You don't have
time for that.
Picking something to watch isn't the hard part. Knowing whether you actually have time before bed is. WindDown does the math and tells you the exact minute to press play — or the shorter thing to watch instead.
It's 9:40 PM. Your bedtime is 10:30.
A movie doesn't care what time it is. WindDown does the subtraction before you press play, not after.
A real runtime, not a guess.
Every other app assumes 90 minutes and calls it a movie. WindDown pulls the actual runtime — 1h 47m, 2h 12m, whatever it really is — and works backward from your wind-down buffer to your real bedtime.
The result on every card is a sentence, not a guess: start by 8:40 PM. Series get the same treatment. WindDown remembers which episode you're on, plans however many you want tonight, and gives you one start time for the whole block.
Tell it the mood.
"Something funny but not stupid." "Military movies on Prime." The companion, powered by Claude, takes a description instead of a genre filter, explains why it picked what it picked, and locks in your start time in the same message.
Free plan: 10 messages a day. Plus and Pro remove the limit and sharpen the model.
Only the services you actually pay for.
Tell it what you subscribe to and WindDown filters to that — no more getting excited about something that's only on a service you cancelled. If a title is only available to rent, it says so instead of pretending otherwise.
Then it checks.
Rate what you watch and WindDown gets better at picking for you. In the morning it tells you the truth about last night — whether the thing you picked ran past your bedtime, and by how long — so you can actually see whether that extra episode cost you anything. No wearable, no health data, nothing to strap on.
The obvious objections.
Why not just scroll Netflix?
Netflix doesn’t know your bedtime. It doesn’t know you also have Max, Prime, and Apple TV+. It has no reason to tell you a pick is 40 minutes too long — it wants you watching, not asleep.
Another subscription?
The free tier is genuinely usable: bedtime math on every pick, 10 companion messages a day, no ads, no account. Plus and Pro exist for people who want more chat and sleep insight, not to gate the core idea.
Do I need a watch?
No. Apple Health on your phone is enough — WindDown reads the sleep data your phone already collects overnight.
Pricing, plainly.
No trial gimmicks. The free plan is real. Annual plans save about 20% over monthly on both paid tiers.
Everything you need to never blow past bedtime again.
- ·Bedtime math on every pick
- ·10 companion messages a day
- ·No ads, no account
For when 10 messages a day isn’t enough back-and-forth.
- ·Unlimited companion chat
- ·Sleep insights from Apple Health
- ·Everything in Free
A sharper companion for pickier moods.
- ·Smarter recommendation model
- ·Unlimited companion chat
- ·Sleep insights from Apple Health
Know your bedtime. Watch accordingly.
WindDown is out. Download it, set a bedtime, and let it do the math tonight.
No account. No sign-up, no email, no password — WindDown creates an anonymous, device-scoped ID so subscriptions work, and that's it. The companion only sends what you type to it, and only after you say yes in the app. Read the full privacy policy.
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