Nod Off: Sleep Timer

Nod Off is a sleep timer that sees you fall asleep. Play a podcast, an audiobook or music in the app you always use, lay the phone on the mattress beside your pillow and tap Start tonight. Once you have lain still for 10 minutes, the sound fades out over 30 seconds and pauses.

Not asleep after all? Move within 3 minutes and it plays again, fading in over 3 seconds. After that it stays paused, and the sensors switch off for the rest of the night.

How it knows
• The phone feels you move with its motion sensor
• How you sleep: still on a firm bed, like most people, or restless on a soft bed - and try it on your bed to see what counts
• No microphone, no camera, no sleep tracking: your movement is never recorded

Works with the app you already use
• Spotify, YouTube Music, podcast apps and audiobooks: any player you can pause with your headphones' buttons
• Nod Off never learns what is playing, only that something is - and which app, if you turn on Start by itself
• A notification shows the countdown, with Stop

Nod Off Plus
• Your own times, to the second: how long you lie still, how long it waits for you to move, and both fades
• Start by itself: the night starts when your audiobook or podcast app starts playing, at the hours you choose
• Fine-tune how much movement counts, past the three choices
• Your Wear OS watch adds its movement - or let only the watch count
• Try every Plus setting first: it is kept once you have Plus
• Monthly, yearly or once for life. Try Plus free for 30 days
• Launch price: Plus costs less for the first 500 people, then the price goes up
• The whole night works without Plus, with the times above

If a night is cut short
Samsung and some other phones stop apps in the background to save battery. If Nod Off stops before it should, set its battery use to Unrestricted in Android's settings.

Needs Android 12 or later.