drift offA little help.
drift off works in your browser on a laptop or iPad, with a free collection of sounds, music, two narrated starter stories, wind-downs, a mixer and a private journal.
Sound and narration
Tap Play or Listen to begin. Your browser needs that first gesture before it can play audio. Check the tab’s mute setting, your device volume and the chosen audio output. If audio stops after locking your device, keep the browser open. Browser sleep timers can be delayed when the browser is suspended; they are not wake alarms.
Your library and journal
Favourites, preferences and journal entries stay in this browser. They do not sync between devices, private browsing sessions or different web addresses. Export or copy anything you want to keep before clearing browser data.
Report a bug or suggest something
Email drift off feedback. Tell us what happened, what you expected, your browser and device, and the steps to reproduce it. A screenshot helps. Review your message before sending, and avoid including Health records or private journal notes.
iPhone, iPad and Apple TV apps
Drift Off is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Stories, soundscapes, a sound mixer, saved mixes, Visualscapes and a sleep timer are included. iPad and Apple TV focus on these media features, without sleep tracking, Health access, alarms or a journal.
The native apps require an active membership. Monthly, Annual and Family Annual plans are available. Eligible Apple accounts can choose a one-month introductory trial; the trial then renews at the price shown before purchase unless cancelled. Apple supplies local prices and eligibility. Family Annual supports up to six people in one Apple family group. Restore purchases using the same Apple account in membership settings. A free Drift Off account is optional and separate from the paid Apple membership.
A normal new story, soundscape or Visualscape selection replaces the previous audio. To layer sounds intentionally, open Sound mixer from the playback bar. Adjust each layer, save a favourite mix on this device, or reset to the current selection. Saved mixes do not sync between devices. On Apple TV, swipe or press Down to reveal Visualscape controls; press Back to leave the scene. Playback pauses when the TV app enters the background.
On iPhone, additional features include supported iOS system alarms, an optional independent backup alarm, optional Apple Health sleep analysis and an experimental phone estimate. These are not medical measurements. The free browser edition does not offer these native features or restore Apple subscriptions.
Journal sleep suggestions
In the iPhone app, Journal suggests the selected night’s time asleep from Apple Health. If no sleep record is shared, it can use an available phone estimate, clearly labelled as quiet periods that may include time awake. Edit the hours before saving if needed. A tracking session’s length and time in bed are not used as sleep. Your check-in stays on this iPhone and does not write to Apple Health.
Apple Health sleep missing?
Check whether last night appears in the Health app’s Sleep section. Allow Sleep read access for drift off, let your Watch or sleep tracker sync, then refresh Sleep analysis in drift off. A monitoring session’s length is not measured time asleep. Health does not tell drift off whether a read category was declined.
How monitoring and alarms work
Save tracking time to Apple Health
In the iPhone app, open Analysis, select the night, and tap Save time in bed to Apple Health. Review the start and end before saving. For future nights, optionally turn on Save tracking time to Apple Health in Settings & help or Analysis. Automatic saving is off by default and only saves completed tracking intervals, not alarm-only nights. This records time in bed, not measured sleep or sleep stages. Allow Sleep write access when Apple asks. If a save is waiting, unlock your iPhone and reopen drift off. Deleting app history does not delete Health records.
Phone sleep analysis · beta
Before saving a new alarm, turn on Phone sleep analysis in Alarm or Settings & help. It is off by default. Start sleep tracking when you go to bed. A phone on a stable bedside table near you, with its microphone clear, can collect a local sound-activity timeline. Keep it plugged in and off bedding. In Analysis the next morning, review quiet periods, activity and gaps. The experimental heuristic is not validated; quiet does not prove sleep, and noise does not prove wakefulness. There are no REM, Core or Deep estimates.
Tap Review sleep & save to Health, edit or remove periods and confirm the ones you believe were sleep. These are saved as user-entered sleep with stages unspecified. Sleep estimates are never sent automatically. Automatic Health saving remains time in bed only. Earlier nights have no retained sound timeline; you can enter sleep times you remember, but past stages cannot be reconstructed. Raw audio is never stored or uploaded. Delete the activity counts in Analysis with your night history.