Keep the night, claim the ground.
Sleep Map is a single-player, non-competitive sleep-habit app. You pick your hometown, set the hours you mean to keep, and put the phone down at bedtime. Keep the night and, in the morning, you claim a place next to ground you already hold.
A bad night just slows things down. It never takes anything back. Ground you have earned stays earned. There is no punishment, no streak shaming, no leaderboard, and nobody to lose to.
Every place tells you one true, specific thing about itself before you go under — not a travel brochure, and never the same story twice. Many places also carry someone who was born there, with their photograph.
From one night to a season of them.
Four steps, then sleep.
Pick your hometown and set your bedtime and wake time. The hometown is a gift — you have surely already slept a good night where you are from.
When bedtime comes, start the night and put the phone down.
Pick it up in the morning inside the window you set. The place is yours, and its story is in your journal.
Miss the window and you keep everything you had. You just try again tonight.
If you would rather not rely on the phone-down honor system, Apple Health can confirm the night for you instead. That is optional, and the app works completely without it.
1,032 places, every one written.
Version 1.0 covers the United States: 1,032 places across 59 regions, every one of them written, with 1,028 photographs.
The rest of the world is drawn on the map, unlit, marked “coming soon”. It is not a placeholder — those places are already mapped and their stories already written. They will be unlocked in later versions.
No account. No network.
There is no account and no sign-in. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and nothing to buy. Your sleep times and your map live on your device and are deleted when you delete the app.
Everything you read ships inside the app, so once your hometown is set it works on a plane with the wifi off. Searching for that hometown is the one moment the app uses the network, through Apple Maps — and the app never asks for your location.
The full policy, including exactly what Apple Health is used for and how to revoke it, is on the privacy page.
Read by a person.
Something broken, something confusing, or an idea? Write to support@sunlitgamestudio.com. It is read by a person, usually within a few days.
When reporting a problem, it helps to include your iPhone model and your iOS version. If it is about a specific night or place, the date and the place name are enough to find it.
Place text is written from sources on Wikipedia; the photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under their licenses, with the photographer and license shown beside each image in the app. If you find something wrong about your own town — an error, or a story that does not sit right — please write. Those corrections are welcome and they get made.