Comparison

SleepTrace vs Dozer

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

Head to head
About

SleepTrace

This app uses your iPhone's microphone to analyze sleep patterns and detect disturbances like snoring. It offers a smart alarm to wake you during lighter sleep phases and provides detailed statistics on your sleep quality.

Highlights
  • ML-powered sleep phase detection
  • Smart alarm for natural wake-ups
  • Snore and sound detection with audio clips
  • Detailed sleep statistics and trends
  • Customizable sleep schedule
  • Apple Health integration
  • Live Activity on Lock Screen
Features
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Do you wake up tired in the morning — even though you slept enough? SleepTrace uses your iPhone's microphone to record audio all night and detect your sleep phases using Machine Learning. No wearable needed — just your iPhone next to the bed. SLEEP PHASE DETECTION (ML-POWERED) • Detects: Awake, Light Sleep (N1), Deep Sleep, REM • Based on audio analysis (Mel spectrograms + CoreML) • Classification every 30 seconds • Sleep phase timeline after every night SMART ALARM • Set a wake-up window (e.g. 6:30–7:00) • SleepTrace wakes you in the lightest sleep phase • Result: Wake up naturally, less groggy • Choose from different alarm sounds SOUND DETECTION • Detects loud events: snoring, coughing, talking, ambient noise • Saves short audio clips with labels • Listen in the morning to what happened at night • Decibel measurement included STATISTICS & TRENDS • Calendar overview of all nights • Sleep phase chart per night • Details: sleep duration, time to fall asleep, wake-up time • Trends over weeks and months • Session details with sound clips SLEEP SCHEDULE • Weekly sleep schedule (Mon–Sun) • Individual sleep and wake times per day • Alarm syncs automatically with your schedule LIVE ACTIVITY • Shows on Lock Screen & Dynamic Island: tracking duration, detected clips, alarm time APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION • Writes sleep data to Apple Health • Reads health data (optional) STREAK SYSTEM • Motivates daily tracking • Streak card shows consecutive nights • Milestone notifications (3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100 days) PREMIUM • Monthly and yearly subscription • Premium features including cloud backup of audio clips Understand and improve your sleep — with just your iPhone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sleeptrace.app/legal/terms-of-use/

About

Dozer

Features
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Dozer turns your night into a morning you can actually read — with a watch or ring, or with nothing but your iPhone. Apple Health shows the raw numbers. Dozer is the layer on top: a plain-language morning report, your sleep debt over time, an energy forecast for the day, snore detection with playback (Dozer+), streaks that never guilt you, and a silent wrist alarm that picks a light-sleep moment before your set time — you wake gently, and nobody else in the bed wakes at all. NO WEARABLE? DOZER STILL WORKS • Dozer builds an estimated night from what your iPhone already noticed — the in-bed record your Apple sleep schedule keeps, an overnight Night Listening session, or both • One tap confirms the window, or you adjust it yourself — you stay the authority on your own night • Time in bed, your morning check-in, your tags and what the night sounded like, all on the same card • Estimated nights appear in Trends as lighter bars and count toward bedtime consistency • No sleep score, sleep stages or heart rate on an estimated night — those come from a sensor on your body, and Dozer doesn't invent them. Sleep debt, streaks and the energy curve are built on the score, so they wait for a tracker too • If a tracker later reports the same night, it replaces the estimate A tracker adds more: any watch, ring or band that saves sleep to Apple Health — Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Withings, Garmin, Polar, Amazfit — brings sleep stages, overnight heart rate and HRV, and a sleep score. (Fitbit and Samsung watches keep sleep in their own apps and don't write it to Apple Health. The silent wrist alarm is the one part that needs an Apple Watch.) YOUR MORNING, EXPLAINED • A sleep score and a warm one-line read of the night (wearable nights) • Sleep debt, tracked over a rolling two weeks • Today's energy curve, built from last night (Dozer+) • Daytime naps counted as their own sleep, with their own detail • A dream note, one tap from the night it belongs to — free, kept on your iPhone, and never part of an export or a feedback message NIGHTS, HANDLED • Night Listening counts snoring sounds — analyzed on your iPhone, and the audio never leaves it (results with Dozer+) • Sound clips of the snoring and talking it hears, kept on your phone and removed on the schedule you pick in Settings (7, 14, 30, or 90 days) — switch them off any time • Wind-down soundscapes that fade out on their own A GENTLER WAKE-UP • A silent tap on your wrist, timed to a light-sleep moment in the window before your set time — no sound, no waking your partner • A recurring schedule that re-arms itself — set it once (Dozer+) PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No accounts. No analytics. No ads. Your sleep is processed on your devices and stays there — it only ever leaves if you choose to share it yourself, whether attaching a night to a feedback message or sharing a screenshot. Dozer+ is one purchase, yours forever — no subscription required. Dozer is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice.

Screenshots

SleepTrace4 screens
Dozer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dozer at fortnightly against SleepTrace's every 6 weeks. Dozer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. SleepTrace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Dozer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SleepTrace ships an update every 6 weeks, Dozer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SleepTrace versus Dozer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleepTraceDozer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJan KohlhaasAdrian Nicolaysen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SleepTrace

Subscriptions2
  • SleepTrace Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • SleepTrace Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Dozer

One-time1
  • Dozer+$14.99

Questions

Is SleepTrace free?
SleepTrace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dozer free?
Dozer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SleepTrace or Dozer have ads?
Neither SleepTrace nor Dozer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SleepTrace or Dozer?
SleepTrace ships an update every 6 weeks, and Dozer fortnightly. Most recently, SleepTrace was updated on October 25, 2026 and Dozer on October 17, 2026.

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