Waste of time Completed this course, stuck by the rules and I had no improvement in my sleep!! You are given basic tips such as no caffeine, write worries down before going to bed etc etc. All the things most insomniacs know. The main core of the course is the use of sleep restriction so that you’re so worn out that you will eventually sleep. The sleep restriction causes anxiety and if you’re not asleep within 15 minutes you are told to get up and do an inane task such as clearing a out drawer - pleazzze !!! The restriction is usually 5 hours. You have to sleep in those allotted 5 hours and if not you’re advised to get up. There are no professionals on there to speak to nor is it being monitored by any professionals. There’s a weekly chat session with a psychiatric doctor but it’s just a posting message type of thing. The answer I got to my question wasn’t very fulfilling. The whole thing is run by the community of people on the course itself. There is one particular participant on there and she works really “hard”trying to support students and gives lengthy messages with tips and strategies. She has been a user, completed the course and is successfully maintaining. From what I’ve read mainly is that unless you stick to the sleep restriction for life your insomnia will come back. My sleep remained the same for the whole time with no improvement even tho I used all the tips and tools given to me. At the end of the week you are set goals and the programme assess your sleep diary for the completed week. A computer generated “professor” with an irritating voice tells you at the end of the week that “you’re doing so well your sleep efficiency is up!!! Really I hadn’t noticed I must have blinked and missed it! Mine stayed the same. I wouldn’t recommend this course unless you know nothing about sleep hygiene, only have mild sleeping problems and like tidying up drawers at 2am in the morning. I suspect the NHS has paid a fortune for this rubbish programme. I’ve tried it and completed it but unfortunately it’s not one size fits all. Maybe it’d work for you.

Right from the very first day Sleepio… Right from the very first day Sleepio helped me sleep better.

Didn't help me get more sleep. The goal of Sleepio is NOT to increase the amount of time you sleep for. The goal is to "increase" sleep efficiency (time asleep divided by total time in bed) to 90% by decreasing the amount of time you spend awake in bed. You have to get out of bed if you've been lying awake for 15 minutes. If you take 15min to fall asleep, sleep for only 4 hours 20min then lie awake for 15min before getting out of bed (not unusual for me) then you have a sleep efficiency of 90% and Sleepio congratulates you on your success. My sleep efficiency was already above 90% before I began the course, but Sleepio continued to plough on with its own goal of "increasing" my sleep efficiency to 90%. There was never any mention of increasing sleep duration, which was my goal. I read the results of Sleepio's clinical trial and discovered that at the end of the Sleepio course the insomnia patients were only sleeping for 5 hours 46 min per day! And the Sleepio treatment increased time asleep by less than other GP treatments! But Sleepio chooses to focus only on sleep efficiency, which has no meaning for me. The course is delivered by an animated "Prof" who I felt extremely patronized by. If he was a real person I would either ask him to stop or I would walk away and avoid him in future. But I felt unable to walk away because my GP prescribed this. The Prof told me to change my negative attitudes to sleep and insomnia (which I don't have - I love sleep and even insomnia has some benefits), that I shouldn't feel so alone and isolated (which I don't), that I have to stop worrying (I wasn't), etc. During every session you get multiple choice questions to test that you've been paying attention. When you get the answer right (they are patronisingly easy), you still have to listen to the Prof explain it again, as though you had got it wrong. For anyone with sensory processing issues Sleepio is a nightmare of animation plus audio plus subtitles that can't be turned off plus detailed multiple choice questions and written information that all occur at the same time. I didn't know which one I was supposed to be focusing on. Sleepio did absolutely nothing to help me sleep for longer each night and I cannot recommend it.

Didnt help at all Didnt help at all Couldnt see the point of it, weekly cartoon video to watch, avoid caffeine etc, as a chronic insomniac I know this already 😡 Condescending voice on video. Daily sleep diary had to be input manually as couldnt link to Apple watch, found this very frustrating. Did not benefit me at all, waste of time and effort

Poorly constructed application. Has not helped at all!! I have been using Sleepio App now for 2 weeks and it has not helped at all. The questionnaire is poorly thought out. Whoever constructed it clearly has no idea about sleep issues. What is the point in making the sleep diary just so you can see how poorly you are sleeping? You are asked to record the time you go to bed and how long it takes you to go to sleep. How would you know what time it goes to sleep unless you suddenly check a clock just as you are about to nod off!!! Duh!! So you then wake yourself up again!! So basically this means you need a sleep tracker which are also totally inaccurate.