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Naptick AI
Al sleep companion that helps fall asleep without struggle
724 followers
Al sleep companion that helps fall asleep without struggle
724 followers
Naptick is a smart bedside AI sleep companion designed for founders, professionals, light sleepers, and anyone struggling with nighttime stress or doomscrolling. It combines circadian light therapy, 1000+ adaptive soundscapes, room condition intelligence, app-locking, and an on-device AI sleep coach to help users fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed. Unlike passive sleep trackers, Naptick is built phone-free by design and actively helps improve sleep before the night begins.
Naptick AI
Hi Product Hunt Community, 👋
I’m Anubhab, founder of Naptick. Really excited to finally share what we’ve been building. :)
Naptick is an AI sleep companion bringing an agentic era to sleep combining a bedside device, AI sleep coach, circadian light, adaptive soundscapes, distraction app-locking, and room condition intelligence to help people fall asleep faster, not just track sleep after the fact.
What is Naptick?
Naptick sits next to your bed and helps you build a better evening routine.
It can check your room conditions, start calming light and sound routines, help you talk through your day with an AI sleep coach, reduce phone distractions, and wake you up gently with light-based cues.
The goal is simple: make falling asleep feel effortless.
The Problem & Our Solution
Most sleep products today are passive.
They tell you your sleep score in the morning, but they don’t help much at the moment that matters most — before you fall asleep.
The real sleep problem is usually not lack of data. It’s late-night scrolling, inconsistent routines, poor room conditions, stress, noise, light, and a mind that refuses to switch off.
Naptick solves this by turning your bedroom into a guided sleep environment. Instead of saying “you slept badly,” Naptick helps you take action before the night begins.
What Makes Naptick Different
Most sleep apps still need your phone at bedtime. Naptick is built to be phone-free by design (the app is mainly for setup and preferences).
Users can start routines directly from the bedside device, control sound and light physically, talk to an AI sleep coach, and reduce doomscrolling before sleep.
It’s also not just another white-noise machine or sleep tracker. Naptick brings together the key sleep levers — light, sound, environment, coaching, routine, and phone discipline — into one connected bedtime experience.
Features & Benefits
1. Room condition intelligence: Naptick helps you understand whether your bedroom is actually sleep-ready.
Benefit: Better control over the environment affecting your sleep.
2. 1000+ adaptive soundscapes: Choose from calming sounds, nature, brown noise, piano, meditation, and more through our licensed content library.
Benefit: Easier wind-down without endlessly searching for the right track.
3. AI sleep companion: Talk to Naptick before bed to unload your mind, reflect, or get guided support.
Benefit: Helps reduce mental clutter before sleep.
4. App-locking for distraction-free sleep: Block distracting apps as part of your night routine.
Benefit: Less doomscrolling and stronger bedtime boundaries.
5. Circadian-inspired lighting: Evening light cues help you wind down, while morning light cues help you wake up gently.
Benefit: Your room starts working with your body’s natural rhythm.
6. Physical bedside controls: Tap, double tap, rotate, and long press to control sleep routines without picking up your phone.
Benefit: Fewer reasons to bring your phone back into bed.
Who is Naptick For?
Naptick is for anyone who wants better sleep without adding another complicated wellness habit.
Especially useful for:
Founders and high-performance professionals
People who scroll too much before bed
Parents trying to create calmer nights
Light sleepers
Apple Watch / Oura / Whoop users who want interventions, not just scores
Anyone trying to build a consistent wind-down routine
(Naptick integrates with wearables to create a stronger feedback loop.)
Our Ask
We’d love your feedback from the Product Hunt community.
Please check out Naptick, ask us hard questions, and tell us what would make this a daily bedtime habit for you.
And if better sleep matters to you, we’d love your support today. 🙌
Try Naptick, pre-book your device here 👉 https://launch.naptick.com/
Thank you PH ❤️
AG & Team Naptick
@anubhab_goel1 Congrats on the launch. How do you minimize the light intrusion from the device nightlight? Any science on this?
Naptick AI
@zolani_matebese @swathy_k1 would answer this the best....From user PoV, the intensity and colour of light keep changing basis time of the day and user preference. Light choreography is a very interesting features which early users are loving.
Naptick AI
@zolani_matebese @anubhab_goel1 Thanks for the shoutout. :)
Ideally the light on the device will turn off after the wind-down protocol is finished and you are fast asleep in bed. However, we've made sure the light the device emits during the 1 hour to 30 minutes before bedtime (the wind-down window) is below the recommended maximum for nighttime bedroom environments which is a maximum of 10 lux.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8929548/
@anubhab_goel1 Many congratulations Anubhab, Shilpi and team! :)
How I met the makers?
I first met Anubhab after he reached out to me when he saw me hunting @Dune, another ambitious AI hardware product. Given the incredible response Dune received from the Product Hunt community, he strongly believed PH users love thoughtful hardware experiences just as much as SaaS products.
The moment I spoke with Anubhab about @Naptick AI and the mission behind it, I immediately knew I wanted to hunt this product.
What is Naptick AI?
Sleep tech today mostly tells you what went wrong after you wake up. Naptick takes a completely different approach, it helps you before sleep even happens.
Naptick is a phone-free AI sleep companion designed for the bedside. It combines adaptive soundscapes, circadian lighting, room intelligence, app-locking, and an AI sleep coach into one calming nighttime experience focused on helping you actually fall asleep faster.
Why I endorse Naptick AI?
What stood out to me is how intentional the product feels. Instead of asking users to spend more time on their phones, Naptick helps reduce doomscrolling and creates healthier nighttime rituals through physical controls and ambient interactions.
It’s rare to see hardware products that combine strong execution, thoughtful design, and a genuinely meaningful mission. Better sleep impacts every part of life, and I believe Naptick is building something people will truly benefit from.
Excited to hunt this launch! :)
Combining hardware with AI for sleep is an interesting approach. Is the companion mostly focused on environmental factors like sound/light, or does it offer interactive guidance?
Naptick AI
@rivra_dev yes, it does both - we have guided routines based on different factors that impact you and your sleep - so we help you sleep better even with all that is happening with you and around you.
would love to hear what would you expect from the device as well.
Naptick AI
@rivra_dev What many early users are liking is our voice to voice feature...you may set your reminders, plan your day, dump your thoughts or just talk about the day....The hardware has amazing speakers and mic array to ensure we capture everything you wanna share.
An important privacy feature we have built is that we dont have a wake word on the device...user tap a button to activate the mics ( No one keeps alexa and google home in bedroom just because of this issue of always listening)
Naptick AI
@rivra_dev Great question - it’s actually both. We combine environmental cues like light and sound with on-device voice interaction to create a more personalised sleep experience. The companion can guide users through calming routines, respond conversationally, and adapt over time based on sleep patterns and habits. The goal is to make sleep support feel more natural and human, not just automated.
Triforce Todos
This phone free design seems intentional.
BTW, how easy is it to actually fight the urge to grab your phone in the middle of the night if say anxiety kicks in? Does the app-locking still work if you're stressed?
Naptick AI
@abod_rehman yes, the device lets you do app-locking with a single button click on the device and based on how strict you define your constraints of locking we take care of it for you.
love to hear what would be your ideal workflow
Naptick AI
@abod_rehman Thank you for noticing that Abdul! It is an intentional design.
One of our goals is to help our users unlearn the instinct of reaching for their phones, which are often right beside them, as soon as there's a small break/awakening in their sleep at night. Instead you can engage in a conversation with the device and prompt it to help you slip back into sleep. You can however unlock your phone in situations where you need to use it.
Nas.com
The current design makes it look like a bed side lamp. Do you plan to turn this into a Reddit Snoo-like plushie or perhaps a robot in the near future for kids, teens and young adults?
Naptick AI
@nuseir_yassin1 Thank you for your comment, Nas! The current form factor is intentionally designed like a bedside lamp so it can gently deliver sleep-supportive light and sound cues in a familiar way. It also monitors aspects of your sleep environment like temperature, noise, light and air quality, while acting as an AI companion you can talk to about your sleep or anything on your mind.
We do think more expressive or playful form factors could be interesting in the future, especially for younger users. But for now, we wanted something simple, calming, and accessible across age groups.
Naptick AI
@nuseir_yassin1 Hey Nas...good to hear from you...lets connect over email ...I am on anubhab@naptick.com
Congrats @krutiparekh16 Do you guys have plans to integrate with Apple Watch / Oura data beyond just the morning sync?
Naptick AI
@boyuan_deng1
Great question — we actually started Apple watch-only for the first few versions. But pretty quickly, requests started rolling in from folks using [@Oura](https://www.producthunt.com/products/oura), [@WHOOP](https://www.producthunt.com/products/whoop), Garmin, and others — all asking the same thing: 'my tracker is telling me I didn’t sleep… now what?'
So we built for them.
Today we’re integrated with ~95% of wearable users on the planet, and the moment a new request comes in, the team does a fantastic job getting them onboarded too. Honestly, it’s been magical to watch.
As a founder who often finds myself 'doomscrolling' or thinking about backend architecture at 2 AM, this is exactly what I need. The phone-free design is a brilliant move. How did you decide on which 'circadian light therapy' patterns to include?
Naptick AI
@phatysddev Thank you for your question, Yodsavee! This is an important feature of the device.
We focused on the fundamentals and designed the device to mimic natural light patterns, which strongly influence our circadian rhythm and overall biology. By default, the device follows a sunrise and sunset protocol. The lighting has also been informed by research on the wavelengths most effective for morning wake-up simulation (brighter white light enriched with blue wavelengths) and evening wind-down (which favors warmer amber and red tones).
With the journaling feature, how does it work? Like, whatever we journal, does it then later reflect into our phones, or how is it captured so that we can revisit it later?
Naptick AI
@divya_kothari1 yes for anything that you journal the device will have a memory of that and remember that in all the followup conversations. Those notes can also be checked in the app later on at any point in time.