ShutEye pairs a sound library with a sleep tracker. Snore Timeline records the whole night and lays out every snore on a timeline. They overlap on snore detection and split on price and privacy.
ShutEye is a sleep sounds and sleep tracking app with snore recording, a 4.8 rating from 350K ratings, and Premium purchases from $9.99 to $69.99. Snore Timeline is a dedicated snore recorder with no subscription, no in-app purchases, and no account, and its App Store label reads Data Not Collected. Pick ShutEye if you want sounds and stories to fall asleep to. Pick Snore Timeline if you want every snoring episode on a full-night timeline with playback and export.
| Feature | Snore Timeline | ShutEye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases | Free download. Premium $9.99 to $69.99 |
| Privacy label | Data Not Collected | Tracking: Identifiers. Linked: Identifiers. Not linked: Health & Fitness, User Content, Usage Data, Diagnostics |
| Account | None | FAQ describes sign-up and email login |
| Sounds detected | Snores, gasps, coughs, sleep talking, breathing | Snoring, sleep talking, breathing changes, coughing, sleepwalking |
| Audio playback | Any moment of the night | Clips of detected sounds |
| Full-night timeline | Yes, zoom from 1 s to 1 h | Snoring decibel graph |
| Episode grouping | Yes, 30 s gap closes an episode | Not described |
| Breathing pause flag | Yes, 10+ s silence rule | Breathing changes, apnea risk report |
| Sleep stages | Awake, Light, Deep, REM from breathing | Light, deep, REM from sound and motion |
| Sleep sounds and stories | No | Yes, large library |
| Smart alarm | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Watch | Watch app | No watch app. Reads Apple Health |
| Android | Yes | Yes, Google Play |
| Export | CSV, episode clips, full-night audio | Share recordings. No file export described |
| App Store rating | 4.9 from 214 | 4.8 from 350K |
ShutEye is free to download, and its App Store listing marks it with in-app purchases. The listing shows these prices on 27 September 2026:
The description spells out the main plan: an “auto-renewing subscription at $59.99/year for unlimited access to VIP features.” ShutEye's FAQ adds a 7-day free trial for first-time subscribers and a Family Plan you manage from the Profile tab. It also says you cannot pause a subscription. You cancel and subscribe again later.
Snore Timeline costs nothing and sells nothing. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no premium tier. Every feature in this article ships to every user. If a recurring charge is the reason you are shopping, our list of snoring apps with no subscription covers the other options.
Every App Store listing carries a privacy label the developer fills in. Apple's developer page says developers are responsible for keeping those answers accurate. The two labels below are real App Store captures, as declared on the App Store on 27 September 2026.
ShutEye's label has three tiers. Data Used to Track You lists Identifiers. Apple defines tracking as linking data from an app with other companies' data for targeted ads or ad measurement, or sharing it with a data broker. Data Linked to You lists Identifiers too, specified as User ID and Device ID for analytics.
Data Not Linked to You lists four categories. Health & Fitness and User Content (Audio Data) appear for app functionality. Usage Data and Diagnostics appear for analytics. An Audio Data entry means the developer declared it collects audio. The label alone does not say that every recording leaves your phone.
ShutEye's FAQ fills in more. It says ShutEye does not sell personal data, encrypts data at rest and in transit, and stores personal information “on encrypted servers” with cloud providers. It offers a Face ID or passcode lock, and you can delete your account under Settings > Account > Delete Account.
ShutEye's FAQ tells new users to “follow the easy registration steps to create your account” and covers email and password logins. It also says the app tracks sleep offline, with syncing and cloud insights waiting for a connection. We could not confirm from its pages whether you can record a night without signing in.
Snore Timeline has no account, no server, and no analytics SDK. Recordings and results stay on your phone until you export them. Our comparison of 14 snoring app privacy labels puts both labels next to 12 others.
Both apps listen through the phone's microphone and pick out snoring. They present the night in different ways.
ShutEye's how-it-works page describes a snoring report with “a graph representing your snoring decibels throughout the night.” It analyzes how long and how loud you snored. The same page lists sleep recordings: ShutEye detects snoring, sleep talking, breathing changes, sleepwalking, and coughing, then keeps the clips in your sleep report so you can replay and share them. The Google Play listing adds a line on reviewing “snoring recordings and sleep events.”
ShutEye's FAQ adds a limit worth knowing. The app cannot tell your sleep data apart from a partner's if you share a bed.
ShutEye does not state in one place which of these reports sit behind Premium. The FAQ reserves “advanced sleep tracking and personalized insights” for subscribers. The how-it-works page invites you to use the 7-day trial “to track your sleep cycles, verify your sleep score.” We did not find a page that names the snore features in the free tier.
Snore Timeline records the whole night and processes every sound as it arrives, with no periodic sampling. Each detection lands on a timeline you can zoom from a 1-second view out to 1-hour ticks. Tap any point and you hear that moment.
Consecutive snores form an episode, and 30 seconds of quiet closes it. Each episode lists its duration, snore count, peak and average dB, rhythm class, and a plain-English summary such as “Heavy snoring for 22 minutes with one breathing disruption.” The timeline and playback guide and the episodes guide show how it reads.
This is ShutEye's home ground, and Snore Timeline does not compete here. ShutEye's App Store description opens with an “extensive library of sleep sounds and ambient noise” and “bedtime stories for a soothing transition to sleep.” You can build custom mixes, white noise included.
The Google Play listing goes further. It names rain, thunder, ocean, fan, forest, fireplace, wind, and bird sounds, plus guided meditation, breathing exercises, and mindfulness sessions. You can save favorite mixes for each night. ShutEye's home page frames the product around four pillars: sleep tracking, soothing sounds, a smart alarm, and a personalized sleep plan.
If falling asleep is your problem, ShutEye addresses it and Snore Timeline does not. Snore Timeline plays no sounds to help you drift off. Its one tone is Snore Nudge, a short sound on the phone or a tap on your Apple Watch when you snore, meant to prompt a change of position.
Both apps have a smart alarm. ShutEye's FAQ says its alarm wakes you “during your lightest sleep phase.” Snore Timeline's Smart Alarm also aims for light sleep inside a window you set, and it can wake you with a silent tap on an Apple Watch. For a closer look at sound-first sleep apps, see Snore Timeline vs BetterSleep.
ShutEye's how-it-works page lists “breathing changes” among the sounds it detects and describes a sleep apnea risk report built from breathing and snoring patterns. Its FAQ says that if the app spots signs such as loud snoring, choking sounds, or pauses in breathing, it “may suggest seeking professional medical advice.” The pages do not publish the rule behind the report.
Snore Timeline publishes its rule. It needs at least a minute of audible breathing first. It then watches for 10 or more seconds of silence, followed by a recovery sound at least 15 dB louder than the silence. Each match appears on the timeline as a breathing disruption you can play back. Put the phone 1 to 2 feet from your head so the mic can hear you breathe. The breathing disruptions guide explains each step, and our guide to apps that flag breathing pauses compares others.
Both apps detect sleep talking. ShutEye files talking clips in its sleep recordings. Snore Timeline marks sleep talking on the timeline next to snores, gasps, and coughs. Our sleep talking recorder guide covers setup for catching quiet speech.
ShutEye's FAQ says, “As of 2024, we do not have a dedicated ShutEye app for the Apple Watch.” It pulls Watch data through Apple Health, and the App Store page on 27 September 2026 lists the app for iPhone, with Mac and Vision Pro versions. Snore Timeline has an Apple Watch app. It adds heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, and wrist temperature to the night and handles the wrist tap for Snore Nudge. Does Apple Watch track snoring? explains what the Watch can and cannot hear.
Both run on Android. ShutEye's Google Play listing shows 4.4 stars from 109K reviews and 10M+ downloads, with in-app purchases. Snore Timeline's Android version records from the phone mic and keeps the same timeline, episodes, and breathing disruption flag. It has no Watch support there and writes to Health Connect in place of Apple Health.
ShutEye lets you replay recordings and share them with friends, and its snoring article suggests sharing recordings with a doctor before a sleep study. We found no mention of CSV or bulk file export on its site or listings. It saves sleep sessions to Apple Health.
Snore Timeline exports per-episode clips, full-night audio, and CSV reports with a nightly summary and per-episode detail. On iPhone the files land in the Files app, and on Android in Downloads. The export guide shows how to build a report for a doctor.
Snore Timeline has 214 App Store ratings next to ShutEye's 350K. That gap reflects age and reach. Weigh it against the features you need.
Snore Timeline analyzes audio. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose sleep apnea or any other condition. Bring recordings to a doctor if you suspect breathing pauses.
ShutEye's FAQ says you can use “some basic features” without a subscription and that “advanced sleep tracking and personalized insights” need a premium plan. Neither the FAQ nor the App Store listing says which snore features fall on each side of that line, so we could not confirm it.
New subscribers get a 7-day free trial of all premium features, per the same FAQ. Premium renews at $59.99 a year according to the App Store description.
Yes, by its own label. As declared on the App Store on 27 September 2026, ShutEye lists Identifiers under Data Used to Track You, Identifiers (User ID and Device ID) under Data Linked to You, and Health & Fitness, User Content, Usage Data, and Diagnostics under Data Not Linked to You.
Its FAQ states that ShutEye does not sell personal data and keeps it on encrypted servers run through cloud providers.
No. Snore Timeline has no library of sleep sounds, stories, or meditations. The only audio it plays is your own recording and, if you turn on Snore Nudge, a short tone when you snore.
Snore Timeline groups consecutive snores into episodes, closes each one after a 30-second gap, and plays back any moment of the night from the timeline. Each episode carries its duration, snore count, peak and average dB, and a plain-English summary.
ShutEye shows a snoring decibel graph for the night and saves clips of detected sounds that you can replay and share. Its published pages do not describe episode grouping.
No. Snore Timeline flags breathing pauses from audio and is not a medical device. ShutEye offers a sleep apnea risk report, and its FAQ says the app may suggest you seek professional medical advice.
The NHLBI points people to a sleep study with a sleep specialist to find the type of sleep apnea and how serious it is.
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