AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch Reviews

by Cconsta

I have used AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch for a couple of weeks in parallel to other sleep apps. I was excited about it! However, it showed significant inconsistencies recording deep sleep and HRV (heart rate variability) which count towards the readiness index. This index was almost always opposite to what the other submetrics were showing (almost every time I was on red with sleep quality, deep sleep, heart dips etc., the readiness index was on green or close to rather than the other way around). After going through their FAQs which seemed to support the fact that errors have been reported about these issues, I made sure to reach out to their customer service as a sign of respect for their product. I followed their guidance to lower my deep sleep setting (even though it contradicted their HRV indicator of the past few nights - I use Breathe in the morning to accurately report that metric) and it still didn’t read it. Meanwhile, the metrics on two other apps (SleepWatch and Sleep Cycle) yielded similar metrics compared to AutoSleep. When I emailed the AutoSleep customer service and requested a refund out of concern that AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch was not running well, their response was that AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch works and that it is designed for “tech savvy” customers. Not only was that condescending but highly inaccurate in my case. Maybe it works for others but, in my case, I’m choosing to go with other apps at this point.

by Eurika.baked29

Honestly, I’m kinda mad. I paid for an app to track my sleep, and it just simply doesn’t do it very well. This is the third night in a row I’ve done everything correct. I’ve told AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch “lights off” to start tracking my sleep. It hasn’t. It keeps saying there’s an error, which is annoying. I’m wearing my watch every night, I’m the correct position. I’m putting my phone on my bedside table and not moving it. I’m doing the lights off thing. It just doesn’t work. It’s also pretty annoying that every night I have to set the alarm to remind myself to charge my watch a bit before bed. It’s like that alarm just…disappears every day. I paid $4 for AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch, and I want my money back. The Health app tracks my sleep better than AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch tbh. Not to mention AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is very confusing to use, I had to watch the tips and into like 3 times to figure it out when I first downloaded AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch . The only good thing about AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is the wake up alarm (which I can’t set on an automatic schedule either. I have to set it every night I want to wake up with it). It’s nice waking up to a soft nudge, but that’s about it.

Summary: AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is confusing, and doesn’t track sleep very accurately. The wake alarm is alright, and it’s nice not paying for a subscription. If you want to waste $4, get AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch . If you want to save your hard earned money, find a different app :)

by Seven_Of_Nine_2350

It’s a good app, but it drains my battery. I go to bed with 90 or 100% battery and wake up with 40%. They do have a supposed fix in the faq, but it’s not complete and only seemed to work for a short time. They tell you to delete the watch app, restart the watch and phone, and reinstall. But first of all, you can’t actually delete AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch without unpairing the watch first. I made this mistake and clicked where it said “remove from phone screen” or something like that, only to discover that AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch had disappeared but not actually deleted. It was a bit of a challenge at that point to find out how to actually delete it, and after a significant amount of searching I found how to get to it and that you can’t delete AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch without unpairing the watch.
So after going through all that, unpairing the watch, deleting and restarting everything, it seemed like the problem temporarily got better for a week or two, but has now resorted to draining the battery again. I have another sleep app that doesn’t do this, so I don’t understand what the problem with this one is. I only wanted this one as a comparison with the other one, and it does have some additional features, but this battery draining is just not worth it. Also unpairing, deleting, reinstalling and restarting every two weeks is also not worth it.

by Teddiegator

I’ve been using AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch for about six months. It’s informative in the sense that you can see from the data, particularly the graph, how your sleeping changes during the night. Before I got AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch , I was trying to sleep eight hours a night and I was happy, because that was how long I was supposed to sleep. The graph showed that I went in and out of light sleep and deep sleep sometimes four to six times a night. I started to try to set aside eight and one-half hours a night. I am not sleeping much better but there’s been some modest improvement if I go to bed earlier. Otherwise the next day am reproved by messages from AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and encouraged to go to bed at an unrealistic time. There are a few odd problems. AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch sometimes decides that I have woken a half-hour or more before I think I’ve woken up. Occasionally AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch will decide that I’m sleeping when I’m actually playing a game on my phone or browsing social media. Nevertheless, AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch errs on the side of finding that I’m awake. There is also a psychosomatic effect from looking at AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch . When I look at the graph I find myself disappointed with my sleep and the lack of rest that I’ve gotten. Overall I am glad that I got AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch but it’s a mixed blessing.

by Fruge1927

No app should be this difficult to use. It would either not record my sleep at all or record some of it and then disappear. I contacted customer service. Customer service is good. Spent 4-5 days trying to get this to work. I still have an iPhone 6s so there was a know glitch with it and AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch . Because of what I assume is a time difference they only answered me emails at around 10pm each night. Finally we were able to get it to track and save my sleep. I used it for another week or so however what it records is inaccurate even with adjusting it. AutoSleep routinely tells me I am only sleeping 1-6 hours with 0-23 minutes deep sleep even when I know I have had deep sleep and have had dreams. AutoSleep also shows me awake when I know I was sleeping.

I wear both my Apple Watch and my Withings. My Withings is more accurate consistently shows when in deep sleep, when I have awaken during the night. I bought the AutoSleep app because I thought tracking my heart rate and quality sleep would be beneficial. Just wearing my Apple Watch to bed does that for me. I really wanted to like AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and thought it would be the only app I would need to use. Unfortunately that has proven not to be the case.

by Undrinkable

I recently switched to an Apple Watch after my Fitbit finally died, and because Apple doesn’t have a native smart alarm feature (or they do, it just doesn’t work the way I need it to), I picked AutoSleep to fill that role. I’ve been using smart alarms for years and it’s improved my sleep and wake up, so this is definitely a necessity.

AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is A LOT. There are a lot of steps to set up everything, which is great when you need to tweak every aspect of something, but not so great when all I wanted to do was set up an alarm for a timeframe during the week. READ THE MANUAL before you purchase so you know what you’re getting into—Google AutoSleep, find their website, and read at least the parts of the manual for the features you want (the guide is huge) to figure out if this is the right app for you. I didn’t find the guide to be super clear and had to read it a couple of times, but that could be a me thing.

Don’t miss the part where you have to set up parts in AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch if you don’t want to have to turn on your alarm every single day, and make sure to turn off your watch sounds for haptics only. There’s also no pop up on the watch face to turn off the alarm, you have to go into AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and turn it off, which I really hate. Overall, none of this is a dealbreaker, but I would definitely recommend knowing what you’re getting in to first.

by Pixurman

The day after I received my Apple Watch I had tachycardia right in the doctors office. It was actually the heart app that helped immediately understand what was happening because it registered my heart rate at 177 and the nurse went right through the roof. Next thing I knew I was on a gurney being wheeled into an emergency room for cardioversion. Where the sleep app comes in as being able to track not only my sleeping patterns but how my heart is doing while I’m sleeping. While the two apps work together to help me monitor my sleep and my heart health and I am doing so much better. 18 months after that tachycardia event I had ablation surgery to fix the AFIB, and I use the sleep app to make sure that everything stays on track and that I’m getting the rest that I need. My only reason for giving this a four-star instead of five is because of the difficulty in transferring this material to printable graphs that I can actually hand the doctor. I realize that sending info can be done but the process should be so much easier than what it is. Otherwise this is a fantastic app that everyone over the age of 50 must on and use.

by Chappy024

So I really like AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and have been using it for a few years now, but one thing that really bothers me is that you are limited on when the day turns over and your sleep will start counting towards the next day. When changing that setting you can only choose from 5 pm to midnight. As someone who does shift work, I would love to set my day to change over at noon, as I usually sleep in the afternoon. So if my “new day” starts at 5 and I go to sleep at 3, then I end up with my sleep split between yesterday and today, which makes it difficult to track properly. And I could set the day to start at midnight, but on my days off when I “sleep in” I usually wake up after midnight and then I encounter the same problem.

Also AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch seems to have difficulty figuring out what to do with your rings if you wake up for a couple hours and then take a nap. Which I understand is less than ideal sleep and isn’t a problem that most people have but it happens to me often enough to warrant mentioning.

At the very least if they could change it so I can choose any time during the day to start tracking my sleep (like how it was years ago) I would gladly change the rating to 5 stars. Aside from that one real gripe, AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is awesome

by Evilkow

I have tried them all, and AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is the best *by far*. The best part about it is you only need to remember to wear your Apple Watch. A quick 15-20 minute recharge once or twice a day keeps me going all night. AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch does the rest. No more hiding my phone under a pillow or forgetting to turn on the sleep tracking app (only for them to crash). AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch doesn't run all night long. Instead it uses the brilliant approach of analyzing the data already collected on the iPhone and Apple Watch. It takes that data and draws logical conclusions about when you were asleep. I don't write reviews very often, and I don't write them unless I've been using AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch for a while. I have been suing this one for about 10 months now, and it does a great job at determining my sleep time. To make matters even better, the deveeloper is constantly updating AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch to make it better. I think there were two full version updates in 2016, and now there is another full version update with a cleaner interface. Super nice. If you want to track your sleep, this is AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch for the job.

by RLNfirst

I would like to take the time to sit down and talk about this unique app. I feel sometimes putting into words how nice something is, or should I say unique is not always easy. This is for myself one of those times. I truly thank the Developer or Developers for putting out such a great unique outstanding design app that gives great sleep tracking Data. I feel really the Developers have work really hard and put a great deal of time and yes love into AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch. How do you know look at the updates that are being made! The Technology for apps is changing every second every minute and yes every day. I believe the Developer is on Top of the Technology with the Software that He is coding every second and minutes of the day. I hope really after you perhaps read this you will download this and give it a try! For myself the Technology Data I get from AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is correct! But in saying that do I feel it is always right? Sometimes I think know it’s wrong, but when I really start checking I find AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and the Developers were really right after all! Well time for me to move on and face the rest of the day. So please download AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch try it you will not be disappointed or sorry! ( Really ) Thanks again to the Developer really a 5 star rating unique app.

by Atavachron

Great app! I’ve been using this ever since I heard Federico Viticci talking about this on the Connected podcast. I’m using this along with a Bluetooth blood pressure cuff (Omron 10 series) and a Bluetooth scale to get a detailed baseline of basic health indicators, and track it to see if there are any subtle changes I should take action on. (I also track everything I eat and drink using LoseIt!).

AutoSleep, along with the Apple bedtime reminder is doing a lot to keep me on track to getting more regular sleep. (I also try to manually correlate the foods I eat and my overall hydration with better sleep. I tend to get heartburn that bothers me when I lie down. Watching what, when and how much I eat helps with this. ). The Workout app on my Apple Watch also motivates me to get more exercise which also helps me sleep better.

I heard that people who regularly get less than 6 hours of sleep are at significantly greater risk of heart attacks. So I eat better and exercise more to sleep better and hopefully it will all synergistically help me enjoy watching my daughter grow up at least through middle age.

by Phuqit

“Auto Sleep” is one of the most utilitarian and informational apps that I have ever used. I rely upon it every day to assess my overall health in conjunction with my heart rate variability and the amount of time spent in deep sleep.

I survived a “Widow-maker” (100% blocked L.A.D.) heart attack 11 years ago, and I am diabetic— both conditions well under control. Thanks to “Auto Sleep” I’m able to determine how well my blood sugar management and cardiac health program are working to keep me healthy. Being able to see how much of my sleep is spent in deep sleep shows me how well my body is healing up at night. In conjunction with AM blood glucose levels, knowing my heart rate variability, and blood pressure reading, I know that my health plan is effectively keeping me alive and well.

“Auto Sleep” is an indispensable part of my self-monitoring that gives me significant peace of mind and eliminates the anxiety of managing serious health conditions like mine. Wearing my Apple watch to bed was something alien to me before I began using AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch. Now, it’s not only second nature, but a welcome tool in my health arsenal—I wouldn’t want to be without it.

by DMFMDJD

Autosleep and Healthwatch are simply incredible apps and a must for anyone interested in their health. I am a physician and a bit obsessed with data. I’ve tried a dozen health tracking devices and even more apps and these two, by far, are the most insightful and well designed apps for the iPhone and Apple Watch. I’ve spent hours over the last couple months reviewing the various trends and graphical analytics these apps offer for immediate and long term feedback on my sleep hygiene and heart health. My only wish is that the developer make more apps to track other aspects of health and wellness (SpO2, perfusion index, respiratory rate, and VO2 max as the Apple Watch 6 is rumored to have these features; caloric intake and nutrition; mental health and mindfulness; maybe even goal and habit tracking). These two apps pack so much analysis into a concise and easy to read manner, I wish the other wellness aspects that I track could offer as much insight. While those would require ground-up brand new apps, one thing which could possibly be incorporated into the HeartWatch app would be the ECG data. Even though it’s only one lead, tracking QTc and PR intervals should be doable. Just a thought for future iterations. Anyway, these apps are an incredible deal and offer way more for far less than anything else I’ve found on AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch Store. Keep up the good work.

by HenryGz

AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch changed my life and the way I think about sleep and how the decisions I made throughout my day affects the quality of my sleep. Everyone knows going to bed early and getting a good nights sleep is good for you, but how do you get there? AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and my Apple Watch helped me figure out the way. With AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch I discovered that my minimum amount of sleep needed is 6.5hr, target is 7hrs and anything above this is a bonus. With AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch I discovered that I really should not have any alcohol 3-4hrs before going to bed otherwise my body wastes more energy processing the alcohol through my system than helping my body recover while I sleep and I don’t wake up feeling rested. AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch helped me discover that I have food allergies I was not aware of, by monitoring my heart rate after a late night snack I could see via HR charts which snacks helped or impeded my sleep cycle. Every morning I wake up and look at the total amount of sleep and deep sleep I just completed and if it’s not at my minimum amount than I continue to sleep a bit more if possible so I have a productive day. To the developer thank you and continue all the great work and please continue improving AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch!

by Shicaca44811

I’ve used quite a few sleep apps over the last year or two and this is by far the best. You have two options - use it with an Apple Watch or without. If you don’t have a watch, AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch correlates the data from when you plug your phone in vs unplugging it, but it also takes into effect when your phones screen is on and subtracts it from your total sleep hours! This is the first app I’ve ever seen do this!

When you use it with your watch, if you turn it into “Theater Mode”, it gets really detailed information about your sleep and tells you when you were in different sleep levels, but with Theater mode all night it uses a whopping 2% battery. It still correlates phone screen time into sleep totals, and subtracts that from your sleep, so you get a much more accurate picture of how long and well you’ve slept. The only bad thing is you have to remember to charge the watch before you get to the point of being in bed.

Probably my only gripe is I think metrics for heart correlation could maybe be broken down a bit more (average HR in REM, average in Deep Sleep, etc), but it does give graphs of where your HR attended out over time so that’s nice.

by Can't Use My Nickname

I’ve had a fitbit for YEARS! And finally switched over to the Apple Watch. For the past few months I have been debating just switching back to my fitbit because I am so heavily reliant on my sleep data. I downloaded a few other Apple Watch sleep apps and tried them out. I was so disappointed in the amount of data, ease of tracking, validity of the sleep data, and so much more. I really thought it was just the watch’s incapability. I mentioned this to a friend who recommended AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch. It truly changed my mind completely about the Apple Watch. It seriously prevented me from giving up on the watch altogether. Auto sleep has the best, most detailed and accurate data (more and better than the fitbit). Well worth the extra 2 dollars out of my pocket. While I agree with another reviewer that this should already be on the watch itself to be a competitor with fitbit, for the extra $2 I don’t mind. The other Apple Watch sleep apps I tried were free with membership upgrades. I trialed the upgrades and was still so disappointed. Pay the few dollars to own this and you won’t be disappointed at all!!

by Scdepatr

There are few apps that I use every single day, but this is definitely one of them. Sleep is so important to the body and I really like seeing how I’m doing in that area. Checking my deep sleep, my total sleep, my heart rate and all of the other valuable information in AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch is some thing I do each morning after I get up. On a few occasions I have gone to bed without my watch I really miss getting that level of detail about my sleep session.

There is one thing I would love to see added to AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch and that is a cat nap or a power nap feature. Maybe that would be added to auto awake and not auto sleep ... I’m not sure. I used to use a Jawbone before I got my Apple Watch and I loved that I had a power nap feature where I could push a button saying that I was going to lay down and go to sleep and then it would know when I fell asleep and wake me up 20 minutes later or 30 minutes later or whatever was in my settings. I miss being able to have some thing to track how long I’ve been asleep and then wake me up in a certain amount of time.

If one of these two apps could do that ...it would be the perfect addition!

by What Happened To Music?

I’m one of those ‘go down the rabbit hole’ people who research everything. I spent a solid chunk of time researching sleep apps and settled on AutoSleep. BY FAR the best app right now! I’ve converted a number of people from Sleep Cycle and other various apps and they all love this one more. The ability to have it automatically determine when you’re sleeping is massive! It makes it VERY user friendly. The only thing I had to adjust to was charging my Apple Watch an hour before bed and then wearing it while I sleep, as I used to let it charge overnight. However, I’m super happy I made this small change because legitimately my sleep hygiene has improved along with my quality. The only hiccup I’ve ran into is to make sure my iPhone is NOT on the bed, as I have the setting turned on for it to think if I’m using the phone then I am awake. I thought this would mean actively using it (phone unlocked and screen on), but apparently it uses the sensors for movement as well. Not a big deal, though it’d be nice to have the option to turn that off (sometimes I fall asleep reading on my phone). 5/5 stars and highly recommend AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch ! This is coming from a random, unaffiliated user who never writes reviews!

by KingFlash

I’ve had several activity trackers over the decade. They have had their strengths and weaknesses. Up until now, the Jawbone UP3 was the best for sleep tracking. My Garmin Vivoactive HR was great for activity, but terrible for monitoring sleep. I finally gave in to the Apple Watch series 4, and love it, but am still surprised that they don’t outright offer sleep tracking. I have a varied schedule and work nights, so knowing how behind or on track with sleep is very difficult. I skeptically bought the AutoSleep triad of apps and have been amazed at their accuracy. The auto sleep detect has been right on. And I am impressed with the ability to distinguish deep sleep. I can tell when that is accurate as well... I’ve felt tired after 7 hours of sleep and AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch shows I got no deep sleep. Conversely, I’ll make up for it with 6 or 7 hours of sleep and have 3 hours of deep sleep and I feel great. So I know it’s accurate. The breakdown of my averages of sleep and heart rate are very useful as well. It’s not perfect. I’ve taken naps in the late afternoon that it has missed. But overall, the accuracy is stunning.

This is money extremely well-spent. It adds so much value to my Apple Watch for me. I can’t believe Apple has ignored this aspect of its health applications. But AutoSleep is about as good as it gets.

by Happy User#1

THIS SHOULD BE ON THE APPLE WATCH OUT OF THE BOX!!! Both apps are $5 bucks total. NOTHING when you consider the cheapest apple band is $50!! And this offers soooo much versatility for your watch. I literally would have sold this Apple Watch if it were not for these apps! They NEVER CRASH AND NEVER HAVE AN ISSUE!! also the heart watch can ALERT YOU WHEN YOUR HEART RATE IS TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE WATCH SHOULD DO!!!

THE AUTO SLEEP TRACKING IS AS GOOD AND AS DETAILED AS FITBIT! For 2 bucks?!!? Come on that's a crazy deal, and the watch still has a full day battery even if you wear it to bed. I use it for voice to text alerts and emails all day at work and tracking a workout in morning with continuous heart rate tracking and still from putting it on at 10pm to track sleep , exercise at 6am, to work till 5 pm the watch still has about 20% left at 7-8pm. And if I charge it after waking from tracking sleep, for just 5 - 10 mins while I get ready in morning, brush and make coffee, it is back to 100%!! Again, Apple should be sooooo grateful that this company made these apps. I love that cardiogram is doing heart health studies with their apps and it's free, so we should all do it for the study, but THESE APPS, heart watch and auto sleep are waayy better cleaner and absolutely worth every cent. They are ESSENTIAL if you have an Apple Watch!

by Eastxcoast

AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch could be great, but I just feel that it needs some work. I’m not sure why the UI is set up the way it is since it is not user-friendly at all. I would consider myself pretty “tech-savvy” and I have a hard time figuring out AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch. The main display is fine, but I still feel it could use an update too. Trying to figure out all of the tabs and what everything inside AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch does + how to use it is frustrating when it should be designed to be simple. For whatever reason my data keeps recording that I fall asleep right around 12am every night. This is not always the case, and I don’t touch my phone after I’m in bed, so the only reason why this could be happening could be from a noise app that has a timed shut off. I’m not sure why this would be triggering a phone movement but that’s the only thing that seems to make sense. This would all be fine if I could just edit the time I actually fell asleep, but again, the UI is so frustratingly bad on the edit tab that it seems impossible to do. You can only hit “less” or “more” sleep, but it doesn’t let you control where this is adding or taking away from. So if I add more then it starts counting the time I started working at my desk in the morning (when I was not moving).

I would love to see an updated UI including easier to use controls within AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch . I really really want to love AutoSleepTrackSleeponWatch but there are some things that need updating.

by Memphis Willie

This is my third try at sleep tracking apps. This one finally met my expectations. Love the way it uses heart rate declines, stillness, motion, and phone/watch activity to infer if sleeping and overall quality of sleep. Prior apps I tried were easily fooled as long as I was very still. One night I couldn’t sleep and I was sitting quietly reading on my phone and it assumed I had a great nights rest.
This apps “deep sleep” measurement is the key indicator for how I feel the next day.
And, based on other reading, I believe the heart rate dropping throughout the night is a good indication of cortisol levels decreasing. So I monitor my eating/drinking habits to correlate to when I see good drops overall on heart rate throughout the night.
By the way, I saw a comment by a reviewer complaining that you could not manually edit a night’s sleep. It is a little confusing to find the screen but once there you can edit start and stop times for the night’s sleep. They recommend you use tuning factors so it learns and does a better job which I have done. But out of a half year, I have found two or three nights where it mistook when I woke up and I manually adjusted.
Thanks for a great app.