Prime Sleep Recorder & Tracker Examine App

quite sensitive and nice design

The app shows great promise, but has some critical issues that keep it from being useful. - does not show peak noise in dB so that you could make objective decisions about snoring (hard to know if it’s loud enough to wake someone, etc). Not any summary of how many times snoring was above a key threshold. - very high false detection rate (especially at default settings). Categorization of things as “animals” and such is wildly inaccurate. - records sound of you touching the phone (doesn’t use accelerometer to reject this sound). - Doesn’t seem built to help record accurately when the user has turned on a white noise machine, which will be common for this audience. - does not seem to offer any analysis or even link to medically useful advice to use the data. Overall, has the feeling that it was created by someone who doesn’t really understand sleep science nor consulted with someone who does. It’s built around technical ideas, not around a clear goal of diagnosing and resolving issues.

The has a lot of bugs very hard to use cheap ui. They fabricate recordings and add them to your sleep

Love all the updates!! Works great

App doesn’t show stages of sleep. “Time in bed” isn’t an indicator of how long my sleep phases were. I need to know my sleep quality.

I downloaded the app to track sleep talking specifically, it looked like it would do so and I started recording. Only when I woke up, I realized it recorded me but it wouldn’t let me listen without paying. No free trial or nothing!!

If you hit "start recording" then talk or the bed creaks as you lie back down, you used your free trial. If it can't provide at least one night free to see if it works, it's not worth paying for.

Fantastic app to record sounds, can adjust sensitivity as you wish and categorized the sound types. Amazing app!

This is the best and probably one of the very few free sleep tracker apps that I’ve used. You can pay for extra features but the free features are just as good and all you need. You can rename the recordings. You can also save and favorite them and you can send them as files to people. I love it. I will continue to use it.

I’m really annoyed that I downloaded this app and recorded myself with it, only to find that only half of the few hours I slept are free to me. I can see that there are recordings but it will not let me access them. I have regular night terrors, and would have picked another app marketed as “free” if I knew this were the case. If you need to pay for an app for basic functionality, it should be marked that way up front. I don’t mind spending money on a good app, but I feel a little duped.

It’s a very nice app but WHAT DOES WARNING MEAN???? 😭😭😭😭

I really hope apps like this where you pay to use gets removed or hacked and removed, it’s ridiculous and petty. Only if 0 stars was a option

When I was sleeping this app recorded some scary horror movie type shi with footsteps and loud thuds. This app finna record anything… be ready for anything

I’ve used the full paid version for years. Overall, it’s ok, but it does not record everything. There have been nights that I was told I was snoring heavily (and woke myself up to snoring), but nothing but random background sounds were recorded. The app also started to label sounds, and does a terrible job of doing so. And lastly, the app shuts more than it should. I know I opened it and pressed record before going to bed but when I wake up in the morning, the app is closed and nothing recorded. So disappointing. I have sent numerous feedbacks to the app over the years but stopped because my issues have never been resolved. I see that is the typical response to reviews like mine. This review is my final feedback. If I can find a better app (even if it is behind a paywall), I’m happy to switch.

This app immediately informed me that I snore a lot more than I thought, which is the question I wanted an answer for. There are also other interesting metrics measured. It’s easy to use. If you have questions about your sleep quality, this app is a good value.

They make an algorithm for the app that puts any time you talk in your sleep (which is what evereryone is downloading this app for) behind a paywall. ITS NOT A ONE TIME PAYMENT they want you to pay for every recording you want to keep. Don’t use this app

I wish there was an explanation for the warning category. Maybe it’s there and I didn’t see it.

2 update ago the length of each recording went missing. Please add back in.

This app lets me hear how much coughing, snoring, moving, and talking I’m doing while I sleep. It informs my day. I love it!

This app is ok becuase you are able to record your sleeping but when I woke up in the morning to get my feed back it only let me listen to a little of me breathing and ain’t no one going to spend there money on a app to see if they are snoring at night and we don’t have the money for that so please fix that for us other than that this app is good if they can fix that it’s great!!

The app worked great until the last update. Now it’s pretty pointless to use it bc it doesn’t pick up on things or identify sounds well at all.

I first downloaded this app in April 2021 and although I don’t record every night I recently hit 1000 recordings. I’ve never paid for this app but I’ve honestly considered it a few times just to see the charts. It’s fun to go back and track days when I made noise in my sleep and to compare sleeping and recording amounts. I especially recommend this app if you’re trying to track sleeping hours because it’s SO nice to visualize everything. I get to see when I sleep and wake up, how many hours slept, and you can add so many “factors” to the day before you sleep to where it’s almost like a reflection for me. I track if I’ve exercised, had a good/bad day, if I drank a lot of water, etc, it’s great for accountability to make sure I uplift the factors I’ve written in while also encouraging me to get more sleep. I’ve also been recording every night my sleep/wake up times in my notes app since September 2023 and this is muuch more efficient and way less laggy even though I have more recordings on here than in my notes app. It’s as visually appealing as sleep recorder apps can get but I don’t see myself deleting it any time soon. Never shut down!! And get this app!!!🙏👍

I bought the 1 month subscription for $3.99 and they charged me $8.98. It’s an okay app but you have to buy a subscription to even use it properly, but they’ll overcharge you.

This app has to be one of the worst I’ve had in a long time. It’s AWFUL. Almost all of its recordings it takes are locked behind a paywall.

This app is really helpful I didn’t realize how much I snore and how much my Cat interrupts my sleep. This will help me improve my sleep quality. Plus I get a laugh from some recordings of me and my cat.

This app is useless

Works great, I've been using it for a while now and it's nice to be able to hear when i talk in my sleep and stuff. But i swear I'm not hallucinating i had it set so that the whole app was purple and now its blue and the option to change the color disappeared?? 😭 anyways if i could have the purple back that'd be dopeness 🙏

The app works, I’ll say that. But when you go back to listen to your recordings, they are blasting at full volume, even when your phone volume is on MUTE. Might just delete the app honestly after one night of redownloading it after deleting it in 2020. Most annoying thing ever.

This app was awesome until November of this year. The microphone has a white noise sound. I have recorded with other apps and there is no white noise. I have contacted support but no resolution as of yet. It has been a couple of weeks. I have used this app for a couple of years. It is very disappointing. I was noticing a pattern and now I have no idea.

i like the app but ever since i've gotten a fan to sleep due to me moving and it being hot, i haven't been able to use this app because over half of the recordings are just the loud fan noise. It says that you can change the noise sensitivity manually but i can't for the life of me find it in the app and the app's settings aren't set up good so that users can find stuff like this easily.

i downloaded this app because i remember it used to be unlimited recordings and i have been concerned i may have health issues that are linked to sleep. well, i cant even listen to all my recordings without having to pay 4$ this is what the world has come to.. charging 4$ for an app that automatically records any sound it hears (because yes, i messed with the mic and still had half of my available audios be sounds that weren't even sleeping sounds.) so no, not even a sleep recording app, an automatic sound recording app! not sure if the developers just couldnt be bothered to add more mic settings/test their own software but what a disappointment, and a real step down from what this was a couple yrs ago

Need an ad to make money? Have us watch a video before or after we use the record function, etc. There are better ways. But, to gatekeep anything after the first 15 sounds in the environment is greedy. I can’t even delete the useless sounds to hear maybe something actually useful to my health. By putting the recordings behind a paywall with no work around, this app is just another exploitation of economic status. Sound crazy? Well, if you’re poor, you tend to live in closer environments, closer to the cities where it’s louder. So, by living in a lower economical status community, like I do, it’s going to pick up way more sounds than if you were living in a countryside home or a suburb. You also tend to have more health issues and therefore have more need of an app like this. By not being able to hear the others recordings in some way or manner (by deleting the ones that are just cars driving by etc.) or by just allowing them to be free with ads of some kind, the people behind this app are actually committing socioeconomic status discrimination. Being poor is expensive, and this app and the people behind it, are just another unnecessary impediment of socioeconomic progress for the people who really need it. Premium is a lazy money grab.

Extremely disappointed. You used to be able to delete the recordings and unlock more. Now I have to PAY for premium to unlock them even when deleting??? So frustrating. There’s no point to the app anymore if I can’t even listen to anything🙄

I’ve had the app for a couple years now and it used to be that when going through your recording you would have your delete the top like ten then the next ones would unlock and if you wanted to save one you add it to your favorites. I quit using it for a while, now I tried using the app the other night and it only let me see the ones that were unlock at the top even when I deleted them. Kind of disappointing I used to love the app.

I’ve used it for years and love it but out of nowhere it stopped saving recordings. It’s on the whole night but there isn’t a single recording.

i’ve used this app for a few years and never had an issue with it until i went to check the recording of the night this morning, just to find that that recording didn’t exist. in fact, none of the recordings existed! despite saying in my history i had data used up on recordings and a few recordings in my deleted tab, everything else was gone. i deleted and redownloaded the app hoping it would solve the problem and it appears to have wiped everything, there’s nothing in the trash bin anymore nor in the history. very disappointing.

App quits automatically after clicking on favorite recordings

I listened to the first 4 recordings and after that the app would close itself. I would try to go get to the recordings but the same would keep happening.

I know I sleep talk, but this app didn’t record it. Even if it did, I wouldn’t be able to listen to the recordings. You need to pay to see just about anything. The only thing this app is good for is to record you snoring, but who wants that? It doesn’t even help you sleep.

This app used to be great when it would record one bout of snoring (if it remained consistent) and you were able to delete the random recordings of car driving by or siren that took up 1/15 recording you do get and then you were able to listen to more (if you deleted one one opened up). That being said somewhere along the lines the stopped allowing you to delete to hear more which I guess I would understand except now it records one snore for the entire 15 recordings (ie: 12:33, 12:35, 12:40) like obviously I am still snoring a minute later because I am asleep but then it keeps those 15 of the same snore and then conveniently where you have to pay it starts to actually record other things and stops recording the same noise at every minute. It was good but this update isn’t it so now I’ll be looking for another app.

it does record you but i think it adds sounds to get you to pay to hear more. it had a man saying "is she awake" then cuts off n asks u to pay to hear more. also heard banging and fireworks that sounded right next to me. but i finally deleted it when it had the sound of a lady screaming and singing in some langauge like chinease. theres no ladys or china ppl in my room so im not sure where she came from. 3 stars

Woulda gave 5 stars but you gotta pay to listen to some recordings. The title is just as stated above, highly reccomend this app👍

I’ve used it 3 times and the only free recordings I get are snoring even though there ARE ones of me talking! I got this app because I talk a ton in my sleep and wanted to hear it. I’m not buying the app until I see if it works and how can I do that if you won’t let me hear any actual recordings? Fix it to where at least some of the free recordings have actual sound or give me a free trial week and then I’d be happy to purchase.

So I was sleeping at my house once I set up the app keep in mind I did not get premium so I click start and I hear it in the morning then the next then on the third one there were eighty three reports and I jumped up so excited to hear all of them but then as I got lower I saw you need a subscription. Now honestly I was just disappointed but it's not like it's my child so I can't control it. I am just asking so that you can maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ take away the subscription but you keep the sleep sounds so you have to pay for that but maybe for a cheaper price. Thank you for reading this

This app is amazing in THEORY and probably if you pay for it, but since I use the free version, it does not give me access to my own recordings and it counts everything as snoring, so there is no differentiating between snoring and talking (I signed up for sleep talking recordings) when scrolling through the VERY few recordings I have access to.

It didn’t take me long to fall asleep and it tells me things I didn’t know like I snore and an hour before I wake up I hum (also that my sister is up at 4AM cooking) 5 stars

For some reason, it didn’t work why I was 18 beta

john casterline

I found some very funny things I said from this app, but it bothers me that it costs money to get more than 15 recordings. Overall, its a good app. 4 Stars

This app not only revealed snoring but also bad neighbor behavior waking us.