Best Snoring Apps for Android: Free Apps and What They Collect

At a glance

"Best" on this page means three things you can check on each Play listing: what the app records through the phone microphone, what you get without paying, and what the developer declares in the Data safety section.

In Google's terms, collected data is data the developer retrieves off your device, and shared data is data transferred to a third party. The developer writes the entry. According to Google's help page, even an independent security review doesn't verify that a developer's Data safety disclosure is accurate and complete.

Snollo and Pillow, two iPhone apps you may have seen, have no Google Play listing, and when I searched Play for each on the same date, the results were apps from other developers. My guide to free snoring apps for iPhone covers both.

Snore Timeline: every feature included, no data collected

On Android, Snore Timeline records the whole night through your phone's microphone or a Bluetooth mic, and a sound classifier on the phone labels snoring, gasps, coughs, sneezes, sleep talking and breathing, with each detection landing on a zoomable timeline. Snores close together form episodes. A 30-second gap starts a new one. Once it has heard a minute of audible breathing, the app flags any silent stretch of 10 seconds or more that ends in a recovery sound.

It estimates sleep stages (Awake, Light, Deep, REM) from the recording alone, so you don't need a watch, and each night gets a score out of 100. You can tag nights with any of 23 sleep factors, such as Mouth Guard, Nasal Strips or Slept on Side, and after at least 3 tagged and 3 untagged nights, the app compares them and ranks what helped. Replay any moment and export the full night or single episodes at no cost. With Health Connect turned on, it writes your sleep session, stages and respiratory rate there for other apps to read, and imports your watch or ring’s sleep stages and vitals from it. It also transcribes sleep talking on the phone, nudges you with a tone or a buzz when you snore, and wakes you in light sleep with a sound you pick or record.

Its Play listing shows no in-app purchases and a Data safety section that declares no data collected and none shared, alongside 4.9 stars from 82 reviews and 5K+ downloads. That review base is small next to the apps below. Snore Timeline reached the App Store in September 2025, while SnoreLab has been around since 2012, and I build it alone, with no outside funding and no marketing budget. Weigh this entry with that in mind. The Android support page lists what the app includes.

SnoreLab: the largest snore-specific user base

SnoreLab's Play listing shows 4.3 stars from 52.9K reviews and 5M+ downloads, and it describes a Snore Score for snoring intensity, BreathFlow (which it calls a measure of breathing stability), breathing-rate tracking, full-night recording and emailing sound files. The remedy and lifestyle tracking stands out. Log a mouthguard, a nasal strip or a drink before bed, and you can see how each night compares, much as Snore Timeline does with its sleep factors.

Its FAQ fills in what the listing leaves out. After your first 5 sessions, the free version can’t run on 2 consecutive days, and full-night recording and export are Premium. Sleep phases appear only on iPhones paired with an Apple Watch, and for sleep tracking and a smart alarm the FAQ points you to SnoreLab’s sister app, Sleepwave. It also tells you to disconnect Bluetooth audio devices before recording.

The Play header carries the Contains ads and In-app purchases tags. Its Data safety section says no data is shared with third parties and lists personal info, app activity and 2 other data types the app may collect. Data is encrypted in transit, and you can ask for deletion. My Snore Timeline vs SnoreLab comparison goes feature by feature.

SnoreClock: a plain recorder with a clean Data safety entry

SnoreClock by Ralph Schiffhauer does one job. You put the phone by the bed, press the red button and sleep, and in the morning red bars mark likely snoring on a volume graph. The listing says it records all sounds for up to 11 hours, works in background mode, and helps you check whether you snore, your partner snores or you talk in your sleep.

The listing describes a Plus version, sold as a subscription, that removes ads and adds recording to an SD card, a sound or vibration alert on snoring, audio file sharing and statistics backup. SnoreClock shows 4.6 stars from 8.36K reviews and 1M+ downloads. Its Data safety section matches Snore Timeline's, with no data collected and none shared with third parties, so if you want a bare recorder and don't mind paying for alerts and sharing, it's a good fit. Snore Timeline’s audio exports are free.

Sleep as Android: a configurable smart alarm, with snoring as one feature

Sleep as Android by Urbandroid is a smart alarm first. Its listing confirms AI-powered sound recognition for snoring (its anti-snoring feature), sleep talk and sickness, and lists sonar contactless tracking, sleep respiration analysis with a low breath rate alarm, and a long run of wearables, from Pixel Watch and Galaxy watches to Garmin, Polar and Fitbit. It has Google's Editors' Choice badge. Ratings sit at 4.6 stars from 393K reviews.

You get 7 days of premium. After that, keep the freemium version or upgrade. The header carries the Contains ads and In-app purchases tags. Data safety says the app may share Location, Health and fitness and 2 other data types, and may collect Location, Health and fitness and 3 others, with data encrypted in transit. It also says data can’t be deleted. Urbandroid’s privacy policy says health data from Health Connect is used only for features you turn on, and that it doesn’t sell user data. If you back up to its SleepCloud service, your sleep records, including sleep cycles, deep sleep percentage, snoring percentage, noise levels and city-level location, are stored anonymously, and you can delete them from SleepCloud’s privacy tab. Ads are served through Facebook Audience Network using your device’s advertising ID, which you can switch off in the app’s privacy settings.

ShutEye: sleep sounds with snore detection

ShutEye by Enerjoy pairs a sleep tracker with a large bedtime library of sleep stories, white noise, nature sounds and guided meditation, and for snoring, the listing says it detects and analyzes it through the night and lets you review snoring recordings and sleep events. It tracks light, deep and REM stages. There's a daily sleep score and a smart alarm that wakes you during your lightest stage. Snore Timeline’s stages and sleep score come from the recording too. It shows 4.4 stars from 110K reviews and 10M+ downloads.

It sells in-app purchases. Data safety says the app may share Personal info, App activity and 2 other data types with third parties and may collect App activity, and that data is encrypted in transit with deletion available on request. ShutEye makes most sense when getting to sleep is the hard part. Snoring is a side question.

Sleep Cycle: smart alarm first, with a snore recorder

Sleep Cycle built its name on the smart alarm. The Android listing still leads with wake-up windows of up to 90 minutes, puts its snore recorder and sleep talk recorder alongside, and says it can tell whether you or a partner is snoring. It also runs on Wear OS. It shows 4.3 stars from 219K reviews and 10M+ downloads.

The header carries the In-app purchases tag. Its Data safety section says it may share Location, Personal info and 3 other data types with third parties, and may collect Personal info, Health and fitness and 3 others. Data is encrypted in transit and you can request deletion. Sleep Cycle’s privacy policy says health data stays on your device by default, that its optional backup sends everything in the app to its servers on Google Cloud, and that with your consent it can share personal data with research studies. If you share a bed, its Who's Snoring? feature is the reason to pick it, since it tells your snores from a partner's.

SnoreLogic: free with no ads, declares some collection

The Play package com.passionforlife.snore is listed as SnoreLogic: Track Your Snoring, from Passion for Life Healthcare (UK) Ltd, and the listing says the app and all of its features are completely free to use, with no ads or pop-ups. No in-app purchases show in the header. It reports snoring frequency and volume, a Breathing Disruption Index that counts times you may have stopped or struggled to breathe, remedy logging and a setup programme for the company's own mouthpiece. It shows 3.2 stars from 192 reviews and 100K+ downloads.

Its Data safety section says nothing is shared with third parties, and it lists personal info, audio and 3 other data types the app may collect, with encryption in transit and an option to request deletion. Audio on that list means the developer declared it collects audio. The declaration alone doesn't show where the audio goes.

Samsung Health: snore detection if you wear a Galaxy Watch

Samsung's support page describes snore detection as a Samsung Health feature that needs a Wear OS Galaxy Watch, or a Galaxy Fit3, connected to your phone through the Galaxy Wearable app. The phone does the listening. You turn it on in Samsung Health under Sleep, Advanced measurement, Snoring, and a pop-up warns that it increases phone battery use. You pick whether to detect snoring Always or Once, can switch on Record audio with the phone near your head, and can set recordings to delete after 7, 31 or 100 days.

Samsung Health on Google Play has 1B+ downloads. Its rating is 3.1 stars from 1.58M reviews. Its Data safety section says it may share Location, Personal info and 2 other data types, and may collect Location, Personal info and 8 others. The page gives no route without a compatible wearable.

Placement and battery on Android

An overnight recording runs for hours with the screen off. Android's power management can end it early. I took these steps from Snore Timeline's Android support page. Most apply to any recorder on this list.

• Remove the battery restriction. When Android asks whether to let Snore Timeline always run in the background, on your first Record tap, tap Allow. If you said no, the app's Tonight page offers the prompt again, and your phone's app settings have the same switch under Battery.
• Leave the recording notification alone. The notification shows your time asleep and the night's episode counts. Dismissing it can cut the night short. So can blocking the app's notifications.
• Plug the phone in. The app does record on battery. Charging removes any reason for Android to close it.
• Place it face-down, 30 to 60 cm from your head. At that distance your breathing stays audible. Breathing disruption detection and sleep stages both depend on it.
• Check the manufacturer's own power layer. If recordings stop overnight, set Snore Timeline to unrestricted in your brand's per-app battery or background setting.

A phone call can take the microphone. The app pauses, resumes on its own when the microphone is free, and explains any gap in the morning. You can also set a recording delay of up to 180 minutes in 5-minute steps, and nothing during the delay is saved. Troubleshooting covers recordings that still cut out.

Reading your first morning

Open last night from the calendar. The timeline draws the night as a waveform you can zoom from 1-second detail out to a 1-hour overview, with readings in approximate dB SPL. Each detection sits where it happened. Tap any moment to play it back.

Start with episodes. Snores grouped together count as one episode until a 30-second gap closes it, which tells you whether you snored in long runs or short bursts. Then look for breathing disruption markers. Each one means the app heard at least a minute of breathing, then 10 or more seconds of silence, then a recovery sound. Give it a few nights before you draw conclusions. Breathing Disruptions explains what the flag does and doesn't mean.

The hypnogram estimates awake, light, deep and REM stages from your breathing and movement sounds, and the sleep score out of 100 comes with sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset and respiratory rate. The weekly view compares nights.

Sharing with a doctor

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute lists breathing that starts and stops, frequent loud snoring and gasping for air as symptoms of sleep apnea during sleep, and notes you may not know you have them until someone tells you. A recording lets you hear them yourself.

On Android, Snore Timeline saves exported audio to your Downloads folder, with full-night files under Downloads > Exported Recordings and single episode clips under Downloads > Snoring Episodes, each in a dated folder. The Export Report sheet bundles summaries, sleep phases, events and optional audio for a date range, and you can share it from the app. Export & Sharing walks through the report. For why several nights beat one, see Gathering Breathing Data to Show Your Doctor.

Any app on this list can help you spot a pattern, but none of them can tell you whether you have sleep apnea; for that you need a doctor.

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