Pre-launch · iOS & Android
Sleep music that actually puts you to sleep.
258 research-backed ambient tracks, AI affirmations in a voice you choose, and a smart alarm that wakes you in light sleep. Free to start. No accounts. No ads.
Aviana runs on your phone. Copy the install link for your platform and open it there.
Install during the beta and you're a Founding Member: 3 months of Premium, free, then founding pricing for as long as you stay.
- 258 sounds across calming, nature, frequencies, drones
- $0 at launch. Free to start, no card
- 0 accounts, 0 ads, 0 third-party tracking
258 sounds, five categories
How does Aviana help with sleep?
Every track is either a curated field recording or DSP-generated to a specific psycho-acoustic target. Many are informed by published research. Tap a tile to hear ten seconds.
Tap any category to hear a 10-second taste.
Sleep
Pads, drones, singing bowls, heartbeat: onset to deep.
Nature
Rain, ocean, wind, forest: curated field recordings.
Frequencies
Pink noise phase-locked to slow waves, binaural beats, solfeggio.
Neurodivergent
Low-sensory, non-triggering soundscapes for ADHD, autism, misophonia.
Affirmations
30 curated + unlimited AI-generated: let go, accept, rest.
Not another meditation app
Most sleep apps hand you a playlist and a paywall.
Aviana gives you 258 research-backed sounds, a low-sensory category built for neurodivergent minds, and affirmations in a voice you choose, with no account, no ads, and no third-party tracking.
- 258 research-backed sounds, not a mood playlist
- A low-sensory category built for neurodivergent minds
- AI affirmations in a voice you choose
- No account, no ads, no third-party tracking
Backed by 86 peer-reviewed studies
Why should I trust the sound choices?
Every track in the catalog has a research card: a one-line summary of what evidence says it does, and a link to the underlying paper. Here are three the catalog leans on.
Pink-noise bursts phase-locked to slow oscillations enhanced slow-wave activity and overnight memory consolidation in older adults.
Papalambros NA et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11:109. ↗Meta-analysis of self-compassion research: people who treat themselves kindly report better sleep quality. An association, not a trial.
Brown L et al. Mindfulness 12:82-91. ↗Pink noise played without any EEG timing still raised slow-oscillation activity and the share of the night spent in deep sleep. The open-loop design an app can actually ship.
Schade MM et al. Nature and Science of Sleep 12:411-429. ↗From the founder
Why I built Aviana
I'm Nik. I built Aviana because every sleep app I tried felt like marketing dressed up as medicine: soothing on the surface, with no real reason to believe it would work. So I started from the research instead of the aesthetics. There's a genuine science to how sound shapes sleep: pink-noise pulses that measurably deepen slow-wave sleep, nature soundscapes that pull your nervous system out of rumination, a chosen voice that can talk you down. Aviana is my attempt to turn that evidence into something you'll actually want to fall asleep to. No account, no ads, nothing tracking you in the dark. Just 258 sounds we can point to a study for, and a few we simply think are beautiful.
Nik · Founder
A few of the studies behind it
- Papalambros 2017
Pink-noise bursts phase-locked to slow oscillations enhanced slow-wave activity and overnight memory consolidation in older adults.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11:109 ↗ - Ngo 2013
Short bursts of pink noise, played in time with deep-sleep brain waves, boosted both slow-wave sleep and next-morning memory.
Neuron 78(3) ↗ - Feng 2018
A network meta-analysis of 20 trials (1,339 patients) ranked listening to music the best intervention for sleep quality, a clinically meaningful effect.
International Journal of Nursing Studies 77:189-196 ↗ - Gould van Praag 2017
Natural soundscapes shifted brain activity out of inward rumination toward a calmer, outward-focused state.
Scientific Reports 7:45273 ↗
Frequently asked
Answers, in plain language.
Is Aviana free?
Aviana is free to use. Sleep sounds, the smart alarm, sleep tracking, saved mixes, and bedtime reminders are free. The ready-made spatial mixes, curated and community, play spatially for everyone at no extra cost. Advanced features are part of the premium subscription: custom AI affirmations beyond your first five, the adaptive layer, and offline downloads. No ads. No third-party trackers in either the app or this marketing site. We do collect de-identified usage events on our own server (no PII, retained 90 days) so we can fix what breaks. De-identified sleep research: with your opt-in, readings with no name or email help us study what improves sleep. 90-day retention, never sold.
Does Aviana need an account?
No. Aviana does not require sign-up, email, or password. The app generates a random device identifier the first time it runs and uses that to scope your saved mixes, settings, and affirmation history. Reinstalling the app generates a new identifier, so previously generated custom affirmations will not be visible after a reinstall today; we are adding cross-device persistence in a future update.
Does Aviana need my health data?
No. The adaptive sound layer and the smart alarm are better when they can read your heart rate, sleep stages, and HRV, but every health integration is opt-in. You can use Aviana as a pure sound + AI affirmations app without granting any health permissions, and the catalog plays exactly the same. If you opt in to sleep research, Aviana sends de-identified readings (heart rate, breathing, inferred sleep stage) keyed to a random ID with no name or email; it defaults to off, 90-day retention, never sold.
When will Aviana be on the App Store and Google Play?
Aviana is in pre-launch on both stores. While we finish review, the full app is available as a Progressive Web App at app.aviana.life. It works on iPhone, Android, iPad, Mac, and PC, supports offline mode, background audio, and Apple Health / Health Connect on supported browsers. Subscribe via the 'get notified' link below to be told the moment the App Store and Play Store builds are live.
Will my affirmation prompt be stored anywhere?
No. The prompt you type lives in memory only for the duration of the request. We use it to query the AI, hash it for a cache key (so re-asking the same prompt re-serves the same audio without re-billing), and then drop it. The generated audio file is kept on our CDN so you can replay it; the prompt that produced it is not.
Can I use Aviana without Wi-Fi?
Yes. Aviana has a built-in offline mode. From Settings → Offline access you can download the full sound catalog (about 500 MB total) or specific tracks. Once cached, audio plays without any network. Custom AI affirmations require network at generation time, but once generated they play offline too.
Does the adaptive layer work without a wearable?
Partially. Without a wearable, Aviana still varies texture across the night on a schedule: denser at sleep onset, sparser through what should be deep sleep, gentle landings near morning. With a connected wearable (Apple Watch, Whoop, Oura, Polar, Coros, Suunto) the adaptation is real-time: density follows your actual heart rate and detected stage rather than the clock.
Which wearables does Aviana support?
Apple Watch directly via WatchConnectivity. Whoop, Oura, Polar, Coros, and Suunto through Apple Health and Android Health Connect: those apps already write heart rate and sleep data into your phone's health store, and that is exactly where Aviana reads. If your wearable writes to those sources, Aviana sees it without a separate integration, and nothing routes through a third-party aggregator.
Tonight
Sleep tonight. Bring your headphones.
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