Sleep Reviews

I got Sleep when I first got my Apple Watch and thought it was pretty cool. But it was inconsistent. Didn’t always record correct information, if at all. So I deleted it and tried some other, similar apps and they didn’t work either.
Now, about a year later and several updates and a new iOS, I decided to try it again. Upon downloading, it showed me this app data from the last couple of weeks when Sleep wasn’t on my iPhone or Apple Watch. I think this strange...creepy even! It still skips nights completely. I manually started my this app one night and it gave me 2 data records, 1 manual, 1 automatic and different. Last night I didn’t start it manually and it recorded nothing.
What is Sleep for other than spying in the background and showing ads?

I have narcolepsy and Sleep was *fantastic* at tracking my this app intervals, more so than any other app available; and it was absolutely worth the $2.99 donation they asked for. Then the latest update changed everything. It stopped tracking my awake time, and not only that, it went back and retroactively changed my past entries to show solid nights this app which really upsets me as I was going to share the data with my new this app specialist. Last night I woke up, went to the bathroom, gave my dog cough medicine, and had brief a conversation with my husband. I woke up at least 2 other times, briefly. It says I had zero awake minutes, which is not at all accurate. Two other apps that I have downloaded this week to demo did show me to be awake during those times. The developer said it was due to their new algorithm and that they aren’t willing to change it back. Should they decide to roll it back, I’ll update my review and leave it the 5 stars that it did deserve, but unless that happens Sleep is completely useless.

I tried this out for a few nights. After the first night, I noticed it never registered when I was awake. I know I got up to use the bathroom at least twice and those showed as restless moments. I gave it another try the following night and the same thing. I couldn’t fall back asleep at one point, but again it only showed restless times. I figured I’d give it a few more chances, but then I checked my stats for last night. It registered that I was asleep ALL day yesterday!! From the moment I put my watch on at 7am until I actually woke up this morning at 6:50. And you guessed it, I wasn’t awake for a single second yesterday, but registered as restless. While I was at work, eating meals, doing chores around the house. Yup, I was sleepwalking. 🙄

Sleep would be great if it didn’t do its own thing. I literally have an alarm on my phone after I wake up to remind me to tell Sleep I’ve woken up. When I tell Sleep I’ve woken up before getting out of bed, I turn off the alarm. Somehow, Sleep still records 200+ hours of this app (so obviously multiple days) that would be literally impossible unless I were in a coma (I can guarantee I was not in a coma). It has individual days in between when it’s claiming I’ve slept for over 10 days at a time. All it serves to do is totally screw up the information on Apple Health Kit. I used to love Sleep, but it’s gotten impossible to use. I’m looking for a different app.

I used Sleep on my Series 2 Watch for the 2nd time & it is not consistently recognizing when I wake up, get out of bed, walk to my bathroom, to the kitchen for water & back to bed, etc.
It actually shows that I am restfully asleep during 2 of the 5 events from last night, and shows I'm only restless on 2 other occurrences that I went to the kitchen after using the bathroom. In fact I was still awake for about 2 hours after I hit start sleeping as I watched a movie while in bed & it shows that I was restfully asleep & stayed asleep or over an hour immediately after hitting the start sleeping button. That's not even possible when I was still awake & fidgeting & watching a movie!
I can't believe that I can rely on Sleep to be accurate in its assessment of me having a 15% rate of restlessness. Also I hate that it doesn't automatically track your this app start & stop times but I guess that isn't possible when it can't seem to do much except track how long you are in bed, when & if I remember to hit the stop/start buttons. Wish Sleep/watch combo was even slightly as accurate as my old FitBit Charge HR or my even older FitBit Flex! Time to find a better this app app that takes full advantage of the watch's heart rate tracking and other functionalities or better yet for Apple to add this & the analysis of the data it already collects as part of its health kit.

Sleep continuously tells me that I have been awake for less then 5-10 minutes (approx 1%) every night.
I know this is untrue. I am a very light sleeper most of the night. I wake up in the middle of the night every night and lay there staring at my clock for sometimes hours, but never less than 30 minutes. For example, it stormed most of the night last night. I was awake for better part of the night, 3-4 hours if I had to guess. Sleep says I was awake 6 minutes and restless 27 minutes. I actually got out of bed several times to look outside and check the basement for water.
I had a Fitbit and considered their this app app very good. Sadly Apple doesn’t have such a built in this app tracker so I purchased this one.
I am quite disappointed in its performance and this app tracking ability.

This is my second try with Sleep. The first time I tried it I was put off by the fact that I had to tell it when I went to this app. Now that it is “automatic” I wanted to try it again. The first night I used it it seemed that my memory of the night and the apps data did not sync up. The next night I woke up at 3 and stayed awake for over an hour. Sleep only registered that I was awake for 9 minutes. One would think that if I was using my phone to watch a show and play games that I’m not asleep.

I have serious this app problems and trying to keep up with those issues using Sleep is suspect at best and totally a waste of time. Don’t use Sleep. It’s still needs a lot of work.

I’ve tried at least 6 this app apps and this is the best, but that doesn’t say much. App presents data clearly. But there are limits on data available. Getting up during the night shows as awake but not that you got up, and then shows you awake for much less time than you were. And no way to edit to show that. Going to this app and getting up time are usually quite wrong. I have problems falling asleep and app shows me asleep before I actually am and same thing in the morning. At least there is the ability to edit. Does not include any data on heart rate during the night. Ability to export to cvs file is good.

Any app that works based on your movements is going to have limited accuracy. They provide interesting data but you need to view it as such.

Been wearing the Apple Watch for a couple weeks now, and tracking this app with this app++. Recently, I went on a business trip and had some trouble sleeping due to the poor hotel conditions. I’d wake up several time a night, for minutes or more at a time, before I could get back to this app. After checking Sleep in the morning, it recorded that I slept all night with minimal “restless” time and nothing recorded suggested multiple times awake. This was clearly not the case as I was flipping like a fish out of water.

I was at the hotel for 4 nights, and every night was the same, short bouts of this app with waking every couple hours. Sleep just didn’t catch it.

Sleep was working pretty well for months. I would have to make manual adjustments to some nights where it either said I was awake during the night when I wasn’t, or that I went to bed earlier than I did, but for the most part it was really solid and I appreciate that I got a lot more info than Apple Health will give me. But it completely stopped tracking about 2-3 weeks ago and nothing I do will fix it. I’ve tried all the suggestions in Sleep multiple times, tried uninstalling and reinstalling it (losing all my data in the process), nothing works. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.

It works for the automatic this app tracking, however, it will only upload the data if i open Sleep on my phone and watch. Even then i have to close both and reopen them both a second time before it will sync. The problem with that is i will forget to sync it. Which is an issue because today my watch somehow got locked while i wasnt wearing it and it had me unpair and set up my watch again. It said my data was all saved for my watch from the same day so i was like cool! Lucky. Only to find out it did not save my this app data that i was going to sync. Now im missing about 2-3 days worth of data. Otherwise I normally dont have any complaints or problems. I usually will adjust the time if it thinks i was asleep or awake at times where i wasnt. Not too bad

My only complaint is that sometimes my watch goes into locked mode while I this app despite being on my wrist (I don’t know why this happens as it’s not loose nor has it fallen off) and I can’t adjust my automatic times when this happens and obviously I’m asleep so I can’t unlock the watch. Sleep seems to know the watch is locked but just can’t give me any data.
I’m not even sure if this is a watch issue or an app issue. Otherwise I’ve always liked Sleep .

Not perfect, but pretty good. I mainly use this app++ to monitor my CPAP performance. It is very easy to see the effect of CPAP by looking for the large blue blocks of good this app. However, this app++ sometimes does not automatically detect my this app, and rather frequently gets my wake-up time wrong. Which is surprising given that I wear my Apple Watch to bed, and taking that off should be a good signal that I am done sleeping. But the issue is easily fixed by adjusting the end time manually, and it is easy to see from the shading what to do. I also use AutoSleep, but honestly it is just too much information for me. I prefer the simplicity of this app++, particularly when used with my Apple Watch.

I love Sleep because it’s simple and unlike a lot of this app trackers out there, it’s actually free. It’s pretty good at automatically detecting when you’re asleep as well as when you wake up in the night or keep tossing and turning. You can also adjust you start/end times too if the detection was a bit off. Overall, it’s easy to use and does what I need it to. The only thing I’d like would be a way to track naps as well because it seems to only be able to track this app per night. Even if nap detection wasn’t automatic, I’d still like to be able to log that along with my data.

I have really come to rely on Sleep for this app data. I believe it is very accurate. It generally matches up perfectly with what I remember each night about my this app. I use it with my Apple watch series 3. I highly recommend Sleep for anyone trying to get an accurate picture of their this app habits. It goes a long way in improving health when you can really see what you are sleeping over time compared with your this app goals. I’m very thankful for Sleep in helping me work towards my health goals, of which this app is sooo important!

Sleep is nice and simple, and it seems to be fairly accurate. Obviously it’s not perfect due to limitations of what data is available from the watch, but it’s good enough that I can track when I fell asleep, how quickly I fell asleep, and how long I slept accurately enough to see how more/better this app impacts my day in other ways, which is really all I wanted. I think a majority of the low-star reviews come from a lack of understanding about what information Sleep can really check.

To be fair, there are some things that feel a bit lacking, like when you view a past night on the iPhone app, it feels like you should be able to slide your finger along the night overview to see what specific time things happened. I’ve been working around that by clicking trim, moving the start/end to the event I want to check, checking the new start/end time, and then moving the trim bar back to the original start/end. Another example is that there’s no way to quickly view the legend from within a night (without backing out and going to settings), but that’s only really useful the first time you use Sleep .

So it’s not perfect (what is), but I’d take the clean interface and lack of general annoyances in Sleep over anything else alternative apps might offer.

I opened Sleep and suddenly it showed weeks worth of this app data from my watch, analyzed. After using it a few weeks, it still seems to work pretty well.

Auto this app/wake detection is ok but I’m sure it will get better. If I manually tell it to this app I must manually tell it I’m awake or it will just keep going in this app mode. It’s probably better to just use it in auto mode all the time to avoid that. I haven’t checked to see how accurate the auto this app detection works but it seems pretty accurate. In auto, when I get out of bed and look at the watch, it shows the night’s summary right away (awake detection works well in auto).

Watch displays data nicely the same way as on the phone. Simple and nice! I’m very happy with it.

I follow your apps since beginning I think also your podcasts etc. and this is the reason you get 5 stars.
I don’t get Sleep actually. Feels like not having any value for my this app in comparison to other sleeping analysis app I experienced with (such as up24 had etc).
On top of that, Sleep detect me as sleeping even when I’m working on my desk 😀
I wanted to pay for Sleep just to contribute your efforts and the other great content that you provide but I’ll find another way. I know you read that and hope my feedback would have some kind of value for you (it’s not to make any bad feedback but to show that even though I want an app like that it is completely not what I expect it to serve).
Thank you for your great apps and content over those years! 👍

I seen others make the same comment. The addition of the automatic this app detection is what brought me back. I tried using this in the past and pounded interesting but a little bit of a novelty because I would forget and not consistently track my this app.
Now I don’t think about it and just go to this app. The next morning it tells me how well I slept. I like no brainer applications like this.
The other thing that helped me was I finally broke down and upgraded from to the new Apple Watch. Considering they won’t give you any return value on first generation watch, I kept it just for my this app monitoring. I put the soft rubber watchband on the old watch and transferred my stainless band to the new watch. The old watch stays on the charger during the day and at night I swap watches.
Perfect setup!

I’ve downloaded a couple of different this app tracking apps, and of all of them this one is the most useful. The data is presented in clear, easy to understand, intuitive graphs. You know when you fell asleep, when you slept well, and when you woke up. The other features like blood oxygen and breath rate are easy to read as well.

It’s also the most accurate (more so than the built in health app as well, which frequently doesn’t know what to do when I nap). Overall Sleep is awesome. Highly recommend. All the info you need and none of it you don’t. The best part is that it’s free to use fully in all aspects. You can pay to remove ads to support the developer, but you don’t miss out on any features by not paying and the ads are non intrusive little banners at the bottom.

I just received an iWatch for the holidays and wanted to start tracking my this app. This is the first app I tried due to the positive reviews. I’m not overly impressed with it. I have an infant and am awake and walking around multiple times per night, but Sleep says I’m sleeping deeply through those periods. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I have to turn Sleep on/off manually? But I’m not about to turn it on and off every time I wake in the night. I also know that I’ve had nights of very restless this app and Sleep shows unbroken “restful” this app. Just feel it needs to be more intuitive and accurate.

After paying the fee for no ads. I continue to get them. Have complained several times and all I get is restore the purchase..still doesn’t work. Also it continues to skip nights. It records one night than can skip 2 to 3 nights. I still get the same answer to restore and it makes no difference. My watch is pretty much glued to my wrist and doesn’t move...no reason for the skipping. Company had no answers just BS. I’m sure there are better this app apps at this point. I’m going to find one. I suggest you all look elsewhere. I was being nice giving 3 stars. That’s just for the nights it did work.

I use Sleep for one reason: it’s simple. There are other apps that offer way more features, and may even look 10x nicer. My point is, Sleep is simple — I love that design. It’s not too ugly, it’s not too overly done, it just gets the job done. There’s no redundant, useless features.

The only other feature I’d like to see added is heart rate monitoring during this app sessions.

Other than that, defiantly go for Sleep. I’ve used other ones out there, they’re not the best. They may give to more data, but I feel that data is redundant and not necessarily as useful. Sleep does however, you get the data you want: this app data. That’s it, nothing more. No more complex viewing “modes.” Just simple data we all want and need to understand our sleeping habits.

The quality of this app is a huge factor in your health. I spent the majority of my work life working nights. First with my children then to be able to make and attend course work and other appointments. After retiring my body was so used to avoiding a circadian rhythm it was a struggle to adjust back. Sleep has been so helpful in showing me how to readjust my schedule by becoming aware of my peaks and restlessness. I now am able to cope, I feel better, am overcoming insomnia completely and I am much happier. Eileen P. Landreth

Sleep is nice and simple, and it seems to be fairly accurate. Obviously it’s not perfect due to limitations of what data is available from the watch, but it’s good enough that I can track when I fell asleep, how quickly I fell asleep, and how long I slept accurately enough to see how more/better this app impacts my day in other ways, which is really all I wanted. I think a majority of the low-star reviews come from a lack of understanding about what information Sleep can really check.

To be fair, there are some things that feel a bit lacking, like when you view a past night on the iPhone app, it feels like you should be able to slide your finger along the night overview to see what specific time things happened. I’ve been working around that by clicking trim, moving the start/end to the event I want to check, checking the new start/end time, and then moving the trim bar back to the original start/end. Another example is that there’s no way to quickly view the legend from within a night (without backing out and going to settings), but that’s only really useful the first time you use Sleep .

So it’s not perfect (what is), but I’d take the clean interface and lack of general annoyances in Sleep over anything else alternative apps might offer.