Comparison

OpenSleep vs Night Ledger

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

Head to head
About

OpenSleep

This app offers a privacy-focused, offline sleep tracker and AI coach. It analyzes your sleep patterns locally on your device, synchronizes with Apple Health, and provides detailed insights without sending any data to servers.

Highlights
  • Offline sleep tracking
  • Local AI sleep coach
  • Apple Health synchronization
  • Sleep cycle and stage analysis
  • Privacy-first, serverless design
  • Detailed sleep history
Features
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OpenSleep tracks your sleep stages without a watch or ring, and explains them with an AI sleep coach that runs entirely on your iPhone. TRACK SLEEP WITHOUT A WEARABLE Choose how your phone listens to the night: • Sonar (contactless): leave your iPhone on the nightstand. OpenSleep uses ambient sound levels to pick up sleep cues. Raw audio is never recorded or stored. • Mattress mode: place your iPhone flat on the mattress next to your pillow and let the motion sensor follow your movement. SEE EVERY STAGE OF YOUR NIGHT • Awake, REM, light and deep sleep, shown on a stage ring and a full-night sleep pattern chart • Bedtime, wake-up time and total sleep for every session • History with day, week, month and year views to spot trends AN AI SLEEP COACH THAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Ask about your sleep, your routine or why you wake up tired. The coach is a large language model that runs on your device, so your questions and answers are never sent to a server. Download the model once, then chat even with no connection. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH OpenSleep writes your sleep sessions and stages to Apple Health and can show sleep already recorded there. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up • Sleep analysis happens on your iPhone • Open source: anyone can read the code Available in 22 languages. Sleep tracking is free. The AI Sleep Coach is a one-time purchase with no subscription. OpenSleep is a wellness tool, not a medical device. Talk to a doctor about any sleep or health concerns.

About

Night Ledger

This private sleep diary helps you understand your sleep patterns to improve sleep quality. Log your sleep, track trends, and export reports to share with healthcare professionals. All data remains securely on your device.

Highlights
  • Log sleep patterns
  • Personal sleep history
  • Exportable reports (PDF, CSV, JSON)
  • Trend analysis (14, 28, 90 days)
  • Local reminders
  • Designed for clinical workflows
Features
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Night Ledger is a personal sleep diary for iPhone, built hand in hand with a sleep medicine clinician to help people understand their sleep patterns to sleep better. Log last night’s sleep in the morning, keep a personal history, and export a report when you want to share it with your clinician, therapist, or care team. Everything stays on your device. There is no account, no iCloud sync, no analytics, and nothing is uploaded. You can save a complete morning log, keep a draft, skip a day, or edit later. Trends cover 14, 28, and 90 days. Exports include PDF, CSV, and JSON. Reminders are local. Night Ledger was designed with real clinical sleep diary workflows in mind, including insomnia care, CBT-I support, and sleep efficiency tracking. Night Ledger does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, or recommend. It does not give medication guidance. It is a private tracking tool to help you organize your sleep information and review it with a qualified clinician when appropriate.

Screenshots

OpenSleep4 screens
Night Ledger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Night Ledger at none against OpenSleep's 1. Night Ledger also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. OpenSleep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Night Ledger asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OpenSleep against 5.0 for Night Ledger. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Night Ledger has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenSleep ships an update every 2 weeks, Night Ledger every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OpenSleep versus Night Ledger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenSleepNight Ledger
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB2 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperYuan QianAuster Chen

Customer experience

OpenSleep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Night Ledger

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenSleep

One-time1
  • OpenSleep Lifetime Premium$2.99
None

Night Ledger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenSleep free?
OpenSleep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Night Ledger free?
Night Ledger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OpenSleep or Night Ledger?
OpenSleep and Night Ledger are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do OpenSleep or Night Ledger have ads?
Neither OpenSleep nor Night Ledger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenSleep or Night Ledger?
OpenSleep ships an update every 2 weeks, and Night Ledger every 3 weeks. Most recently, OpenSleep was updated on November 5, 2026 and Night Ledger on October 31, 2026.

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