Sleep Sooner

Sleep Sooner helps one person keep a bedtime they set for themselves. There is no account and no sign-in.

HOW TO SEE IT WORK QUICKLY

The app is driven by the clock and by phone usage, so a fresh install shows little until a bedtime passes. To see it work in about three minutes:

Complete setup. Allow notifications. Screen Time access can be allowed or declined — see below. On the schedule screen, set Bedtime two or three minutes from now, and Wake up to any later time. Leave Nights on today. Leave the app. At the bedtime you set, a notification arrives. Tap it to open the app and see the countdown, which shows the sleep you would still get if you stopped now. The bedtime notification is scheduled on the clock and does not require Screen Time, so step 3 works whether or not access was granted.

The escalating messages are driven by measured usage rather than elapsed time. They begin after ten minutes of actual phone use past bedtime and repeat at the interval the user chose. Reaching the bluntest ones takes roughly fifty minutes of use, so we do not expect them to be reachable in a review session. Setup includes a screen showing one real example of every message, and when each arrives.

WHY THE APP USES SCREEN TIME APIS

The app uses DeviceActivity to learn only that a usage threshold has been crossed after the user's own bedtime, for apps or categories the user picked themselves. It qualifies under clause 2 of the Family Controls terms, personal device usage management, not the parental control clause:

Authorization is requested with .individual, never .child. The app does not use ManagedSettings at all. It never shields, blocks or restricts any app, website or device function. It has no account, no server and no networking code. Nothing it observes leaves the device. The Family Controls distribution entitlement was granted to team X684H9Z2HH on 29 August 2026, request 59Y99689NK, and version 1.0 shipped with it.

ABOUT THE TONE OF THE MESSAGES

The app's purpose is to interrupt someone who is ignoring their own bedtime, and the messages become blunter the longer they are ignored. They are directed only at the person who installed the app and set the time, and only about a commitment that person made to themselves.

They contain no profanity, no crude humour, no sexual, violent or threatening content, and no gendered or personal characterisation. The strongest line in the app is "Your word to yourself is worth nothing."

Consent is explicit and informed rather than assumed. During setup, before any message can be sent, the user is shown one real example of every message alongside when it arrives — "After 10 minutes on your phone" through to "After 50 minutes on your phone". That screen stays available afterwards in Settings › What the messages say.

This is stronger than in 1.0, where the same screen labelled its examples by an internal 1–5 level. It now states plainly when each message is sent, so the user agrees to a schedule rather than to a scale.

WHAT CHANGED IN 2.0

The weekly and monthly charts are replaced by a single chart of two lines: the bedtime the user set, and the last time the app observed the phone in use. The internal 1–5 level is no longer displayed anywhere; figures read in minutes and clock times. Setup is shorter, and "Skip tonight" now applies to the night in progress rather than only to a night not yet begun.

CONTACT

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