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Sleep tracker app.

10 apps · 4,241 reviews held · 1,935 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

1.9star
How angry
46%
Negative reviews
66%
Room to enter
9 of 10
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: login & auth. 10 of 10 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 10 of 10 still carry accuracy complaints.

3 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,935 negative reviews.

Accuracyextreme

6.6% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 128 reviews · 10 of 10 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 128
  • RISE: Sleep Tracker2star· Aug 29, 2026

    Disappointing — This app- didn’t really tell me anything new. Recently I haven’t been able to sleep on time- the app using the past data recommended I sleep at 1am and wake at 8.30am. Not feasible and not ideal. I do much better when I wake up at an earlier window. I know enough about my sleep to know this. I thought the app would come up with a more specific time as the ads on instagram state. It

  • RISE: Sleep Tracker2star· Aug 21, 2026

    Very inaccurate — I have to edit my sleep time often because it doesn’t capture it properly.

  • RISE: Sleep Tracker2star· Aug 20, 2026

    Disappointed — I began a week free trial of rise because I wanted to see if it would improve my sleep. At some point during that first week I was offered a second week for free with four days remaining of that trial. An advertisement for a discounted subscription came up. That page will not close making the app and the remainder of my trial unusable. I was considering a subscription, but definitel

Limits & capshigh

4.5% vs 1.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 87 reviews · 9 of 10 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 87
  • RISE: Sleep Tracker1star· Sep 2, 2026

    You have to pay for it — Whole time led me thinking it was free just for a paywall to be shoved at me. I would highly appreciate if the ad mentioned anything about it not being free.

  • RISE: Sleep Tracker1star· Aug 27, 2026

    Loved the app, but — $10 a month for an app that tracks my sleep??? There are too many free or one time cost options out there to pay that much for a sleep tracking app. Are they just as good/pretty? Not quite, but is the difference worth as much as my Kindle Unlimited subscription? Absolutely not. 🤷🏼‍♀️ A one time $10 fee? Sure. A $2 monthly fee? Probably. $9.99 every month? Heck no.

  • Pillow: Sleep Tracker1star· Aug 13, 2026

    It’s a cash grab, unavoidable paywall. — You have to start a free trial then cancel it before it charges you to use their free features??? No website should make you start a free trial then cancel it just to use the app. The app owners are using ai generated responses and will reply something so vague like “we’re sorry to hear that but..” constant mentions of their premium. Don’t fall for this app

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall10 of 87

Billingelevated

50.7% vs 30.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 981 reviews · 10 of 10 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 981
  • RISE: Sleep Tracker2star· Sep 4, 2026

    Well… that was short lived. — Overall, I thought the app was pretty darn good. I didn’t understand all of the things that it was explaining and all of the different little charts and graphs, but it seemed like it got my sleep time for the most part pretty right on. I felt a little better during the days when I go to bed and wake up the time that it’s sad, but it hasn’t only been a couple weeks may

  • RISE: Sleep Tracker1star· Sep 2, 2026

    No support and $300 charge with insurance — I can’t log into my account literally anywhere to change my payment method for just Rise, and support is nonexistent. I like the rise app fine, but how do you not have a login page like the literal FAQ you provide says exists? I cannot change my payment method I signed up with during the free trial. How is it 2026 and I can’t manage my own account and

  • RISE: Sleep Tracker1star· Sep 2, 2026

    Your phone can provide the same alerts for free — None of the information provided was particularly helpful and you can get the same alerts on your phone for free. Beware of their free week trial: the will charge you for a month subscription on day 6

Named problems · 4
  • Trial converted without clear consent102 of 981
  • Price judged too high for the value62 of 981
  • Charge the user never authorised16 of 981
  • Cancellation blocked or broken12 of 981

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,935 negatives
  • Ads174 · 9.0% · 7 apps
  • Performance171 · 8.8% · 9 apps
  • Support110 · 5.7% · 9 apps
  • UX73 · 3.8% · 10 apps
  • Login & auth32 · 1.7% · 8 apps
  • Sync & data20 · 1.0% · 8 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after sleep tracker app, in their order.

Who they're for
babysleep wellkidssnoringcouplessmartwatch
Google
sleep tracker appsleep tracker apple watchsleep tracker app freesleep tracker app for apple watchsleep tracker applesleep tracker app androidsleep tracker app iphonesleep tracker app reddit
App Store
apple watch sleep trackerfree sleep tracker for apple watchsleep tracker for apple watchsleep tracker for freesnorelab record your snoringapple watch sleep tracker freesleep trackersleep tracker for baby

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “sleep tracker for” and “sleep tracker app for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 7 · just a basic one 512
  • Shut out by device or contextApple Watch 49

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 10 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count. None of these apps has an Android listing we could match yet.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
RISE: Sleep Tracker$9.99–$69.99 · 6 tiers20.1% of 239
ShutEye®: Sleep Tracker, Sound$9.99–$59.99 · 10 tiers19.4% of 258
Sleep Cycle - Tracker & Sounds$2.99–$57.99 · 9 tiers12% of 226
Pillow: Sleep Tracker$19.99–$59.99 · 4 tiers7% of 241
SnoreLab : Record Your Snoring$5.99–$59.99 · 10 tiers6.8% of 132
SleepWatch - Top Sleep Tracker$3.99–$39.99 · 8 tiers5.2% of 386
Noxogy Sleep Tracker$3.99–$23.99 · 7 tiers1.8% of 219
Sleep Tracker: Recorder, Sound$4.99–$39.99 · 10 tiers0% of 138
Sleep Monitor: Sleep Tracker$9.99–$49.99 · 10 tiers0% of 29

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Owns. Largest audience at 328K ratings; wide IAP ladder $3.99–$39.99

Exposed. 76% negative — highest anger in set; ads freeze the app; accuracy collapses without movement

Owns. 348K ratings; 10-tier IAP up to $59.99

Exposed. 67% negative; charges $59.99 during 'free' setup — among the most-cited dark patterns in receipts

Owns. 63K ratings; coherent circadian framing

Exposed. 61% negative; repeated unauthorized post-cancellation charges documented in multiple receipts

Owns. 95K ratings; 4-tier IAP $19.99–$59.99

Exposed. 59% negative; immediate paywall before any trial; erratic sync accuracy

Owns. Lowest anger in freemium set at 46% negative

Exposed. Retroactively moved lifetime buyers behind subscription paywall — loyalty destruction documented

Owns. $8.99 one-time; 17% negative — lowest in category; 61K ratings

Exposed. Support blamed on user; no IAP means no upsell path; Watch-only limits audience

Owns. 57K ratings; 31% negative — second lowest; focused snore use case

Exposed. Consecutive-night tracking locked after 5 nights — defeats core value proposition

The Deep Report on this market

Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.

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Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new sleep tracker app?

10 apps compete on this shelf, holding 4,241 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, accuracy, runs in 10 of 10 of them at 6.6% of negative reviews against 1.5% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in sleep tracker app?

1. Accuracy: in 10 of 10 apps, 6.6% of negative reviews; 2. Limits & caps: in 9 of 10 apps, 4.5% of negative reviews; 3. Billing: in 10 of 10 apps, 50.7% of negative reviews.

How many sleep tracker app reviews did App Imp count?

4,241 US App Store reviews across 10 apps, 1,935 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.