Your coach for healthy sleep
Sonoa supports you in developing a restful sleep and a healthy lifestyle.
Available in the App & Play Store.
Very high satisfaction
Over 2000 users rate the sleep training with 4.8 out of 5 points
Medical device
Developed with
GDPR compliant and
ISO 27001 certified
of the population suffer from sleep disorders
of the population have a diagnosis of insomnia
take sleeping pills—even though cognitive behavioral therapy is the treatment of choice
Many people with sleep problems take medication, even though guidelines recommend behavioral measures first. Sonoa accompanies you step by step to restful sleep: with your sleep diary, personalized tips, interactive lessons, and exercises, you will learn how to improve your sleep behavior. Exercise tips and nutrition advice round out the program. Better sleep means more energy, better concentration, and increased well-being—Sonoa helps you feel fitter and more balanced in everyday life—without medication.
Wondering how Sonoa affects your sleep? Users noticed initial improvements after just three weeks of Sonoa sleep training:
Sonoa's sleep training programme shortens the time it takes to fall asleep by an average of 14 minutes.
Users who undergo sleep training lie awake for an average of 13 minutes less at night.
Sleep efficiency as a measure of sleep quality increases by 6 percentage points after just 3 weeks.
The severity of insomnia (Insomnia Severity Index ISI) is reduced from moderate (18 points) to mild (13 points) after 3 weeks of sleep training.
Sonoa provides low-threshold access to guideline-based, digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). From a medical perspective, it is a useful supplement to medical care and helps patients improve their sleep in the long term.
PD Dr. med. Steffi Weidt
Director of Medicine and Psychology at St. Gallen Psychiatric Hospital, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
Whether you have private or statutory health insurance, getting started is easy: privately insured individuals enter their access code, while those with statutory insurance select their health insurance provider in the app and confirm their participation. Click on the logo of your health insurance provider or insurer to find out more.
Sonoa is suitable for you if
- you suffer from everyday stress and find it difficult to get to sleep
- you have problems falling asleep or wake up frequently at night
- you want to improve your physical and mental performance through better sleep and/or
- you want to proactively promote your health and well-being.
Sonoa is a medical app that supports you in promoting restful sleep and a healthy lifestyle. With Sonoa, you have a "digital coach" at your side who supports you in keeping a digital sleep diary and guides and motivates you to improve your sleep behaviour and your sleep-related lifestyle step by step.
No, Sonoa is not a real human coach, but a chatbot. A chatbot (chat + robot) is an automated and text-based dialogue system. Our chatbot Sonoa tries (similar to a real coach) to respond to your needs and habits in the dialogue, which can give the impression that it is a real human conversation partner; however, this is never the case.
Over several weeks, you will learn all about sleep and sleep problems in a fun way with quizzes in knowledge lessons. You will also analyse your sleep patterns and optimise your sleeping times. Relaxation exercises, goals to increase your physical activity and a Mediterranean diet will also improve the quality of your sleep.
You can easily export your sleep diary as a PDF file and show it to your doctor or therapist at your next appointment. Of course, you can also simply show your sleep diary on your smartphone.
Sonoa has been developed for people with insomnia. If you have a physical sleep disorder such as sleep apnoea, you should consult your doctor.
Sonoa is currently only available to people insured with CSS. If you are a client of CSS and have supplementary insurance, you will receive 6 months' free access to the Sonoa app.And this is how it works:
We collect your data so that the app can provide you with personalised feedback and to improve your user experience. For this purpose, we also create usage analyses to determine which functions are particularly useful. However, we do not look at individual users, but only at aggregated and anonymised data. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties. You can find all the relevant information in our app privacy policy.
Quality and safety are very important to us. As a Pathmate Coach, Sonoa is a registered Class I medical device and therefore fulfils the quality and safety requirements of Directive 93/42/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council. All the data you record is stored on your smartphone in encrypted form. The transfer of data between the app and our server system is of course also encrypted. Our server systems are secured in accordance with the latest security standards and are only operated by certified Pathmate partners. More detailed information on this can be found in our privacy policy.
To use the app, you need a mobile internet connection (3G or better) or a stable WLAN.
The app is being developed by Pathmate, a team of behavioural psychologists, data analysts and computer scientists. Pathmate is also working with medical experts from the University Hospital Zurich to develop the app. The app is being scientifically monitored and evaluated by the university hospital. You can find more information about Pathmate here.
If you have any technical problems or feedback, please contact our friendly customer support team at sonoa@pathmate.app.
Very high satisfaction
Over 2000 users rate the sleep training with 4.8 out of 5 points
We are Pathmate Technologies, the manufacturer of Sonoa. We develop digital health solutions that help people take control of their own health. Our vision is a healthcare system in which users become active and self-determined participants. Pathmate was founded in 2017 based on research conducted at two Swiss universities. The technology and approach behind Sonoa are based on many years of research. The content is developed and improved in close collaboration with medical experts in the respective field. The success of the approach has been proven in numerous scientific studies.
Do you have a question, suggestion or feedback about Sonoa? Then get in touch with us. We look forward to hearing from you!