Best Free Snoring Apps for iPhone: What Each Free Tier Includes

At a glance

The review notes below come from the same recent reviews. They’re user opinions, and recent written reviews run more negative than each app’s overall star rating. Snore Timeline’s rating count is small for a reason. It reached the App Store in September 2025, where SnoreLab has been since 2012, and I build it alone, with no outside funding and no marketing budget.

Snore Timeline

Snore Timeline is my app. Read this section knowing that. It records the whole night through the iPhone mic, AirPods or another Bluetooth mic, and puts every snore, gasp, cough and sleep-talking moment on a timeline. The App Store lists no in-app purchases, and you won't be asked to make an account.

Snores group into episodes. A 30-second gap closes one. Each episode shows duration, snore count, peak and average dB and a plain-English summary. Tap any moment to hear it. If a minute of audible breathing goes quiet for 10 or more seconds and then a loud snore, gasp or breath breaks the silence, the app flags a breathing disruption. Export covers CSV reports, episode clips and full-night audio, all saved to the Files app.

It estimates sleep stages (Awake, Light, Deep, REM) from the recording alone, with no watch and no Apple Health needed. On the nightly summary, the snoring chart switches between loudness and snores per minute, with a band of your sleep stages underneath, so you can see whether snoring clusters in light, deep or REM sleep. Each night gets a 0 to 100 sleep score, and snoring and breathing disruptions count against it. For remedies, tag nights with any of 23 built-in sleep factors, Mouth Guard or Alcohol for example, or make your own. After at least 3 tagged and 3 untagged nights, the app compares them and ranks what helped.

Snore Nudge plays a sound, vibrates the iPhone or taps your wrist when you snore, in any mix you choose, and the sound gets one step louder each time a nudge doesn’t help. Wrist taps work on Apple Watch and on other watches that show iPhone notifications, such as Garmin, Fitbit or Huawei. The Smart Wake Up Alarm wakes you in light sleep within a 15, 30 or 45 minute window you set. The Apple Watch app shows live heart rate and HRV, delivers wrist taps when you snore and for the alarm, and has a stop button, though recordings start on the iPhone. Stage data from Apple Watch, Oura, Garmin, Whoop and Ultrahuman comes in through Apple Health, and each source keeps its own timeline so you can compare them side by side. None of this costs anything.

That label says Data Not Collected. It's rated 4.9 from 281 ratings.

It has limits. It hears what the phone's mic hears, so put the phone 3 to 4 feet away for snoring and 1 to 2 feet away for breathing pauses. Its sleep stages are estimates from breathing sounds, and it's not a medical device.

The review feed returned 38 US App Store reviews for Snore Timeline, dated 14 November 2025 to 19 September 2026, and none of them complain about price. Twenty-three mention that there's nothing to pay. One wants a donation or one-time purchase option to support development.

SnoreLab

SnoreLab has a 4.7 rating from 58K ratings. The listing leads with the Snore Score, its measure of snoring intensity, and with remedy and lifestyle tracking, so you can see what a mouthguard or a skipped drink changes.

The free version is spelled out in SnoreLab's FAQ: you record your night, check charts and stats in the morning, listen to captured audio and tag remedies. Then come two limits. Once you've done 5 sessions, the free version won't run on 2 consecutive days, and there's a cap on how many recordings you can play per night.

Premium costs $5.99 to $59.99 in the In-App Purchases list. It adds unlimited recording, full session history, full night recording mode, trends and export, plus BreathFlow, which SnoreLab describes as a measure of breathing stability. Its sleep phases come only from an Apple Watch through Apple Health, its FAQ says, and it has no snore alarm, per SnoreLab’s own article on snore alarms.

On the same date, its label listed Usage Data under Data Used to Track You, with Health & Fitness, Contact Info, User Content and Identifiers under Data Linked to You. SnoreLab’s privacy policy lets it use the sleep data it collects, such as breathing rate, breathing disturbances and sleep stages, along with the sex, age, weight and height you enter, to tailor what you see in the app, including product recommendations and partner promotions if you opt in. It also uses data for research, such as how snoring varies with sex or BMI, and keeps your data for 12 months after you delete your account or cancel. SnoreLab fits people who snore most nights and want a remedy log with one score to watch, and my Snore Timeline vs SnoreLab comparison and the SnoreLab alternatives list go into more detail.

Of the 50 most recent US App Store reviews (24 April to 26 September 2026), nine complain about the price, the trial or the paywall.

Snollo

Snollo pairs Apple Watch sleep stages with snore detection. According to its listing, all the acoustic analysis runs on the iPhone, while heart rate, respiratory rate and blood oxygen come from the Watch. Without a watch, its FAQ says, stages come from the iPhone’s microphone and motion sensors. It saves short clips of the sounds it detects and discards the rest of the night’s audio, according to its site.

The listing calls Snollo an auto-renewing subscription and says you'll see plans and trial length before you buy, and the In-App Purchases list shows monthly and annual subscriptions from $5.99 to $39.99. Which features stay free, it doesn't say. Snollo's own site fills that gap with a free tier of sound detection, sleep stages and recent history, and puts full history behind Premium, though it never says how many nights the free history covers.

Snollo's label lists Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info and Identifiers under Data Linked to You. Its privacy policy says your sleep data and clips live in your private iCloud, that none of the services it uses are advertising networks, and that its analytics tools get event names and your user ID but no sleep data or audio. Its rating is 3.1 from 16 ratings. If you wear an Apple Watch to bed and want stages and snore clips in one app, though, it covers both.

Pillow

Pillow made its name on Apple Watch sleep tracking. The listing says it analyzes your sleep with an Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad, draws a stage diagram, shows last night’s report on the Watch, and records snoring and sleep talking on the device, and the app carries an App Store Editors' Choice badge and a 4.4 rating from 96K ratings.

According to Pillow's help center, the free version opens only after you start a 7-day trial of Premium, and audio recordings and smart wake-up sit on the Premium list. The App Store listing has its own list of Premium features, which covers unlimited sleep history, heart rate analysis, sound recordings, CSV export and smart wake-up. If audio is the draw, you'll pay. In Snore Timeline, recordings, CSV export and the Smart Wake Up Alarm are free. The In-App Purchases list runs from $19.99 to $59.99.

Its label lists Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics under Data Linked to You, and Purchases, Location, User Content and Identifiers under Data Not Linked to You. Nothing sits under Data Used to Track You. Pillow makes sense if you already sleep with a Watch. Expect to subscribe for the audio.

Twenty-two of the 50 most recent US App Store reviews (20 July to 25 September 2026) complain about the price or the subscription, and 17 of those say the app opens on a trial screen. They found no way into the free version.

Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle is a smart alarm first. The listing says it wakes you in your lightest sleep phase, tracks the night with sound analysis or the accelerometer with no wearable needed, and detects snoring, coughing and sleep talking. It's rated 4.7 from 31K ratings.

Its help center article on Freemium vs. Premium draws the line. Free gets you intelligent wake-up, sleep analysis, a nightly sleep graph, Apple Health integration and limited access to Sleep Aid; Premium gets you snore detection, sound detection, Who's Snoring, full statistics and online backup. The listing adds data export to the Premium tools. In practice the free app tracks sleep and wakes you. Snore data needs Premium, and purchases run from $2.99 to $57.99. Snore Timeline’s Smart Wake Up Alarm, snore detection and export cost nothing.

The label shows Identifiers under Data Used to Track You and seven categories under Data Linked to You, Health & Fitness, Location and Contact Info among them. Its privacy policy says health data stays on your device by default. Turn on its optional backup and everything in the app goes to its servers on Google Cloud, and if you consent to a research study, your personal data can be shared with the researchers. Pick it if a softer wake-up beats hearing your snores.

Seventeen of its 50 most recent US App Store reviews (26 August to 25 September 2026) complain about the subscription, the trial or cancelling it, and seven of those say they couldn't cancel or got charged anyway.

ShutEye

ShutEye is a big sound library with a sleep tracker attached. The listing names sleep sounds, bedtime stories, a smart alarm and snore tracking, and the app has a 4.8 rating from 350K ratings. Snore Timeline has a Smart Wake Up Alarm too, free.

ShutEye's own blog tried the app as a free user and lists more than 50 sleep sounds plus playback of captured snores and sleep talk. Dream analysis needs Premium. The listing describes an auto-renewing subscription at $59.99 a year that unlocks its VIP features, and the In-App Purchases list runs from $9.99 to $59.99. ShutEye's site offers a 7-day free trial.

Identifiers show up twice on its label, under Data Used to Track You and under Data Linked to You, while Health & Fitness, User Content (Audio Data), Usage Data and Diagnostics sit under Data Not Linked to You. Enerjoy’s 2026 privacy policy says it won’t share Health Data with advertising partners under any circumstances. Choose it if falling asleep is the main goal. The snore tracking is a bonus.

Price, the paywall or trial charges drew complaints in 19 of the 50 most recent US App Store reviews (30 June to 24 September 2026).

BetterSleep

BetterSleep started out as Relax Melodies. The listing still leads with audio, with more than 300 sleep sounds and more than 250 meditations, and it added a sleep recorder that identifies snoring, movement and sleep talking; with 391K ratings behind its 4.7, it has the largest count in this guide.

BetterSleep's FAQ answers the free question for recordings. Listening to sleep recordings is part of the Premium subscription. The same answer lists the sleep score as Premium too, so the recorder runs on the free version and you need Premium before you can play back anything it caught. Snore Timeline’s playback and sleep score are free. Prices go from $11.99 to $99.99.

Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data and Other Data sit under Data Used to Track You on BetterSleep's label, and seven categories sit under Data Linked to You. Get it for the sound and meditation library. Snore recording is second.

Thirty-three of the 50 most recent US App Store reviews (26 August to 26 September 2026) complain about the price, the highest count in this guide, and 22 of those say sounds they used for free now need a subscription.

Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor

There's no In-App Purchases section on Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor's App Store page, which makes it one of two apps here with nothing to buy. It's rated 4.5 from 4.4K ratings.

The listing says it detects and records snoring, talking and shouting, lets you listen back to each episode, and can play melodies to mask snoring as it happens. It also describes reports on what it calls potential sleep apnea episodes. Then it says the app is not a medical device and isn't meant to diagnose sleep disorders.

Its label lists User Content and Usage Data under Data Not Linked to You and nothing under Data Linked to You or Data Used to Track You. The privacy label comparison has all 14 side by side. This one suits you if you want a recorder that costs nothing and can mask snores, and you're fine with a label that declares some collection.

Koala Nap

Koala Nap does one thing. It detects snoring and taps you so you shift position, and the listing says alerts come as Apple Watch vibrations, iPhone alerts or sound through Bluetooth earphones. Daily reports and recording review get a mention too. Its 344 ratings average 4.4.

The listing mentions a 7-day free trial. It doesn't say what, if anything, still works once the trial ends and you haven't subscribed, and the In-App Purchases list shows monthly and yearly subscriptions from $4.99 to $39.99.

On the label, User Content and Diagnostics sit under Data Not Linked to You, and nothing is linked to you or used to track you. It fits couples where one partner snores and the goal is fewer loud nights, which is the same idea behind Snore Nudge in Snore Timeline, done with a sound or a wrist tap.

Eight of its 50 most recent US App Store reviews complain about the price or about cancelling the subscription, and those reviews go back a long way, from 31 October 2023 to 4 July 2026.

Paid up front, no subscription

AutoSnore costs $4.99 and SnoreClock costs $9.99. Neither lists an in-app purchase. Both declare Data Not Collected. AutoSnore has a 4.3 rating from 1.4K ratings and SnoreClock has 4.6 from 60, and if you'd rather pay once than live with a free tier's limits, I'd start with those two. My no-subscription guide compares them.

Five of AutoSnore’s 50 most recent US App Store reviews (23 December 2025 to 21 September 2026) complain about paying, and four of those say the $4.99 went on an app that didn’t work for them.

How to pick

You want playback of every episode

Go with Snore Timeline. Every episode on the timeline plays back. Full-night audio exports to Files at no cost. SnoreLab's free version caps how much you can play per night.

You want sleep sounds to help you fall asleep

Try ShutEye, BetterSleep or Sleep Cycle. Sleep Cycle keeps limited Sleep Aid access free. ShutEye and BetterSleep are built around big sound libraries. According to ShutEye's blog, free users get 50+ sounds and snore playback, while BetterSleep's help center puts recording playback in Premium, so with Sleep Cycle and BetterSleep you should expect to pay for snore audio.

You want an Apple Watch first app

Start with Snore Timeline. It has its own Watch app, with live heart rate and HRV during a recording, last night’s summary, Snore Nudge and silent-alarm wrist taps, and a stop button. Recordings start on the iPhone. It also reads sleep stages, heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen and wrist temperature from Apple Health, whether they come from an Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin or Ultrahuman, and folds them into its sleep score, recovery score and hypnogram. None of that needs a purchase. Snollo has no Watch app. Its App Store listing names iPhone, Mac and Apple Vision only, and it reads Watch heart rate, breathing and blood oxygen through Apple Health. Pillow pulls heart rate and stages from the Watch and shows last night’s report on it, with heart rate analysis and sound recordings listed as Premium. Koala Nap uses the Watch for wrist taps.

You want sleep stages without a wearable

Snore Timeline estimates them from the recording alone and draws them under the snoring chart. Sleep Cycle tracks the night from sound too, and Snollo uses the iPhone’s microphone and motion sensors when you don’t wear a watch. SnoreLab’s sleep phases need an Apple Watch.

You want a nudge when you snore

Koala Nap and Snore Timeline both do this. Koala Nap alerts you through an Apple Watch, the iPhone or Bluetooth earphones, and sells subscriptions after a 7-day trial. Snore Timeline plays a sound, vibrates the iPhone, taps your wrist or any mix of the three, with the sound one step louder each time, at no cost. Its wrist taps work on Apple Watch and on Garmin, Fitbit and other watches that show iPhone notifications. SnoreLab has no snore alarm.

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