Oniri: The best dream app on iOS

Looking for a fun way to keep a dream journal? Want to use Reality checks, Wake back to bed, and other techniques to have lucid dreams? Oniri is the most complete app for lucid dreams, dream journaling, and dream interpretation.

 

The following review of Oniri is written by the developer, Jean-Baptiste Beau.

Downloads: 200,000

Average rating: 4.6 stars (5k ratings)

Price: Free + Premium Version

Platform: iOS (Edit April 2023: Android coming soon!)

There are very few apps that target dreams as a whole, offering features for lucid dreaming but also for dream analysis and interpretation. Oniri is one of them. Though it recently changed its name, Oniri is one of the oldest dream apps on iOS. It was previously called “Capture” and was released in 2015.

Dream Journal: The most complete one out there

The greatest strength of Oniri lies in its dream journal. Between all the dream apps, it has the most complete interface for writing your dreams. Here’s a small list of things you can write down about your dream:

• Story: A story and a title + voice recording (!)
• Content: Emotions, Characters, Places, Themes, Actions, etc…
• Illustration: Images (!)
• Variables: Type, Rating, Dream length, Sleep quality, Lucid or not, Vividness, etc…
• Context: Real-life context, Recurrent dream

The variety of information you can record and the options to add images and record vocal notes are really what makes this dream journaling app different from the rest. Try it out and see for yourself!

Reality Checks

How could a dream app not include Reality Checks, the most popular lucid dreaming technique! Oniri lets you set reminders throughout the day to help you build the practice of performing reality checks. You can choose an interval between reminders, or choose “random frequency” to make reminders pop up randomly. You can also choose a time window for the reminders, and set a custom message for the notification.

Audio Cues

Oniri lets you set audio cues to ring during the night. They are setup to ring while you are in REM sleep, where you have most chances to be dreaming. The goal of those cues is to be incorporated in your dream to make you realize you are dreaming and thus trigger lucidity!

While you can select sounds and musics, this technique works great when you record your own voice to play as a cue. Many lucid dreamers reported that hearing themselves in their dreams helped them to become lucid. Oniri is one of the only app to let you record your voice to play it as a cue, which makes it the best tool for this technique.