A short tour before your first night
Dreamerie plays sleep-oriented audio designed to run through the night: curated podcasts, any shows you add, and ambient sound. 0.6 is the privacy build: nothing about you leaves your phone unless you say so. Here is what to expect, and what we would love you to try.
Do this first
0.6 retires every 0.5 tester identity and program, so we are asking everyone to start clean.
What to do
- Install the update and open Dreamerie once.
- Open Settings, scroll down, tap Clear all my data, and confirm.
- Go through setup again. It takes about a minute.
- In Settings, turn on Apple Health and allow Sleep and Steps when iOS asks.
What happens when you do. Your saved shows, favorites and settings on this phone are erased. Any 0.5 program you were in is left. Everything our server held for your old identity is deleted. The app starts over with a new device ID. Note down any show you want to add back before you tap.
Why it matters. Until you do this, the app will refuse to let you join any tester program. Deleting and reinstalling the app is not a substitute; that keeps the old identity.
What is different in 0.6: your privacy
This build is about trust. Dreamerie is built so that the answer to "what does it know about me?" is nothing, unless you choose otherwise. In plain terms:
- No account, no email, no ads, no tracking. Browsing, searching and playing send no identifier to us at all.
- Apple Health asks for two things, your sleep records and your overnight steps, and only if you turn it on. The app reads them on your phone. Sleep is for learning when you fall asleep and showing your nights; steps are only for knowing whether you got up. Nothing is uploaded.
- Tester programs are separate, and opt-in. Beta diagnostics sends usage and diagnostic events. Product Tuning sends a short summary of each night, computed on your phone, and needs an invitation code. Raw overnight readings is a further level that some invitations carry. Each has its own screen that says exactly what it sends, and each asks before anything leaves your phone. Leave any of them in one tap; leaving deletes what we hold.
- Clear all my data does what it says: wipes the app, leaves every program, deletes what our server holds for this device, and starts over with a new device ID.
- The full detail is one tap away in Settings, About: the Privacy policy and the Product Tuning notice. Every sentence in them is checked against the code.
The first night
The first open is a short, quiet setup. You will hear a few trailers (little audio previews of the kinds of shows Dreamerie plays). Linger on ones that are interesting, swipe past ones that are not. There are no wrong answers; This onboarding flow is how the app gets a first sense of your taste.
Setup ends at the Library. The big card at the top is tonight's suggestion. When you are in bed, all you have to do is tap Start tonight and put the phone down. Dreamerie plays through the night on its own: when a show ends it takes a quiet breath (ambient audio), then moves to the next pick. Lock the screen; the audio keeps going. You can adjust playback volume and pause playback. Siri should do the same.
Our curated pick is a perfectly good way to start. But if there is a show you really enjoy, choose that instead and start the night with it. Your pick beats ours.
If you want to do more:
- Try to start a specific episode of a podcast. If you fall asleep before it ends, the next evening Dreamerie can offer to pick up a couple of minutes before you drifted off.
- Add podcasts from our curated library, favorite them or add your own using search. All of this gives us a better idea of what you like to listen to and that stays local on your phone.
Your shows
The Library comes stocked with shows we have picked for sleep. Search looks there first. If what you want is not in it, tap Search deeper and Dreamerie reaches the open podcast universe, the same shows any podcast app can play.
Open a show and tap an episode to hear a moment of it before committing. Add to My Shows puts it in your Library, and tonight starts with your pick.
- Our library is English-centric but you can add any known show (it has to appear in the podcast indexes we use).
- Our library does not contain kids shows - the app is intentionally not aimed at children.
- Most podcasts are ad-supported. We do not block these ads. Some podcasts offer subscribers ad-free versions. We currently do not have a way for you to bring your subscription to Dreamerie.
- Some podcasts are only available in certain regions. e.g. Many BBC shows will only play in the UK.
Through the night
Now Playing is built for a nightstand: dim, calm, and minimal. The moon icon opens the sleep timer: pick a duration, let the night end after the current show, or choose Auto. With Apple Health on, Auto learns when you typically fall asleep and fades the audio at that point; until it has about seven nights to learn from, it fades after 90 minutes. What it learns stays on your phone.
The little flag is the most useful button in the app for us. A show too loud, too ad-stuffed, or just not sleep material? Flag it. It takes two taps and goes straight to our review queue.
When you wake up, slide to end the night.
In the morning, open Settings, then Your nights. It shows what you listened to each night and when the audio stopped. If Apple Health is on, it also shows your hypnogram, your sleep stages through the night, laid over what was playing. Nothing there is sent to us.
What we are testing, and how to reach us
- Coming from 0.5? See the box at the top: Clear all my data first. If you were in the old research program, you will be invited to join Product Tuning again with a code.
- Overnight playback is still the main thing: any interruptions, silences, or loudness jumps that woke you?
- Auto sleep timer. On Now Playing, set the sleep timer to Auto. With Apple Health on, it learns when you fall asleep over about seven nights; until then it fades after 90 minutes. Did it fade at a sensible time?
- Pick up where you drifted off. The Library now opens on up to three cards you can swipe between: Your pick, Where you drifted off, and Dreamerie's pick. With Apple Health on, fall asleep to a podcast, then look for the Where you drifted off card the next evening (swipe sideways if the screen opens on another card). It should appear whoever chose the episode, you or Dreamerie, and even if only a few minutes were left. Its Continue button starts a little before the spot where you fell asleep. Did the card appear, and was the spot right?
- Apple Health asks for two things now, your sleep records and your overnight steps, and reads them on your phone. Steps are only for knowing whether you got up. In Your nights, a stir where your steps show you walked reads "You got up.", with an Undo button. If you allowed Apple Health in an earlier build, turn it off and on again in Settings and iOS will ask about steps. If an earlier build asked you for more, iOS keeps that; expected, not a bug.
- Your nights, in Settings, shows what you listened to each night, and your hypnogram if Apple Health is on.
- Sending us a log is one tap now: Settings, About, Export diagnostics logs.
- The subscription is on the house for the beta. Everything stays unlocked while you are a tester, and nothing is ever charged. If you want to try the subscription flow, turn on Settings, Test the subscription, then open Settings, Subscription. TestFlight uses Apple's test store, so there is no charge and time runs fast: the free month lasts minutes and the year renews hourly, so within a day it expires and the paid features lock. Turn the switch off to get everything back. Tell us one thing: did the free month, the expiry and Restore purchases feel clear?
- Search and add: could you find and add the shows you actually listen to?
The easiest way to send feedback is a screenshot. On a TestFlight build, take a screenshot of whatever looks wrong or confusing, tap the share button, and then the Share Beta Feedback button. This will send your report to Apple TestFlight. Add a note and send; it reaches us with your device details attached.
For anything you cannot screenshot, plain words are great too: TestFlight's own feedback box, or just message us.
- Learn what you like again reruns the taste setup from onboarding if your first answers no longer fit.
- Sleep timer sets your standing default for the night. Auto is the one to try.
- Play ASMR content adds ASMR shows to the overnight mix. Off unless you want it.
- Apple Health lets the auto sleep timer learn when you fall asleep, and fills in Your nights. It reads your sleep records and your overnight steps on your phone; nothing is uploaded. Steps are only for knowing whether you got up.
- Anonymous usage reporting sends per-show listening counts with no identifier attached. Off until you turn it on.
- Beta diagnostics, Product Tuning and Raw overnight readings are tester-only programs. Each has its own consent screen and each asks before anything leaves your phone. Product Tuning is by invitation code, and it needs Apple Health on first.
- Clear all my data wipes the app, leaves every program, and starts over with a new device ID. It also sets the sleep timer back to Off.
The app keeps a detailed log of what it played and how it sounded for the last 7 nights on your phone. It holds no health readings. When you tell us a night sounded wrong, this is the file that lets us find out why.
- Open Settings inside Dreamerie, then scroll to About.
- Tap Export diagnostics logs and share the file to us any way you like. The small ⓘ next to it says exactly what is inside.
- Add a note about what you heard and roughly when. Rough times help a lot.
