We built Tonight because
we couldn’t sleep.
The failure of trying harder.
If you have ever suffered from a racing mind in the middle of the night, you know the exact cycle. You wake up. The house is entirely silent, but your thoughts are deafening. You realize you are awake, and immediately, the math begins: “If I fall asleep right now, I can still get four hours.”
So, you turn to your phone. You open a sleep tracker that tells you how badly you’re failing. You open a meditation app that asks you to visualize a glowing orb or focus intently on your breath. But when your nervous system is spiked and your mind is obsessing over a deadline, “focusing hard on breathing” feels like an impossible task.
We realized the wellness industry had it backward. They were giving us complex exercises to perform when we were at our most depleted. We didn’t need another task. We didn’t need a lecture. We simply needed a place to put the noise.
We built Tonight to be that place. A structured, non-judgmental container designed specifically for the quietest, heaviest hours of the night. A tool that asks nothing of you, other than to leave your thoughts at the door.
Beliefs held in the dark.
Science over spirituality.
We are not a new-age wellness brand. Our rituals are grounded in clinical psychology—specifically the Zeigarnik Effect. We believe in the physiological reality that your brain will not power down until it feels your worries are safely off-loaded.
A bridge, not a doctor.
Therapy is where the deep work happens. Tonight is the supportive infrastructure that exists between those sessions. We do not diagnose or treat; we provide the environment for you to practice the grounding techniques you learn in professional care.
Less friction, more rest.
When you are exhausted, every tap on a screen is a burden. Tonight is designed to be frictionless. No complex menus, no gamification, no streaks to maintain. Three taps, a single sentence, and the screen goes dark.
Radical privacy.
The things you write at 3 a.m. are the most vulnerable parts of you. They are not data points to be sold, and they are not content to be trained on. What happens in the 3 a.m. room stays there. We hold it for the night, and let it slip away.
Built by people who understand the night.
We are a small, independent team. We aren’t backed by massive venture capital firms demanding we keep your eyes glued to the screen. In fact, our core metric for success is how quickly you close our app and go back to sleep.
Tonight was born out of grief. The worst hour of the day became the one between brushing your teeth and falling asleep—when the day’s noise had gone quiet and what was left was too heavy to take into bed. We started building because that thing didn’t exist: a voice that would meet what you brought home, a ritual that would end with the day actually ending. Tonight is the version we wish we’d had.
Tim KahrmannFounder, Tonight · Bochum, 2026Available on iOS and Android.