Documentation

This documentation provides a complete guide to using DozyBlue. It covers setup requirements, tips for optimising results, an overview of the Home screen, how to create and continue sleep sessions, and how to interpret your reports. It also explains how to adjust key settings such as PCR (Pre-Content Rewind) for more accurate resume suggestions, and how to manage your audiobook library. You’ll also find further guidance on session logic and using DozyBlue with different media types, including films, series, podcasts, audiobooks, YouTube, and custom audio or video content.

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Device & App Requirements

To use DozyBlue effectively, the following device and app requirements must be met so that sleep data can be accurately collected and analysed.

Optimising Your Results

The tips below will help you get the most accurate sleep data and media resume suggestions from DozyBlue. Following these guidelines ensures your sleep sessions are tracked reliably and that resume windows reflect where you most likely fell asleep.

Home

The Home screen is your central overview in DozyBlue. It gives you a quick summary of your recent activity, highlights patterns and trends for the current week, and provides fast access to creating or reviewing sleep sessions. Information shown here updates automatically as sleep sessions are created, edited, or removed.

Sleep Statistics

The Sleep Statistics section provides an at-a-glance view of your sleep activity for the current week (Mon-Sun). It presents a swipeable set of statistics that highlight patterns, consistency, and trends using two complementary views: your weekly streak and your weekly snapshot.

Your Streak

Your streak highlights the days in the current week where a sleep session has been recorded. The flame indicator represents your active streak, which increases as you continue to log sleep sessions across consecutive weeks.

A week contributes to your streak if it contains at least one completed sleep session. The current week is treated as live, meaning its contribution can change if sessions are added or removed. Once a week has passed, it is treated as historical progress. Deleting or expiring older sleep sessions does not remove weeks that have already counted towards your streak.

The View calendar link takes you directly to today’s date in the Reports screen, allowing you to review your sleep sessions in more detail.

Your Weekly Snapshot

Your weekly snapshot provides a number of key metrics:

Beneath each metric, a comparison indicator shows how the current week compares to the previous week, helping you spot changes over time. If you create, delete, or edit a sleep session (including adjusting the fell asleep time – Update Fell Asleep) that falls within the current or previous week, the weekly snapshot values and comparison indicators will update automatically to reflect those changes. Please note, these changes may affect the weekly snapshot statistics shown for the current or previous week, but they do not remove historical streak progress once a previous week has already counted towards your streak.

Recent Sleep Sessions

Below the sleep statistics, the Recent Sleep Sessions section displays your seven most recent sleep sessions. Tapping any session in this list opens the Report Details screen, where you can view the full breakdown of sleep data, media information, and resume suggestions for that session.

Create a New Sleep Session

A sleep session represents a single period of time where you listen to or watch media whilst falling asleep. Creating a sleep session allows DozyBlue to track your media activity and sleep, then generate a report with calculated resume suggestions so you can continue from where you dozed off.

How to Create a New Session

Things to know:

Media Types

Please note: if you can’t find the media you’re looking for under a specific media type (such as Film, Podcast, Series, etc.), you can use Audio or Video to create a manual session.

Searching and Selecting Media

Required Field Clarifications

There are multiple required fields across all media types. Most of these are self-explanatory and do not require additional explanation; however, the fields below affect how DozyBlue behaves and makes resume suggestions, so they require a little extra explanation.

Active Sleep Session

During an Active Sleep Session

Once your sleep session has started, do not rewind, fast-forward or skip any part of the media content — this includes features like Skip Intro. Any interaction with the media itself can reduce the accuracy of your resume suggestions. Skipping adverts, however, is fine — you remain fully in control of the total advert duration you enter at the end of the sleep session (see After Ending a Sleep Session (Adverts)).

Active Sleep Session Pausing

If you need to pause during an active sleep session, you can do so. DozyBlue allows up to 5 minutes of total paused time during a single sleep session. When you pause your DozyBlue sleep session, make sure you also pause the media you are watching or listening to at the same time. When you resume your DozyBlue session, resume the media at the same point too. Keeping the app pause and the media pause in sync helps DozyBlue keep your resume suggestion accurate.

The pause limit is cumulative. This means it does not need to be one continuous 5-minute pause, and you do not need to use the full 5 minutes. For example, you could pause once for 1 minute, later pause again for 2 minutes, and still have 2 minutes of pause time remaining. If the total paused time reaches 5 minutes, no further pause time is available for that session and the session will be unpaused automatically.

Active Sleep Session Summary

If you want a quick overview while your session is running, tap the 'i' button on the Active Sleep Session screen to open the Session summary. This shows a simple snapshot of the current session, including the media title, media type, media start time, media duration, and whether adverts are expected. It is intended as a quick reference reminder, showing the key details of your current session.

Ending an Active Sleep Session

Leave your DozyBlue session running for the entire duration of the sleep session — do not stop the session early or close the DozyBlue app. For accurate tracking, start the sleep session and then lock your device, allowing it to run undisturbed until you wake up.

When you wake up:

If your sleep data has not synced, the results may be incomplete or inaccurate.

After Ending a Sleep Session (Adverts)

If you selected Yes / Adverts Expected or Unknown / Unknown Adverts for the Adverts field when creating the sleep session, you will be asked to confirm the total duration of adverts you actually saw while you were awake during the session. For more information about adverts when creating a new session, see the Advert Duration explanation in the Create a New Sleep Session section.

What to expect:

If you selected No/No Adverts for the Adverts field when creating the sleep session, the advert pop-up will not appear and no advert adjustments will be applied to your resume suggestions.

Report Details

When viewing a completed sleep session report, you’ll see a breakdown of your sleep data alongside the related media content you watched or listened to during your sleep session. You can open a sleep session’s full report by tapping any session card — either from the Home screen (Recent Sleep Sessions) or from the Reports screen after selecting a date (see Reports)

Overview

Fell Asleep

Resume Window Logic

DozyBlue estimates where you likely left off in your chosen media using your detected sleep onset and various calculations and offsets. This is shown as a resume window, giving you a short, helpful range where your last remembered moment is most likely to be.

In simple terms: if you were about 25 minutes into a 2-hour film when sleep onset was detected, DozyBlue will present a small window around that point. You can scrub within this range to quickly relocate the moment you remember. Behind the scenes, DozyBlue considers PCR (Pre-Content Rewind), paused duration, advert adjustments, media type, and other factors to improve the estimate.

Sleep onset data can be difficult to estimate with total consistency, even with high-quality sleep trackers. Devices may detect the moment you become still or relaxed before you're fully asleep, which can shift the estimate slightly. Showing one definitive time could imply a level of precision that isn’t always realistic. A window offers a more reliable, user-friendly experience, giving you room to find the moment that feels familiar without relying on an overly specific value.

The following points provide more detail about how resume windows work.

Paused Duration Logic
Advert Logic

Editable Fields

Some fields in the Report Details screen can be edited after a sleep session has been saved. Editable fields allow you to correct or refine information, ensuring your reports remain accurate and reflect your actual experience. Editable fields are indicated by a pencil icon. Tapping this icon opens a dedicated dialog where you can safely make changes.

Update Title

Updating the media title for a sleep session is available only for Audio and Video media types. These media types are entered manually, allowing the title to be edited if corrections or adjustments are needed.

Other media types (such as films, series, podcasts, and audiobooks) require the media to be selected from a list of suggestions. These suggestions are sourced from external databases or the DozyBlue database to ensure accurate and consistent metadata. As a result, their titles cannot be edited.

To update a media title:

Update Fell Asleep

DozyBlue uses sleep data from your sleep tracking device to estimate when you most likely fell asleep. While this estimate is generally accurate, it may not always reflect the exact moment you actually fell asleep. For this reason, you can manually update the fell asleep time for a sleep session. Updating this value will recalculate all media resume suggestions to ensure more accurate and consistent playback resumption.

To update the fell asleep time:

Continue a Recent Sleep Session

DozyBlue allows you to continue a recent sleep session instead of starting a completely new one. This is especially useful for longer, multi-episode media types such as audiobooks, podcasts, or series, as it saves you from re-entering all the fields required when starting a new session.

How to Continue a Session

Continuing a Sleep Session

When you continue a sleep session, the following occurs:

Please note: for multi-episode media types (such as Podcasts or Series), the episode identified as the point where you fell asleep remains locked when continuing a session, to ensure accuracy. If a recent session ended at the end of an episode and you now want to begin the next one, you’ll need to create a New Session (Create a New Sleep Session).

Reports

All sleep sessions can be viewed in the Reports screen, accessible via the Reports button in the bottom navigation bar.

Please note: if you are a DozyBlue Free plan user, sleep sessions expire after 14 days and cannot be recovered. Sleep sessions created while on the DozyBlue Free plan will still expire after 14 days, even if you upgrade during that period. Alternatively, sleep sessions created while you are on DozyBlue Premium will be retained indefinitely, even if you later downgrade to the DozyBlue Free plan.

Viewing Sleep Sessions

When you select a date in the calendar that has one or more sleep sessions, the relevant information for each session is shown below the calendar. Sessions are displayed on the date the session started (for example, if a session starts at 12:44 AM on the 14th December, it will appear on the 14th December; if another one starts at 10:00 PM on the 14th December, it will also appear on the 14th December).

For each session, the media title is shown, with the resume window displayed underneath. On the right-hand side, the session start time and session end time are shown. If a session ends on the following day, the end time includes +1 to indicate this.

Tapping a session opens the Report Details screen, where you can view the full details for that sleep session.

Sleep Configurations

This section contains sleep configuration settings that influence how DozyBlue interprets your sleep data. These controls let you tailor how certain calculations behave so that your sleep session results and resume suggestions better reflect your personal sleep patterns.

We recommend using DozyBlue for a few sessions before adjusting these settings. This gives you time to see how your sleep device reports sleep and how resume suggestions feel in practice.

Sleep Detection Sensitivity (SDS)

The Sleep Detection Sensitivity (SDS) configuration controls how quickly DozyBlue marks you as asleep based on your sleep data. In simple terms, it defines how strict DozyBlue is when confirming sleep onset.

By default, SDS is set to 5 minutes. This means DozyBlue looks for around five minutes of continuous sleep before marking you as asleep. This works well for most users, but sleep behaviour can vary significantly from person to person.

How to Adjust SDS
  1. Open the Settings screen and go to Sleep Configurations.
  2. Update the Sleep Detection Sensitivity value to your preferred duration.
  3. You can restore the default value by using the reset icon.

Adjusting SDS can be especially helpful if your sleep device frequently records short or inconsistent sleep stages as you drift off. Some users prefer a higher SDS because they may briefly drift off while listening to a podcast or audiobook, then wake up and continue listening without being concerned about missing content. In these cases, increasing SDS helps ensure that sleep is only confirmed once you are truly asleep, rather than during short periods of drowsiness.

SDS affects when your sleep onset time is detected, which in turn influences resume suggestions and other sleep-based calculations. Any changes you make will apply to all future sleep sessions.

Pre-Content Rewind (PCR) Offset

The Pre-Content Rewind (PCR) offset adjusts your resume suggestions after sleep has been detected. It shifts playback slightly earlier than your detected sleep onset, helping you return to a moment that still feels familiar rather than where awareness fully faded.

By default, this offset is set to 5 minutes. You can customise it based on your experience.

How to Adjust PCR
  1. Open the Settings screen and go to Sleep Configurations.
  2. Update the Pre-Content Rewind Offset value to your preferred duration.
  3. You can restore the default value by using the reset icon.

Adjusting your PCR offset changes how your resume suggestions are calculated, and the update will be used for all future sessions and their resume windows.

Media Library

The Media Library is where you can manage your manually uploaded media content that can be reused across your sleep sessions. It allows you to store structured, reusable information for media types that DozyBlue cannot fetch from external databases. Items saved here become selectable when creating or continuing sleep sessions, ensuring consistent metadata.

Audiobooks

To access your uploaded Audiobooks, open Library from the bottom navigation and select Audiobooks. Audiobooks allows you to build a personal audiobook library that can be reused across multiple sleep sessions. Each audiobook includes a title, author, and a chapter-by-chapter breakdown with durations, which DozyBlue uses to generate resume suggestions.

Viewing Audiobooks

You can control how audiobooks are ordered using the sorting options shown at the top of the list.

Upload an Audiobook
Update an Audiobook

You can refine an existing audiobook over time by updating its chapter list — for example, adding new chapters as you progress through a book, or correcting durations. When editing, the title and author remain locked so your existing sessions stay consistent.

Please note: if you edit an audiobook that has already been used in a sleep session, the existing sleep session will not be updated and will continue to reflect the original chapter list and durations used at the time of that session.

Delete an Audiobook

If you no longer need an audiobook, or you want to free up space for a new one, you can delete it from your library. Deleting an audiobook removes it from your library and also from future sleep session selection.

Please note: if you delete an audiobook that has already been used in a sleep session, the existing sleep session will still display that audiobook and its original chapter information.

Help

If you need help, want to share feedback, or need to report a problem, you can find support options in the Help screen within DozyBlue. To access it, open Settings and select Help.

Documentation

The Documentation option opens this webpage, which provides full guidance on how to use DozyBlue.

Contact Us

Use Contact Us for general enquiries or support questions.

Send Feedback

Use Send Feedback to share suggestions, comments, or ideas about DozyBlue.

Report a Bug

Use Report a Bug if something is not working as expected. This opens a bug report form where you can provide details such as your device, app version, issue type, and the steps that led to the problem.