iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch
A sleep log that
argues with you.
Every other app hands back a chart of what you typed. That chart tells you what you already knew at 4am. Vela reads the log and says, in plain words, what it does and does not yet prove.
Made for the mother who has been awake since 02:41 and needs one honest sentence, not another dashboard.
velar a alguien — to keep watch over someone through the night.
The problem
You already know the nights are bad. The apps just make it your fault.
Most trackers hand you a chart of what you typed, then a sleep score, then advice you did not ask for. At 4am that score feels like a report card on your parenting.
They compare your baby to averages that do not know your baby. They say "sleep regression" and leave you to guess what to do next.
The solution
Vela reads the log and argues with you — honestly.
It does not score, rank or advise. It checks what your log actually supports and tells you in plain words: this looks like a pattern, this might be coincidence, this needs more nights before it can say anything.
When it has nothing, it says so. When it finds something, it shows its working. The answer is always grounded in the nights you logged, not in a generic playbook.
Thirteen real nights, unprompted
It found this on its own.
Nobody told it to look at naps. It compared every nap end against every bedtime and reported the split: on all five nights the nap ran past 16:00, she was not asleep until after 21:15. On the eight nights it did not, she never was.
Those thirteen nights ship with the app. You can open the Review and read this finding before you have logged a single thing of your own.
The evidence ladder
And it says how sure it is.
Every claim carries the rung it earned. The rung is computed from the log — no rule can set it by hand, and nothing below the third rung is allowed to say a word about cause.
observation
1–2 nights
pattern
3+ nights
trend
5+ nights
established
survived a counter-example
“is working”, “has caused”
Words only the top rung is allowed to use. Below it the app writes “appears to”, “so far”, “on the nights logged” — and means them. On the days it has nothing, it says so.
The app
Four screens. Nothing hidden behind a paywall.
One screen for 3am
Put down for the night, put down for a nap, or log a sleep you only noticed an hour late. Two taps, eyes half shut, done.
Thirteen nights, or a hundred
Every night as a bar to scale, with settling time, total sleep and wakings underneath. Scroll back as far as you have logged.
Red, not just dark
After dark the whole app turns red at minimum luminance — because you are trying not to wake up properly, and a white screen ends that.
Run a plan without losing the plot
Start a settling routine or a night wean with a stated success criterion. If two overlap, every finding that touches either one says so.
A one-screen Apple Watch app logs a waking with a single glowing button — haptics only, no display to squint at, and it works with the phone flat on a charger downstairs.
Two things it will not do
It will not tell you what to do with your child at night.
No advice, no coaching, no diagnosis, no guilt. It reports what your log contains and how confident that makes it. Statements about cause require the top of the evidence ladder — and the ladder is not something a rule can set by hand.
It does not talk to a network at all.
The analysis, the note tagging and the dictation all happen on your device. No account, no analytics, nothing to opt out of — because there is nothing to opt into. Read the privacy policy; it is short.
Not a medical device. If something in the log looks like it needs a clinician, the app says so and stops there.
Available now
Get Vela on the App Store.
For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. One download, no subscription, no account to create. Your log stays on your devices.
Requires iOS 17 or later.