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SleepWatch - Top Sleep Tracker

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Bodymatter, Inc. · Health & Fitness · Free · v8.7.4

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Review-rating drop
0.40

2024-Q3 2.28 → last 90 days 1.88, text reviews

Peak quarter
2.28

2024-Q3, text reviews

Last 90 days
1.88

text reviews

Store rating
4.65

all 328437 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
2.77

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$119k

#94 top-grossing, Health & Fitness

store 4.65 · reviews 2.28 → 1.88 · gap 2.77 store 4.65 reviews 1.88

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2024-Q1: 1.85★ from 34 reviews 1.85 2024-Q1 2024-Q2: 1.76★ from 66 reviews 2024-Q3: 2.28★ from 50 reviews 2.28 2024-Q3 2024-Q4: 1.91★ from 47 reviews 2025-Q1: 1.73★ from 64 reviews 2025-Q2: 1.61★ from 44 reviews 2025-Q3: 1.72★ from 43 reviews 2025-Q4: 2.21★ from 29 reviews 2026-Q1: 2.05★ from 39 reviews 2026-Q2: 2.00★ from 45 reviews 2026-Q3: 1.89★ from 38 reviews 2026-Q4: 2.00★ from 1 reviews (small sample) 2.00 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2024-Q11.85 34
2024-Q21.76 66
2024-Q32.28 50
2024-Q41.91 47
2025-Q11.73 64
2025-Q21.61 44
2025-Q31.72 43
2025-Q42.21 29
2026-Q12.05 39
2026-Q22.00 45
2026-Q31.89 38
2026-Q42.00 1

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Costs $6 a month otherwise it’s just an Apple health clone

★★ · v8.7.4 · Oct 7, 2026

Unless you upgrade to premium it doesn’t tell you anything that Apple health doesn’t. (And the app looks worse than apple’s in my opinion.) Unless you want to pay for data that you already own, don’t get this

Don’t use, allows scam ads

★★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 30, 2026

I’ve been using this app for 5 or six years, starting with my Apple Watch SE. The free version had what I needed, hours asleep and heart rate, basic stuff. Then a few years ago, they decided to start showing ads unless users upgraded. Not something that I liked, but it’s a common business model for apps, and the ads weren’t intrusive, so I tolerated them. For the last few weeks, though, the ads they’ve shown are downright scams. Ads that claim my device is infected or needs a critical upgrade. This is bad, means the company is desperate for money, just to do something that Apple Health does for free. Stay far, far away from SleepWatch!

Crashes & Shuts off after update

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 30, 2026

I was using this for months. But since their latest update, the alarm either doesn’t start after hitting the button or crashes in the middle of the night. Either way. For like 3 weeks, my alarm has not gone off in the morning. Thankfully my body has its own timing, but we’ve had some close calls.

It Doesn’t Like my Apple Watch

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 28, 2026

I’ve used this app for years and always liked it until it decided I wasn’t wearing my Apple Watch. How come other apps can detect my Apple Watch, but Sleep Watch can’t?

Ios27 fail

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 26, 2026

I got a iphone 17 pro max and updated the IOS to 27. The app no longer works on my apple watch ultra 3. I reloaded the app and rebooted both the watch and phone. No joy.

I shouldn’t have to pay

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 26, 2026

I should not have to pay money to have something track my sleep when I don’t even know if it’s going to work

Stopped syncing

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 23, 2026

Stopped synching with iPhone. The “Sync Last 7 Days” returns an error message to try again later. Says to enable all permissions for sleep data but they are all already enabled.

been paying for years

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 22, 2026

I've been paying for this app for years. Their customer service sucks at this fixing issues. I've gone what I thought was nine months without the app tracking all of my data. I delete the app and re-download it and now it's loading my data, but it shows me for the last four years. It hasn't been tracking my data since 2021!! very displeased

Highly disappointed

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 18, 2026

I’ve had this app for a while and lately it won’t track my sleep correctly even when I have the phone and watch together in use. The watch cannot pair anymore and it keeps telling me to complete set up on IPhone which I’ve repeated steps. Furthermore when I set it at night to track at wake-up it acknowledges I’m finished and then there’s no report of the sleep cycle. I hope there a fix … it was good while it worked

Not free at all

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 16, 2026

They want to charge you money to listen to your own recordings of you sleeping. They have what they call a 7 day free trial that you just have to give them all your info and credit card info to use, which is annoying and so slimy feeling. It's my own recording of me sleeping, and you want to charge money to even listen to it? Get bent. Find a different app if you're not trying to get scammed. Gross and scummy feeling app.

Ads in the paid version

★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 3, 2026

The app was great they just billed me for another year and I get an ad when open that I have X out of and there is ad in middle of the app. Why am I paying if you think you need to run ads in your paid version?

Not free

★★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 3, 2026

It allows you to download for free but asks you to pay for a subscription for the data. I erased it very quickly

Sync issues

★★ · v8.7.4 · Sep 2, 2026

App won’t sync to previous days

Really? 🦠

★ · v8.7.4 · Aug 3, 2026

The free version shows ads including a fullscreen advertisement saying that my “device had been hacked” and I need to click a link to “cleanse my computer”. You’ve got to be kidding.

Doesn’t work for me; no data appearing, just pause to refresh

★ · v8.7.4 · Aug 3, 2026

Sorry to have to quit. I have my old sleep app on an old phone (SOS only) and my data appeared on that phone immediately. So, can’t be my watch! This is night 2 with nothing. Too bad, looks like a nice app. Troubleshooting tab doesn’t help.

Do not download!

★ · v8.7.4 · Jul 30, 2026

I downloaded this app because it was recommended by a search to record myself as I slept. I used it one time! And cancelled. Then, I got a notification that they billed me $40! If you want a mid-tier sleep app and have a ton of money to waste, go ahead. If not don’t even do the trial because once they have your info they will bill your card whether they are supposed to or not. Then shunt you to Apple or Google to dodge any responsibility. Also, watch one of their ads, if you can, and tell me, does a good psychiatrist need to have an ad that causes you a bunch of distress to make you call them? No. Money grubbing pos’s

Not good

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 23, 2026

Every time I open app it goes to a greyed out screen with no ability to get off that screen. Totally worthless to me.

Freezes Up

★★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 19, 2026

Like it but it keeps freezing up on “how rested do you feel” - it’s maddening so I’ll be deleting the app.

Sleep chart no longer works

★★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 19, 2026

It was a good app until a few weeks ago it no longer gives me a sleep chart and it’s a paid subscription. Will look for a new app 👎

Freezing up

★★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 17, 2026

I’ve used the app for years. But now it freezes as soon as it opens on a paid screen and won’t let me look at my sleep won’t let me do anything. I close it out reopen it in a different screen pops up and freezes on it so I close it out and do it again, but it won’t let me look at my notifications. It won’t let me look at it won’t let me do anything.

Great when it works

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 16, 2026

Free version is impossible. When I open the app in the morning, there is always a question of how fatigued I felt, however, it’s grayed out and will not allow me to click anything. Consistently deleting the app and re-downloading just to get my data.

Super glitchy

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 14, 2026

App is often unresponsive

App doesn’t work anymore

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 14, 2026

App keeps freezing when I open it

Broken App

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 9, 2026

I can’t not access my results as the app freezes on the screen asking if I feel refreshed after sleeping. DO NOT DOWNLOAD

iPhone app freezes

★ · v8.7.3 · Jul 9, 2026

I can never check my stats on the iPhone app because it gets stuck on the page asking me how I slept or if I want to upgrade to premium deleted it

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