Price, App Store privacy labels, audio playback, and breathing features, checked on both apps’ official pages on 27 September 2026.
Snore Timeline has no subscription and no in-app purchases, and its App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”. SnoreLab has a free tier with limits, sells Premium from $5.99 to $59.99 on the US App Store, and declares data in all three label tiers, including Usage Data used to track you. Snore Timeline records the whole night with every sound on a zoomable timeline, including sleep talking. SnoreLab brings the Snore Score, remedies tracking, and a breathing index trained on sleep lab data, most of it behind Premium.
| Feature | Snore Timeline | SnoreLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price and purchases | Free, no in-app purchases | Free tier; Premium $5.99 to $59.99 |
| Subscription | None | Monthly, 3-month, yearly, or one-time Premium |
| Privacy label | Data Not Collected | Tracking, Linked to You, Not Linked to You |
| Account | None | Account used for backup and device transfer (FAQ); listing does not say if required |
| Audio playback | Any moment of the night | 20 samples per night; full night with Premium |
| Full-night timeline | Zoomable waveform, 1 second to 1 hour | Interactive snoring chart |
| Episode grouping | Episodes split by 30 s of silence, each with a summary | Time spent at quiet, light, loud, epic |
| Breathing pause flag | Audio-only flag, 10 s+ silence | BreathFlow and Breathing Disturbance Index (Premium) |
| Sleep talking detection | Yes, labeled on the timeline | Not listed on site or listing |
| Sleep stages | Estimated from breathing; Watch data added | From Apple Watch via Apple Health |
| Apple Watch | Watch app included | Syncs through Apple Health; no Watch app listed |
| Android | Yes, Android 10+ | Yes |
| Export | CSV, episode clips, full-night audio | Email report, spreadsheet (Premium) |
| App Store rating | 4.9 from 214 ratings | 4.7 from 57K ratings |
Snore Timeline is free. It has no subscription, no in-app purchases, and no premium tier, so the version you download on night one is the version you keep.
SnoreLab is a free download with a real free tier. Its FAQ says the free version lets you “record your night, see charts and stats in the morning, listen to captured audio, and tag remedies and factors.” The catch comes after your first 5 sessions. From then on, the free version “cannot be run for 2 consecutive days.”
Premium removes that limit. Its FAQ says Premium adds BreathFlow and the Breathing Disturbance Index, full session history, full night recording, trends, audio backup, export, a rest rating, and Soundscapes.
The US App Store listing shows ten Premium purchase options, priced from $5.99 to $59.99. They include monthly, three-month and yearly plans, plus a one-time purchase at $7.99. The listing does not say which of these prices a new user sees.
The free tier suits a week of testing. Nightly recording needs Premium. For a wider look at paywalls, see snoring apps with no subscription.
Every App Store listing carries a privacy label. The developer fills it in, and Apple sorts the answers into tiers: data used to track you, data linked to you, and data not linked to you.
As declared on the App Store on 27 September 2026:
| Tier | Data | Declared purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Used to track you | Usage Data | Not broken out on the label |
| Linked to you | Health | Analytics, Product Personalization |
| Linked to you | User ID | Analytics, App Functionality |
| Linked to you | Email Address, Audio Data, Customer Support | App Functionality |
| Not linked to you | Product Interaction | Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics |
| Not linked to you | Device ID, Crash Data | Analytics, App Functionality |
“Audio Data” on a label means the developer declared that it collects audio. By itself it does not tell you that every night uploads. SnoreLab’s FAQ fills in the detail: recordings “are saved locally on your device and are not uploaded to a server without your permission.” If you turn on Audio Backup, a Premium feature, SnoreLab stores your audio on its server, encrypted with a key unique to you. The FAQ says snore detection runs on the device and needs no internet connection, and that uploading sessions to a SnoreLab account does.
Snore Timeline is one of four apps out of 14 we checked that declare Data Not Collected, and the one among those four with no purchases of any kind. The full list is in 14 snoring app privacy labels compared.
Both labels as shown on the US App Store on 27 September 2026.
A label is a self-declaration. Apple’s developer guidance tells developers to keep their answers accurate and up to date, and we re-check labels on the date shown at the top of this page.
Snore Timeline records the whole night through the phone microphone or AirPods and other Bluetooth mics. It analyzes every sound as it happens, with no periodic sampling. It labels snores, gasps, coughs, sleep talking, and breathing. A Loud Sound Detection option catches sounds the classifier cannot name, such as whispers. How detection works covers each label.
SnoreLab listens all night and detects snoring. By default, its site says, it saves 20 audio samples per night. Full Night Recording, which keeps every captured sound, is a Premium feature. You can add notes, tag remedies and factors, and create your own when the preset list falls short. SnoreLab says it has monitored more than 170 million nights of sleep, which gives its Snore Score benchmarks a large base.
SnoreLab’s site and App Store listing do not name sleep talking as a detected sound. If catching what you say at night matters to you, see our sleep talking recorder guide.
SnoreLab sums up a night in one number. Snore Timeline gives you a map.
SnoreLab’s FAQ calls the Snore Score its “unique measurement of snoring intensity.” It is “calculated using the average volume and the total duration of suspected snoring episodes during a night.” A higher score means louder or more frequent snoring. The score has no units. SnoreLab says a person who snores loud for a short stretch can score close to someone who snores quiet all night.
SnoreLab sorts snoring into Light, Loud and Epic. As a rough guide, it treats loud as 50 to 60 dB and epic as 60 dB and up. A typical new user scores around 25, and a score of 100 or more puts you in the highest 15% of SnoreLab users. The score exists to compare nights and test remedies, and that pairing is SnoreLab’s core strength.
Snore Timeline draws the night as a waveform you drag and zoom, from 1-second bars out to 1-hour ticks. Colors mark the sound type: dusty rose for snoring, cream for sleep talking, pale purple for breathing disruptions, gray for silence. Tap anywhere and you hear that moment. Timeline & playback explains the colors and zoom levels.
Snores that happen close together form an episode. A 30-second silence closes it, and the next snore opens a new one. Each episode shows its duration, snore count, peak and average dB, a rhythm class, and a plain-English summary. Episodes & events covers the rules. A nightly sleep score and weekly trends sit on top of that. To test a remedy the way SnoreLab users do, follow the test a remedy guide.
Both apps listen to breathing through a microphone. The apps do not diagnose sleep apnea, and both say so.
SnoreLab offers two Premium metrics. BreathFlow is “SnoreLab’s unique measure of sleep breathing stability, based on the analysis of acoustic patterns.” A night above 90% reads as Stable. The Breathing Disturbance Index estimates breathing disturbances per hour, and scores above 12 events per hour read as Elevated. SnoreLab says BreathFlow was trained on close to 400 nights of sleep lab data and checked against Apple Watch data from thousands of home nights. Its site states that BreathFlow and the BDI “are not medical devices and are not intended for the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of obstructive sleep apnea.”
Snore Timeline uses a fixed, readable rule. It waits for at least 1 minute of audible breathing. Then it looks for 10 or more seconds of silence, followed by a recovery sound 15 dB louder than the silence. Each match lands on the timeline, where you can play it back. The app has not been clinically validated, and it is not a medical device. Breathing disruptions explains the rule and its limits.
NIH’s MedlinePlus notes that snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea and advises seeing a provider if you wake up gasping or feel tired during the day. Treat either app’s output as something to bring to that appointment. Our guide to apps that flag breathing pauses covers what audio can and cannot catch.
Snore Timeline bundles an Apple Watch app with the iPhone app. You can start and stop a recording from your wrist, get a Snore Nudge tap when you snore, and see heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen and wrist temperature beside your snoring. See Apple Watch & biometrics.
SnoreLab’s FAQ says iPhones paired with an Apple Watch can sync SnoreLab with Apple Health, which shows sleep phases in the session chart. Its App Store listing lists iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision under compatibility, with no Watch app.
Both apps run on Android. Snore Timeline needs Android 10 or later and brings the timeline, episodes, breathing flags, sleep stages and exports. Its Watch app is iOS only. SnoreLab calls itself “The Snoring Management App for iOS and Android.”
Snore Timeline exports a ZIP of CSV files (nightly summary, sleep stages, detected events, watch biometrics) plus episode clips or the full-night recording, saved to the Files app. Export & sharing lists every column.
SnoreLab export is Premium. You can email a session report with audio and the chart attached, or export all sessions as a spreadsheet of numbers without audio. On Android, its FAQ says you can move audio to an SD card.
You can also run both on the same night with the setup in the FAQ below. More options are in SnoreLab alternatives.
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.
SnoreLab is a free download with a limited free tier. Its FAQ says the free version lets you record a night, see charts and stats in the morning, listen to captured audio, and tag remedies and factors. After your first 5 sessions, the free version cannot run on 2 consecutive days.
Premium lifts that limit and adds full night recording, trends, export, audio backup, BreathFlow and the Breathing Disturbance Index. The US App Store lists Premium purchases from $5.99 to $59.99.
Yes, by its own App Store label. As declared on the App Store on 27 September 2026, SnoreLab lists Usage Data under “Data Used to Track You”, lists Health & Fitness, Contact Info, User Content and Identifiers under “Data Linked to You”, and lists Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics under “Data Not Linked to You”.
Its FAQ adds that recordings stay on your device and do not upload to a server without your permission. If you turn on Audio Backup, SnoreLab stores encrypted audio on its server.
Snore Timeline detects sleep talking as its own sound type and marks it on the timeline in cream, so you can tap it and play it back. SnoreLab records the room, but its site and App Store listing do not name sleep talking as something it detects or labels.
Yes. Use two phones, one per app, and set them side by side at the same distance from your head so both hear the same night. SnoreLab suggests arm’s length from your face. Snore Timeline suggests 3 to 4 feet for snoring and 1 to 2 feet for breathing pauses. Pick one distance for both.
Plug both phones in and silence notifications on each, since a sound from one phone lands on the other phone’s recording. Turn off Snore Nudge in Snore Timeline for that night, or its tone will show up in SnoreLab’s audio.
Expect the numbers to differ. Each app uses its own detection and each phone has its own microphone.
Both. Snore Timeline runs on Android 10 or later from Google Play, with the same timeline, episodes, breathing disruption flags, sleep stages and exports as the iPhone version. Its Apple Watch app is iOS only.
SnoreLab describes itself as “The Snoring Management App for iOS and Android”, and its FAQ includes Android steps, such as moving audio to an SD card.
Free. No subscription, no account, no in-app purchases.
