Driftless
Sleep & recovery, for the chronically awake

Driftless reads the rhythm of your night and walks you down into it — soundscapes that breathe at your pace, a wind-down that starts before you remember to, and a wake that meets you in the lightest minute you've got.

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Inside Driftless

A whole night,gently engineered.

Most apps stop at a playlist and a bedtime nudge. Driftless treats the night as one continuous arc — wind-down, descent, deep sleep, and a wake that meets you in the lightest moment.

Adaptive soundscapes

Brown noise, rainfall, and slow drones that shift in real time to your breath and movement. The room never goes silent at the wrong moment, and never jolts you when you're nearly under.

The wind-down ramp

An hour before bed your phone dims, notifications go quiet, and a guided descent begins — so falling asleep stops being a switch you flip and becomes a slope you slide down.

Smart-light wake

We watch for your lightest sleep stage inside a 30-minute window and lift you out there, with a sunrise that builds across the room before a single sound plays.

Breath pacing

A 4-7-8 light you breathe with, not at. It slows your heart rate to the edge of sleep without a single instruction to read in the dark.

Recovery score

Every morning, one honest number — built from time asleep, restlessness, and resting heart rate — and exactly one thing to change tonight.

What a few weeks of Driftless tends to look like

23 min
Sooner to first sleep
41%
Fewer 3 a.m. wakings
9 of 10
Woken inside their light window
300+
Hours of loop-free sound
The science

Built on howsleep actually works.

No melatonin to buy, no wearable to charge. Driftless leans on the body's own descent — circadian timing, sleep-stage cycling, and the slow math of the breath.

Reads your stages

Sonar-grade microphone sensing tracks breathing and motion through the night from the nightstand — no watch, no ring, nothing strapped to your wrist.

Times your light

It learns your real sleep onset and chronotype, then moves the wind-down and the wake to fit the night your body wants — not the one your calendar assigned it.

Honest, private data

Your night never leaves your device unless you send it. No selling sleep data, no ads in the dark, no third party watching you fall asleep. Ever.

Tuned by clinicians

Soundscapes and breath patterns reviewed by sleep specialists and refined against tens of thousands of real nights — not a stock relaxation playlist.

Soundscapes

Pick a place to disappear into.

Layered, loop-free, and recorded to be lived in for hours — not the same eight seconds on repeat until your brain notices the seam.

Rainfall

Cabin Rain

Heavy drops on a tin roof, a low fire underneath, thunder kept three rooms away.

Ocean

Tidal Drift

Slow surf on a far shore, paced to a resting breath. The tide pulls out; it never crashes in.

Drone

Deep Hum

A warm low tone that fills the silence and dissolves the ringing a loud day leaves behind.

Nature

Night Forest

Crickets, wind in high pines, one distant owl. Not a single bird that could wake you at dawn.

Brown noise

Cabin Fan

A steady box fan and soft moving air — the comfort sound a surprising number of us grew up falling asleep to.

Stillness

Snowfall

The particular hush of a heavy snow: muffled, weightless, every hard edge taken off the world.

From the dark

People who'd given up on sleep.

I'd tried every app, every supplement, every podcast that promised to bore me unconscious. Driftless is the first thing that got me down in under ten minutes — and, somehow, kept me there.

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Renée Castillo
New parent, two months in

The smart wake is uncanny. It finds the exact minute I'm floating near the surface and lifts me out of it. I haven't been ripped awake by an alarm in weeks.

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Daniel Brooks
Night-shift ER nurse

I love that my night stays on my phone. After years of trading away my data to feel rested, paying once for something that just respects me feels almost radical.

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Aisha Rahman
Lifelong light sleeper
Pricing

One night free. The rest, simple.

No add-ons, no premium sounds locked behind a second paywall. Every soundscape, every feature, one plan.

Drift

Enough to fix tonight.

$0/forever
  • 6 core soundscapes
  • Wind-down ramp
  • Smart-light wake
  • Nightly recovery score
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Driftless

Every night, fully tuned.

$6/mo
  • All 40+ soundscapes
  • Adaptive real-time mixing
  • Breath pacing & guided descents
  • Full sleep history & trends
  • Offline & airplane mode

Driftless for Life

Pay once. Sleep for good.

$129once
  • Everything in Driftless
  • Lifetime updates & new sounds
  • Two household members
  • Priority support
  • No subscription, ever

The questions you ask at 2 a.m.

Do I need a watch or a sleep ring?

No. Driftless senses your breathing and movement through your phone's microphone from the nightstand. Nothing to wear, nothing to remember to charge before bed.

Will it drain my battery overnight?

No. Sensing and audio are tuned for all-night use on under five percent of charge. Leave it unplugged and it's still standing by morning.

What happens to my sleep data?

It stays on your device by default. We never sell it, never run ads against it, and you can export or wipe everything in a single tap.

I share a bed. Will it still work?

Yes. Driftless locks onto the sleeper closest to the phone and tunes out a partner's movement and breathing. Two phones, two profiles, one quiet room.

Does it actually work offline?

Completely. Every soundscape downloads once and plays on airplane mode — built for cabins, red-eye flights, and dead-zone bedrooms.

Tonight could be the night it finally clicks.

Download Driftless, set it on the nightstand, and let the room take it from here. Fourteen free nights, no card, no catch.