10 Best Sleep Apps for Kids UK 2024 | Moshi, Calm and More

Welcome to Australia's leading free meditation app. Promoting wellbeing and mindfulness, this app offers a series of sessions that take just ten minutes. It's aimed at people of all ages, but there's a specialised section dedicated to children to ensure that the programs are tailored to their age group.

For calming them down before bed, slowing down their breathing, and helping them fall asleep, this app can transform your child's bedtime routine. It works like a dream and it doesn't cost a penny, so there's no reason not to try it out tonight!

Moshi is a mindfulness app designed for children who often struggle to wind down before bed. With over 75 hours of audio stories and sleep-inducing music and sounds, it's as dreamily calm as it sounds. 

To prove the benefits of this app, a study found that, on average, children fell asleep 28 minutes earlier and woke up 22 minutes later. In addition, night wakings decreased by almost 50%. If you'd like to help your child adapt to a consistent sleeping pattern with the help of soft music and bedtime stories, this is a great choice. 

We all know what breathing is – we spend our whole lives doing it after all – so how could we be doing it so wrong? Luckily, this app is here to steer you and your kids in the right direction for a good night's sleep. 

With unique and powerful courses on how to manipulate your breathing for an even greater benefit, this app will teach your child to regulate stress levels, improve their mood, fight insomnia, and get a better night's sleep. It has been shown to help with the physical and mental wellbeing of people of all ages, so why not join in with your child and give it a go?

You've probably heard of Headspace already, but if you haven't, today's your lucky day. Headspace is a pocket guru that helps your child to understand their emotions, focus on mindfulness, and improve their mental wellbeing. They have short and lengthy sessions for people of all ages, but their youth section is separated into four useful categories; calm, focus, kindness, sleep and wake up.

Thousands of parents across the UK are using this app as a little parenting pick-me-up. Not only does this app help your child to fall asleep, but it also provides a soothing environment for them to wake up to each morning. 

Mix over 400 sounds, stories, and meditation sessions to create your dream soundscape. The app was designed to let you explore your own needs and requirements to fall asleep because we are al unique. Your child can experiment with the different methods on the app to guide them to sleep, working their way through the list to find the perfect solution. 

The app provides an element of freedom for your child, as even though they've been told that they have to go to bed, they can still be the boss of what they listen to. It's a fun and interactive way of letting your child relax before bed, allowing them to fall asleep to their favourite sounds. 

This app has over 50 soothing sounds such as crashing ocean waves, whirring hairdryers, and chatty crickets and frogs. If you like, you can even create your own tracks by blending up to 6 different noises to find your child's favourite and see what works best for them. 

It has a modern and easy-to-use system with automatic timers and faders for the best results, but the best part of this app is that it's completely free. You don't have to pay anything and your child gets to fall soundly to sleep with peaceful ambience. 

Calm is the number one app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation. Millions of users are discovering a new ability to sleep for longer with lower stress throughout the night. Why not get your child on board and let them explore their sleep pattern with soothing sounds? In addition to ambience, the app also has a selection of meditation sessions, stories, and music for you to listen to as you slowly drift off to sleep. 

The subscription is fairly pricey, considering that it's a monthly investment. However, at the end of the day, knowing that your child has had a good night's sleep is priceless, and this app is a bestseller for a reason. 

Let your child watch and listen to the educational mindfulness courses that this app has to offer. Focusing on talking points such as over-excitement, worry, disappointment and sadness, and, of course, sleep, this app helps your child to deal with the emotions and reluctance that they may feel at bedtime.

Along with fifteen free mindful activities, you can also enjoy the benefits of the premium account with more fun and relaxing stories, meditations, and mindfulness activities. Frankly, it's a shame to see such a heavy limitation on activities for free users, but we're sure that the premium is worth it.

This app has definitely thought of everything they could do to get your child's attention with enchanting pictures and stories at their fingertips. Record your own voice as an audio story, personalise the stories with your child's name, and let your child live in a real-life fairytale. 

That said, the animations are fairly stimulating which might distract your child from the end goal of getting peaceful rest. In addition, the free version comes with only three stories, so you might prefer to subscribe to get the most out of the app. 

After leaving the ever-active womb, it's abnormal for a baby to sleep in pure silence. In fact, the comfort of having background noise play as we snooze is something that we never truly grow out of, and hearing rain hit the window or the sound of a busy street can actually have a good impact on your sleep. 

This app helps to ensure a better night's sleep for anyone from newborn to parent, with four categories and over 30 soothing sounds. For a £5.99 subscription, however, this might not be a wide enough variety of sounds, but it could be worth a try to see how your child gets on with this sort of app.