Sleep++ vs Night Terrors
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Night Terrors
This app monitors your movement patterns during sleep to detect night terrors and sleep paralysis. It safely wakes you with a sound if abrupt movement is detected, helping to improve sleep quality and reduce nightmares. Designed with privacy as a priority, it ensures no sleep data is recorded remotely.
- Monitors movement patterns
- Detects night terrors
- Wakes user with sound
- Improves sleep quality
- Assists with sleep-related PTSD
- Privacy-focused design
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Wake up when a night terror hits. Night Terrors is a sleeping assistant that monitors your movement pattern through the night. If abrupt movement is detected, you are safely woken by a sound. Our advanced motion detection algorithms are used to process sensor data from your devices' inbuilt accelerometer to detect sleep paralysis, night terrors and nightmares. - Improve the quality of your sleep. - Sleep soundly with your personal assistant. - Avoid nightmares, sleep paralysis and night terrors. - Assist sleep related PTSD night terrors. - Easy to use. - Privacy first! As safety and privacy is our upmost concern, no sleeping data is recorded remotely by Night Terrors. Review our privacy policy for further details.
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Verdict
Sleep++ and Night Terrors both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Night Terrors's written reviews are positive against 39% of Sleep++'s. Night Terrors also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Sleep++'s advantage is ratings volume (5.7K vs 8). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Sleep++ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Night Terrors sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Night Terrors holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sleep++ has 5.7K ratings behind it against 8, 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 75% of Night Terrors's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Sleep++ | Night Terrors |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (5.7K ratings) | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.6% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.7K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cross Forward Consulting, LLC | Johann Burgess |
Customer experience
Sleep++
Night Terrors
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
Night Terrors
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sleep++
- Support Development$1.99
Night Terrors
- Upgrade Monthly$5.991 Month
- Upgrade Annually$14.991 Year
- Upgrade Lifetime$39.95
