Tidewell is a 6-minute daily wind-down for people who can't sleep because their brain is too busy. A therapist-designed sequence of breath, body-scan, and a three-line journal. Free forever for the daily session. 340,000 people have used it this year.
Breath, body-scan, journal. Always the same shape. Your nervous system learns the pattern — after three weeks, the app becomes the cue.
Composed by Jesca Finch for Tidewell. All tempo-locked to your breath. Drone, ambient piano, wind, and field recordings from the Scottish Highlands.
One worry, one gratitude, one thing to let go. Saved locally only. No cloud, no AI, no "insights" tab. Nothing to scroll tomorrow morning.
Built with Dr Lina Osei, a CBT-I sleep psychologist at King's College London. The full clinical rationale is in the About page, if you want to read it.
No account required. No analytics. No ads. Your journal never leaves your phone. We store your email only if you pay — and only to email you a receipt.
The app is 19MB, works offline, and runs on iPhone 8 / Android 8 and up. We test on a six-year-old Moto G every release. Not everyone has new hardware.
Free on App Store and Google Play. 19MB. No account. Open it, pick a voice (we have five), you're ready.
Six minutes. Phone face-down. The session guides you from breath → body-scan → three-line journal.
The app ends. No "great job!" screen. No streak. The phone is dark. You go to bed. That's the whole idea.
I've deleted Calm, Headspace, and six others. Tidewell is the first one where I actually do the session. The six-minute thing matters.
— Ines R. · LondonTidewell represents a refreshingly minimal approach to sleep apps: one session, thoughtfully designed, with no dark patterns. We made it our featured wellness app of 2026.
— App Store · Editor's Choice 2026I've prescribed this to 60+ CBT-I patients over the past year. Compliance is higher than any other app I've trialled. It does one thing properly.
— Dr Hana Okafor · Sleep Psychologist340,000 people used it this year. Tomorrow night: you. Six minutes. One app. Actually sleep.
iOS 14+ · Android 8+ · 19MB · no account · no ads · no analytics