Sleep Cycle User Reviews

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Very useful app

Really helping me monitor and improve my sleep

Cannot cancel before trial ends

I have spent literal hours trying to find out how to cancel this trial. It does not show under subscriptions and doesn’t recognize my email address when I try to cancel that way. The app was a curiosity for me and not very useful, now I seem to be stuck paying for it when the trial ends.

Kinda creepy

I think this app is great to start off but the thing is that it let you record your sleep and I mean that’s the basic functionality of the app but I didn’t know before hand that you have to pay to see YOUR recording. I mean what do they do with your recording? And they don’t even let you hear it without paying them!? They could’ve given people a warning saying that we lock your recordings unless you pay cuz if they did that I would’ve never given them my recording data!! Please don’t get if you’re not planning on paying cuz it’s really really creepy for them to keep your recordings!!
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Extremely, extremely disappointing

I downloaded this app because it claimed to use the mic to find when you are most awake to wake up you least tired. The claim sounded nice, but when push came to shove, I set my alarm for 9:15 and I woke up at 1:00. I looked at the app and it said I was in light sleep for essentially the whole night, so the fact it didn't even wake me up is extremely disappointing. The worst part os that when I woke up NATURALLY at 1:00, I could hear the alarm's weak noise. It was no wonder it couldn't wake me up when I could barely hear it when I'm awake (That's with max ringer and volume as well). I will definitely not be paying for anything related to this app, nor using it
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Canceling after nearly a decade of use

This app is good but not significantly better than other sleep trackers I've used. For example I miss Sleep Bot which unfortunately is no longer available. Although I did appreciate this app, I very much do not appreciate the arbitrary unilateral increase in subscription price from $39.99 to $57.99. I think subscribers who started using this app in its early days and have paid for this app for years should be grandfathered and continue in perpetuity with their original price. I will be canceling my subscription before it renews at the higher rate.
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Sleep cycle review

Interesting technology- but because I share the bed with my partner, the app can be quite inaccurate. Best when you sleep alone. Also I have a bit of sleep apnea and the app never picks up on that.

Picking up my husband

I’ve been using sleep cycle for years but just in the last 1-2 yrs it’s been picking up my husbands snoring more & time he is awake so I don’t get an accurate reading on my actual sleep.

Best Ap

I use this every night. Very accurate. Use it for my alarm

Good but not good

I think this app would be really good except you have to pay to use it for free( don’t now how that works) I don’t recommend

STILL COMING BACK!!

I’ve been using this app throughout high school, college, now graduate school. It’s so good, so reliable, and genuinely knows when to wake you up. It is annoying that you have to choose a 30min window but it’s EFFECTIVE if you want to get up early!! Every time I want to get up before 7am I use this app. 10/10! Thank you for creating this!!!!!!!!
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Occasional dead graphs

Been using this for the last 5 months but Recently in the past few weeks the app has been bugging out over night and the alarm does not go off. It tracks my sleep as a full cycle stuck at ‘light sleep’ for the entire night. The alarm will also not go off in the morning however it will give a notification ‘good morning’. It has made me late for work twice in the past few weeks due to this bug. Its pretty disappointing
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Dedicated user

Bought the premium subscription in 6th grade because it was $1.99 a year and I had just gotten a phone. I use it every day, It’s been 11 years. Am still paying $1.99.

Inaccurate and stuck

Don’t know how accurate this can truly be. For starters, it registers all outside noise as ‘sleep talking’ which in turn gives completely inaccurate information about when you’re awake and not. There’s no option to change this. I tried moving the phone to different locations, still the same. Please fix this!
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dishonest

I downloaded the app. I wanted to see if it would work for me. There was a 7-day free trial, so I agreed. As soon as I clicked it, they immediately charged me $38. Why? It's very dishonest and disgusting. Even if I enjoy using it, I won't find a more reputable company.

Love the all but recent updates are eating battery life

I’ve been using the app for around 10 years and it’s great. But something has changed in the last few weeks. I used to lose around 10-15% battery overnight while using it but now I’m losing 50% or more. Please take a look at this.

Waking with my Watch

Of all the features that have made this app wonderful over the many, many years (pre-subscription) I have used this app, I have to say that integration of watch readings was a huge improvement.

I very much love the ability to wake up via the watch vibrating most though. It is additionally helpful when just wanting a nap or meditation time as it gently lets you know the time has come to end that session.

The feature of waking at the best time in your sleep phases has also always been an incredible bonus. It is a brilliant idea, that works so well for me!

Thank you all for the years of dedication and constant commitment to keeping this app so useful.
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Crashes on ios 15!

the app just crashes in ios 15 (latest release and older)
just doing some digital minimalism trying to get a better life by using a smart dumb phone, which i think it should be accompanied with a good sleep, but the app crashes:( reach out to me if you want to troubleshoot, i’ve tried on iphone 6s, iphone SE (1st gen) and ipod touch (7th gen) and all of them do the same thing, app opens for 1 millisecond then closes.
i’m a paid user and i love the app, but this is a dealbreaker for me, if you guys can’t fix it i’ll vibecode mine 😔 thanks for reading.
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Update this app maybe?

This app it amazing. I have been using it for years now. However now the 30 minute wake up time is becoming 5-6 minutes. Maybe you need to do an update, I don’t want to have to look for another app that does the same thing.

Pause

They need a pause button. I wake in the middle of the night for two to three hours and will read. The app records this as sleeping. I’m just quietly reading, not sleeping!

Non più gratis

Su Android è gratis mentre su iOS è diventata solo a pagamento. Mi sembra poco onesto