodNight
No sound. No scores. Just drift.
A silent app for the nights you can’t sleep. Something quiet to do with your eyes for a few minutes — and then it asks you to put the phone face-down and stop trying.
Coming to iPhone · free · no accountA sleep app that wants you to stop looking at it
Most things you reach for at 2am are designed to hold you. GoodNight is built the other way round: a short visual routine on a near-black screen, a timer that ends it for you, and a closing ritual that puts the phone face-down beside you.
Nothing to score, nothing to keep up, nothing to fail. The only number it keeps is the one that matters — nights you stopped.
Zero audio
No music, no white noise, no voice. Nothing to wake whoever is next to you, and no earbud to sleep on.
No scores, no streaks
Sessions end on a timer, not on a result. There is no fail screen, and no counter waiting to punish a missed night.
Ends face-down
Every session finishes the same way: place the phone screen-down and stop trying. Putting it down is the win.
3am is not the same problem as 11pm
GoodNight reads your sleep clock, not the wall clock, and changes what it offers and what it says accordingly. An hour before bed you get a choice. In the small hours you get the shortest thing that helps, and no decisions to make.
- Still earlyWell before bed. Wind down now if you like — no pressure to.
- I can’t sleepApproaching bedtime. Pick how long you have, and begin.
- Can’t drop offIn bed, first attempt. Stay in the dark: something quiet, then back to bed.
- Awake againThe small hours. Shorter, dimmer, and the clock stays hidden.
- Nearly morningClose to your alarm. A long wind-down would cost more than it gives.
In the small hours the app never shows you the time. Clock-watching is what turns a wake-up into an hour of doing sums in the dark.
Something to occupy the part of your mind that won’t stop
Each one is a couple of minutes of low, slow attention on a black screen. Some ask for a tap; several ask for nothing at all.
- Respiration HaloA breath ring with a longer exhale, easing toward five and a half breaths a minute.
- Set It DownName what’s still open and tap it onto the shelf. Nothing typed, nothing kept.
- Body SettleA soft light rests on one part of you at a time, forehead to feet. Nothing to tap.
- Oculomotor PendulumFollow a slow orb with your eyes only, head still.
- Visuospatial SketchpadQuiet pairs on black. Matches dissolve; mismatches fold shut, no penalty.
- Chromatic SortingFifty soft palettes to settle, dark to light, one swap at a time.
- Hypnotic Golden SpiralA warm spiral turning slowly on true black. Soften your gaze.
- Star ConnectQuiet constellations that draw themselves line by line.
- Gentle Cloud DissolveSoft puffs drift across the dark. Tap one and watch it fade.
- Sleepscape ColoringFine-line doodles — moons, mugs, cats — that wash in as you tap.
- Sheep CountingSheep hop the fence at their own pace. Tap to count; there is no right number.
It collects nothing. Not “anonymised” — nothing.
Sleep apps sit in the most intimate category on your phone: they know when you go to bed, when you wake, and how badly the night went. GoodNight is built so that none of that can leave your device, because there is nowhere for it to go.
- No account. Nothing to sign up for, no email required to use the app.
- No analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs, no tracking of any kind.
- No backend and no network calls. The app never talks to a server, including mine.
- Everything it remembers — your bedtime, your preferences, your night history — is a plain file in the app’s own storage on your iPhone.
- One tap in Settings deletes all of it. Deleting the app does the same.
This site is part of the same promise: no cookies, no analytics, no trackers, no fonts or scripts loaded from anyone else. The full privacy policy spells out exactly what is stored and where.
Before you ask
Does it really make no sound?
None. There is no audio anywhere in the app — no music, no white noise, no narration. That is a design rule, not a missing feature.
What does it cost?
Version 1 is free, with everything unlocked. There are no ads, and no purchase is required to reach any part of the app.
Will there be an Android version?
The app is built on an engine that can target both, so it is possible. iPhone comes first, and Android will depend on whether people want it — say so if you do.
Is this a treatment for insomnia?
No. GoodNight is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or cure anything. It borrows a few well-worn ideas — setting worries down before bed, not clock-watching, getting your eyes off a bright feed — and gives you something quiet to do with them. Persistent sleep trouble is worth raising with a doctor.
One person reads this, and it’s me
Bug reports, ideas, a routine you wish existed, or a request for the Android version — all of it goes to the same address, and I usually reply within a couple of days.
The support page has answers to the things people ask most, and what to include if something has gone wrong.