Sleep++ App Reviews

People praising Sleep++s sleep tracking must not be familiar with the sleep tracking apps on other platforms. I was using a Microsoft Band 2 until its galvanic skin sensors started giving me a rash. Consequently, I bought an Apple Watch believing it was a rich app platform that would have many great options for tracking sleep. Im surprised and disappointed to learn otherwise. Specifically, while I can tell Sleep++ 2.0 when I lay down for sleep, it has no idea when Im actually sleeping. For example, last night I could not sleep so I went into another room to read, yet Sleep++ seems to think I was sleeping the whole time! As a result, it gives me laughably bogus data about how "restful" my night supposedly was. What good does that do anyone? I do not know what magic Microsoft uses to make its Band 2 app so useful, but I cannot yet find its equal for Apple Watch, particularly when it comes to sleep tracking. In an article posted on December 14, 2015, David Walsh talks about using HeartWatch in conjunction with Sleep++. This combination works better than anything I have found so far on Apple Watch, but it is still so disappointing compared to what I am used to.

Needs an update.

Finally someone with brains and common sense developed a sleep app just like the one the Fitbit has. No need to have the phone on to monitor and record the sleep and once is sync with the phone, it transfers all the recorded data to the phone from the iWatch. Personally I am very pleased with it. Great job!

This app does exactly what it says smoothly and perfectly, no bells and whistles! I am able to see exactly how well I am sleeping! Great

keeps saying i need to enable motion and fitness tracking. already verified that it is enabled and even enabled saving to health kit

This app worked great with the Apple Watch 2.1 and iOS 9.2. Now with the updates to Apple Watch 2.2 and iOS 9.3 this app is totally broken. It wont write any data to the app itself or the health app. I have written an email to the company but no response about an update. Hold out on this app until its updated.

Ive tried them all, and this one is the most consistent and accurate. I can finally say I dont need to use 3 or 4 apps each night I just use this one now, and I am happy to know it is working, and helping create better sleep patterns.

The latest version is a solid improvement of what was already a simple but very useful app. My biggest gripe about the original was that the graph of a nights sleep was too small on the iPhone screen. This is fixed in the latest version, which lets you see an individual night as a long vertical bar, with details of the night now readable. Another refinement is that awake time is now shown as a distinct entry on the graph, not lumped in with restless time as before.

I find it frustrating that the data from the watch doesnt easily and consistently sync over to the phone (and the health kit.) I also think that this app could easily out perform my old Fitbit Charge HR if it would automatically detect my sleep without me having to tap that I went to bed, or got up manually. It would get 5 stars if it would also show my heart rate throughout the night.

This latest version is SO good, I don’t understand why there are ANY negative reviews (I’m running it with iOS 9.3 and watchOS 2.2). I needed to try this since I’m paying more attention to HealthKit data now that I got my watch. I wasn’t sure how this was going to work (from a power standpoint), but if I charge my phone when I’m heading to bed and top it off in the morning I can be at 100% when I walk out of the house. You do still have to hit “going to sleep” and “I woke up” (something like that) and it has gotten MUCH smarter to figure out when I went to sleep and when I woke. It has gotten much smarter in the data that it passes to HealthKit, skipping gaps that it knows you weren’t sleeping. NOW the app allows you to trim the data (at either end), you can trim the data if you know you weren’t sleeping and just laying there. It would be really nice if it counted how many times I truly got up in the middle of the night; it doesn’t seem to make any distinction between restless minutes and when you’ve gotten up and left the room. Knowing that I was "restless for 38 minutes" or “restless for 38 minutes AND got up 3 times” is much more relevant data. I know there isn’t useful ways to report this to Health, but I’d know it. (Yes, in the morning I know about how many times i got up, but weeks later reviewing the data I don’t). FYI, be sure to put your watch in Airplane mode to save battery power. You do need to figure out a routine to charge your watch since you’re using ti 24/7 now: charge in the shower and when getting ready in the morning. I set a timer on the watch before I remove it, to remind me to come back and get it when it’s likely to be done (so I don’t leave it at home!). HealthKit related: It’s improved it’s two entries to HealthKit each time I sleep, “In Bed” and “Asleep” while they USED to have the same start and end times, now it’s different and the data appears much better.

Hard as hell to get permission from the phone to allow it to work on the watch. Does not fully track sleep nor does it automatically track. Once you decide to go to sleep it starts a timer and stops when you shut it off. So if you start at midnight and wake at 7am you had 7 hours of sleep. Even though it took 30 minutes to fall asleep and your two year old came in and kept you up from 3 to 430 you still got 7 hours of sleep. Need to get ahold of the Microsoft band and see what they are doing. The MS band is spot on.

Apple Watch makers need to tell Apple or see why apps arent working

I am loving the app. Previously I was using the Jawbone UP24 to track only my sleep at night (swapping the Apple Watch for up band at night, and back again in the morning), however their hardware and software just got more flakey over time and after using sleep++ successfully on a few trips, Ive decided to switch permanently and havent looked back. Totally essential app. Also, they have a method for wearing your Apple Watch 23 hours a day that works perfectly: Instead of charging it all night, just pop it on the charger immediately when you wake up (for example as you are getting ready for the day) and in my experience, that ~30-45 minutes will be enough to charge the watch back to full capacity. Perfect

This app does not work. I was awake and restless for 3 hours last night and this app says not only was I sleeping but it was my best sleep period of the night. Don"t waste your time!

Im convinced this is the best software to capture your sleep cycles. Ive been using this software off and on for the past year, and am happy with the results it displays.

I really wanted to like this app. I purchased the upgrade and used it faithfully, but it didnt work for me. First - it doesnt back up to iCloud or another system. Yes, all of apple health has that issue, but other apps like withings and daily burn dont. Secondly, and more importantly, I found it didnt accurately represent my sleeping activity. The difference between a sleepless night and a great night doesnt show in the app. Im not sure if its the lack of sensitivity or a tweak of the algorithm thats needed - but it fundamentally fails for me. Third and finally - as other people point out, theres a great opportunity to combine in the heart rate data to get more accurate results, and that doesnt seem to be included at all. So - sadly, Im going back to my previous sleep tracker. It uses my iPhone and is a pain - but it works.

In health App this lists time asleep as identical to time in bed. Doesnt use the heart rate sensor. I have to tell it when I woke up.. Like it cant tell?

How is this better than just pen and paper. Having to attempt to remember to turn it on before falling asleep and off when I wake up turns sleep tracking into a chore. When I used a garmin watch, you set a window of when you normally go to bed and wake and it does the rest. Simple, elegant, everything this app isnt. Gave it a second star just because of health integration.

First right off the bat, Im not a fan of this app because it assumes that youre sleeping when you press on start. I would have liked for it to start counting actual sleep time the moment you started to not move as much (actually sleep). I have only tried this app 2 times since the big update and both times when I tried to sync the data to my iPhone (I took the watch off airplane mode before even ending tracking) the data wouldnt sync to my iPhone and it would disappear from my watch. Essentially youre better of just using an iPhone app to track your sleeping since this isnt working as claimed.

Been using sleep++ for months and its always showed when I was and was not sleeping correctly. Just recently though the data stopped syncing between my watch and phone. Would also like to see better analytics and heart rate data mixed in. Great concept and start though!