Recharge
About the app
Recharge is a personalised six-week program that helps improve your general health and wellbeing by focusing on four key areas:
- a regular wake and sleep time each day, achieved gradually over six weeks
- an alarm clock that triggers fun activities designed to get you up and out of bed
- increasing your exposure to daylight early in the day, to help reset your body clock
- encouraging you to increase physical activity, especially within two hours of waking up.
Establishing a good sleep/wake routine that includes regular exercise and early daylight exposure will help improve your mood, energy and general health and wellbeing as well as helping you sleep better at night.
Key features include practical tips to improve your sleep/wake routine and wellbeing, daily reports to track your mood, energy, exercise and sleep and graphs to help monitor your progress.
Reviews
I would only recommend this app to young people who have identified that they would like to improve their sleep-wake routine and increase exercise. The app requires a high level of motivation.
I liked...
The alarm.
I didn't like...
The prompts to update my status throughout the day.
I liked...
The the inability to turn the alarm off without getting out of bed is a good feature as it make it much harder to ignore the alarm. Also the recommended hours of daylight within 2 hours of waking up, helps to motivate me to get out of the house and get started with my day sooner.
I didn't like...
Some of the ratings systems I found a bit hard to use. For example it was hard to quantify my mood and energy on a scale from 0 to 5.
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