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Open Dreamtime before bed, tap the record button, and place your phone on the nightstand — close, unobstructed, and plugged in. Then go to sleep.

When you wake from a dream, focus on remembering it and speak it aloud, eyes closed. No need to pick up the phone, say a wake word, or turn on the lights. When you’re done, drift back to sleep.

In the morning, tap stop. Your dreams are there — each one its own entry, with audio and transcript.

On the nightstand, within arm’s reach. Nothing covering the microphone — no case obstructions, no bedding, no pillow. Screen down is fine and blocks any light. Keep it plugged in for the night.

Dreamtime doesn’t need an internet connection to record or transcribe, so airplane mode is fine if you prefer it.

No. Speak the dream and go back to sleep. No reaching for the phone, no wake word, no lights. Dreamtime captures it from wherever it’s sitting.

Yes. Recording and transcription happen entirely on your phone — no internet connection needed. You can keep the phone in airplane mode all night if that’s how you sleep, and everything still works.

An internet connection is only needed for iCloud sync (if you’ve turned it on) and for App Store subscription checks. Neither happens during a recording.

Yes. Dreamtime runs on iPad, with the iPhone interface — not yet optimized for the larger screen. Recording, transcription, and the full archive all work as on iPhone. An iPad-tuned experience is on the roadmap.

Not yet. Dreamtime runs on iOS 18.5 or later.

No. We’ve chosen not to bring AI interpretation inside Dreamtime.

Dreamtime’s job is the step upstream: helping you remember your dreams and memorialize them, without disturbing your sleep.

There’s wide interest in AI interpretation, and narrated dreams are prime material for large language models like ChatGPT and Claude.

If you want to bring AI into your practice, Dreamtime makes it easy to export any dream as text, Markdown, or audio, and drop it into any AI assistant or any other tool you already use.

Dreamtime listens all night and separates speech from silence and background sounds. If you wake and speak several times, each one becomes its own dream entry, with its own audio and transcript.

All of it happens locally on your phone. No audio, text, or metadata is sent to our servers or any third party. See our Privacy Policy for the details.

Dreamtime listens for the whole night, however many times you wake and speak. In the morning, each dream is listed individually under the night’s date — its own audio, its own transcript.

Dreamtime transcribes 25 languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The app detects the language automatically — nothing to set.

The app’s interface is currently localized in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish — more interface languages are coming. You can speak and transcribe in any of the 25 supported languages regardless of the interface.

English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish for now. More interface languages are coming.

This is separate from the language you record in: whatever the interface, you can speak and transcribe in any of the 25 supported languages (see What languages does Dreamtime support?).

Excellent. Transcription captures what you actually said — including the stutters, false starts, half-formed words, and trailing thoughts of sleepy speech. That texture is part of the dream. We don’t run the transcript through AI to clean it, smooth it, or rewrite it. What you said is what you get.

If you want to tidy a transcript later, you can edit it in the app at any time. The original audio stays untouched.

All transcription happens on your device. Nothing is sent to our servers or any third party.

Yes. Dreamtime records for as long as you keep it running. Start it before bed, tap stop in the morning.

A full night typically uses 10–30% of an iPhone’s battery, depending on the model. We recommend keeping the phone plugged in — it’s the setup Dreamtime is designed for.

Yes. Recordings are unlimited, and you can start one at any time of day. Some people capture dreams in the morning while still in bed, or later in the day as fragments resurface.

If you’re capturing several dreams in one stretch, tap Stop and Start between each one rather than running a single long recording. That way each dream stays as its own entry, with its own audio and transcript.

Only you. Recording, transcription, organization, and storage all happen on your phone. Your dreams never leave it — except, optionally, to your own iCloud account, which we have no access to either.

We don’t see your audio. We don’t see your transcripts. We don’t see your titles. There’s no account, no login, no server of ours that holds dreams. The app simply has no path to send them anywhere.

The only thing our systems ever touch is your subscription status — handled anonymously through Apple and our subscription service. Details in the Privacy Policy.

On your iPhone. That’s the default and that’s the whole story — unless you turn on iCloud sync.

iCloud sync is optional. Enable or disable it any time in Settings → Backup to iCloud. When it’s on, Dreamtime keeps your archive in sync across your Apple devices through your own iCloud account, with no server of ours in the middle.

Text and metadata — transcripts, titles, dates — are end-to-end encrypted in iCloud. Audio becomes end-to-end encrypted when you enable Apple’s Advanced Data Protection. See Does Dreamtime support end-to-end encryption? for the details.

Yes — with one nuance worth knowing.

Text and metadata are always end-to-end encrypted in iCloud. Transcripts, titles, dates, and the rest of your structured data are stored using CloudKit’s encrypted-fields system. Apple cannot read them. We cannot read them. This is automatic the moment you turn on iCloud sync.

Audio is end-to-end encrypted only when you enable Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Advanced Data Protection). Without it, audio is still encrypted in transit and at rest in iCloud, but Apple holds the keys. With it on, only your devices can decrypt the audio. We strongly recommend enabling it.

On the device itself, you can lock the app with Face ID or a passcode (see Can I lock the app with Face ID?). Combined with Advanced Data Protection, that gives you a fully end-to-end encrypted setup, from your voice to your archive.

The work of turning your voice into a dream entry — voice detection, transcription, segmentation — runs on your iPhone’s own processor. No part of it goes to a server. No internet connection is needed.

On-device processing is a deliberate choice, and the foundation of every privacy claim we make. Your audio doesn’t leave the phone to become text. There is no cloud step where someone else could read or hear what you recorded.

If you turn on iCloud sync, your dreams sync between your own Apple devices through your own iCloud account — encrypted, with no server of ours in the middle. That’s the only time anything leaves the phone, and it goes only to you.

Yes. Turn it on in the app’s settings.

No personal data. The app is built so we cannot access your content.

• No name, email, phone number, or contact information.
• No device identifiers, location, or IP addresses on our systems.
• No analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking.
• No cookies, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting.
• No health, biometric, or sleep data.
• No use of your data to train AI models.
• No selling, sharing, or renting personal information — there’s nothing to sell.

There’s no account, no login, no server of ours that holds your dreams. The only data we ever see is what you choose to send us — for instance, if you write to support.

Two technical exceptions worth naming. Subscription status is validated anonymously through Apple’s App Store and our subscription service (an anonymous app-specific ID — not your Apple ID, not your email). And if you opt in to crash reporting (off by default, in Settings → Privacy & Security → Help Improve Dreamtime), the app sends scrubbed crash diagnostics with no dream content and no identifying information attached. Full details in the Privacy Policy.

Tap the search icon. You can search three ways:

• By word — exact text from your transcripts.
• By meaning — describe what you’re looking for in your own words, and Dreamtime finds dreams that match the idea, even if the words are different. Search for “being chased” and you’ll find the dream where you were running from something nameless.
• By date — browse the archive directly.

Search runs locally on your device, like everything else.

Yes. Export any dream as plain text, Markdown, or audio, and share it to any app that accepts those formats.

This is how Dreamtime fits into the practice you already have. Capture in Dreamtime, then drop the dream into your journal, notes app, or wherever you already work — Obsidian, Apple Notes, Day One, Bear, whatever it is. Open formats, fully portable. Your archive stays yours.

A deep link is a tappable link that opens a specific dream — or a specific date — directly inside Dreamtime. Copy the link from a dream in the app, paste it into a journal entry, note, or calendar event. Tap it later, and Dreamtime opens to that exact dream, audio and transcript ready.

A line in your Obsidian note can link back to the recording it came from. A dated entry in your calendar can take you to that night’s dreams in one tap.

iCloud sync is optional. When you turn it on, Dreamtime keeps your archive in sync across your Apple devices through your own iCloud account.

To turn on or off: Settings → Backup to iCloud.

The sync runs between your devices and Apple’s infrastructure. There is no server of ours in the path, and we have no way to read what’s synced. Text and metadata are end-to-end encrypted, and audio becomes end-to-end encrypted as well when you turn on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection. See Does Dreamtime support end-to-end encryption? for the details.

Note: dreams sync, but the night’s master recording does not. That stays on the device that captured it. See How much storage does Dreamtime use? for what that means.

A typical night’s recording is a few megabytes between dream audio, transcripts, titles, and other metadata. It also has about 1 GB of master recording — the full night, captured uninterrupted, held on your device for 3 days just in case anything goes wrong with processing. After 3 days the master deletes automatically.

With the 3-day safety window, plan for roughly 3 GB of working space on top of your growing archive. Master recordings live only on your device and are never synced to iCloud — only the individual dreams sync.

Yes. Go to Settings → Back Up All Data to create a complete archive of everything you’ve recorded.

The backup is a single ZIP file containing:

• Your audio recordings as .m4a files (a standard, open audio format).

• Your transcripts, titles, dates, and other metadata as JSON.

  Both formats are open and standard — nothing proprietary, nothing tied to us. Dreamtime was built to hold a long archive — a month, a year, decades — and what you’ve captured should outlast any single app, ours included. Save the backup to Files, AirDrop it to a Mac, drop it into a cloud drive, or keep it on an external disk. More export formats are coming.

Two ways:

• From the dream list: long-press the dream, then tap Delete.
• From inside a dream: tap the ⋯ (ellipsis) icon, then choose Delete.

Confirm in the dialog. The dream and its audio are removed permanently from this device, with no undo. If iCloud sync is on, the deletion propagates to your other devices.

Two ways:

• From the home view: long-press the date card, then tap Delete.
• From the date view: tap the ⋯ (ellipsis) icon, then choose Delete.

Confirm in the dialog. Every dream recorded on that date — audio and transcripts — is removed permanently from this device, with no undo. If iCloud sync is on, the deletion propagates to your other devices. Use with care.

The 7-day free trial is the full Dreamtime PRO experience — every feature, no limitations. Unlimited overnight recordings, on-device transcription, your full archive with search, export, deep links, iCloud sync. Nothing held back.

If you cancel before the trial ends, you won’t be charged. You stop being able to make new recordings — but your archive stays fully accessible. See How do I cancel my subscription?.

Your subscription is handled by Apple through the App Store and auto-renews until you cancel. You can cancel any time, with no penalty.

From your iPhone: open the Settings app, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, find Dreamtime, and tap Cancel Subscription. You can also reach this from inside Dreamtime under Settings.

Dreamtime PRO stays active until the end of your current billing period. After that, the only thing that changes is recording: you can no longer make new recordings. Everything else stays available. Your full archive remains readable, searchable, editable, exportable, and syncable. Deep links keep working. Your dreams stay yours.

Apple does not offer refunds for unused time.

Open Dreamtime on the new device while signed into the same Apple ID. Your subscription is recognized automatically. If it doesn’t appear, open the app’s Settings and tap Restore Purchases.

One plan: Dreamtime PRO, with every feature included. Choose how to pay — monthly or yearly. Both start with a 7-day free trial.

No tiers, no add-ons, no upsells. One plan, two billing cadences. Current pricing is shown in the app and on the Dreamtime website.

The most common cause is placement. Check:

• Distance. The phone should be within arm’s reach of where you sleep.
• Obstruction. Nothing covering the microphone — no case obstruction, no bedding, no pillow.
• Volume. If you tend to speak softly, move the phone slightly closer or speak at a more normal conversational level when you wake.

Background noise (fans, partners, white noise machines) can also raise the threshold for what registers as speech. Reducing it where you can — or moving the phone closer — usually solves it.

If transcription quality is consistently low, check two things:

• Microphone obstruction. Make sure nothing is covering the phone’s microphone — case, bedding, pillow.
• Distance. Move the phone slightly closer to where you sleep.

The original audio recording is always there for anything the transcript misses, and you can edit transcripts directly in the app.

A typical overnight session uses 10–30% of an iPhone’s battery, depending on the model. If you’re seeing significantly more, make sure you’re on the latest version of Dreamtime and iOS. Keeping the phone plugged in overnight removes battery concerns entirely.

Recordings can be lost if Dreamtime is interrupted during the night — a phone restart, a battery shutdown, or another app taking over the microphone.

To prevent interruptions:

• Keep the phone plugged in overnight.
• Enable a Sleep Focus or Do Not Disturb so calls and notifications don’t take the microphone.
• Make sure you’re running the latest version of Dreamtime and iOS.

If you’re not sure whether the setup is working, try a test recording during the day. Place the phone where it will sit overnight, start a recording, speak a few sentences in the voice and volume you’d use at 3 a.m., then stop. Confirm the dream appears with audio and a transcript. If it does, you’re set.

If recordings are still missing after this, write to us through the contact form and we’ll help.