Comparison

OrthoSteps vs Snora

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

Head to head
About

OrthoSteps

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OrthoSteps is a specialized step and gait tracking app designed for participants in orthopaedic research studies. This app securely collects your daily step count and gait data (with your permission) to help researchers understand recovery patterns while giving you a visual way to track your own progress. Key features: • Simple, secure login with your research study participant ID • Private and secure - no personal information is collected • Easy-to-read graphs showing your step counts and gait data over time • Track your progress relative to your surgery date • No ads or in-app purchases OrthoSteps only works for participants enrolled in approved research studies. If you've been invited to use this app as part of a study, your research team will provide you with the necessary login information.

About

Snora

This app records your sleep sounds and allows you to review them. It highlights moments of potential snoring and lets you mark them as non-snoring. All processing happens locally on your device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Record sleep sounds on iPhone
  • Review entire recording or just high-snore moments
  • Sound timeline for easy navigation
  • Mark moments as 'Not snoring'
  • Morning receipt of captured data
  • Log lifestyle factors for comparison
  • Keep important recordings
Features
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Snora records your night on your iPhone and lets you hear it back — the whole recording, or just the moments it ranked highest for possible snoring. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account, and there is no subscription. HEAR THE NIGHT, NOT A NUMBER • Play the whole recording against a sound timeline, so a quiet night is never a dead end • Or jump straight to the moments Snora ranked highest, ordered against each other by the detector's own scores rather than by crossing a cutoff • Tap 'Not snoring' on any moment: it leaves the list and the next moment moves up • Every clip starts three seconds early, so you hear the run-up A MORNING READ THAT SAYS WHAT IT KNOWS Your morning opens with the night's own picture — the sound timeline — and then a plain receipt of what Snora actually captured: how long it listened, whether the recording had a gap in it, and when the loudest moment was. A night that ended early says so. A night Snora could not analyse says that too, instead of showing you a reassuring tick. Snora describes snoring in the room, never who made it. One microphone cannot tell the people in a bedroom apart, so Snora does not pretend to. BUILT TO BE CHECKABLE, NOT CONVINCING Snora runs a deliberately strict setting, and the honest cost is that it stays quiet: on many nights nothing is counted at all, and the ranked moments are still there to listen to. A blank list is not evidence the room was quiet, and Snora says so on the screen. Counted minutes are rounded and are an undercount of real snoring time — and some marked moments will not be snoring. Loudness is shown relative to this iPhone's own recording, never as calibrated decibels. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY PROMISE Recording, analysis, ranking, the morning read, corrections and playback all run on your iPhone. No Snora account, no cloud, no analytics or advertising SDK, no tracking identifier — nothing sends your recordings or your night's analysis anywhere. Purchases are handled by Apple. Delete a single night, or erase everything, in More. YOUR NIGHTS STAY YOURS Ending Premium never adds a lock. Every night you recorded with Premium stays in your history, and every night whose recording is still on this iPhone still plays — including the ones you kept, which are never removed automatically. Snora only ever removes old audio to stay inside the storage limit you chose, and that is the same rule whether you are paying or not. KEEP THE NIGHTS THAT MATTER Tap Keep on a morning Replay and that night's recording is never cleared automatically — the loud one you want a partner to hear, or the first night after a change. Review last night straight from Tonight. TRY ONE CHANGE AT A TIME Log side sleeping, no alcohol, a nasal strip, an extra pillow, mouth tape or a blocked nose on any night, free. With enough nights, Premium compares your own nights with and without a factor and labels the result as an observed pattern — never advice, and never proof of cause. FALL ASLEEP TO SOMETHING Rain and brown noise are free. Ocean, box fan, stream and night crickets come with Premium. ONE PAYMENT Recording, the whole-night player, the ranked moments, corrections and factor logging are free and stay free, along with the audio of your three newest nights and up to three nights you choose to keep. (If you used Snora before version 1.3.0, your free window stays at seven nights.) One purchase keeps up to 90 nights of audio, adds your 14-night trend with a 30-day average, observed factor patterns, unlimited kept nights and the full soundscape library. It is not a subscription: no trial, no renewal, nothing to cancel. Restore Purchases is in the app. Snora is a wellness and awareness tool. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, screen for, or treat any condition. If you are concerned about your sleep, speak with a qualified clinician. Terms of Use: https://snora.keenshift.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://snora.keenshift.ai/privacy

Screenshots

OrthoSteps4 screens
Snora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OrthoSteps at none against Snora's 3. Snora's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Snora sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. OrthoSteps asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OrthoSteps ships an update every 3 months, Snora every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
OrthoSteps versus Snora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrthoStepsSnora
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperANALYSIS IN MOTION LLCMitaanshu Agarwal

In-app purchases

None

OrthoSteps

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Snora

Subscriptions2
  • Snora Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Snora Premium Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Snora Premium$19.99

Questions

Is OrthoSteps free?
OrthoSteps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Snora free?
Snora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OrthoSteps or Snora have ads?
Neither OrthoSteps nor Snora shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OrthoSteps or Snora?
OrthoSteps ships an update every 3 months, and Snora every 3 weeks. Most recently, OrthoSteps was updated on November 5, 2026 and Snora on November 10, 2026.

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