Comparison

Sleep++ vs Life Cycle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sleep++

This app automatically tracks your sleep duration and quality using your Apple Watch. Gain insights into your rest patterns to improve your sleep routines. Offers both automatic and manual tracking options for personalized control.

Highlights
  • Automatic sleep tracking
  • Sleep duration measurement
  • Sleep quality analysis
  • Manual sleep tracking
  • Health App integration
  • Detailed nightly reports
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Use your Apple Watch to AUTOMATICALLY track your sleep! Sleep++ takes advantage of the motion and health monitoring capabilities of your Apple Watch to measure both the duration and quality of your sleep. The better you understand how well you are sleeping the more you are able to make changes in your routines to benefit your rest. Simply wear your Apple Watch overnight and each morning Sleep++ will analyze your sleep and give you a report about how long and restfully you slept. NOTES: Sleep++ integrates with the Health App providing you a safe and private way to share your activity data with Sleep++. This data is used for automatic sleep tracking. You can also optionally have Sleep++ save your Sleep Analysis into your Health database after each night.

About

Life Cycle

This app automatically tracks your daily activities, places visited, and social interactions. It provides weekly journals with personalized insights and historical data views to help you understand how you spend your time and make informed decisions about your habits.

Highlights
  • Automatic background tracking
  • Low battery consumption (<1%)
  • Weekly journal with insights
  • Day to year data visualization
  • Apple Health integration
  • Friend activity tracking
  • Detailed graphs and trend comparison
Features
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Life Cycle automatically keeps track of your time and presents your life sorted into slices. It shows you your daily activities, places you go, and who you spend time with. Life Cycle weekly journal provides personalized insights and clarity to your week passed. Start each week with a look back. Remember where you’ve been and vision where you’re going. Whether you’re just curious of how your time is spent or looking to make a change, Life Cycle is your daily companion, providing you with all the information and insights you need. What’s more - it uses only 1% of your phone’s battery while it seamlessly does the work. FREE FEATURES • Automatic - Life Cycle works in the background, recording and sorting what you do as you go about your daily business. • Less than 1% battery - Life Cycle uses less than 1% of your battery per day as it runs in the background. • Weekly journal - Weekly insight to activities, accompanied by photos tied to moments passed. • From a day to a year - view your life day by day, week by week, month by month or even year by year. • Apple Health - Fully integrated. Imports all activities, mindfulness and sleep data. • Friends - Connect with your friends on Facebook and see who you’re spending time with, what you’re doing and where. • Sleep Cycle connection - For accurate sleep data, connect with Sleep Cycle alarm clock through Apple Health. (Life Cycle only reads data from Health, it does not share any data. It reads Sleep Analysis and Steps data.) PREMIUM FEATURES • Connect to your Sleep Cycle account - If you have an online backup account with Sleep Cycle, Life Cycle will let you know how your daily habits affect your sleep quality score. • Backup - Keep your data safe with our backup system. Never worry about losing your Life Cycle logs again. • Graphs - Beyond the donuts, Life Cycle shows you what you do with your time in detailed graphs for deeper analysis. The visuals gives you insight to if you're spending your time on what’s most important to you. • Compare trends - see if you’re dropping in sleep hours, if you’re working too much or if you’ve taken longer walks this week. Compare trends over the weeks, months or years. BATTERY CONSUMPTION Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Life Cycle does not use the GPS in the background, but instead relies on cell tower and Wi-Fi locations. As a result, it consumes less than 1% of your battery per day, when the app runs in the background. REQUIREMENTS • Life Cycle needs to run in the background to be able to record your data. It only uses 1% of your battery per day when doing so. • You need to carry your phone with you, for Life Cycle to accurately record and interpret your activities. • Wi-Fi should be enabled on your phone for tracking to work. Should you choose to subscribe to Life Cycle Premium, the purchase will be charged to your iTunes account. You can manage or cancel your auto-renewable subscription by entering the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours before the subscription period ends, with the same kind of subscription you already bought, to the same price. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of service: https://www.northcube.com/terms-service-life-cycle/ Privacy policy: https://www.northcube.com/privacy-policy-for-life-cycle/

Screenshots

Sleep++4 screens
Life Cycle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Life Cycle at 4.7 against Sleep++'s 4.1. Life Cycle also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (62% vs 39%). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sleep++ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Life Cycle sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Life Cycle holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Cycle has 39K ratings behind it against 5.7K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Sleep++'s written reviews are positive against 62% of Life Cycle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleep++ ships an update every 2 months, Life Cycle every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Sleep++ versus Life Cycle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep++Life Cycle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (5.7K ratings)4.7 (39K ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.6% of reviews62.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.7K39K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCross Forward Consulting, LLCSleep Cycle AB

Customer experience

Sleep++

All ratings5,653 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative14.8%
Written reviews868 reviews
Positive38.6%
Neutral15.8%
Negative45.6%

Life Cycle

All ratings38,874 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews1,173 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative27.3%

User reviews

Sleep++

From 5.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great tracking
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Detailed sleep data
  • 👍 Accurate
  • 🚀 Works perfectly with Apple Watch

Room to improve

  • 🐛 No deeper analysis beyond health app data
  • 🐛 Inconsistent output from night to night
  • 🐛 Requires going to bed at the same time every day
  • 🐛 Fails to account for menstrual cycle changes
  • 🐛 Stops working after updates

Life Cycle

From 39K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Helpful for tracking work hours and commute times
  • 📊 Provides useful insights into daily/weekly/monthly activities
  • 🔍 Interesting to see how time is spent
  • 🤖 Automatic tracking without much manual input
  • 🕰️ Accurate location and time tracking

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Inaccurate location tracking, especially for nearby places
  • 🔄 Difficulty manually editing or correcting tracked activities
  • 🔋 Battery drain issues reported
  • 🕰️ Inconsistent or missing time tracking for some activities
  • 🛠️ Lack of app updates and support from developers

Bugs and requests

Sleep++

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Doubles data on some nights
  • Misses some nights of sleep
  • Incorrectly records awake time as sleep
  • Stops working after iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add sleep diary
  • Include pre-sleep factors
  • Graph core sleep, deep sleep, and REM over time
  • Add alarm that wakes during light sleep
  • Integrate with Fitbit data

Life Cycle

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Location services not working after iOS updates
  • Syncing issues between Life Cycle and Sleep Cycle apps
  • Incorrect activity tracking and time logging
  • Inability to delete or edit preset activity categories

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize activity categories and icons
  • Integration with other health/productivity apps
  • Chronological timeline view of daily activities
  • Export data to spreadsheet or other formats
  • Improved sleep tracking integration with Sleep Cycle app

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sleep++

One-time1
  • Support Development$1.99
1 purchases

Life Cycle

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Features with Online Backup1 Month trial2 variants$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Sleep++ free?
Sleep++ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Life Cycle free?
Life Cycle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sleep++ or Life Cycle?
Life Cycle is rated higher. Sleep++ averages 4.1 out of 5 from 5.7K ratings, while Life Cycle averages 4.7 from 39K ratings.
Do Sleep++ or Life Cycle have ads?
Sleep++ shows ads; Life Cycle does not.
Which is updated more often, Sleep++ or Life Cycle?
Sleep++ ships an update every 2 months, and Life Cycle every 4 weeks. Most recently, Sleep++ was updated on November 11, 2026 and Life Cycle on November 11, 2026.

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