A tonight-only program made for you in 90 seconds — wind-down breath, body scan, sleep story, ambient. Picked from how you actually slept last night.
Sunday · 11:14 pm
Built around how you slept last night
Wind-down breath · 4-7-8
12 min · narrated by Olu
Slow body scan
8 min · feet → crown
The Lighthouse Keeper
22 min sleep story · Aoife N.
Rain on a cabin roof
2-hr ambient · fades out
est. 44 min · ends 11:58 pm
No streaks. No leaderboards. Nothing to fail at. Just the right thing for the night you're actually having.
Library · Sleep stories
Last 14 nights
Now playing
14:22 / 22:00
Ambient
Morning
6:42
in 7 hr 28 min
Dawn chorus → soft chime
Library · Sleep stories
Last 14 nights
How it works
No goal-setting, no "wind-down score". You answer a few things on day one and it adapts from there.
Quick start
Eight questions, plain English. No tracker required — though we'll happily read your Apple Health if you want.
Tonight
Matching sleep stories…
A 30-90 minute sequence built just for tonight — not a generic playlist. It will look different tomorrow.
This week
One small insight a week. No "sleep debt" number, no streak to ruin — just the thing that's actually moving the needle.
Wind-downs
If you only sleep 4 hours, Lumen knows. Tonight's program runs shorter, swaps in faster onset techniques, and drops the calm-narrator script we use when you're tired-but-fine.
Tonight · 4-7-8 breath
Hold
7s
Heart variability
Sleep stories
240+ original sleep stories written by published authors, not scraped from public domain. Recorded in quiet booths with breath-sound editing, so nothing pops.
Sleep story · 22 min
Read by Aoife N.
Patterns
Lumen reads your sleep, but the weekly summary is one short sentence — the strongest thing it noticed. Because tracking should reduce anxiety, not become a new source of it.
This week's insight
14-day onset
22m
↓ from 40m last month
Mon – Sun · last 7 nights
By the numbers
−32min
avg sleep onset after 30 nights, self-reported
84%
of members still active past month 6
240+
original sleep stories in the library
4.8★
from 28,408 App Store reviews
Reviews
"I'd tried Calm and Headspace for years. This one finally got the assignment — it actually shortens when I'm exhausted instead of making me 'meditate longer'."
— Priya, Brooklyn
"Aoife's lighthouse story took me out cold on a transatlantic flight. First time I've slept on a plane in years."
— Marcus, Cape Town
"The 'one insight a week' is the move. I deleted three other tracking apps that were making me anxious."
— Hana, Tokyo
"As a parent of two under five, I needed a wind-down that's 8 minutes not 45. The short programs are why I stayed."
— Yusuf, Manchester
"Tried it after my second postpartum insomnia spiral. The lullaby protocols actually understand that 'go to sleep' isn't useful advice at 3 am."
— Ines, Lisbon
"The voices aren't trying to perform spirituality at you. Just calm humans. Olu could read a takeout menu and I'd be out."
— Jamie, Stockholm
App Store rating
4.8★
28,408 ratings · Health & Fitness · Top 12
Pricing
Cancel from inside the app. No "are you sure?" gauntlet, no email exit interview. We'd rather you come back than be trapped.
$0
Everything you need for the bad-sleep weeks.
$14/mo
Unlimited tonight-programs and the full library.
FAQ
Yes. Every track is mixed for phone speakers too — we test on a 2018 iPhone, not just AirPods Pro. Some users actually prefer it: the soft speaker hiss adds a layer of ambient. For partners, there's a 'low-bedside' mix that drops the bass and EQs above 80 Hz so it carries less.
Plus members can download any wind-down, story, or ambient track for 30 days of offline playback. The Tonight program needs network for the initial build, but once it's built, the whole sequence is cached locally. Long-haul tested by our team flying SFO–SYD.
Calm and Headspace are libraries — you pick the thing. Lumen builds you a 30–90 minute sequence each night based on inputs about your day and (optionally) your wearable. We're smaller, focused only on sleep, and we don't ship daytime meditation, courses, or kids' content. If you want a broad mindfulness app, Calm is great. If you want one job done well at 11pm, that's us.
Settings → Subscription → Cancel. Two taps. No retention screen, no "wait, here's 50% off!", no email gauntlet. App Store / Play Store cancellations work the same — and we don't charge for the remainder of your billing period, you just keep Plus until then.
100% human. Every narrator records in a treated booth in London, Brooklyn, or Tokyo. We considered AI for the long-tail languages but decided against it — the micro-pauses and breath patterns that actually help you drift off are exactly what synthetic voices miss. Each narrator is paid per session and credited.
First three nights on us. No card needed. The program builds in 90 seconds and the only button is "Begin".
Eight quick questions about how you sleep. Then your first program is ready.
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