To help wake you up, Pillow spots when you are in light sleep close to your alarm time, then wakes you up when you are least asleep. The app analyzes sleep patterns over time and starts to suggest the right time to go to bed - although we wouldn't blame you if you chose to ignore that bit of advice. The app also tracks your heart rate, and records sounds (like snoring, or next door's dog barking again) onto the iPhone app, to help you understand why you had a disrupted night's sleep. The app identifies each stage of sleep (awake, REM, light sleep, deep sleep), and shows you each stage, and how long you were in it, during the night.
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Pillow works in a similar way to AutoSleep, with automatic or manual sleep tracking depending on what you prefer. The only downside we found was if you stay still for a long period of time (hello, Netflix binge) the app may wrongly think you're asleep. The Watch app can be left to automatically recognize when you wake up, or alternatively there is a setting in the companion iOS app which, when enabled, ends sleep tracking the moment you pick up your iPhone. On the iPhone, to end sleep tracking, there is a setting to end sleep tracking when you pick up your iPhone.Īfter a few days, the app begins to learn what your average sleep pattern looks like, then gives you a percentage each morning to indicate how much you 'recharged your batteries' the night before. The total time asleep is shown, then broken down into 'quality' and 'deep' sleep, plus any times you spent awake during the night, and your heart rate, which is taken roughly every 10 minutes. The iPhone's version of the app presents a large amount of data each morning, with each cycle of the night's sleep clearly laid out around a 24-hour clock. Alternatively, there is a setting to end sleep tracking when you pick up your iPhone. You can then let the app automatically sense when you wake, or tell it with a tap of the Watch screen. Here are our top five.Īs the name suggests, this app automatically detects when you are drifting off to sleep, then uses the Watch's accelerometer and heart rate monitor to log your activity through the night.
Some of the apps on the Watch track sleep automatically, while others need to be told when to work some also have silent alarm function to wake you up with the Watch's vibrating Taptic Engine.
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As you can imagine, this isn't a great solution - leading to inaccurate data, a face full of iPhone when you turn over, or a smashed screen when it inevitably sides onto the floor.Ĭlearly, wearables like the Apple Watch have advantages here. Running on the phone, they require you to leave the handset on your bed or pillow (while unlocked and plugged in) to record movement. Many of these apps already existed on the iPhone and now have a companion Watch app.
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