Sleep Cycle App Reviews

Beautifully done

I’ve been using this app for years, and they keep making it better. My only complaint (as someone who works variable late shifts) is that sometimes when I adjust the wake-up time, I miss that the am/pm indicator does/doesn’t move and so I end up with, for example, an alarm set to wake me between 11:30pm and 12:00am instead of what I want, which is “before noon.” I know they removed the annoying “are you sure you mean 12:00pm?” warning (and thank you for that!), but I wish they’d replace it with one to make sure you intend to set an alarm more than 12 hours in the future. That should solve my problem without causing annoyance to anyone else. :-) It could even be an option that could be toggled on/off.

It’s not very loud but it interferes.

And they makes no it. $30 a month are you kidding - deleted

Very good app it’s easy to work easy to read its nice and simple I love it I use it every night!

You can no longer make sleep notes or rate how you woke up without paying an exorbitant annual fee. Ridiculous.

Only 3 days in, but I'm totally convinced its tracking accurately, and it cancels out my fan noise. Feels less jarring to wake up at the top of your sleep cycle. Great graphs and trends.

In a sneaky move, the latest update removes Snore no more. And it’s not easy to load an old version of an app if you are up to date on macos. Other than this move, the app works well. But I dislike sneaky corporate moves. I may cancel my premium subscription. Update: iWatch support is getting bad. I have to reboot watch at bed time once ever two weeks or so. Absurd.

It’s really good because it tracks how long you’ve been sleeping.And tracks how long you snore.

Used to LOVE this app but recently noted alarm didn’t go off. At first I thought I was so tired I forgot to set alarm but review of statistics shows the app shuts off alarm if I look at phone in middle of night!!! This MUST be fixed. People with animals, babies or just having to p** in the night still need the alarm! (Actually need it more since sleep is disrupted)

I bought this app when it first came out a few years ago. It wasn’t cheap it was like $8 but it had all premium features. Then, a few months later they released it for free and made it subscription based for the premium features, and now if I want them I have to pay $30! This is insane. This is pure greed. I already paid for the app now they want me to pay again for the features that I already paid for. This is shameful

This app is so helpful! I suffer from insomnia and it helps so much that I can finally track how much sleep I’m getting. I also love the alarm and the snooze feature. This app is amazing and I think everyone should use it!!

I absolutely love this app, but for some reason they won’t add external speaker support via Bluetooth. I’ve asked for this feature a few times and the last reply I got was “we’ll look into it when we get around to it. My wife and I like to listen to music when we go to bed and with my iPhone 7+ it’s easiest to listen via Bluetooth. Can’t do that and use sleep cycle. Kind of a big deal for me. I’ve tried plugging in my phone via the adapter jack, but it sounds like static sometimes. So? I’ve had to stop using it til the time they ever decide to allow people to play music via Bluetooth while using the app. I hope to eventually give this app 5 stars again.

Thanks to this app, now I can wake up early so easily. I highly recommend this app to everyone🙂

Very calming and relaxing to sleep easily!

Ok so I absolutely love this app! It wakes me up and I actually feel like getting up! The only downside is I have to have noise to fall alseep, and I use a separate app to listen to the noise. This app somehow captures every noise made with that one which makes it not able to track when I actually fall asleep. This causes the app to be useless.

I’m a longtime user of Sleep Cycle and overall, it’s been great. I do get those rare events that other users have mentioned where the app seems to crash overnight and the alarm doesn’t properly go off in the morning until I pick up my phone, if at all. Lucky for me, now I’m married to someone who always wakes up early and can be my backup alarm, but without him I’d have to use an actual second alarm. My main issue now is why on Earth hasn’t Sleep Cycle enabled using Apple Watch to track your sleep? It seemed like an obvious addition once they added the Watch app, but... nope. I’ve had to branch out to other apps that do, because for various reasons I can’t use the microphone and I’m sick of having my phone in bed with me. For continuity’s sake, I’d love it if Sleep Cycle added this functionality, and I just can’t figure out why they haven’t by now.

App is great and you get a lot of functionality just for free. Of course there is sweet staff you get with monthly subscription, but even without it I’m happy with all data I’m getting and ability to set up a smart alarm. Interface is great and customer friendly. Love this app. Please keep adding features to this app and grow, I will never switch to other app unless this one will left really far behind with functionality.

Hello developer ! Have you checked other apps prices here in the app store ? I would feel mad if I spent 30$ on a sleeping app which is not the only nor the best one . Other sleeping apps has very reasonable prices and some of them have also better features !! It’s better to fix yourselves now before customers seal away. I just found I can buy an awesome sleeping app with premium features for lifetime for 4.99$ .. learn from them!

Love this app. Has greatly improved my sleep. Not only is it great at waking you up at the right time, but it has tons of data that helps you visualize how you're sleeping and anything that may have influenced how you slept. Since it gives you an understanding, it helps you make decisions on how to improve your sleep. Knowing is half the battle after all. The only downside is that there's a feature that will record audio of your snoring if you snore. I was excited to try this. I've never been so disappointed that I don't snore.

It needs a new update as I haven’t been hearing my alarms go off the last 2/3 mornings. It lags when opening the app. Please update!!

Very interesting to see my sleep patterns

I like the idea of all the features of this app, but the “intelligent” alarm always wakes me up when I’m in the deepest sleep (per the app) and leaves me waking up feeling awful, even on “100%” sleep quality nights. I’ve had better luck at waking feeling good with my normal alarm. Everything else is pretty cool.

All I have to say is that I’ve been using this app for 3 days and I already see changes I am not sleeping in. Class no more

i didn’t just wake up this morning .. i resurrected .. i emerged from my slumber on a cloud in the heavens. there were doves in my room .. get this app .. you won’t regret it ..

Now that I updated to ios12 or the new app update it won't select OK when I enter the time. The app just freezes

Not working. Am able to open app, start sleep tracker, but in AM, when turn it off, it has a flat line for sleep.

Going through perimenopause. Trying different supplements and exercise to help get more quality sleep. This definitely helps me to track what works for me! Thank you!

Used this app for years but now they are charging for the sleep aid noises. Better off with another app if you’re looking for white noise to fall asleep to.

I didn’t think it would work but it did! I’m not a morning person but it woke me up felling awake and ready for the day! 5 star

The app is great

Awesome app, probably the best. Thank you developer!

Paid for the app, got many great features. Now they said update to fix bugs...except they removed so many features that you now have to pay for a subscription. That’s not how you treat your customers that have been with you for over 9 years...

I've been using it for years and have loved how user friendly it's been with various educational options regarding sleep. Unfortunately after updating it, they've decided that things which were free for years are suddenly "premium" and it's useless now. It really helped me fall asleep and gently wake up along with measurements of my sleep if I was curious, but now I've deleted it as they have cheated theirlong term customers.

I love waking up slowly!

Updated the app and now everything great about the app requires the premium which is $24! Ummmm no - deleting and getting something new.

Very informative look me the way it tracks my sleep pattern and rem cycle

Longtime user of this app and I loved it. Actually recommended it to several friends. Then I get prompted to update it for “bug fixes”. I was really disappointed to find that all the features that were free before are now part of the $30/yr subscription. Far too expensive. I’ll be looking for another app.

I set my alarm for 5:45am-6:00am. On some days, it randomly goes off at 4:30am for some reason and I can’t go back to sleep.

There is no Snore Stopper setting.

I need to wake up at 6:45 one day so that’s when I set it to wake me up (6:30-6:50) it decides to wake me up at 5:30! I couldn’t possibly fall back asleep because the alarm is so loud and it was such a big ordeal... but I was supposed to have a really fun day but I was so tired and this s***** app ruined it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely the best alarm clock app out there! It helps you wake up and feel refreshed!!!!! Plus, my brother is in the room with me and he says this has never woken him up before. One thing that would be funny is if you add a way for the app to detect that you sleep talking and to record it when you do!!! Would be HILARIOUS!

I updated my app recently to discover that my favorite features are now in the Premium category which costs $30 a year and used to be free. I guess that’s my punishment for being a long-time user. I’ll be finding a new sleep app.

Am I a morning person? No, absolutely not. Alas, I have a full twelve hour schedule that requires me to be up and ready pretty early in the morning but actually waking the h*** up? My body thinks that’s a hilarious concept. I’m naturally a very deep sleeper, but I’m also a night owl who prefers staying up late, so often times I’ll find myself in bed from anywhere between 10:30 pm - 12:00 am and then I’ll have to wake up at about 6:30 am so I can properly get ready for school and then work afterwards. As a college student with 17 credits it’s very hard to not be tired. I decided I needed something to help me wake up easier, since sleeping through alarms or waking up a bleary mess and falling back asleep was just not working for me. I gave this a shot as a last ditch attempt and what would you know? It worked. I just used this app once, last night at the time of writing this and boy am I satisfied. I didn’t think it would work on me to be entirely honest, but it did and I woke up feeling a lot better than I would’ve with an alarm jolting me awake. This alarm is gradual and soft and even when it’s time for you to wake up it doesn’t fee invasive and obnoxious. I’m looking forward to using it continuously!

This app has a good purpose but it’s ridiculous that you have to pay for most of the features. The only data it gives you is a graph of what sleep you were in. Trends and other data patterns are only available to subscribed users. How ridiculous is that? I already paid for this app, all of the features should be free.

Mostly good and even gets me up most of the times but not always

This is an interesting app which helps me to understand my unhealthy and healthy habits better.

Helped me with the age old problem of when to sleep vs how much sleep is good sleep and how to wake up at a certain time. I love it and I use it daily

I have used this app for years and it has served me very well. I purchased the premium version back in high school and I was grandfathered in since they moved to a monthly model. This app is very affective at making my feel awake and not groggy as I wake. Instead of hitting my snooze button every 10 minutes this app will try to get you awake by the time you wanted if not before. I have used this app for a very long time for a reason, it’s very much worth it!

Wakes me up peacefully at the right time.

I’m going into 8th grade and my parents told me they won’t be waking me up anymore so I’ll be prepared for when I’m older! Luckily, since I have experience with the app I have no fear and won’t get any tardies!

UPDATE 9/12/18: I’m deducting another star because the accuracy continues to decline. I move around in bed a lot while I sleep, but the app often says I was awake when I wasn’t. I can usually count on the app short-changing me at least a half-hour every night, if not longer. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I’ve compared Sleep Cycle to other sleep tracking apps and Sleep Cycle has a big advantage over the others. With Sleep Cycle you don’t have to keep your device on the mattress. I used to do that and because I move around a lot I often knocked my iPhone onto the floor resulting in inaccurate readings. Because Sleep Cycle can use your device’s microphone it also can record snoring, and then you can play it back when you wake up. This recording feature would be very handy for people with sleep apnea. I took one star off my rating because there are some nights when it says I was awake when I really wasn’t. Or it will miss when I wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. These sort of things happen about once or twice a week.

I question its accuracy after my child had me up for a few hours during the night and the app showed me in deep sleep during that time

I do this every night, and 50% of the time the app malfunctions and doesn't even wake me up. It keeps telling me to turn on the app so it can reset, but at 6 am when I'm obviously not awake to reset the app. When that happens, the alarm doesn't wake me up and I've almost missed important morning meetings multiple times because of this malfunction.

I absolutely loved this app until it just froze up! Every time I open it it just freezes at the first thing I tap. It also will not let me delete it either! So I’m stuck with an app I can no longer use!

I sleep on a combination spring, wool and latex mattress and I wonder if that affects the results I got. I’ve had sleep issues long enough that I keep a stitch counter by my bed to track wakings. Both nights I tried this app it showed only three wakings but my counter showed 9 and 7 wakings respectively. And those are only the times I woke enough to hit the counter. It also woke me both mornings while I was mid dream. From sleep studies I’ve had done in sleep labs and at home I know I wake on average every 45 to 90 minutes most nights. It’s a fantastic idea and for people with generally good sleep architecture it probably works well. Also be ready to pay quite a bit for anything other than the basic features.

This app wakes you up with out feeling groggy. You feel more energized and it’s so worth it! Used for a few months and ahhhh!! But you do have to pay for premium to get the real defined things like tracking your data. But free for the basics and AMAZING otherwise. Totally recommend

I will say when cars and people are not around, the app works great! Just like it says it does BY DETECTING MY SOUND WHEN I SLEEP. However, I live next to a highway and my two siblings so the app always wakes me up as soon as it can. Which I would say is about 20-25 minutes before my desired time. To sum it all up, if you live around multiple noisy uncontrollable variables the app only works as an inconvenient alarm clock. Maybe the app works better with a smart watch to detect movement but I wouldn’t know because I don’t have one.

I used this app for a while but after switching phones I didn’t download it again until about a week or two ago. It’s great to see my sleep patterns (now that they matter), and different statistics about what works best for me to get a good nights sleep. Recommended!

I love this app, I struggle with sleep and this is a very accurate app especially if you are wearing a smart watch. It is also very accurate with snoring and records each sepetate occasion. Just awesome!

I listen to podcasts will going to sleep but this app disconnects Bluetooth devices.

But I wish they had more background sounds to choose from.

App works for me and gets the job done. And it actually tracks my sleep properly. This is a bit odd but I’m using a iPhone 8. And this is like the 5th time I’m noticing this, when I wake up on the morning the phone is really hot. And the battery stays on 80% while it’s plugged in. Any idea what causes these two issues?

Just using the basic right now. It was reassuring to learn that I don’t snore all night. Comparing the reported sleep quality with my routine will help me do the right things to sleep better more consistently. It’s well worth trying and easy to use. The nap app rates 5 stars as well.

I’ve been happily using sleep cycle for free for the past couple of years and recommending it to others. I did the most recent update and now the tracking features are no longer available to me unless I pay a $30 monthly fee. That’s ridiculous. I will now be deleting this app.

Forces you to wake up by a certain time or to shut off the app, you can’t delay for a couple of hours or change the time when you need to wake up by

If the d*** thing didn’t occasionally crash, I’d give it a 5, but a crash in this app is really unacceptable.

I would definitely try however 30$/year is beyond my reach.

I’ve been using this app for YEARS (857 nights, to be exact). It’s always been my favorite, I even pay for the premium version. But lately, it’s been going off 2 hours later than I set it for. The first time it happened I thought I was losing my mind and had done something to it in my sleep, but it happened again today and I overslept for my morning workout with my friends. One of the best parts of this alarm for me is that it only lets me hit snooze so many times before it won’t let me anymore, and forces me to get up. I hope these issues get resolved soon because this is a deal breaker, obviously. You have one job! Wake me up when I tell you to!

I️ like this app, it helps me wake up, price is wonky but if you use it every night, it’s worth it.

I’ve been using this app for a few months and have loved it. Waking up in the morning is very difficult for me as I tend to sleep though every alarm I set, this alarm helped to virtually erase that problem! That being said, I do think there is a bug or two to be worked out. A couple of hours ago I set my alarm on sleep cycle to wake me up at 7:30 am, like usual, but at 1:30 am the alarm started going off. Not only was it going off at the completely wrong time, but the sound for the alarm wasn’t the one that I usually use at all. I honestly do like this app quite a lot, but have deleted it because of this issue. It may have been a fluke, however I cannot risk the chance of it happening again because of my strict work schedule. If the problem were resolved I would be more likely to re-download the app and continue to use it.

I wish there wasn’t the upgrade charge for certain features. Fit bit doesn’t make you pay more.

I absolutely love the ease of using this app, as well as being able to view all the cool data about my sleep. There are two things I do not like, though, that I think need to be fixed. 1) The app considers “in bed” all the time between when you start it, and when you physically stop it. I am a mom, and I jump out of bed and hit the road running in the morning. Most the time I forget to lean over and stop the Sleep Cycle app. I just don’t pick up my phone when I wake up. So the application considers “in bed“ any time that the app is running. So if it takes me an hour and a half to remember to turn off the app, my time is skewed because the app will say I was in bed the entire time. I’d like to be able to adjust that time to stop when I physically wake up. 2) I love the White Noise option that is available in the app! However, it only runs for 90 minutes max. There is no option to let it run continuously all night. Why not? I wake up when the White Noise stops. ☹️ so I have my Amazon Alexa play White Noise all night for me. Seems kind of silly I can’t get this app to do it for me.

Did the free trial for a few months. Was surprised how well it worked. Very clever. Can’t say my sleep quality has gone up, but I like tracking how long I sleep and my sleep quality. If I kept better notes I guess I might tweak activities that correlate with poor sleep quality. Love the gentle wake function, even on work days Worth the app fee Kudos to the developers

Just wish it were easier to adjust the snooze interval.

I think it works. I do feel rested when I wake up, but it drains my battery so bad, so it makes me not want to use it.

This app only works half of the time but the times that it does work it is awesome

I think I have found the perfect combination of alarm clocks. I always set Sleep Cycle to be my first alarm, and another app called SpinMe Alarm Clock as my backup. Sleep Cycle usually wakes me up in my optimal wake up time, but sometimes it just isn’t enough for me and I’ll either snooze through it or turn it off and go back to bed. If Sleep Cycle fails to wake me up, my backup alarm SpinMe will start blaring which can only be turned off if I get out of bed and spin around a couple times before it finally shuts off! Crazy but it works and I haven’t been late to work since I started doing this routine. And no you can't just spin the phone around in your hand! Sleep Cycle really does help in waking you up during your light sleep. I can feel it working most mornings. And I have studied the science behind sleep so I can attest that the premise of this app isn’t merely a placebo, but something that has actually been proven. However the problem that this alarm clock doesn’t solve is that sometimes (especially on nights where you get very little sleep), it can be really easy to ignore your alarm clock and really hard to wake up. That’s where SpinMe Alarm comes in, an alarm clock that is impossible to ignore and forces you out of bed. I highly recommend using these 2 alarms together. Best few dollars I’ve ever spent!!

The app works, and it does what it says, but I set my alarm for 8:30, and it woke me up at 5:45?! I checked everything to make sure I did it right but it was fine. I tried to go back to sleep and ended up shutting off the app

Does the job.

Pretty cool

For years we tried various things to get my seven-year-old up especially on school days. She slept through various alarms blaring at her. When we would physically wake her up, she was very grumpy and would often scream and cry in the mornings. I came across this app decided to give it a try. We have been using it now for a week and a half. Every morning she wakes up without us and is in a good mood. This makes our mornings so much smoother!!! I am so thankful for this app. The only down side is I have been using my phone to try out this app so I am currently phoneless is the evenings.

Kamila

I like to long sleep one hour it

I never liked alarm clocks I tried many of them. After a long while I just learn to wake up on my own but recently I have been having a hard time getting up as early as I would like (5:30/6:00) and I found this app it’s a great app It never wakes me up from a deep sleep. The regular alarm always give me anxiety and put me in a bad mood. Its like been awaken up by a loud screaming/strange sound. This app has a smooth sound and never wake me up from a deep sleep. I confess to disbelief it could actually track my sleep without been on me but it does! Even though my husband is by me it tracks my sleep. Love it, love it, love it! Its only not 5 start because I wish to have the option to choose the alarm time based on the amount of hours I wish to sleep so for days I do not need to wake a certain time but wish to sleep 8 hours regardless of the time I slept. Still the best alarm ever!!!!

I use it every night and wake up feeling refreshed and energized

Can someone please give me step by step instructions on how to turn on snore vibrations for connected Apple Watch?! It’s impossible to figure out, and I am a premium member.

I am not a morning person, and waking up early for work is usually torture. Sleep Cycle makes me wake up feeling so rested — the difference is huge.

I do actually notice a difference of being less tired when I use this alarm instead of a regular one!

I like that the app has the half hour window, but have found that it picks up my spouse’s sleep sounds in addition to mine, including his snoring. So the sleep quality rating isn’t measuring just me. Not sure how to fix this, but I’ll be sticking with the free version for the alarm and not paying for analysis that isn’t quite accurate.

I use this app mainly as an alarm clock. The science isn’t really there to support its claims about sleep cycles, and it does a poor job of tracking them anyway. But it works OK as an alarm. But I’m so tired of its endless solicitations to upgrade. The latest is “take a photo of food”—who asked for that. Basically this is an app a college student could have made, gussied up with nice graphics and bolted on “features” that have little use. I’ve stuck with it until now, but I’m done.

Would love to have the sleep aid initiate automatically during the night when the app detects I’ve woken up prior to my alarm setting.

New to this app for myself. Wish I had more access to features that my daughters already have without paying for premium, they’ve had this app for a number of years.

Sleep Cycle keeps telling me I’ve gotten 100%, 96% and 98% sleep quality even though I’ve tossed and turned every night for the past week. I wake up irritable and exhausted but am somehow managing 90%+ sleep quality?!

I know this is doing good things for my sleep. All the tracking helps me improve sleep because I can see time trends and adjust my sleep/wake times to be more optimal. I love that it vibrates my watch so my man doesn’t have to wake up at my s***** early hour. PLEASE make it sync with Period Tracker (and other trackers) so women can see how their cycles affect sleep!!! That would be the final detail needed! I’d also like to understand how to make sense of the stats on increased/decreased sleep quality, weather, air pressure, moon, activity, and heart rate. It would be helpful to click on each one to get info on what it means and how to understand the graph, as well as what percentage really matters when it comes to affecting sleep: I wouldn’t think 1% matters much, or even 4% but providing information from a sleep specialist about how a 4% change affects sleep would be helpful. Thanks for this app. I really love it overall.

I love this app so much 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕please buy it’s

I can’t sleep, while having this app on. The fact of being conscious of having this app monitoring every single sound I make freaks me out. And I became even more aware wear of the surrounding sounds. Worries of the other sounds will disturb this app.

It’s scary how accurate this app is. I get to hear how bad my snoring is each night. And I’m starting to learn trends on what gives me better or worse sleep. I set a 30 min window and it always wakes me up softly when I am at my most awake state. So far zero complaints about this app! I have sleep apnea and mild insomnia and I was hoping this app would help me improve my sleeping habits and so far it has been improving.

It truely works

Actually can wake me up easily

Downloaded the app, looked at it, deleted it. That was a couple of weeks ago. Today I got billed for a subscription that I never signed up for.

Its amazing it almost feels like where awake when the alarm goes off it’s really cool I recommend it for school!

I love this app I just started school and it has been super helpful waking me up one problem I have is that if I do snore I can not listen to it unless I buy something

Is it free

its the only way I can wake up bright and early without feeling so tired

I don’t need your spam notifications. That’s not cool.

A great app, however the snooze feature started snoozing the alarm automatically without my touching it. I overslept several times. The company says they're aware of the issue but there is no solution yet. I recommend waiting until this bug is fixed.

Wakes me up at 3am no matter what. How does that improve my sleep?? Then I have to shut the app off in the middle of the night, which turns my alarm off and I end up sleeping in.

I love the app—even though I am quite certain it cannot be exact, it does get quite close to the actual statistics, that coming from when I wake up in the middle of the night and read my clock. Unfortunately, I cannot use the thirty-minute window and must instead use a fifteen-minute window, but it still does the job and does as is advertised. However, even though it is a very useful app, there is one problem: if there is a person you are sleeping by (e.g. an 8 year-old brother about two and-a-half yards away), he/she can be woken up easily by your alarm. What I suggest is that the rate at which the volume of the alarm ascends may be adjustable, so the sleeper can be woken up and turn off the alarm before the other person is affected, and perhaps also the option of maximum volume, the time the system waits to override it, etc. (if Northcube even understands what I mean by that last bit). Thank you for a useful sleep app, ~Malardzun

Please allow the alarm volume and start time to be altered. For example, if I select a song to wake me up in the morning, it would be great to have that song start at the beginning and NOT get louder the longer I delay it. Would love help with this!

Great for school

I am not totally convinced my phone beside my bed can be accurate ? I have an Apple Watch so I feel more confident that wearing my watch while I sleep is more accurate to track my sleep.

I feel like it does a great job of monitoring my sleep. Even if I lay in the bed for hours before falling asleep, it seems to figure out when I am actually sleeping. I love the alarm so much. I like that it wakes you during lighter sleep when possible. The only con I know of is that sometimes there are clips of “me” snoring, but upon listening to it, it’s most definitely my husband lol. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I asked it to wake me up 600-630 and woke me up at one in the morning

I currently using the app’s free version that the premium one. I did need need all the extra things. As long as the app can help me get up supper early for work and school I’m satisfied with the free version. The app goes off about a good 15-30 minutes before the original time you put in to wake you. Which is cool for me, I find it difficult to get up on the dot in the morning.

Have been using for almost 5 years. Lose 2 years data while replacing iPhone. Other functions work great.

This app worked at first, but now it has crashed three nights in a row.

I have always needed a blaring alarm clock to wake me up, but I could almost always sleep through it, or I would groggily go and turn it off. With sleep cycle I can wake up as early as I want to, instantly. It’s truly incredible what this has done to improve my life.

Love the app really does help wake u up at a time when your not in your deepest sleep and the music is pleasant.

Great program !

I don't write reviews on anything but this app is really nice. The default Apple alarm sound honestly gives me anxiety and just makes me annoyed to wake up in the morning. The sounds to choose from are so relaxing and refreshing in a way. And it gradually gets louder as the time gets closer. I probably wouldn’t recommend for heavy sleepers because the noise is light but I’ve never had any troubles sleeping through an alarm and I’d consider myself a moderate sleeper. But yeah super cool app and it tracks your sleep pattern so that’s cool too.

I have used this app for about 6 years now. It got me through many nights in college and helped me prioritize my sleep and health. I’ve encouraged most people in my life to download it, & I love it so much!! There have been nights that my phone came unplugged and this app woke me up to let me know that my phone would be dead soon.... saving me from waking up late! My ONLY complaint is that there is no longer an “all night” option for the sleep aid sounds. Is there any chance it could come back?? Now I use a separate noise app along side it... (first world problem here) but really if there’s any shot of bringing back that all night option.... I’d be so grateful!!! Thanks for helping me sleep at night 🤗

1. Ability to set a schedule for the alarm time. 2. Ability to automatically switch my phone on airplane mode when I hit start and switch it back off when I stop the alarm.

So this app is pretty smart with the way it wakes up, the tracking is pretty accurate. What I dont like is the " low battery warning" alarm ya'll felt like you should add to it? I got woken up hours before I needed to and couldnt fall back to sleep because my charger got knocked off. I have a backup alarm set and I wouldve woken up naturally before I needed to if my phone did totally die and no alarm went off. That should be something I have to agree to put on not just a default. Seriously a day ruiner. I honestly dont want to use the app really anymore since I realize how bad for my battery it probably is running so hard all night while being charged all night as well. Really disappointed.

This app is changing my life slowly but surely as I’ve been finding it extremely challenging to wake up at a good morning for many years. Even though I’m getting into a better routine, I still sometimes find it a challenge to fall asleep at night. I put my Sleep Cycle on because I don’t want to look at my phone again because of the blue light keeping me awake but I thought I could edit the “Sleep Cycle” by deleting it. This app only allows you to edit the day in which it only provides you to delete all the data of the entire day and not a selected incorrect sleep cycle. Lastly, everything about this app is a life changer except for the expensive price point of $29.99/year to backup your data. Many apps allow for free backups however this additional subscription, after the already purchased premium subscription, leaves a distinct flourless taste in my mouth.

I’ve been using this app since the beginning. Sometimes I fade out from using it, but I always come back. This app doesn’t make getting up in the morning wonderful, but it makes it wildly easier. The alarm is not jarring and it wakes you up a lot more gently. I think it pretty accurately tracks your movement. Is it 100% perfect? No smartphone app is. But overall, it gives you a great review of how you slept. I also think it’s hysterical how it records your snoring. I never knew I snored up until getting this app 😂😂

Here’s how. At your bedside table stare at a digital clock while attempting to go to sleep. As the digital numbers advance attempt to recall the last hour/minute . Wake up without an alarm or a phone or another voice. Write down the time. subtract last night’s recalled time. Convert the difference into minutes. Divide by 90 . Using the quotient... get a whole number. Now divide the minutes by the whole number. That’s a good estimate of your sleep cycle. Do this exercise at least 8 times. In the end you should know your sleep cycle. When sleeping always try to sleep complete cycles and never interrupted cycles. If you interrupt a cycle you’ll be tired all day. You may even need a nap. Now guys, knowing your sleep cycle do you really believe this app is worth $30 a year? I found the app frivolous.

I love this app but that cannot happen again so I have to delete it now.

I downloaded this app on my first day of school. i have to get up at around 5/5:30. My app wakes me up around 5:27 every morning and i always feel so well rested. i always have enough time to do everything i need so do as well. I used to not be a morning person, and I would always have to be pried out of bed. I mean, who wants to wake up in mornings? not me! I still dont like getting up in the mornings, but who does? any occasion where i have to get out of bed is horrible. anyways, i learned about this app from a youtube video and i decided to try it out. it works amazing! it even tracks my sleep (when im awake, in deep sleep, and in light sleep)! i know it’s accurate because if i wake up in the middle of the night, check my clock (not my phone, my clock) and it says 1 am, i can go on the app the next morning and it will say i was awake at 1 am. i find it super interesting how i sleep. this app will also tell you the quality of your sleep. (mine’s around 65, guess that’s why im always tired lol) it will also tell you exactly how much sleep you got each night. sadly, without any costs, you can not record this data without screenshots, or manually logging it. it doesnt track it over extended numbers of nights without costs, which im not complaining about what-so-ever because this app is amazing with or without.

Easily, on my most used apps list. I want it to interact with other apps, devices and HomeKit for so much more! It has been a key to not snoring anymore and figuring out my own sleep needs. Great app!

I quit using this app about a month or so ago, I loved that it worked amazingly but even if my phone was plugged in to my charger, the battery drained or didn’t charge. Because of it my battery’s maximum capability percent went down. After I stopped using it my phone went back to normal. I prefer to use the native bedside feature even if sleep just shows as “in bed”.

I have been using this app for about four years now, and I use it pretty much every night. It is an amazing app that continues to add awesome features after all this time. If you are on the edge, just get the app. You won’t regret it.

I used this thing and it is the BEST! Unlike normal alarm clocks, this actually wakes you up peacefully. Instead of BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! 5 stars!

It’s helped me get back on a sleep schedule. Helps me understand my sleep patterns and how to get a deep sleep. It’s easier to wake up with the alarm!

I’ve tried this multiple times, and the app always helps me wake up smoothly - no jolting awake to the sudden sound of an alarm ringtone. The music is beautiful, and the settings are usefully adjustable. However, using the app drains my phone’s battery in the extreme every night without a charger, so I find that very inconvenient.

This app helped me get to sleep by the sounds that they have in the sleep aids. This also helped me get up in time because I made it play my favorite song for my alarm. I totally recommend this.

I’ve been using this app for almost 2 years and really like it. However, I recently got Air Pods and Sleep Cycle interferes with the Air Pods. Wired eat buds and Sleep Cycle work fine if you listen to something to fall asleep. With Sleep Cycle armed, the Air Pods won’t work (audio will only play thru phone speakers and not thru Air Pods). Your choice is either wired ear buds and Sleep Cycle or Air Pods, but no Sleep Cycle. I’ve tried everything to get both to work together and it’s a no go. :-( Otherwise, I’m a fan of Sleep Cycle. Please fix this disconnect/incompatibility. Thank you.

This app is very helpful. If wakes you up at just the right time and you don't feel super groggy!

I just get results that are pretty different... I think sometimes it picks up my partners sleep instead. Also, I notice if the angle is slightly off direction, the quality of sleep is different

1. Ability to set a schedule for the default alarm time. 2. Ability to automatically switch my phone on airplane mode when I hit start and switch it back off when I stop the alarm.

Okay I downloaded this app, used it for the trial period then deleted it. Tell me why, I kept on getting charged each month, like $32!!! I was so confused and noticed it like 6 months later that I had this suspicious charge all to find out that it was this app. 10/10 would not recommend

Disappointing approach to permanent registration. I will never never use your apps. Be aware -- by clicking ”try...” you actually permit them to charge you $30. Do not fall for this trick. Ron

I’m going into 8th grade and my parents told me they won’t be waking me up anymore so I’ll be prepared for when I’m older! Luckily, since I have experience with the app I have no fear and won’t get any tardy!

I was looking for an alarm app that has progressive volume. When I'm hit with a blast of noise goat thing in the morning my reaction is to do anything to make it stop. Found this app, but it was a 're download'. "Why would have deleted it", this app sounds great!? Because I'm not a sound sleeper...i set my alarm for 7:45 this morning & according to my fiancé, it started trying to wake me up at 5 AM.

It used to do the job LIKE A CHARM but now I don’t even hear the alarm and it gets super frustrating when I can’t wake up.

The microphone stopped working and now the alarm Will not to off

If the app is running, our iPhones will not connect with the wireless charging pad. If we close the app, the connection to the wireless charging pad is restored. If you charge wirelessly overnight, skip this app.

I’ll toss and turn all night but my app will say I had great sleep. Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night, but when I do my app always tells me I was in deep sleep. Not worth it.

I adore this app ive been using it since i was a teenager!! I would give it five stars but... im poor and cant afford premium so... its a shame

This app is GREAT! But they removed the feature that was most helpful to me; the snore-stopper feature for the accompanying watch app. The snore-stopper will gently “tap” you with the watch haptic feature; you don’t even wake up but you adjust your sleeping position and stop snoring. This feature revolutionized my sleep until they removed the feature! My sleep is c*** now. Please bring it back and I’ll change my review.

This is is so cool because you can wake up feeling AMAZING and it's all free! The sounds are also so soothing and nice so it's not blasting your ears out. I'll never be late again!

I've tried all of the alarm-based-on-sleep-phase apps. This one actually works, and has an okay Apple Watch app (which I don't use because I charge my watch every other night, and I don't really have a need for the watch app). The main reason I substracted 2 stars is because when the alarm is set and on, it DISABLES my Bluetooth headset, so I am unable to listen to audiobooks or guided meditations unless I completely disable this app. So basically, I have to completely wake up after getting myself drowsy enough to sleep in order to turn this app on and set the alarm. Huge issue for me. Otherwise, this is a 5 star app.

I love this app so much. Shared it with like 10 people the first night. I like how it gently wakes me when I am in a sleep state close to awake instead of while in a deep sleep. It’s great!

This has opened my eyes on why I am so tired during the day. Now I can figure out how to fix the problem. The only negative thing is I can’t play the music on my phone at the same time. But I still love the app.

pretty good app, wish it would have an option to manually enter time in bed (sometimes I accidentally leave it on after I get up)

I tried Sleep Cycle for a little over a week, and almost every morning it woke me up from REM sleep. It just didn't work.

Also, that I’m not getting near enough deep sleep. Being awakened by the gentle music is lovely and I am going to make steps to improving my sleep and, by extension, my mood and energy levels.

This has been an excellent app for years. But a recent update introduced a disastrous bug in motion-sensor mode: It turns itself off after about 2.5 hours. No alarm, no nothing. I downloaded the new version, hoping it was fixed, but alas it failed again last night. I can no longer trust this app. Neither should you.

It’s so fascinating but I wish it had a notification because I keep forgetting to start it :)

Works great waking me up. Love the sleep data, logs, and reports. Lots of customizable options to tailor it to your needs. One of my favorite phone apps. Philips Hue integration is flawless. It initially connected to the bridge 200+ days ago, and I haven’t had to touch it since. I wish every Hue app was so good! A feature to track, and report on how many times I hit snooze would be nice. Maybe it’s already there, and I’m overlooking it.

I love this app. Have been using it for years. I would love an addition of a “nap” feature where there are fixed timers that correspond to NASA’s perfect nap schedule

This app is phenomenal. Unfortunately due to work, I need to be able to get my notifications. If sleep cycle comes up with either a way to just track via watch or a way to get notifications I would be so happy!!!!!

Now unreliable. Shuts off every morning at 526am. Disappointed, this was my favorite app.

I love this app and have been using it for a while but for the last two or three weeks, my Apple Watch hasn’t been waking me up. I used to be able to set my sleep cycle app on my watch and have it wake me up using the haptic taps on the watch but now it doesn’t do that. I don’t know what happened and the most recent update didn’t fix the issue.

This may be one of the bugs that was repaired in the update but for a while now when I slide up to cancel the alarm my sound icon comes up and shows that it’s been muted. Why is that? I feel that’s an unnecessary feature.

This app has a great feature that links you with others using the app on wifi. The problem is if you stay at a hotel, not only do you see others who are using the app (which is data leakage for sure) it automatically links you with these strangers in your hotel. Great app otherwise.

This app works really great with iPhone and iPad, but I find it works better with the iPad. I also used to hate getting up some mornings, with the alarm blaring and me waking up at the same time. This update makes helps you sleep in between your time limits so you can be on time to work and not feel tired. If your thinking about getting this app, you totally should! It’s so easy now waking up without all the scary alarms and the snooze buttons.

So i had gotten their trial and then after it was over i was charged with the most expensive membership of $30 compared to $5 (the cheapest). They refused to give a refund and now i’m sitting here with an extra $25 spent that I was saving up. The app is alright but them refusing to give a refund is sad.

It is so soothing to wake up to in the mornings.

Alarm sounds are great for waking up (even if in a deep sleep). The morning sleep report is cool and seems pretty accurate. I use it every night

This app single-handedly help me track my sleep, improve my sleep quality and helps me strive for sleep excellence. No joke, it uses technology to make sure it wakes me up outside of a deep sleep cycle which seems to always peacefully wake me up.

I’m Feeling more refreshed and less groggy in the morning waking up. Still hate getting up early but this takes a bit of the sting out of it

I have used this awhile but once in awhile it sounds the alarm as much as 20 minutes early and that's annoying. I may look for a different alarm program.

The app is fantastic and gives you a full look at the quality of your sleep and offers awesome sleep quality insights over time. However, it would be nice to have better integration into the health app so that it can show more detailed sleep quality information side by side with the rest of your health data, but I understand that probably requires an iOS update.

I loved this app for many years! But now, every few nights, it randomly turns off during the night. So, I get no sleep data, and (most importantly) no alarm! Please fix this!!

Will not start anymore, please fix! New update but still crashes immediately. Works again, but I had to delete and reinstall. The watch app works, too.

App keeps crashing after the latest update. Will not start. Tried to offload and reload - but it didn’t work. Told by customer support that the only way to get it work again is to delete the app and then install again - but that means I will lose all of the data. Please release a new version ASAP to fix the crash!!!

I’ve been using this app for what seems like 3 or 4 years now, but recently the alarm has started to turn off in the middle of the night and not go off in the morning. However, I still get a notification saying “Goodmorning!” from the app at the time I set the alarm, but no alarm noise to go with it. Very disappointed that I have to change apps after all these years.

Hard to say how accurate it is given I’m asleep, but it seems legit. Another sleep app decided I was up for the day when I was up with my baby. I like that this app uses the alarm as a means of you confirming that you’re up for the day. This has obviously peaks when I’m up with baby, Little half asleep squiggles when I dozed off in the rocking chair with the baby and nice deep lows between. I’m not sure how the sleep quality grade is calculated though—I got a higher grade recently for a night I was up more often with the baby than the day before where I almost got to sleep through the night. Anyway, it seems to work as promised without bugs, but I think the price for full service is too high. I would pay for complete reporting and the integration with their life cycle app, but not as much as they’re asking. Simply reviewing the free data and making my own assessment is good enough and not too difficult so I just don’t see paying $30 for a subscription. I appreciate that developers aren’t writing apps for free, but they’d have more subscribers at a lower price point.

This App has really helped me sleep and wake up A LOT better

I got sleep cycle a while ago excited because hated waking up for school and needed a new alarm. I got it And was imoressed With how well it worked. But lately, it only will wake me up like a minute before the alarm is supposed to go off so it is not Helping me anymore. And moat of the capabilities are premium only andni Can't use them!!!

Of all the terrible ways there is to be woken up... this one is the least bad in my experience, it at least tries to accommodate my REM cycles!

Absolutely adore this app. I've been doing all too many workarounds to simplify my sleep tracking while waking up with my Hue lights as well. One thing that would truly complete it for me is an option to keep the watch from being able to turn off the alarm. I love the vibration alarm and snoozing, but it's too easy to disable it in my sleepiness from my wrist. Make me stand up and turn it off from my phone :)

The app was okay in terms of what it tracked, but it used way too much battery from my Apple Watch to run (Generation 3). I even tried charging it before going to bed so that it would be at 100%. When I’d wake up it was always below 40% and didn’t have enough battery power to make it through work the next day. (Without using this app my battery on my watch can go two days without charging.) I only used the free version so I can’t speak to all of the features, but I’m glad there was a free trial. I’d have been really disappointed if I had paid for it. I downloaded another sleep tracking app and used it last night to verify that it wasn’t just all of the apps. After using my watch all day and not charging it I woke up to 48% battery life. It’s a shame, because this app had features that others didn’t that really interested me.

I don’t know how to explain this. After two weeks I’m trained to wake up when the app is about to wake me or if I don’t, I never hit snooze. This is a first. At age sixty, I’m getting 6.5-7.5 hrs sleep which has been unheard of since my late forties. I wish I’d have found this years ago. My wife is using it and doesn’t snore anymore.

I installed this on my Apple Watch. I have major issues with the hapticks. Set it the first time I used it to 5:00, it started vibrating at 4:00. Then because I wanted it to track my sleep but did not want it to vibrate at such an early hour, I tried changing it to 7:00. It started vibrating at 3:00. I finally had to turn it off. Can’t track my sleep accurately if it is vibrating at ungodly hours. Also it has a feature that prompt the watch to vibrate gently when you snore. I can not find where this feature can be turned off and it vibrates when my husband snores. Vibrated one night so often that I again had to turn it off so I could get some sleep.

Would love ability to manually enter values for when I forget to set it.

The update to include Apple Watch causes the watch to loose battery life at an alarming rate. I have a series 3 and it will go from 100% to 50% in a single night. That’s more battery usage than an entire normal day of use for me. I’d love to give this 5 stars, but not until the battery issue is fixed.

I love this app. It helps me keep up with my sleep patterns and I use it to show my doctor.

Honestly I like this app. I think it does a really great job without glitching and it’s pretty accurate. However I hate how slowly every feature has become a premium required featured. I get that apps like this need some kind of income but seriously?? I used to be able to play music whenever I turned it on, listen to my snores etc. and now I can’t do any of that. Really annoying.

It’s incredible. I don’t even make use of all the features, but every morning I check my statistics to see how well I slept. One improvement I would love to see: A “countdown” when you first set the alarm to let you know how much time you have until you wake up. It seems simple to implement but would be nice to know instead of doing the addition in my head. Awesome app, highly recommend! (Also, I’ve consistently woken up easier and less grumpy from this app.)

It’s so easy to see why I’m tired some days that I sleep the same amount of time for.

i have used sleep cycle daily for the past several years. i wake up feeling refreshed and ready to start the day. sleep cycle is truly an essential app for me.

I hate not being able to do the premium. I am not doing it bc it costs money. But I love the free app.

I find this app really eye opening. I like how it works and has intuitive features.

I've used the app for 4 years and have been really happy with it. However, the app now refuses to open... What gives? Since the last update, It works great. Thanks.

I downloaded this with the Curiosity of knowing what my sleep cycle may look like. After downloading, it worked awesome, it was waking me at times in the morning that I honestly felt much better! After about 100 days or so it has stopped analyzing my sleep and the graph looks completely flat lined as well as it wakes me up at the set time I give it every morning so something isn’t right even though I am still doing the same thing I was doing for the first 100 days.

I enjoy I can hear myself snore if I do because I honestly had no clue if I did or not. However, it’d be better if I could play music or something in the background.

When I originally got this, I thought it was doing a pretty good job. I’d been snoring and thought this might help me when I speak to my Doctor. But then, it started saying I wasn’t snoring at all. I know I am because I hear myself and my husband also hears me. Not sure what’s up but no longer works. Disappointing since I paid to get the full version.

I love this app but can’t use it anymore because even the most recent update crashes when I open the app. Please fix it!!

I have been using the Sleep App Cycle for over 3 years, but I’m saddened to mention that I will be deleting after this post. This app failed to work during my finals week and Bachelor’s Commencement Ceremony. I am done.

I don’t write many reviews about anything, but this app is worth it. Often, I have trouble sleeping, but mostly waking up in the morning. This app makes it so easy for me to get a good nights’ sleep. I can add white noise before I sleep right on the app, and can customize how long I want it for. I can log my heartbeat and sync to my health app. I can hear my snoring, see when I was in what stage of sleep when. I can input determining factors that might indicate why I wasn’t getting proper sleep. I can log my mood in the morning. I mean, there’s just so many reasons why this app is wonderful.

The first thing we want to know is how many hours actually slept, not in bed which bizarrely isn’t easy to find out. You have to open Apple Health to get that info? #2, where’s the feature to wake you with iWatch? Some of us wear earplugs or don’t wish to wake our spouses.:( #3, life happens, sometimes we wake up, close the app, then go back to sleep for another hour or two... so we have to restart the app and begin a new sleep session, why not add a feature to combine the two sessions? Otherwise it looks like I’m going to bed at 4 am which skews the data. Other then that a solid 5 star.. but after the trial is over I’ll most likely cancel then try others to see if they offer these obvious features that should be included.

This app has wonderful information and totally juices your battery! I was charging my phone less than daily before and now I charge it twice daily in the time of a month! It’s hard to decide if it’s worth it or not.

The first thing we want to know is how many hours actually slept, not in bed which bizarrely isn’t easy to find out. You have to open Apple Health to get that info? #2, where’s the feature to wake you with iWatch? Some of us wear earplugs or don’t wish to wake our spouses.:( UPDATE, this feature is here with latest update, Thanks, that def scores a star... #3, life happens, sometimes we wake up, close the app, then go back to sleep for another hour or two... so we have to restart the app and begin a new sleep session, why not add a feature to combine the two sessions? Otherwise it looks like I’m going to bed at 4 am which skews the data. Other then that a solid 5 star.. but after the trial is over I’ll most likely cancel then try others to see if they offer these obvious features that should be included. UPDATE: As of 5/23 with the iWatch update I may try this for a year and see how it goes... keep up with these updates m/features and you’ll have a customer for life here!!!!

This app will bill you for their premium if you download it. Even if you don’t specifically say you want premium. I’d go with another similar app if I was going to do it again. 29.99 isn’t worth it when it says it’s free.

I really discovered a lot of new things about my sleep while using this app. I really recommend it! I personally don’t pay for this app. It means I don’t get to listen to my sleep. But I really love this app and if your looking for an alarm clock that’ll get you up on time, this is it. 5/5 recommendation

The first few night I used this i thought it worked great. Then I found some small bugs with it like not being able to have Bluetooth connections while the app is open. But last night I had started the app with lower battery on my phone and I thought well if it dies it’s no big deal. Well boy was I wrong. Apparently when your phone gets really low on battery with the app open it sets off an alarm so i was woken up at 2 am but managed to somehow shut the alarm off in my sleep and yet again the alarm went off at 3 am and I had to wake up and completely close the app. Sooo be cautious about that.

I love the alarm clock portion of this app. I’ve been using it for years. However, I recently got an Apple Watch because I read about the snore stopper functionality. I’ve worn my watch using the app for the past 2 weeks and it has never alerted me to snoring using haptics. And yes, my partner has still been poking me to wake me up to tell me to stop snoring. Huge disappointment.

There is only one thing I would add for the next update. For the sleep aid sounds a crackling fire would be perfect. Everything else about the app is perfect. I used it for about a year now and I love it. I don't use any other alarm clock. It's perfect. Update: Still an excellent app to use. Aside from an added sleep aid I think a better integration of the Apple Watch is key. I really like seeing percentages in REM, Deep Sleep etc. as well as seeing how often I’m “awake”. Many other apps give this feedback once I wake up and turn off the alarm. Plus making the watch play a tone as well for the alarm for us heavy sleepers would be nice!

The tracker is accurate and the alarm is awesome. Wake up every morning ready to go.

This is my favorite sleep app by far but I do not see 30/yr in value. Between Pillow and Auto sleep I get the advantages of this single app for less than 10$ one time purchase. I’m using the trial and will not allow it to auto purchase once I get close to the expiration. I wish they would offer a 15$ one time license or something but.. it is what it is! Great app! Good jobs devs you made an amazing app! I can’t justify spending the money per year.

What happened to the heart monitor? Now when I wake up, the heart monitor flashes on for a split second, and it doesn’t actually read my current pulse. It then picks a number from my Apple Watch that I haven’t been wearing for hours during my sleep. I finally had enough with the goofy heart rates being logged into my Health app, and I turned off the heart monitor. Other than this problem, I really like the Sleep Cycle app. Please fix.

I want to listen to a podcast and then have Sleep Cycle switch on when it stops. Doesn’t seem possible at the moment. Otherwise a big fan.

Will not start anymore, please fix! New update but still crashes immediately

I bought this app thinking it will provide good analysis about my sleep. Within a year they started premium subscription and all the analysis is available to premium members only at a cost. I wish I could have given them half star.

it’s a pretty sick app bro, it’s organized and fun honestly just to like look at dude. if you’re interested in tracking your sleep in any way or just need an alarm clock, this app will work for you man.

It’s very cool to see my sleep pattern. I wish it would calculate the amount of time in each sleep holding (ie deep sleep) so I know whether my time spent in there is average/more/less. I would definitely recommend!

I’m giving this a substantially lower rating than my previous review because a recent update changed the behavior so that I’m forced to use an alarm now even though I don’t want to, worse it forces one to also use notifications as a ‘backup alarm, when all I really want to do is track how well (or not) I’m sleeping, which this used to do well. I do NOT need or use an alarm so this requirement means I’ll be deleting this formerly great app and start searching for a replacement.

Love what this app does for me sleep schedule! Sadly it now turns my speaker/ringer volume down to zero every morning after turning off the alarm... I hope the devs can find a solution!

I like the app but wish there was a way to incorporate HR from Apple Watch into graph.

Best app I've ever used. Developers are truly cutting edge. Now with Apple Watch support, it’s absolutely perfect. A must download.

They need to fixe the bugs, especially launch bugs on the Apple Watch and lower the price. $30 a year is way too expensive.

Unfortunately I will probably not use it anymore since on my iPhone I have missed to many important notifications (texts) due to no sound coming through when the app is running! Why did this change it is just the worst about the app!

Used this app for long time with no issues, but recently every time I set the phone on my nightstand right next to my bed as I used to it will record a flat line and miss any times I wake through the night. Only way it will actually record is if I put the phone under my pillow or something and it will then notice all the movement. Didn’t used to work this poorly, not sure what’s changed.

How can I find the recording if I sleeptalk?

Every time I open the app on my Apple Watch it beeps/vibrates the watch non stop until I get out of the app. Can’t use the app because it misbehaves. Anyway to fix it?

I liked this app and actually paid the annual subscription after the trial period. I don’t know if it’s due to my phone or a recent update, but it doesn’t hear me moving and start the wake up process. I haven’t changed where I leave it by my bed. Also, it mutes my phone every morning after I wake up so I don’t hear any text messages or reminders. That didn’t happen in the past.

There seems to be a bug that prevents/turns off wireless charging when the alarm is enabled. I’m not quite sure what exactly triggers it, but I can observe the phone stops charging when I enable the alarm while on the charging pad.

The only downside and why it’s not receiving 5 stars is because the app is interrupted when someone calls. It’s been multiple times that I’ve received a late night phone call only to wake up and find that sleep cycle has shut off. This is an issue that needs resolved and thankfully hasn’t caused me to be late yet. I really wish it would automatically resume the cycle. Otherwise, I love this app. I’ve used it for over a year and a half. I used to be a habitual 12pm sleeper. I was unable to wake up earlier no matter what I tried. I had 20 alarms set each night when I was in the worst of it.

I used this for a week, and it made the watch’s built-in heart rate monitor register unrealistic heart rates. I would get a notice at 3 a.m. that my heart rate was 122 - which it clearly was not. I would wake up and the “Move” ring on my watch would register 10,000 calories. So I quit using it and they charged me $29.99 anyway.

I was using the free app and all of a sudden I got a $30 charge.... be careful.

It says how much time you spent in bed but not actually how much time you spent asleep.

Unfortunately, you cannot contact them or submit a bug via the app, nor is there a link to any website. On iPhone X, when you turn off the alarm (not snooze), it silences your phone.

I love this app. I don’t bother paying attention to the information it gathers on when I sleep since regardless of how well I do or don’t sleep it says my sleep quality is always between 50-75% even when one 50% night consists of a better nights sleep than the previous nights 75%. What this app gives that keeps me coming back is the gentle wake up call. It starts out low and slowly brings you from asleep to awake. I have NEVER overslept once after downloading this app. The only thing I don’t like about this app is that it won’t let me listen to music in the background. (I sleep better if I can fall asleep listening to certain music or sounds) I have another app that shuts down after a specific period of time so that the music isn’t playing all night, but it counter acts Sleep Cycle so my alarm doesn’t go off. Do to my living situation I really can’t have a radio/ CD player playing all night. Is there a way you guys could incorporate this or adjust the app so it will work in the background? Thank you.

When I bought the app, my husband was working oversea!! The app works perfectly for me, than when he came back home, the app started reading my husband snores!! It’s not work perfectly, even if I place beside my head

Im having a problem and don’t want to write a bad review.

I love the app so far, but I was wondering if the sound from the fan on my nightstand was interfering. I know the app said it wouldn’t but the fan I have I think is fairly loud and I don’t see how it could hear anything else. Also does the phone have to be flat like in the illustration or can it be plugged into the dock built into my clock to charge?

I’ve used the app for nearly 2,000 nights and it has always been amazing. In the last month or two with the last few updates it just doesn’t work anymore. The alarm will either outright shutoff (fairly rare) or the sleep aid I play all night will stop playing (happens every single night). It’s not the settings and I have reinstalled to no avail. And I keep seeing review that the app is getting worse for people. What’s going on?! 😞

NOTE: You will automatically be charged for an annual “Premium” subscription when your trial is over. I found this app to be worthless for me. I tried it for a few weeks and stopped using it. I felt worse waking up to it then when I just get up at my normal time. I also found it not very accurate about if I was asleep or just laying in bed. I did not find this useful. I did get my money back - Apple support rocks.

I thought my phone was charging overnight but it wasn’t. The app woke me up to place my phone on charge to tell me that I might miss my alarm. Super intelligent app.

The minute slider numbers disappear.

I wish they would put back the setting where you can leave the noise maker sound on all night instead of just 90 minutes. I hate that.

Does not seem to work as a stand-alone Apple Watch app. Don’t want my phone in the bed room.

Until they fix this issue of battery drainage I’m done with this app

I have been looking for this one feature in many apps, and I believe it would be very helpful for those who want to wake up without disturbing anyone else. There should be an option to make the ability to end the vibrating in the Apple Watch disabled. This would force one to get up and turn it off on his or her phone without it making any sound. Hope y’all take this into account!

Helping me get to work in the morning you deserve 500 stars 👍

This app used to be great. Lately it assumes I woke up and turns itself off. If I wake up to go to the bathroom, or let the cat out, then come back to bed, the alarm turns itself off. It didn’t used to do this. I used to have to turn it off manually, and I want to be able to do that again. It monitors my sleep just fine, but now that it assumes I woke up, it’s become useless as an alarm.

Great developers.

After a month of premium (paid) service this ‘Sleep Cycle’ app isn’t working, and there isn’t any way to contact the app developers. I set the app to start recording my sleep and set down my device in the very specific way requested, with it plugged in even, and at some point during my sleep it turns off and records nothing. Last night it recorded 1.5 of the 8 hours I actually slept. I can’t edit to correct a specific sleep cycle. I can’t create records that have only basic information, like how many ours I slept. I have many night that have gone unrecorded and that is the information that goes into their stats. Stats based on incorrect information are useless! So what exactly does ‘premium’ service get me? Nothing. Who cares if I have bad and incomplete information backed up? All the other stats I can easily look up on my own, for free. Don’t buy the premium service. It is a complete waste of money. I also tried ‘Life Cycle’. It doesn’t track well. You have to fill in a lot of information and that is pointless when the map location is incorrect and, again, the app doesn’t allow you to edit or correct their mistakes. Incorrect information is useless. Neither app is worth paying for.

Need to provide guidance for the sleep notes feature to make it more useful. After using for a year now, I find that the data analysis isn’t that great. I probably could make it better but don’t really know how. Understanding how my sleep cycle varies with the weather and moon cycle is interesting, but I think it’s about as useful as a fortune cookie or horoscope. I’ve added user defined notes and consistently used them but there never seems to be a good correlation and is often illogical. For example, sleep quality is -15% with 1 coffee but +25% with two coffees. Doesn't integrate with either sleep cycle or Health Kit UPDATE 5/11/2018 (applies to both Power Nap & Sleep Cycle): Great apps overall. One major improvement needed, though: independent sound control. I use binaural beats apps and occasionally even use Apple Music or Pandora when going to sleep or napping. Your apps don’t do sound in the background well and don’t seem to have in-app volume control. Instead, your apps seem to override the iOS volume settings. The only way this works well is in Sleep Cycle, when waking in the morning. Otherwise it interferes with the UX. I like the background noises when going to sleep, but they are not subtle enough to allow other sound (which is at least possible to play at the same time as your app, so thanks for that) to be heard at a comfortable level. For example, when trying to power nap just now, I needed to use my binaural beats to help me eliminate a migraine before going to work. I’m in a noisy downtown area and it’s Saturday night. The binaural beats are great but the background noise from your app would help masking/drowning out the urban noises to make the 20-minute nap the most effective. Unfortunately, I have to turn the binaural beats up to max volume to be heard and this requires headphones. Your ambient noises are not designed / calibrated for headphones and cannot be comfortably played at maximum volume using headphones. Until the volume control (or perhaps calibration) is corrected, users will not be able to use the sleep aid background noises to help going to sleep if they want to also combine with other audio from the same device...especially when using headphones.

You just find yourself awake. I love the variable awake function. With premium the choices of “alarm” sound is vast. I don’t hear well so I attach a Bluetooth speaker and turn it up to maximum loudness. It’s wakes me!

I like what it does, the tone to wake you up is not annoying and it’s very easy to snooze. I’m giving it 4/5 because you have to set it every night unlike other apps that have weekly times.

One of your app’s very unique features is the notification when you’re snoring using the Apple Watch. The recording also provides feedback but I’d like to suggest that you add a right axis and add a second line/different color to the chart to summarize when snoring is detected in the Sleep Cycle through the evening. Seeing this in the chart WITH the sleep summary will provide immediate feedback as to when the snoring occurred in relation to deep sleep or the other sleep cycles and see in the snapshot the effects of snoring. Thank you!

Just got an iWatch so moving from Fitbit to Sleep Cycle. Miss having the sleep comparison to others my age and gender. I don’t really care what the average bedtime is in Iran. I’ll keep trying this and will resist the desire to go back to my Fitbit

This app keeps waking me up at 6 am on the weekend and I turned my alarm off and it keeps going off and I deleted the app

If you struggle with sleep you’ve probably spent major $$$ on pillows, sleep tests, cpap equipment, medication, herbal supplements, special lighting, and the list goes on. But how do you know if any of it is working? This app. As I follow my doctor’s advice and try changes to my behavior and bedroom to get a better night’s rest I use this app to give me objective data on my sleep quality. Get it now. Good night.

I used sleep cycle without premium and they billed me without authorization. No go for this app. I’ve used this app for quite a while

I set the alarm to wake me up around 9:30-10 and it always wakes me up around 1 am -3am disturbing my night sleep and making me more tired the next morning

I generally like this app, but there are certain flaws that drive me crazy! One of them is that occasionally (1/75 nights at most I would guess) the alarm never goes off. My phone did not restart during the night, and the screen isn’t even off. Once I wake up and move my phone it will start going off, but nothing at all before that, which is incredibly annoying, and has now forced me to add another alarm to make sure that at least that one will go off if SleepCycle fails. The second issue is more of a minor annoyance, and although I don’t claim to know anything about app development, seems super fixable. The sleep aid option used to have an “all night” option, but now the longest you can have it on is 90 minutes. That’s not a huge problem at my dorm because I have a white noise machine, but whenever I go home or travel anywhere it’s super annoying because I either have to use a different app to produce white noise on my phone (which interferes with the microphone-based sleep tracking) or buy a white noise machine to travel with. It just seems like an issue that is so easily fixed, and such a no-brainer, because some people (myself included) will wake up in the middle of the night and not know why, only to realize that the noise turned off!

I like that it can track your sleep and get you up comfortably and not immediately like alarm clocks do. This is an amazing app that I personally love.

Best sleep app ever

I had used this app for a year with no issues before I set an alarm for 6 am with this app once and woke up at 8 am to hear my phone VIBRATING. Sleep Cycle thought that what I needed to wake me up at the correct time in order for me to make it to an important event in a business conference was VIBRATIONS in lieu of an actual alarm noise. This app fails to function as a consistent alarm and is too variable in its actual alarm functions for it to be anything worth recommending, just because of this scenario.

Couldn’t figure out why the phone kept automatically lowering the volume to 0, I deleted this app and the problem vanished. Used to be a solid app but if the app lowers volume to the point where the alarm can’t be heard, it’s useless.

I've used the app for 4 years and have been really happy with it. However, the app now refuses to open... What gives?

I'm so thankful for this app! I am diagnosed with narcolepsy, hypersomnia & ADHD, all which effect my sleep patterns. This app is helping me monitor when I get deep sleep and when I toss and turn to help me better understand my causes of my daytime sleepiness, and enable me to create a healthy sleeping plan based on the results! Amazing!!!

I refuse to use my Clock app or any other alarm now that I use Sleep Cycle. I've been using it for about a year now and it's a much better way to wake up than a shrill noise interrupting your REM cycle. Brilliant app.

I wish it wasn't so costly to get all the benefits. I'm very surprised at what has been recorded!

Why is my area rated at -17 for sleep quality? I’d love to know more about this feature and how it works. Thanks for the wake up at the optimal time in the cycle. It does make a difference in how I feel. Thanks for recording my snoring. This is very helpful. Love this app. Help please with sleep location and it’s impact!

Apple Watch capabilities would be the finally shove for 5 stars as well as the subscription to be worth purchasing

New user. So I want to figure out how to determine the accuracy of the data. But it seems pretty accurate, and I do think I feel better in morning waking up to pleasant sounds in a light sleep cycle. I recommend the app from what I see so far.

The alarm has been waking me up an hour late for the past three days. I have been using this for over three months and this problem has just now occurred have everything set up to wake me up within 15 minutes of my wake time. I’ve tried reinstalling. Resetting the alarm to a different time. Same thing every time an hour late

drained my phone and watch battery from 50% to 0% by the time i woke up

For $30 per year I will buy a new Baby Ben windup alarm and pocket the remaining $25!

This update drains the Apple Watch battery. Typically I lose 10% by wearing my watch overnight. I lost 70% with this app running. Unacceptable.

Downloaded on phone but not on watch as stated, needs to get fixed soon.

I learned about this app yesterday and downloaded it last night. Maybe I missed something in the description that I still haven’t found, but I deleted it from my phone this morning. I thought that it would work with my watch as well as the phone since it uses the vibration on the watch to “nudge” you if you’re snoring. I was expecting a vibration to wake me, but my phone began to serenade me this morning and my husband asked “is that your alarm?” Since I’m up about three hours earlier than he on my work days, we’ve been very happy with my watch waking me in silence. A serenade at the time I’m in my lightest sleep isn’t the time my husband is planning to wake up.

Love the app, I’ve used it since the beginning! I just wish it had the option to alert you when someone texts. I often need it for work and many nights I use another alarm just because I won’t be alerted if I receive a text. Otherwise, this really is a great way to chart your sleep and wake up softly!

The app needs a way to pause sleep or put together two (or more) periods. If you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep you are supposed to get out of bed until you are sleepy. If you leave the app on after you get out of bed, it sometimes records you as sleeping. If you turn it off and restart it, it treats it as two nights and that affects the statistics. I really like the app, but for me, this is a major flaw and is enough to cause me to look for other ways to analyze my sleep. Another option, allow the user to set the start and end time of the analysis even if there are two or more periods during that time frame. There has to be a way to solve this problem. Like others, I would like to listen to my own music or other items as I drift off to sleep.

What's to say. Give this app a try and start waking up better, more refreshed, and at the right (body clock) time.

This is a great app but I do not like that it blocks notifications when it is running. There should be an on/off switch for this setting. Since the iOS 11 update, Sleep Cycle keeps message notifications from even appearing on my lock-screen. I understand silencing them but it’s just inconvenient to not be able to see my list of messages in the morning. Please fix this bug!

Automatic update means I can’t set my alarm for tomorrow. Fix please!

Thank you for the Apple Watch support!

This recent version has rendered it unusable for me. The app opens an led then crashes immediately. Bummer.

Were is the watch app, I can’t find it???

I use this app without an Apple Watch. Phone is upside down on the bedside table as recommended. This morning I woke up and my wife told me she was up with our baby at midnight and 5. 5am I remembered, but midnight I did not. I was sure I had the app tricked... there’s no way it tracked me asleep through my wife getting out of bed to feed our kid and the kid crying and all the rest of the clatter. But it did. I’m pretty impressed.

I've logged over 500 nights of sleep in this app and love it. And the recent update to support Apple Watch is great!

Love this app. Was eager to have it take advantage of my Apple Watch but I woke up twice last night to see that the app had crashed on my watch. Don’t push out updates that aren’t ready!

This is one of my must have apps. Love the integration with health app and the new "in bed" and "asleep" differentiation. Would be awesome to see what you can do with the Apple Watch next. Thanks for this awesome app Update: great support for iPhone X

I own an Apple Watch series 0 and downloaded the app solely for the Watch app. But it does not show up in my list of Watch apps. Doesn’t the app support series 0 watch?

By far the best alarm clock app on iPhone, and it just got better. I’ve been using this alarm clock since it hit the App Store. I have emailed the developer and asked to update the app to use the Apple Watch. Now it uses the Apple Watch and the app is complete.

You guys rock Been using now for 3 months. But please put some sales and stuff for your prices. Thanks

By far the best sleep tracking app I've used. Last night was my first using the new watch app and it was the best measurement to date. The one issue us the battery life on your Apple watch. If used something like 60% overnight.

This app has a lot of great features that I love! However I couldn’t figure out why I was still waking up irritable and tired. I realized that Sleep Cycle was hearing my partners snoring and breathing and not my own. This being the case it was also not tracking my sleep cycles and finding the optimal time for me to wake up.

Apple Watch app is perfect and this app keeps getting better and better. Request: Make the Apple Watch more independent by using it’s motion instead of the iPhone’s microphone to detect movement if possible.

This has been one of my favorite apps for nearly 10 years but this new update is terrible for the Apple Watch. I was looking forward to this feature but it absolutely jills the battery more than any Watch app I’ve ever had.

Update: Yes! I am so excited for the new update to include Apple Watch. I can’t wait to try this tonight. Thank you so much Team!!!! I love this app. Definitely worth the money and very interesting. I use it every night and because of the progressive waking up feature I wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day.

I have tested this multiple times in a matter how loudly and long I simulate snoring, there is no vibration to my watch.

It's a great app but it won't show the option to install on my Apple Watch running iOS 10.

Does what it claims but only 2 stars because I can’t ever use it. There’s no way to keep your notifications on while the app is running and I need to know if someone texts me for work while I’m asleep most nights. Another small thing: the sleep quality only measures the length of your sleep.

It would be nice if they could let you fall asleep with music playing on a Bluetooth speaker instead of the phone’s speaker. If they would change it I would give it a 5 star review for sure.

I just started using this app. I enjoy it, however it is recording my partner’s snoring :/. He is pretty loud. I’m concerned how this impacts the accuracy of the data. Does it matter? I’m not sure.

I would give this more stars if you had the ability to edit entries. Sometimes I fall asleep and neglect to stop the app when I get up, which is ALWAYS before the Alarm as I have chronic Insomnia. If you want me to buy a Premium Subscription for $29.99 yearly, I would think that feature would be available.

The past few days, it’s almost impossible to snooze. I have to exit the app and return for it to recognize my snooze. Shaking is useless, and since the volume is increasing, I can’t hit the button itself. Please fix this ASAP!

Why don’t you use the Apple Watch like jawbone uses the UP to gently wake people and get a better read on people.

This app has really opened my eyes that I need to see a doctor because of how much I snore and am restless through the night. My sleep is only 60%!!! Shocking.

Getting up early now feels like cheating! It's so easy to wake up now!!! Thank you!

Super accurate and helps me track my sleep as well as wake up when it's best according to my sleep cycle. Awesome alarm sounds too, very gentle

I had high hopes for the app and used it for two nights. I considered buying premium since I liked it so much, and then I saw the price. $40 a month is too much for an app if you ask me.

I enjoy looking at the results. I have my doubts about how it recognizes snoring since I sleep with my husband. How can it distinguish who is snoring?

The app itself seems to work fine and was pleasant to use, but there are some major caveats. The app is very unclear about which features are free and which are premium. There is a month free trial, but as the app page says and as I was told in email correspondence, there is also a way to just use the free features of the app continually. Which features those are is still a mystery to me. Due to the confusion, I went over the free trial expecting to still be able to use the free features, and instead was charged a full year’s subscription, which brings me to my second problem with this app. They charge you for a whole year’s worth and do not refund you. So, if you go even a second past that free trial l, your bank account gets charged $32, and there is no way to refund. I emailed twice about this, and only got automated responses. I’ve never used an app that was so unclear in its delineation of free vs paid features and how the payment system works, and I’m pretty disappointed in being charged a year’s worth of an expensive app that I was just trying out. Be warned.

It is a really good App

Pretty impressive stuff. If I were to recommend a change, I'd like the option to put in more sleep notes than the ones pre-made, such as a little notepad to document emotional factors or what dream details could be recalled. Great app!

I like the app a lot but 2 problems One:I sleep with my parents I am 11 and it detects my dads snoring like it’s me Two:my parents don’t tell me the password for the iPad so I always have to wake them up when the alarm goes off Suggestion:make a feature that lets you turn off the alarm from the lock screen Overalls:great app just needs a few updates and improvements

I didn’t know that having a Sleep cycle app would help with my sleeping. But I am more relaxed and have deep sleep. I wake up feeling great!

i usually go through phases of things im interested in but ive been using this app for over a month and i still get excited every morning to see how i slept the night before. this stuff is not made up! its extremely accurate and ive never slept through the alarm unlike the alarms in my iphone.

So I was planning on giving this app a try starting off with the trial then subscribing. I set my alarm at 4:00-4:30am to go work but the alarm never went off and almost made me late to my opening shift. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! I was expecting a lot from this app and got s****** over. Next time I’ll stick to my built-in alarm that is reliable!

This app is the business, very informative from what it was at first. Very impressed!!

They demand you don’t lock the screen while sleeping and harass you if you do. Doing so will prevent iCloud backups from working because it only runs automatically when the screen is locked. Using this app the way they demand will result in some users losing data because their backups aren’t working as expected.

This app is really great!

Love the app and the loads of options for alarm and analysis. Would like to see a feature to enable the app and play music or podcasts in a “sleep mode” so I can listen to something as I doze.

So consistent for Many years, now alarm is not going off and I am oversleeping 😳. PLEASE fix as I love this app and don't want to use another.

I’ve used this app for years love it. Please please please add some type of Apple Watch support for sleep tracking!!! Would make app 7 STARS!!!

It tells you that you were in deep sleep at a time when you know you were up. The nights I feel like i slept great it spits up a 62% and nights when I know I’ve tossed and turned a lot it gives me 97%???

This app is great, i’ve had it since i’ve had an ipod back when ipods were cool lol. I love everything about it except one thing that i hope they change soon, because i use it every night. So i have my phone sound on to be able to hear for emergency texts or phone calls at night. The phone call sound sometimes goes through but not always and my texts NEVER make sounds when i’m using this app. I find this to be a big flaw for me because if i didn’t want to hear my notifications i would just have it on silent. So pleaseeee fix this sleep cycle and you will definitely be worth five stars.

Sleep cycle doesn’t work for me anymore.It doesn’t wake me up anymore.

This app was good until it called 911 on my phone. So when you don’t wake up it gives you the emergency option for some reason and when I was trying to turn it off it called 911 and I hung up but they called me back and I told them what happened but this app needs to fix that.

So Let’s be honest here😋 I am 11 years old and my mom has this app I thought it was cool so why not, am I right 😂 anyways I rly like this app it’s awesome 👏🏻 congratulations! U picked the perfect sleep track!!! (also alarm)

I love it Best thing to sleep with

I downloaded this app a long time ago & loved it until it kept crashing with Apple’s IOS updates. Re-downloaded again recently & want to love it but now all the great features I used to use for free are now only available if I pay $29.99 to upgrade to Premium, thus the reason for my 2-Star review. You get NOTHING but an alarm clock & viewing of your sleep stats with the free version. I can use Apple’s version for that. Very disheartening, therefore deleting this app.

This app helps me track my sleeping and is a good motivator to help me improve my sleeping habits.

No matter what orientation I put my finger on the camera it will not track my heart rate.

Need a way to turn it on automatically. I forget at night when it’s time for me to finally go to sleep.

I had premium options on my app for probably a year and then suddenly one day I didn’t and was offered the chance to pay for things I had previously already been receiving. Disappointing and sad.

There really needs to be an option to allow messages through if wanted. I get the idea behind silencing them but come on, sometimes we need to get messages at all times and there’s no override option for this. Big down fall of an otherwise great app.

All the good features are Premium, you got to pay for everything except the Alarm feature!

Interested in Sleep cycle app because of Business Wire article describing snore stopper feature. Article stated that this was the only snore stopper app integrated w/ Apple Watch. Sadly, according to app, this feature is suspended. Bummer!

This app has given me the idea what my sleep look like. The best part is when it wakes you up, you are not in deep sleep that makes easy to leave the bed. Habituated to track my sleep for years. Thanks to the developer!

I think that premium shouldn’t cost that much. Other than that I love the app it is very helpful.

I’m almost positive I paid money for this app years ago, and yet with this latest update all the features that I enjoyed the most about the app (sleep notes, trends, mood upon awakening, etc.) I now have to pay $30/month for? That’s really lame.

I’ve never been a morning person. Even when I had to wake up early for something I enjoyed doin, I felt like smashing my alarm clock against the wall. Now, I can wake up and enjoy my time of peace eating breakfast and having some time to really wake up before I leave for school. One complaint I have (though I don’t know how in the world it could be fixed) is that whenever I try to use my watch along with the app, my watch’s battery is near dead by morning, even if I start at full capacity. Really is a shame, but the phone does the job well by itself.

As a heavy sleeper I absolutely LOVE this app and have found it to be the only thing that really works to wake me up. BUT, I downloaded the app for free and after a month received a $30 yearly subscription charge to my iTunes account without my authorization! I was able to reverse the charges easily with Apple, but may not see the funds back for up to a month. To avoid this happening to you, go to your subscriptions settings in iTunes, and “cancel subscription”.

You need to remember to set it at night before falling asleep and also to turn it off when you wake up. If you fall asleep, no tracking. If you wake up and run out the door and forget to turn it off, you’re sleeping for 24 hours and there’s no way to edit the times. The phone knows when it’s not movies and when you woke up. Time for some automatic sleep tracking.

please. It gets really annoying when alarm reaches max.

I still love this app but I can’t seem to get it to read my heart rate from the camera. It fails to calibrate and quits...

This app is amazing and has helped improve my quality of sleep. I wake up more refreshed, and the alarm rouses me without disturbing my spouse. Using the mic is a very clever way of tracking sleep. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants better sleep!

I sleep with usually a fan or a white noise machine or both, will this work with those on or will it interfere?

Allow me to choose the volume for sleep sound and alarm separately, with two sliders. Allow to play songs from my music as the sleep sound/alarm. Show the connection between my heart rates, and how good I slept. Meaning, when I wake up, what heart rate I have after sleeping well, and what heart rate I have after a bad night of sleep. Force screen to stay on while heart rate is detected, otherwise it keeps restarting.

Everything is p good about the app! Yall did a good job. But can yall add variety to it? Like better backgrounds or maybe some twinkling stars?

I use this sleep aid to keep track of my time asleep. It may help to determine if I have sufficient deep sleep cycles but it is hard to discern that information — better left to sleep researchers to determine.

I love this app to the point to where I have paid for the subscription. However I am very disappointed that they released an update about a month ago for iPhone X compatibility however the heart sensor still isn’t working. Contacting their support said it would be within two weeks and still nothing. When they get that feature fixed my rating will go back up but it’s kind of a let down to be paying for an app but not be able to take full advantage.

I set my alarm for 8:30, understanding that the alarm could go off 30 minutes early at 8 am. Set my phone beside myself and went to bed. I was hoping to use this app to help track my poor sleep at night. This morning the alarm went off at 6:30 not 8 or 8:30, I was so tired I hadn’t gotten 7 hours of sleep so I went back to sleep but suffered from the extra early wake up regardless. Why did it wake me 2 hours early? Is this a torture device? Or is it just the worst alarm ever?

The app works well I like seeing the trends. It has shown as my wife confirms that as I lost weight I have significantly decreased my storing. I also have been able to pinpoint that I only snore slightly after falling asleep. However I have red that there is a snore feature for the watch and can’t find out how to turn it on.

Don’t misunderstand me, is an amazing alarm, I love it! BUT, if you need to use your phone for anything during the night (such lantern for example) if you click to light up so you can unlock or start the lantern, it will go crazy! Is going to take a minute for the screen to hold illuminated so you can actually turn the lantern on. This morning, it would not turn the alarm off with the simple side click as usually. I das to grab the phone and unlock it to turn it off, and it was extremely laid by the time it happened. Maybe if they fix that, I would consider getting the paid version.

I had access to all of the now ‘Premium’ information. There has been an update, all of those features are gone, and I’m required to pay a subscription for something I thought I already paid for? Did I miss something? I’ve been using the app for a couple of years now and loved what I was getting. But now the features have been cut and I’m not willing to pay a monthly subscription for something that was once included.

The app was good until the ability to listen to and see how much you snore was maid a pay service. Pretty disappointing.

Trend data used be free, now that want payment. Would have given more stars, but now not so much. Still a great app to wake up to. Has been working great for 2 years.

This app started ok, then got much better. But of late, the heart rate monitor never works (just says getting heart rate from Apple Health, which doesn’t have it, since I just woke up). Settings are correct, but it just doesn’t bother anymore, and I don’t like the missing data.

Love this app before last update. Really helps keep track of your sleep patterns. I like the heart rate and snore functions. But ever since the latest update my heart rate function isn’t working. Flash does not stay on to allow camera to get heart rate. I have tried resetting app and even turning off and on. Still no help. Hope they fix it soon or I may not want to keep paying for Premium Service.

This app is lame; I paid once and had full functionality and used it loyally but then they decided to s**** older users over by changing to an overpriced subscription model and now I can’t access any of the historic data like I installed the app for.

The app itself is good, but really needs watch integration improvements. Was shocked at the battery drain when I woke up. Then on top of that find out that the watch wasn’t doesn’t even do the monitoring when using this app. Major issues there. May try again after an update.

I’ve been using sleep cycle for almost a year now. I like how the alarms grow closer together the closer it is to the time you set as the alarm. However, it can get annoying when it starts ringing at the beginning of the window and then gets louder because you don’t snooze it. I hear the alarm in my dreams and don’t realize it is actually the alarm or I don’t realize that I haven’t turned it off until it’s gets super loud and I’m worrying about my roommate(s) waking up. It’s especially worrisome when you have roommates who are still asleep. I like the idea of the app though, this is my one critique. And that if you have your own sleep aid, you can’t play it on your phone at the same time.

You can no longer use sleep notes which helped Identify things that helped or hurt your sleep.

I don’t understand this. It tanks your watch battery but movement is not tracked by the app(why not? Seems ideal. My guess is some sort of apple restriction?). But either way doesn’t make sense why it would use so much battery. I tried using the microphone method and it’s the same. It still uses the mic in the phone yet blows through your watch battery.

I have used this app for awhile and while I like the features of it, it is an absolute Apple Watch battery drainer! I can go to bed with full battery life and when I wake up my battery life is anywhere between 30-40%. I find this a bit crazy. I will be finding other sleep apps that do a better job with minimum battery usage. Uninstalled.

I have the premium subscription and love the app. The only feature that I need added is to be able to play a playlist from my phone on random as the alarm. Also, only some of my songs are showing up, but that probably isn't the apps fault. The Apple cloud sync makes things wonky. Add the ability to play a random song and you will get ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me.

Used this great app for a good while and recently noticed that I now have to pay $29.99 a year to use features that were previously free. Guess I’ll be looking for a new app.

Very good but it would be nice if you would let everyone use this app while using a Bluetooth sound device if possible

I’ve been using this as an alarm for years now, and I have zero complains. Apart from the occasional bug, the app is fantastic. I hear the calming alarm in the morning and my body recognizes the tone and wakes up peacefully. No stressing or waking up to a loud noise. The app makes mornings a little easier.

I have loved this app for ages, and have gotten dozens of people to purchase it. With my latest update to iPhone XR, however, I’ve noticed that even though my steps seem accurate in the Apple health app, and even though everything is set up for Sleep Cycle to have permissions to access Health data, morning after morning, Sleep Cycle is telling me that my steps for the previous day were something like 300…or 850. (I usually average around 8000). Can’t find any rhyme or reason for these seemingly random, ultra-low numbers, because once again, everything seems correct in Health. It seems like this is a simple bug to fix, and I’m astounded that it hasn’t been done already. Once it is, my rating goes back up to five stars! Thanks!

The title says it all every morning I used to wake up to my all time favorite sound “Metro Mind” which reminded me every morning of my long term goal to eventually move to to inner city and put me in the right state of mind now that they’ve made it $29.99 just to hear my favorite sound I absolutely HATE the alarm I wakeup to

App would work great for one person in the room. App seems to pick up sounds from when my wife gets up in addition to me.

Features that had been free are now only available for a $29.99 a year fee. I’m looking for a new sleep app. So disappointing

This is a very helpful app to show me how well I sleep each night, waking heart rate and extent of snoring. I would still like to learn more about how exactly this app determines my sleep cycle, and how closely aligned it would be w a formal medical sleep test .

This new update now makes you pay for all the things that made the app great. I’ve used this app for a long time and now will find another app; I will pay for another app. Because now it’s just a slightly better than basic alarm clock. It seems like a scam now, don’t get played like I did!

It wants to record every thing in the bedroom and promises they won’t access it, right.

I had originally canceled my subscription after a week and you still charged me for a yearly subscription. I sent multiple requests for a refund which were all turned down. Im even ok with you charging me the $4.99 if you dont want to give me all of my money I WANT MY REFUND i did not choose the yearly payment i have emailed you multiple times. I would give zero stars if i could.

This is my favorite app to wake up with but with the new iPhones that have you swipe up as a home button it’s frustrating because that’s how you end your night of sleep. Sometimes I end it before I’m supposed to or it stays on throughout the day because you have to make sure you end the app instead of just closing it.

I really liked this app, and have used it since it was released. Unfortunately, I am extremely disappointed but now you’re supposed to pay a subscription for all the things that used to be three. Seems like you’re user base should’ve been grandfathered in. Super annoying!

This app would be great if I was a single person but I’m married. Let me explain, the app is suppose to only hear your sleep pattern and movements. It doesn’t, it hears everything. My husband gets up before I do. He is one of those people that have a natural internal alarm clock. He wakes around 6 am or earlier everyone morning. I am suppose to wake up at 6:30. When my husband gets out of bed the app hears him and assumes I’m ready to get up even though it shows on my app that I was in a deep sleep. Every morning the alarm goes off at 6am. I end up hit snooze more with this app than any other app I have tried. So... if you are single and don’t have a partner/spouse/other you will like this app. If not look elsewhere.

I do like this app, but why is it that suddenly the things I have been using all along are part of the premium? I have been using this app since 2016. I have been using the sleep notes, wake up mood and heart rate since the beginning. Why is it I now need to buy premium to use the features I have had all along?!? That’s a really cheap move on your part to suddenly charge for the basic features I have had access to for years. It makes me not want to use this app anymore.

Disappointed that I’ve used this app for some time now and previously free functions now have a subscription.

I love this app BUT it is really annoying that there aren’t more sounds to wake up to for non premium members

Great sleep tracker. Lay your phone on the nightstand and press start. Alarm is very effective. Some issues but no deal breakers except price. You can set up your own metrics, say comparing sleeping in a hotel or at home and see how your sleep differs, for better or worse. 30 bucks a year is ludicrous however. Back to the free version I guess.

Not sure if it’s because I’m playing Bluetooth through my Alexa to my Bluetooth speaker, but I’m so glad I can finally fall asleep to music through my speakers instead of my phone, which was a pretty big issue before. This app has continued to improve for the last four years I have been using it and I feel weird when I don’t use this app to go to sleep. It’s the most consistent part of my daily routine. When I don’t set it on a wild night out and forget, I wake up with a bittersweet feeling. That being said, it does drain a good chunk of battery if you try use it unplugged, but it will give you warning before you set the sleep setting. I love this app because you can track your sleep without setting alarm, choosing to wake up at your own pace as well as setting the wake up window that you want. I usually leave it set at 30 minutes. The only feature I wish it had was an ability to change the alarm time after you’ve set it. Sometimes you wake up, realize it’s a snow day and you don’t have to go to work, and you can keep sleeping. But for those days, since the alarm will keep going off until you fully deactivate the sleep measuring feature, you have to completely turn off the tracking feature to disable the alarm. It would be nice if the two were separate. Overall, the app is my most consistently used over the longest stretch of time. I love knowing how long I spend tossing and turning versus a good night where I’m knocked out and don’t move a muscle the whole night. Have definitely recommended to a friend and would recommend again.

I’ve been using this app for at least seven years, but much of the original functionality is now only available with a premium subscription. It was good enough when the app was new to allow me to see my stats, choose my own music, etc., but now the creators are too greedy for its users? I’m not cheap, but I know what this app could do for its original price. Yeah, a handful of new bells and whistles and fewer features available without a surcharge are not going to keep me around for much longer. I’ve deleted lesser apps. Sleep Cycle’s days are numbered.

Wakey wakey. Money money.

Just want to start off by saying I use this app every night. But Sleep Cycle just gone away and took free features and made them for premium users only. I went to listen to my snoring because I like to joke on myself and send them to my mom or tell my boyfriend I slept silently when there are zero snore minutes. I’ve been sick and congested, so I wanted to see how I sounded. But, behold! This feature is now only available for premium users. Not only this feature, but many more that I used to like and visit frequently. I’m a person that loves value at low cost (re: free), because life is expensive. I’ll now be looking for a sleep app that has similar features but doesn’t require that I pay $30 to use them. Should shrugs from snorin bugs.

Need to update my email address. They provide no ability to contact them but do manage to keep paid subscription happening automatically.

Hectic college student here, finishing my B.S. in Chemistry and working late in ER all the time. This app helps me wake up on time no matter how late I go to bed and makes sure I always feel rested when I wake up bright and early. Love it.

I did love this app! It worked fine through October and November, but for some reason dec 1st it stopped working. I try to set it and it just spins, I keep retrying and it won’t set! I’m so upset! What can I do? Get a different app?

It’s a great app. I’m confused on one thing. It says it has complications for the watch but there is nothing in the complication list when setting a watch face. Other than that, I love the way it wakes me up without disturbing my wife! Best alarm app ever!

I would happily give this app 5 stars, however, I would LOVE if we could set a recurring alarm so we don’t have to manually go into the app, and reset what time we’d like it for.