The New York Times also named it as one of the best apps to help you fall asleep when you are traveling. The app was featured on US and Canadian television, appearing on The Today Show and the Dragon’s Den. Relax Melodies has been named the most positively reviewed app of all time on the App Store by Business Insider. While Relax Melodies’ focus is to help people sleep better, it also includes meditations topics such as stress, pain relief, relaxation, tinnitus, and gratitude. Relax Melodies has over 20 bedtime stories that include genres such as fairy tales, mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction.
In June 2019, ASMR was added to Relax Melodies, which generated over 10 million listens since its release. It features exercises that guide users to a restful sleep. In 2018, Relax Melodies developed a sleep-inducing program called SleepMoves in collaboration with neuropsychiatrists. The app has a catalogue of over 100 loops that include sounds from nature, sources of water, and the city. Relax Melodies features sounds, binaural beats, guided meditations, bedtime stories, and SleepMoves. Users have the ability to pick and choose which content they would like to layer and mix, giving them the freedom to create their very own bedtime experience. Since 2009, Relax Melodies has been downloaded over 50 million times across all platforms and has logged over 2.5 billion individual sessions. After a few months of brainstorming they developed a sound-mixing app concept and in 2009 Relax Melodies became available on the app store.
For that reason, the two software engineers decided to develop a “digital antidote” to tinnitus and sleep problems. To mask the constant ringing noise of tinnitus, he tried various apps, but was dissatisfied with the limited choices and features. In 2006, Lapierre developed tinnitus causing him insomnia problems.
Relax Melodies was created by two longtime friends, Simon Alex Bérubé and Philippe Lapierre.