Nine guided techniques for falling asleep, run with your eyes closed. A voice, a count, optional haptics, and a screen that turns itself off when the drill ends.
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Nine guided drills for a head that will not stop — the cognitive shuffle, the military method, 4-7-8 breathing. Eyes closed, phone face down.
A voice names one ordinary object at a time — a raspberry, a canoe, rain on a tent — and you picture it. Too dull to follow, too scattered to worry with. Sleep Switch ships 478 prompts and tracks what it just said, which matters: the one other dedicated cognitive-shuffle app's most common complaint is that it starts repeating after about ten.
The technique every article describes and no app actually runs: face, shoulders, arms, chest, legs, then clearing the mind. Guided end to end, at a length you pick, with nothing to read.
In for four, hold for seven, out for eight — counted out loud or by touch, so you are not watching a clock. Optional haptic cues on every phase, with adjustable strength, because a phone on your chest under a duvet feels nothing like one in your hand.
Attention moving slowly down the body; a long still wind-down (yoga nidra, sometimes called non-sleep deep rest); and "Don't Try to Sleep", which is paradoxical intention and is exactly what it sounds like. Used in sleep therapy, and badged as such.
Still awake an hour after lights out? The rescue flow does not offer you another drill. It tells you to get out of bed and put the phone down — stimulus control, the best-evidenced thing in the app. And nothing is ever sold to you between 2am and 5am.
Pick a voice or turn it off entirely. Light spring rain, forest night, birds at night, moonlit hours, pink noise or ambient night, under the guidance or on their own. Every voice and every background is included free.
If you let it, the night behind the drill dresses for tonight's actual forecast — rain on screen when it is raining outside. It never asks for a location permission: the lookup is by IP, opt-in, and rounded to about a kilometre.
Each drill carries an evidence label in the app — "well studied", "one controlled study", "mechanism studied", "traditional practice". Nothing here claims to cure anything. Exercise is deliberately absent, because the meta-analysis says it does not shorten the time it takes to fall asleep.
Every drill works in airplane mode. When a session ends the display goes dark by itself, so there is no lit phone next to your face at the moment you are trying to sleep. No ads, anywhere, ever.
Nine drills, grouped by what they do. Or tell the app how you feel and let it choose — a racing mind and a restless body do not get the same exercise.
Set the length, pick a voice or silence, then put the phone down. The screen dims as the drill runs and there is nothing to look at or tap.
The drill finishes, the screen goes dark, and the app steps out of the way. In the morning it asks one question — whether the night went better — and the switch comes back on.
Sleep Switch is the ideal military sleep method app for anyone who wants a fast, reliable tool on Android.
Sleep Switch turns sleep techniques into guided drills you do with your eyes closed: the cognitive shuffle with 478 non-repeating prompts, the military method, 4-7-8 breathing, body scan and yoga nidra. Voice guidance, optional haptic breath cues, and a screen that goes dark by itself.
Whether you need it for work, travel, or daily use, Sleep Switch delivers a simple experience with no clutter.
Every technique on this page is one you can already read about. The articles are the problem: at 1am, with the lights off, nobody remembers an eight-step relaxation sequence or counts their own breath accurately. Sleep Switch is those same techniques turned into something you can do with your eyes closed — a voice, a count, a length, and an ending.
It is not a sound library. There are six night backgrounds and they are a background, not the product. It is not a sleep tracker: nothing measures you, and there is no score in the morning to feel bad about. And it does not include exercise, which would be the easiest thing in the world to put on a feature list — the meta-analysis says exercise does not shorten the time it takes to fall asleep, so it stays out.
Your ratings and the words you picture stay on your phone. Anonymous counts of which drill ran, and for how long, go to analytics; the reminder service is told three numbers, all of which the app prints in Settings. No account, no ads, no advertising ID.
Notifications, for the wind-down reminder, and nothing else that touches you. No location permission, no microphone, no photos, no contacts.
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