Comparison

Dream Talk Recorder vs Sleeping Recorder

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

Head to head
About

Dream Talk Recorder

Discover if you talk or snore in your sleep. This app intelligently records only when you are speaking or snoring, providing a history of your nighttime vocalizations. Share your most amusing recordings with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Records sleep talks and snores
  • Intelligent recording filters noise
  • Keeps a history of recordings
  • Copy funny talks to favorites
  • Share recordings via email and social media
  • Set activation delay and auto-stop
  • Listen to relaxing sounds before recording
Features
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Over 5 million people have used Dream Talk Recorder to record their sleep talks and snores at night! Do you talk or snore in your sleep? Find out tonight! About 5% of the world adult population talks in their dreams. Do you know if you, your kids or someone you know talk in their dreams? Do you know what happens in the darkest hours of the night? Do you know how many times your kids wake up at night? Find out today! Dream Talk Recorder for iPhone intelligently records your talks while you, your partner or your kids are talking or snoring in dreams. Our superior technology records only when you are talking or snoring in your dreams. Touch a button in Dream Talk Recorder before going to sleep and in the morning you will be surprised and delighted to hear everything that you or your partner said at night. Also now you don't have to argue with your partner if he/she snores at night. You will have a solid proof and can play it at the breakfast table :). What do our customers say? -------------------------- ***** If your bed partner (is) someone that talks, mumbles, laughs, farts, etc. while sleeping you will get a hoot out of this app! ~Abenator - USA ***** Thought it was really good. not stopped laughing ~Rose Reynolds - UK ***** Absolut cool.... was es so gibt. Letzte Nacht probiert , geht 100% ~mmsmms - Germany **** Good. Now I know why my husband frequently kicks me in the night! Lol ~linedancer2010 - UK Benefits -------- - Records your dream talks - Keeps a complete history with start/stop time and number of recordings - Copy funny dream talks to favourites - Listen to the recordings and see the voice visualisations. - Delete all recordings from the last night with the swipe of a finger. - Share your favourite dream talks via email & Facebook/Twitter with your friends. You can also share on DreamTalkRecorder.net with the rest of the world (This feature is available in Full Version only). You can also share the "World" dream talks of others on Facebook. Just tap on the row to share it with friends. - Set activation delay to start recording after a certain delay e.g., 30 minutes after you have went to bed. - Auto stops recording after configurable hours e.g., 7 hours (Note: free version supports Max. 2 hours of dream talk recording where as Full/Pro Version provides unlimited hours of dream talk recording. You can unlock the full/pro version from the Settings tab.) - Listen to relaxing sounds or white noise before recording starts - Set recording sensitivity level to let the app automatically filter noise. We recommend to keep it at "Medium" level. Benefits (Full Version) ------------------ - Unlimited recording hours - Completely ad free - Dropbox integration so your recordings are automatically uploaded to Dropbox under folder /Apps/Dream Talk Recorder/. You can also manually save recordings to Dropbox. To play recordings on Windows, please use QuickTime media player from Apple. - Share your personal favourite recordings with the World Start your every morning with a laugh by listening to your hilarious, funny and some times scary dream talks from the previous night! Note ---- Leave the app running on the screen to be able to record your dream talks and keep the device connected to a power source. Please keep the microphone side towards your bed. To use it with older versions of iPod without a built in microphone, please connect an external microphone with iPod. Dream Talk Recorder on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/DreamTalkRecorder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DreamTalkRec

About

Sleeping Recorder

This utility app automatically records audio when sound levels exceed a user-defined threshold, pausing when silence returns. It's useful for capturing conversations during sleep, meetings, or lectures, and offers various audio quality settings and playback controls.

Highlights
  • Automatic recording based on volume
  • Pause recording during silence
  • Adjustable sensitivity levels
  • Auto screen saver
  • Recording time limits
  • Organize recordings with titles and comments
  • Detailed playback control
  • Multiple audio quality options
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A free sleep talk recorder. We reinvented the voice Recoder app for iOS. By introducing the volume level sensor the app can start and pause the recorder automaticlly. It will be actived only when the volume level exceeds your setting. So you can save both the disk space and energy to catch every single word you want, and save the earth from CO2. You can use Sleeping Recorder when: * You are sleeping and want to know what you talk in dream * You are having a meeting and want to record what others say * You are in a lesson and your teacher sometimes stops when teaching * You are joining a speech and not want to miss any words * And many more situation, your only limit is your imagination -------- Main Features: * Record immediately when the volume beyonds your setting. * Pause when the sound goes away. (After 3 second after there is no lond sound) * Set the sensitive level freely, from 0 (continuely recording) to very high. * Auto screen saver. Save energy for your devices. And just one tap to quick return. * You can set a recording time limit, in case of you record too much to take all the disk space. * Keep all your recordings and organize them by titles and comments. * A great playback system, you can control the playing in every detail. * Different audio quality to satisfy your demand, from simple voice to CD quality. * Share your record message by Facebook, Twitter or Sina Weibo. * An extrmely beautiful and effective UI to help you to use the app. * Of course, designed for iPhone, iTouch and iPad. Use it anywhere. -------- You can use the app for free. The only limit is you can just play your record on your device. If you would like to export and share your records, you can purchase the pro version in app, which contain these great feature: * Export your recording by local wifi. Just access your device from browser to download your talkings! * Link to Dropbox. You can backup and export your record with Dropbox. And once it gets linked, the new added record could be save to Dropbox automaticlly. * You can also link to GoogleDriver to get the similar export & backup feature. * Send by mail, you can attach your record as attachment in a mail and send it from your iOS system. * A detail report to help you memo the record.

Screenshots

Dream Talk Recorder3 screens
Sleeping Recorder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dream Talk Recorder at 4.7 against Sleeping Recorder's 3.4. Dream Talk Recorder also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 5). Sleeping Recorder's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dream Talk Recorder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sleeping Recorder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dream Talk Recorder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dream Talk Recorder has 2.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Dream Talk Recorder's written reviews are positive against 47% of Sleeping Recorder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dream Talk Recorder ships an update every 2 months, Sleeping Recorder every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dream Talk Recorder versus Sleeping Recorder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDream Talk RecorderSleeping Recorder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.7K ratings) — better3.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews54.7% of reviews — better47.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2.7K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAXSAR LtdWei Wang

Customer experience

Dream Talk Recorder

All ratings2,738 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews461 reviews
Positive54.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative34.3%

Sleeping Recorder

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative42.1%

Bugs and requests

Dream Talk Recorder

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to play back recordings
  • Recordings not saving properly
  • Sensitivity settings not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow editing/trimming of recordings
  • Add sound visualization graphs
  • Improve playback controls (speed, skip forward)
  • Enable background recording

Sleeping Recorder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dream Talk Recorder

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99
1 purchases

Sleeping Recorder

One-time1
  • Pro Version$1.99

Questions

Is Dream Talk Recorder free?
Dream Talk Recorder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sleeping Recorder free?
Sleeping Recorder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dream Talk Recorder or Sleeping Recorder?
Dream Talk Recorder is rated higher. Dream Talk Recorder averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Sleeping Recorder averages 3.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Dream Talk Recorder or Sleeping Recorder have ads?
Neither Dream Talk Recorder nor Sleeping Recorder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dream Talk Recorder or Sleeping Recorder?
Dream Talk Recorder ships an update every 2 months, and Sleeping Recorder every 3 months. Most recently, Dream Talk Recorder was updated on November 1, 2026 and Sleeping Recorder on October 24, 2026.

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