RISE uses data from your phone and/or wearable combined with proprietary models we developed—rooted in sleep science—to learn your unique sleep biology. These models are widely accepted by researchers in the sleep science field, which is nearly 100 years old.
While we love sleep data, we strongly believe it’s not beneficial to monitor sleep stages. The bottom line? We don't believe it will help you become a better sleeper or feel better. The good news is that your brain already knows which stages you spend time in so there’s not much use trying to track or optimize it. While many sleep apps and devices show sleep stages, they are at best an educated guess. There's also a myth that REM sleep and deep sleep are the best. That's not true, since all stages of sleep have benefits for you. So rest easy knowing that your brain is doing all the work for you while you sleep and you can stop worrying about stages of sleep.
RISE focuses on sleep debt—the single metric sleep researchers agree most contributes to how you feel and perform on any given day. If you build up sleep debt you tend to perform and feel worse (although you can also sometimes feel worse when you get more sleep). If you reduce your sleep debt, you'll feel and perform much better. Knowing this single number can help you prioritize your sleep.
If you have trouble sleeping, RISE builds schedules that include routines focused on solving the root causes of your challenges.
RISE takes a behavior science-based approach to turning routines into lasting habits that support a lifelong healthy sleep practice.
RISE learns your unique sleep biology and customizes your entire experience accordingly. You are not just any random person who needs 8 hours of sleep. You’re you: how much sleep you need and the times of your energy peaks and dips are unique.
If you're asking how RISE is different from a specific sleep tracker.... tracking your sleep is like handing you a scale and telling you to lose weight. That scale isn’t very actionable, is it? Our mission is to actually improve your sleep. RISE makes sleep measurement and tracking useful by applying sleep science and your data to make meaningful recommendations and support better sleep.
No. All you need is your phone. Use it the way you normally do. No need to sleep with it in your bed either.
If you wear a wearable to bed (e.g. Apple Watch, Oura Ring, Fitbit, Garmin) RISE can use that data as well, but it's not necessary.
For most people, your phone is very accurate - even more than wearables it turns out.
Our goal is to be a long-term resource to your healthy sleep and better life. Any time you need to wear, charge, plug in, or sync something, the chances you'll do that over a long period of time aren't high.
RISE puts nearly 100 years of sleep science to work in its approach. In fact, our two co-founders were the first to publish a paper that showed sleep apps can help people get more sleep and feel better. The science of sleep is at the foundation of everything we do.
Most RISE users feel better in seven to ten days—sometimes fewer.
If you're carrying particularly high sleep debt, and you reduce several hours in a few days, you should feel a big difference in 2-3 days. Sometimes you'll feel more tired when you get more sleep. That's known as a sleep hangover. While you might feel a bit groggier, your performance is actually better. After another night or two you won't feel that effect.
RISE is integrated with Apple's HealthKit and receives phone movement and steps data. If you use a wearable, RISE can receive data, through HealthKit, from it, too. RISE also gathers data from your interactions with the app.
Devices definitely contribute to procrastination, stimulation, and emit blue light that suppresses melatonin productions and keeps you awake. We certainly advocate for no TV or computer in the bedroom.
Most people, based on our data, touch their phone soon before they go to bed and soon after they wake up. RISE uses the best passive data methods (phone data) to calculate sleep duration. We also help build routines and sleep habits that help discontinue use of devices, but don't necessarily banish them from the bedroom.
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