Sleep Tracker - Sleep Pulse 3 Reviews

I’m going to give it 5 stars, although I’d like to select 4.5, because I can’t use the phone app to edit my start and stop times. There had been a LOT of time put in SleepTracker. I had used the previous versions on my old Gen1 Apple Watch, and they worked fairly well, but this version on Series 4 is *smooth*! I only wish there was a function to auto-STOP the tracking if it senses I’m up moving around for a length of time, or al me to edit my start and stop time via the phone app, or at least the stop time. There are many times that I’ve gotten up and been too tired or distracted to stop the tracker right as I wake, so I may get an extra 30-60 minutes that I can’t edit out.

I’ve run this in conjunction with Sleep ++ and Sleepmatic, and they are decent, but SleepTracker is the most accurate and allows for modifying the sensitivity (most nights I move a lot when I sleep, so I can change that after the fact and reanalyze the night’s data).

If it ever includes an auto-stop or an post-edit to select a wake time, this will get my full 5 star review.

It’s a great app and works amazing and it’s helping to get my sleep back on track. I do wish that SleepTracker would track my sleep without having to open SleepTracker on my watch. Sometimes I get tired and fall asleep and forget to turn on SleepTracker . Other than that it’s great!

To begin I’ve used the apps that automatically “track” your sleep. And I couldn’t agree more with this developers claim that those apps are essentially snake oil lies. I’ve actually done minor research with sleep and though there is no perfect wearable sleep tracker this one is most on par with like a Fitbit.

Yes you must start and stop your sleep with SleepTracker, though I believe the developers claims this is mandatory of watchOS and not SleepTracker missing out. Yes you must wait a few seconds for SleepTracker to process the data each morning. However you can rotate/lower your wrist while doing so and it’s over being you know it.

What the results provide are better than all other options and best part is THEY ARE CLEAR TO READ. The iOS app is phenomenal compared to all the other apps in the design department. Also looking at the real motion data is great too.

In conclusion I wrote a review as usually I don’t because PSA. Any app that doesn’t use motion to track your sleep is more of a lie from an app that does. The best sleep tracking uses brain waves. But motion and heart rate makes for a great combo too. Autosleep is just an autolie. Give this a try if you want detailed info on your sleep.

I think this tracks sleep pretty well and remembering to turn it on hasn’t been too difficult. However when I first wake up I’m less than alert and may forget for a while to turn it off. If that happens you can’t edit your wake up time so you’ll have way more restless time recorded than is accurate. (It doesn’t show time awake like my previous tracker). Also if you accidentally hit the sleep button again instead of holding down on the screen then tapping analyze in the morning it wipes your data because it will only record one sleep cycle per day. I’ll continue to use for now but may try something else at a later date.

Tried a bunch of sleep apps for Apple Watch. Ehhh they all so so. I like this one the most as it's the best looking / most simple and actually provides real quantitative results. Just make sure you don’t leave SleepTracker while it analyzes for a couple of seconds each morning.

One thing no other sleep tracker has is live use of the heart rate sensor. It actually takes your real live resting heart rate when you wake up. Which is great because I have been wanting to get a better heart rate and my doctor already said measuring it when I wake up was the best way.

Thanks!

Update 2: For the first 2 weeks SleepTracker was working fine. Now EVERY SINGLE DAY when I try to sync the watch with the phone it shows this “motion data not ready” message and asks me to try later. Today I spent the entire day with that message stuck there.
Had to cancel the sync and SleepTracker simply copied the sleep data from the night before as if it was the current night...

Update: Sometimes you sleep for a few hours at night. Wake up do something and sleep again in the afternoon. This can happen frequently depending on your job.

A BIG SUGGESTION here:
How about you add up the long afternoon “nap” to the night sleep we had? Adding up all the sleep we had during the 24h of the day. I’d love that. I’m a flight attendant so having single long sleep nights is almost impossible.

Original review: Been using SleepTracker for 4 days and I’m liking it a lot. I’m still fighting with the sensitivity tho, not so sure which one is best for me.

I’d LOVE if SleepTracker had an alarm setting to wake us up during a light sleep window like some apps do.

The apple watch 4 update to SleepTracker has changed the graphics. Now all I see are bars for my sleep graph, all of which are the exact same size.

Previously you’d be shown thinner bars for small amounts of time and fatter bars for large amounts of time... now the graph shows one minute and one hour with the exact same sized bars. I’m not a fan of this graphic update, because now I can’t just glance at the graph and estimate in my head how long I spent in what phases and when. Now I have to run my finger over each and every bar just to see the differences I mentioned above.

Overall, I love SleepTracker , and it’s worked perfectly for me other than one or two hiccups where it didn’t save my sleep data for one day or another.

My only complaint is the loss of the varying-in-sizes bar graph. It’d be great to get that back again.

Tracking heart rate while I sleep is why I had SleepTracker . IT has pulse in the name. In this version of SleepTracker heart rate is taken at the beginning and end of the night to save battery... I wish I was given the choice.

Also - if you had sleep pulse 2 and sleep pulse 3 isn’t showing up on your watch after a long period of not using it - update and restart everything. I made the mistake of rebuying it before finding out it no longer had the feature I was trying to pay for.

All that said - if you don’t care about heart rate SleepTracker provides nice features.

Best sleep tracker, have tried all of them for Apple Watch. The auto track ones are a fail and only use your heart rate. I have different sleep times too and auto sleep kept failing and I'd have to adjust the times anyways, nothing was automatic about them. I'd rather just have a better app track with motion. Then lame thing track with estimates of when I sleep or wake.

I assumed that SleepTracker automatically tracked my sleep. Nope. You have to push a button every time before you fall asleep and it calculates it in the morning. Usually when you’re in bed, you’re... well... sleepy. I always forget to “Start” a session, which makes SleepTracker completely useless to me. Yeah the UI is pretty, but if it doesn’t do what I expect then it is a waste. Emailed the developers weeks ago to ask if this was the only way tracking could be done, and/or if they would be adding the feature in the future.
No response.
Deleted. Waste of my money.

When first began using was fairly buggy. But now especially with latest version 3.0. It's working stellar. I'll update review if anything changes. Seems to be flawless working each morning and provides good data comparable to my old Fitbit and better than the auto sleep apps that just say when I sleep and finish sleeping.

No problems spending $4 on an app that works this well; however SleepTracker has a mind of its own and IT decides when it’s willing to upload and sync with your motion data. Re analysing my motion data periodically throughout the day to consistently be denied by something as trivial as an app gets under your skin to say the least. I do hope for better updates in the near future and WILL keep SleepTracker , it is well made and when it does function it is flawless.

I really like how I can see graphs right from my watch. Provides good data on par with other sleep trackers I’ve used. Trends view is nice. Would be good addition if I could add my mood to the list of sleep data. So then I can track my sleep quality with how I feel maybe correlate something down the road..

Have tried to use it for over a year. Consistently drops ability to sync from the watch to SleepTracker in the phone. This new version is more of the same. About 25% of the time it works flawlessly. Half the time you can find some combination of re-syncing, rebooting or turning off and on Bluetooth to make it sync. The last quarter of the time it refuses to sync and you loose the data for that day.

SleepTracker is a great way to ruin a nights sleep!

What sets SleepTracker apart from other sleep trackers is I think the watch app app. It only shows your latest sleep however in doing that it shows it most similar to how the Activity app works but with even better graphics.

I like the sleep ring and the sleep type ratio ring. How you can tap them and see more.

Nonetheless great app. Yes you have start and stop but I think provides better results. Have no issues with syncing in the morning. If my Watch is not in range of iPhone it just lets me know
And when it comes in range it seems
To sync with the iPhone app in the background.

I like this program, but get frustrated when info doesn’t sync to phone. I’ve hit wake up & data appears to come on watch, but if wait a couple of minutes to look at phone, it may not transfer. The best part for me is showing heart rate through the night since it has shown an exact time afib might have come on and/or quit.

It’s not user friendly and I’m very disappointed about that. Why can’t it just sense when I sleep rather than me telling it I’m sleep and when I’m waking up. Won’t work on my iPhone watch like I expected. Doesn’t analyze. When I wake up it erases all of the data on the watch and doesn’t show anything on SleepTracker on my phone. I’ve ensured the motion and fitness is on but it’s not syncing with my iPhone or watch. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and the same thing. I’d like my money back.

I got SleepTracker two weeks ago and it was everything I was looking for in a sleep tracker. Then for the past three days, it refuses to sync up and record my sleep data. I’ve done everything support has said to do. It hasn’t worked and I am beyond frustrated that this is happening because I paid for SleepTracker. If I pay for something, I expect it to actually work. Disappointed.

Last week it wouldn’t track my sleep for 4 days in a row every morning when I hit analyze it crashed, when it works I love it, I only wish I didn’t have to tell it when I was going to bed and when I woke up. Sometimes I forget

Almost feels like a native app! All the Apple Watch sleep trackers looks uggggly. This one is ok but wayyy better than the other ones. I really like the white for the day and how it get dark at night too. 👍