Big Health (Sleepio & Daylight)Reviews of sleepio.com

Patronising rehash of our common knowledge of sleep hygiene, forces you to provide responses to tick-lists that are untrue for you, 99% time spent asking you questions instead of providing guidance, unedited long monologues that pretend to be true for everyone, provided instructions on how to get to sleep when I had clearly stated that was not my problem, little guidance on my actual problem of getting back to sleep after waking up, silly videos suitable only for children aged under 9 (unsuitable for adults), loads of unconvincing hype about what Sleepio can achieve that is not borne out in reality.

If I could rate 0 stars I would. Recommended by my NHS GP when I complained of insomnia that was having a severe impact on my life. It does not work for clinical sleep issues at all. It was patronising, and frustrating. The tips were not helpful at all. I can only see this might be any use if you needed to be told to get into a regular routine, or to calm your thoughts. There we are- I saved you the bother of this awful awful app. I cannot believe this sort of nonsense is endorsed by the NHS and NICE. This is clinical laziness, negligence- and a clear cost saving exercise.

I have suffered from chronic insomnia for years. Their whole setup is ridiculous. They don't care if you have deep sleep, REM sleep...if you just doze they think it's great. And my time in bed is a stupid long time. Their technique is stupid, the app is stupid. I can't believe they actually try to charge people!

Nothing about this could truly be considered to be “therapy” - I have completed the programme and can confirm that it doesn’t even follow standard CBT-I protocols. I am astounded that the NHS in Scotland is somehow paying MILLIONS for this app. What an absolute waste of taxpayer’s money. You should be ashamed of yourselves Sleepio.

Dr told me to try. Managed to last a few weeks before giving up a pointless task. The app asks What time did you go to bed-easy enough to answer. Now here is where it gets difficult. What time did you fall asleep at. How many times did you wake up during the night and how long was it before you fell asleep again. Who on earth can answer this when you wake up a few times per night. So you start guessing and the app congratulates you because it says you got 3 hours sleep tonight rather than the previous night. I wonder how much cash was wasted making the Sleepio app. In my opinion a total waste of my time which only stressed me out because I was guessing rather than entering correct Information.

Unable to use as says not Available in my Area. Contacted the app tech support and told that's correct it is not available under my local NHS which is Cambridgeshire. So my PCMHS tell me it is available but in actual fact it is not according to Big health. However they say if I write to my MP to request that they lobby for my areas NHS to pay for people in my area to use the app then they would give me free access to the app once I share a response that I contacted my MP. This I am not happy to do, and also not happy with the information the app would be requesting. Also now I have seen the other reviews I am suspicious of the whole app to be honest.

It congratulates me for sleeping for 2 hours and getting up. Absolutely pointless that it only focuses on efficiency and not on actually getting enough sleep!

I could not log in. It didn't seem happy that I didn't want to set up a passkey and would not go beyond that point. I did not want to sign my google account or any other account up to access the tech support don't see why I should give all this info and access to an app. After reading the other reviews I am not going to bother to try anymore.