Cost: $0.99
User Rating: 5/5 (7,789 ratings)
When I start the sleep period, I can also check triggers on a configurable list that I think may affect my sleep (drank coffee, stressful day) at that time. The app records during the night and stops when I turn off the alarm (alarm set in a 30 minute window and tries to wake you up in the most optional point during that window). I record my mood when I wake up on a 3 point face scale (happy, neutral, frown). After recording 5 nights of data, the device will give you a sleep quality rating (expressed as %), and tells you your Shortest, longest, best, and worst nights. There are also a set of graphs to view on sleep quality by date and week day, affect on sleep quality (from those triggers I selected), time in bed and time went to bed.
Pros: Turning your phone on its side goes from single night view to cumulative graphs. Once you figure out that it works this way, it's a nice way to transition without adding an extra button on the main screen. The pop-up triggers list is also easy for data input.
I like the 3-scale rating of how I feel when I wake up - it's an intuitive rating, though the app doesn't do anything with this information.
Cons: The graphs look nice and there are a lot of them, but I don't know how much I learn from it. I have no idea if my sleep graph is "normal" or how it decides what my sleep quality is. I can send myself a snapshot of a single night's sleep graph, but i can't export any of the graphs. The data export to a spreadsheet does not open properly.
Takeaway: Multiple views of the same information, but it still doesn't tell me much. Pop-up triggers and wake-up mood inputs are intuitive and quick for user input, we may think about using something similar with pain levels or sleep quality.
