Sleep Cycle User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.8% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience47.8% of reviews

~ Based on 2,108 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Sleep Cycle Safe?

Sleep Cycle - Tracker & Sounds appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Sleep Cycle is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 28,640 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 28,640 App Store ratings for Sleep Cycle.

Is Sleep Cycle Legit?

Sleep Cycle - Tracker & Sounds appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sleep Cycle is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Do not do a free trial!!!!

I did a free trial of this and decided it wasn’t for me. It was literally impossible to cancel. I wasted over 2 hours trying to cancel this the day before the free trial ended including multiple emails to Sleep Cycle. No response and they ran the charge anyway. Luckily my CC company flag it and I was able to decline the charge. Horrible experience!
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Rubbish

I purchased lifetime access years ago. At some point, they switched to a subscription model, and suddenly features I used to have access to are no longer available. They claim I still have everything from when I originally paid, but that isn't what lifetime access means to a consumer. You buy an app to support the developers and expect to keep using new features as it improves. They are beyond greedy. I even have to pay extra to use my watch as a sleep tracker instead of my phone. The current state of this app is rubbish. I hope alternative apps steal their customers for good so they get what they deserve.
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Scam

Complete scam job. Don’t bother. I don’t know who they’re linked to or who they buy your info from, but stay clear. I’ve never used the app, it wasn’t on my phone but I somehow caught a $69.99 charge to my bank account. Had to look it up to find out what this stupid app is (by the way, you can find way better versions of this garbage app for free). Of course Venmo doesn’t care that someone stole your money, they never do. Reached out to apple support they said the charge wasn’t made through them I had to contact the app people. I contacted the app people and explained that I didn’t use the app I hadn’t made the purchase, and I’m a single father of three and I can’t afford to lose that money. That charge cleaned me out. They got back to me once, basically it’s not their problem and they’re keeping my stolen money. I’m contacting BBB and anyone else that will listen. I guess as long as I can’t afford gas to get to work the rest of the week I’ve got all the time in the world to make things difficult for these thieves. I’d say don’t download the app, but apparently it doesn’t matter they’ll find some way to steal your money. If I could give zero stars I would. Shame on you sleep cycle.
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Bad

I cant even listen to my sounds in my sleep since it makes me pay!!! Not fair at all

Good

I am 11 and this is the first time I have used it. Told me when I was asleep or dreaming witch was helpfull

Ryan Harding

Because my dad said to me that I have to use is and my dad was right all along and before I have I couldn’t sleep and then Aidan told me some tips about using is app that is can allow to make you sleep and it got a sleep tracker that tracked when you’re awake and when your bedroom lights and it can track your dreams and track when you’re in a deep sleep
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배터리 소모 심각

몇년째 유료결제해서 쓰고있는데 근 일주일들어 밤에 배터리 소모가 심각합니다. 예전에는 안그랬던거 같은데 한 30퍼센트 남은채로 충전기 안꼽고 앱 켜고 잠들면 아침에 폰이 꺼져있을때가 부지기수입니다. 확인 부탁드립니다

Pessima experiencia

Fiz a conta premium através do benefício do Wellhub, permiti tudo que tinha pra sincronização com o Apple Watch, mas ele não está monitorando nada automaticamente. Tudo permitido no Watch e no app. Não faz o menor sentido ter que fazer isso manualmente toda noite. Decepcionante!

Needs option to hide sleep data

Love the app. I use it for the alarm clock functionality, waking me up in the lightest part of my sleep cycle in the morning. What I find very stressful is, upon waking and turning off the alarm, immediately seeing a page of my sleep data. Could the app please be adjusted so that there is a “data lite” version / “alarm only” interface, for those of us who are anxious about our sleep? (With the option to unearth the sleep data IF we want it?)
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Recent loading problems

Loved the app and it’s been my main alarm since 2018. Recently the app refuses to load after opening. Even after updates. Very frustrating

Never works

This app will not load 98% of the time yet charges 100% of the time. It simply does not load.

Oh Well

I have been using this app for many years but I can no longer afford it due to the price increase. Went up from $39.99 to $57.99 which I am very sorry to say is out of my price range. It sucks because I LOVE this app and have been using it for many many years. Oh well…off to find something less expensive….😞
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Sr.

Muito bom e divertido, excelente para orientar e disciplinar na rotina de cada dia.👏👏👏

Should be free

Went from owning to needing a subscription while they find new ways to make money off our data. Customers get asked for more input to feed profit margins. Tiring

Erased my session, impossible to contact

I woke up and needed to re record and it erased the first session I needed. This thing has always been a piece of garbage that barely works and offers no help or contact support.

UPDATED: app can’t track you when you play it’s sounds to fall asleep

2026 update: I’ve started using the in-app options for music and soundscapes to fall asleep to rather than my stereo.

Unfortunately, it’s messing with the app’s ability to detect when I’ve fallen asleep and all the readings and data is now inaccurate.

If the app is going to provide me with the ability to play music / sounds IN the app, then the app should have the ability to filter out its own sounds when analyzing the sounds from the environment.

I have two weeks of garbage data because of this. So frustrating.


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Best part of this app for me is seeing the record of when I go to sleep & wake up every day as well as the time in bed vs. Estimated time actually sleeping.

Please stop changing the location of the various stats on the journal page with every new update. So frustrating to have to be regularly reorienting myself.
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Wish it worked for me

Still remains a mystery to me how people use it to ‘analyse’ and improve their sleep.

Not Happy.

The sleep graph never displays how I slept. Nothing but a straight line. That is from the time I sleep till the time I am awake. Why, is there nothing but a since I’ve been using this a year‼️

Muito bom

Perfeito e me ajuda muito a controlar meus hábitos de sono

Best app ever

Update: it used to be the best app ever. But since they’ve decided to make more money out of users it’s become annoying. All the pop ups disrupt smooth usage of the app. Then the new dynamic of upgrading to whatever the next level is after having a premium account, I tried it cause I wanted to hear the environmental noise. Which we used to hear in my premium account. And it was a farce. You can’t hear anything, it just provides amplitude lines which is useless. I still use it daily, the app is great, but why did you need to try to squeeze more money out of users?

Old review: Honestly this is the best app I own. I feel it does a fantastic service to one's sleep process. The wake up sound is fantastic and I love tracking my sleep cycle over the past almost 20 years. Thank you sleep cycle! :-)
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