aSleep: Makes you sleepy and that's the point.

My sleeping sucks. I try all kinds of crazy things to try and help my insomnia. Enter aSleep, a snake oil app that can fix my problem.

aSleep is simple and has a great collection of noise to choose from. You pick a noise, set the timer, and you are good to go. The developer, Signs Studios, breaks the sounds down by nature, life, noise, instruments, and sounds. Personally, I always use the nature category. Rain with a 17 minute timer is my weapon of choice. I am not even sure why most of the others are there wasting my precious iPhone memory. I guess somewhere someone needs the sound of aliens to sleep.

So the big question is, "Does it work?" I can honestly say that every time I have used aSleep, I have never been awake when the timer ends. However, I have never used it at a time that a normal human goes to bed at.

Update - Make sure you set your phone to airplane mode so in a few years you don't get the cancer sleeping next to your radiation noise machine.