No thank you — this doesn’t work for me
It’s a fair call. Sleep audio is personal. If sleepcast isn’t putting you to sleep, please don’t keep paying us to fail. Here’s where else to go.
Sleep With Me Podcast →
Drew Ackerman’s podcast. He’s been doing this since 2013, with a real human voice and a meandering style that this site openly imitates. Free, in your podcast app. Start here.
Nothing Much Happens →
Kathryn Nicolai. Quieter, gentler, more lyrical. Twice a week. Very good if Drew’s pace is too much.
Boring Books for Bedtime →
Sharon reading old public-domain books — botanical surveys, treaties, obscure histories. Excellent if you prefer the Wikipedia category here.
Why does this even exist?
Because inference is cheap, and humans aren’t supposed to be on call all night. Drew Ackerman has been keeping people company for over a decade. That’s a lot of hours awake in the dark for one person. AI narration lets a tiny team of two cover ground that used to demand a whole creative life — and gives the humans who do this work a break when they need one.
Every story, every category, every feature on this site is something we made because we wanted to fall asleep to it. The sleep timer. The slow methodical voice. The loop with the long pause between repeats. The boring lectures. We didn’t guess at what would work; we built what we needed.
We hope it works for you too. If it doesn’t, that’s fine — we’re rooting for you to find what does. Try one of the links above.
Already paying us? Cancel any time from your account. We’ll keep your access through the current period. No exit form, no “are you sure?” loop.
Questions, complaints, requests for a track about a topic you find especially boring — email hi@sleepcast.pro. It goes to a real human.