Comparison

Sleep When I Sleep vs Sleep To Pause

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

Head to head
About

Sleep When I Sleep

This app alerts you when you're falling asleep while listening to audiobooks or podcasts. It pauses playback to help you easily find your place again. It utilizes Apple Watch health data to detect sleep and offers a reset function for continued use.

Highlights
  • Sleep detection alerts
  • Automatic audio playback pause
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Adjustable sensitivity
  • Easy start/stop functionality
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Audiobook & podcast users know that it is almost impossible to find your place once you have fallen asleep and play has continued. SWIS – Sleep when I sleep. Here is what you will love about SWIS for iOS: It is so easy to use. SWIS alerts you that you are falling asleep & if not dismissed will pause audio playback making it easier to find where you left off in a story or podcast. SWIS detects that you are falling asleep & sends you an alert through the watch. We recommend that you stop audio playback when alerted. However, should you feel that you are not falling asleep and dismiss it the App will reset at a less sensitive level and alert you should it again detect sleep. SWIS uses health data from your Apple Watch to determine that you are falling asleep. For accuracy, this data updates throughout the day. Simply open SWIS on your watch when you are listening to audio and press Start. When alerted or when finished press Stop. Apple Watch required. DO NOT RELY ON SWIS TO ALERT YOU THAT YOU MAY BE FALLING ASLEEP WHEN DRIVING. Apple standard Terms of use apply and can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sleep To Pause

Features
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Fall asleep to a podcast, audiobook or music, and let your Apple Watch pause it for you. SleepToPause gives your wrist a gentle buzz every few minutes. If you are awake, a small movement of your wrist tells it so. If you do not respond, it buzzes once more a minute later. Still no response? You have fallen asleep, and whatever your iPhone is playing is paused right where you stopped listening. No more waking at 3am to find your audiobook three chapters ahead. HOW IT WORKS • Open SleepToPause on your iPhone once. The watch app installs with it. • Start playing something on your iPhone and tap Start on your watch when you get into bed. • Your watch buzzes at the interval you choose, from 3 to 15 minutes. • Move your wrist within 5 seconds to show you are awake. • Miss two buzzes in a row and your audio is paused. • Your place is kept, so you can pick up where you left off. WORKS WITH YOUR AUDIO APPS Pausing uses the iPhone's own audio system, the same way a phone call interrupts music, so it works with any app that plays sound on your iPhone: music, podcasts, audiobooks, sleep sounds, video. Headphones and Bluetooth speakers are fine. Audio sent to another device with AirPlay or a cast is not playing on your iPhone, so it cannot be paused. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT IS PAID The app is free. Pausing and resuming your audio by hand from your watch is free, always. Automatic pausing when you fall asleep is a single one-time purchase in the iPhone app. There is no subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No heart rate. No health data. No body sensors. • No account and no sign-up. • Nothing is sent to the internet. Your watch talks only to your own iPhone. • The watch uses its movement sensor only to notice your wrist response. GOOD TO KNOW • Needs watchOS 10 and iOS 17 or later. • For a buzz you will feel in bed, set your watch's Settings, Sounds & Haptics, Haptics to Prominent. • The watch asks for Health access so it can keep checking with the screen off. Nothing is read from or written to Health. • SleepToPause is not a sleep tracker or a medical device. It does not record or analyse your sleep.

Screenshots

Sleep When I Sleep3 screens
Sleep To Pause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sleep When I Sleep at 11.1 against Sleep To Pause's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 When I Sleep sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.49 per year and Sleep To Pause sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sleep When I Sleep versus Sleep To Pause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep When I SleepSleep To Pause
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSWIS APP LTDWISHR TECHNOLOGIES LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sleep When I Sleep

Subscriptions1
  • 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$5.491 Year
1 purchases

Sleep To Pause

One-time1
  • Unlock automatic pausing$1.99

Questions

Is Sleep When I Sleep free?
Sleep When I Sleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sleep To Pause free?
Sleep To Pause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sleep When I Sleep or Sleep To Pause have ads?
Neither Sleep When I Sleep nor Sleep To Pause shows ads.

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