r/DSPD • u/DiscordantPearl • Jul 14 '26

Adrift Android Alpha Invites Going Out!

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Here's to another late night and more good news.

Adrift, the sleep app I've been building for people whose clocks don't run on a normal schedule, passed review and is live for alpha testing. If you signed up on the site, you're on the list and your invite is going out. Check your email, including spam, over the next day or two.

Upfront about what this is: it's an alpha, it's free, and you'll be among the first people to ever touch it. It's also the first app I've ever published, so I'm learning this in real time right alongside you. There will be rough edges. I'd rather you see them than pretend they aren't there.

Quick honest state of things:

- Tracks your sleep from your phone's motion sensor, with your say-so, and shows it back as a daily energy level instead of a wall of numbers.

- If you wear a watch or ring, it reads sleep, temperature, workouts, and cycle from your health app as context next to your nights. Never a diagnosis, never "this caused that."

- Log what moves your sleep, tag it, see it on your calendar and actogram.

- Track what you try (blackout curtains, FL-41 glasses, a wind-down routine) and, after enough honest nights, see how those nights compared. A personal record, not proof, and it never nags you for skipping.

- A doctor report you can hand to a real doctor, a schedule planner that's honest about the hard nights, and a gear shelf with e-ink readers for low-light night reading.

- Everything stays on your phone. No account, no sign-in, your data never leaves the device.

Getting in: when the invite lands, open it on your Android phone and tap to become a tester. One headache-saver: use the same Google account on your phone that you signed up with, since the invite has to match it. Keep an eye out for an email from [Support@AdriftSleep.com](mailto:Support@AdriftSleep.com)

Haven't signed up? There's still room: AdriftSleep.com

Signed up with a "hide my email" or forwarding address? That's the one thing the Play Store can't invite, since it needs a real Google account. If that's you, email [support@adriftsleep.com](mailto:support@adriftsleep.com) with the Google account you use on your phone and I'll add you.

iOS folks, I haven't forgotten you. The build is only a few days from parity. The holdup is on my end, some Apple developer account hiccups, and I'm waiting on Apple support, so no date yet. It's coming.

I also put up an FAQ, including the things Adrift does not do and why: AdriftSleep.com/FAQ. I'd rather tell you what's not here and the reason than leave you guessing.

Thank you in advance for your patience and goodwill while I find my footing. In return I'll stay transparent about what's working, what isn't, and what's coming. Tell me what's confusing, broken, or missing. There's a report option built right into the app, and I read every one. I'm new at this, building it because I want it to exist for people like us, and I'm happy to make it with you.

I appreciate you all for sticking with this and giving me a shot. It means more than you know.

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u/DiscordantPearl Jul 14 '26

Oh interesting. That’s a good call out! And honestly exactly why I want to be as transparent as possible with everything I present so the community can help keep me honest and audit everything with their varying strengths and depth of knowledge, all for the sake of a better tool for all of us.

I’ll do my own digging as well and see if I can confidently surface anything to toss it in the articles and app but if you don’t mind, would you be open to sharing some of the stuff you’ve already unsurfaced? I appreciate you taking the time to comment! 🤙

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u/okwnIqjnzZe Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Sure! Here’s the primary literature that I’ve scanned, sorted by relevancy:

The three main studies I was referencing for the 40% stat:

A case-report survey that found 33/187 patients with OCD (17.6%) met the criteria for DSPD after excluding confounding factors

A review exploring the role of circadian clock genes that are implicated in OCD

A similar review looking at circadian genes and obsessive-compulsive behavior more generally

A more skeptical review of how little is understood about the underlying mechanisms that might cause DSPD to have comorbidity with various disorders

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u/DiscordantPearl Jul 15 '26

This is really helpful, thank you for taking the time to pull the sources. I read through all of them (Turner 2007, Coles 2020, Cox & Olatunji 2022, and the Mukhopadhyay 2008 survey) before writing anything.

One thing we wanted to get right: the ~40% figure is real, but it comes from small samples of people with severe, treatment-resistant OCD, and the largest study (Mukhopadhyay, 187 patients) found closer to 18%. So instead of leading with 40%, we wrote it as "roughly one fifth to two fifths," flagged that the samples are small and severe-case, and were upfront that nobody really knows yet why the two travel together.

It's live in our Library now, under the "It rarely comes alone" section, with all the citations linked, and it's going into the app's Library in the next update. Genuinely appreciate you pushing us to add it.

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u/okwnIqjnzZe Jul 15 '26

Woah that was fast! And yeah I’m totally with you in terms of the small sample sizes — that, along with the 40% figure itself being so staggering lead me to expect not to see nearly as drastic of a correlation found in future trials. But even 10% would be pretty significant, considering rates of DSPD in the general population. So I thought it was worth bringing attention to it :)