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Which Snoring Apps Collect Your Data?

Quick answer

Four of the 14 snoring and sleep apps I checked show “Data Not Collected” on the App Store, as declared on 1 November 2026, and they’re Snore Timeline, AutoSnore, SnoreClock and Somnio+. Snore Timeline is the only one of the 14 with both that label and no purchases of any kind. The other eight declare data linked to your identity: SnoreLab, Sleep Cycle, Pillow, ShutEye, BetterSleep, SleepScore, Snollo and Snore Control, with four of them (SnoreLab, Sleep Cycle, ShutEye and BetterSleep) also declaring data used to track you. Developers write these labels themselves. Check again on install day.

Key takeaways

  • Four of the 14 apps declare Data Not Collected. They’re Snore Timeline, AutoSnore, SnoreClock and Somnio+.
  • Snore Timeline is the only one of the 14 with Data Not Collected and no purchases. The rest charge. AutoSnore costs $4.99 once and SnoreClock $9.99 once, while Somnio+ sells weekly and annual subscriptions.
  • Eight apps declare data linked to your identity. Four of those also declare Data Used to Track You.
  • Four apps declare Audio Data. SnoreLab marks it as linked to you, while ShutEye, Koala Nap and Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor mark it as not linked.
  • Apple states that developers self-report these labels. They can change them at any time, without an app update.
  • Privacy policies of the ten data-collecting apps were my second source. None says the company sells data for money. One says its ad-network use counts as a sale or share under California law, and four don’t mention selling personal data at all. The four Data Not Collected apps weren’t part of that read.
In this article

    What an App Store privacy label is

    Every App Store listing has an App Privacy section. Apple calls it privacy information, most people call it the privacy nutrition label, and the developer fills it in by answering a questionnaire from Apple, which the App Store then turns into as many as three boxes [1].

    The three tiers

    • Data Used to Track You. Data the app combines with data from other companies’ apps, websites or offline properties for ads, or hands to a data broker [2].
    • Data Linked to You. Data tied to who you are [1]. That link can run through your account, your device or other details.
    • Data Not Linked to You. Data the developer collects after stripping identifiers such as a user ID [2].

    If a developer declares nothing in any tier, the listing shows one box instead, Data Not Collected, with a line saying the developer doesn’t collect any data from the app.

    What “track” means to Apple

    Apple’s definition is narrow. Analytics an app keeps to itself, without mixing in other companies’ data, don’t count as tracking [1], so an app can declare a long list of data linked to you and still show no tracking box. Snore Timeline collects no analytics at all, in-house or through a vendor, which is why its label has nothing to declare.

    All 14 apps at a glance

    The table shows each tier as the developer declared it, plus the rating, the rating count and the price range of anything the listing sells. All 14 come from the US store.

    App Store privacy labels as declared by each developer, US store, 1 November 2026. Recent-review share (27 September 2026): five-star reviews among the 50 most recent US App Store reviews per app (fewer where the feed had fewer).
    AppRating (count)5-star share of recent reviewsData Used to Track YouData Linked to YouData Not Linked to YouPurchases
    Snore Timeline4.9 (281)97% (37 of 38)None declaredNone declaredNone declaredNone
    SnoreLab4.7 (58K)56% (28 of 50)Usage DataHealth & Fitness, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers (User ID)Identifiers (Device ID), Usage Data (Product Interaction), Diagnosticsfrom $5.99 to $59.99 (subscriptions)
    Sleep Cycle4.7 (31K)30% (15 of 50)IdentifiersHealth & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers (Device ID, User ID), Usage Data, DiagnosticsNone declaredfrom $2.99 to $57.99 (subscriptions)
    Pillow4.4 (96K)36% (18 of 50)None declaredIdentifiers (Device ID), Usage Data, DiagnosticsPurchases, Location, User Content, Identifiers (User ID)from $19.99 to $59.99 (subscriptions)
    ShutEye4.8 (350K)14% (7 of 50)IdentifiersIdentifiers (Device ID, User ID)Health & Fitness, User Content, Usage Data, Diagnosticsfrom $9.99 to $59.99 (subscriptions)
    BetterSleep4.7 (391K)28% (14 of 50)Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data, Other DataPurchases (Purchase History), Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers (Device ID, User ID), Usage Data (Other Usage Data, Product Interaction), Diagnostics (Crash Data), Other Data (Other Data Types)Location, Diagnostics (Performance Data)from $11.99 to $99.99 (subscriptions)
    SleepScore4.4 (7.5K)8% (4 of 50)None declaredHealth & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data, Other DataDiagnosticsfrom $9.99 to $59.99 (subscriptions)
    Snollo3.1 (16)33% (3 of 9)None declaredHealth & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, IdentifiersUsage Data, Diagnosticsfrom $5.99 to $39.99 (subscriptions)
    Koala Nap4.4 (344)56% (28 of 50)None declaredNone declaredUser Content, Diagnosticsfrom $4.99 to $39.99 (subscriptions)
    Snore Control4.4 (608)19% (6 of 32)None declaredUser ContentUsage Data, Diagnosticsfrom $0.99 to $31.99 (subscriptions)
    Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor4.5 (4.4K)68% (34 of 50)None declaredNone declaredUser Content, Usage DataNone
    AutoSnore4.3 (1.4K)10% (5 of 50)None declaredNone declaredNone declared$4.99 one-time
    SnoreClock4.6 (60)50% (8 of 16)None declaredNone declaredNone declared$9.99 one-time
    Somnio+3.9 (18)0% (0 of 1)None declaredNone declaredNone declaredfrom $4.99 to $29.99 (subscriptions)

    Where a category shows up in two tiers, the detail item sits in parentheses. A developer can declare a User ID as linked to you and a Device ID as not linked, and the tracking box repeats categories from the other two, since it describes a purpose rather than a separate data type.

    Only two apps list no purchases at all. Those are Snore Timeline, which declares Data Not Collected, and Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor, which declares data not linked to you.

    Apps that declare Data Not Collected

    Four of the 14 labels show the Data Not Collected box. How they charge you is where they differ. That’s where Snore Timeline stands apart.

    Snore Timeline

    Snore Timeline App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. The developer does not collect any data from this app.
    Snore Timeline privacy label.

    Snore Timeline’s listing shows a free download with no in-app purchases and a 4.9 rating from 281 ratings [4], and of the 14 apps it’s the only one pairing an empty label with no purchases of any kind. That rating count is small next to SnoreLab’s 58,000 for a reason. Snore Timeline reached the App Store in September 2025, while SnoreLab has been there since 2012, and I build it alone with no outside funding and no marketing budget. It labels snores, sleep talking, gasps, coughs and possible breathing pauses on the timeline, estimates sleep stages from the phone’s audio alone with no wearable, and includes full-night audio, replay and export at no cost. Full disclosure: it’s my app.

    AutoSnore

    AutoSnore App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. The developer does not collect any data from this app.
    AutoSnore privacy label.

    AutoSnore costs $4.99 up front. The listing shows no in-app purchases [5], says the app comes from the team behind AutoSleep, and promises no subscriptions and no hidden extra in-app purchases.

    SnoreClock

    SnoreClock App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. The developer does not collect any data from this app.
    SnoreClock privacy label.

    SnoreClock is a one-time $9.99 purchase with no in-app purchases [6]. According to its listing, it records up to 11 hours and marks talking, whispering and coughing alongside snores.

    Somnio+

    Somnio+ App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. The developer does not collect any data from this app.
    Somnio+ privacy label.

    Somnio+ is free to download. It sells weekly subscriptions at $4.99 and $9.99 and annual ones at $14.99 and $29.99 [7]. The listing says it marks long silent periods as possible breathing pauses, and it states that the app is not a medical device.

    Apps that declare data linked to your identity

    Eight apps declare data linked to your identity.

    SnoreLab

    SnoreLab App Store privacy label: Data Used to Track You lists Usage Data. Data Linked to You lists Health & Fitness, Contact Info, User Content and Identifiers. Data Not Linked to You lists Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics.
    SnoreLab privacy label.

    What the label says SnoreLab holds about you. Tied to your identity are your email address, your sleep and health readings, your voice or sound recordings, the messages you send to support, and a user ID that connects those records to you. “Sleep and health readings” covers more than it sounds like. SnoreLab’s policy lists the sleep data it collects automatically once you track a night: your breathing rate, breathing disturbances, sleep stages and movement. It adds the sex, age, weight and height you enter, plus the BMI it works out from them, which the policy counts as health data [11]. The same policy lets SnoreLab use that data to tailor what you see in the app, including third-party product recommendations and partner promotions if you opt in, and to research questions such as how snoring varies with sex or BMI, with anonymized results published in the app or the press. It keeps your data for as long as you have an account and for 12 months after you delete the account or cancel your subscription, keeps anonymized data indefinitely, and says your personal data would likely go to the buyer if the company were sold [11]. A device ID, how you use the app (taps and screens viewed, say) and crash logs are declared as not linked.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. SnoreLab’s label declares Usage Data as used to track you. The policy names AppsFlyer for this and lists what SnoreLab sends it: your user ID, device data, purchases, country, ad-campaign data, and your sex, age, weight and height. It says this lets SnoreLab and third parties “track your activity across apps and websites” [11]. AppsFlyer is an attribution middleman; I cover those under how tracking works. Your nightly sleep readings aren’t on AppsFlyer’s list. Google gets your email, user ID, device data, demographics and BMI through Firebase [26], your user ID through BigQuery [29], and testimonials through Google Forms. Amazon’s AWS [30] receives your user ID, demographics, device data and Apple Health data for research, including work on the detection algorithms. Customer.io, which sends SnoreLab’s emails and notifications, gets your email and demographics too. The policy says SnoreLab only collects your recordings if you subscribe to Cloud Backup or opt in to research.

    Sleep Cycle

    Sleep Cycle App Store privacy label: Data Used to Track You lists Identifiers. Data Linked to You lists Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics.
    Sleep Cycle privacy label.

    What the label says Sleep Cycle holds about you. Linked to your identity are your name and email address, your health readings, your purchase history, your approximate location, a user ID and a device ID, how you use the app, and crash logs. The label also lists your approximate location, name, email address and both IDs for the developer’s own advertising or marketing. It declares no voice or sound recordings. Sleep Cycle’s policy says health data stays on your device by default, and that the company can’t get at it unless you consent [12]. Opting in changes that in four ways. Turn on the backup and all the data in the app goes to Sleep Cycle’s servers on Google Cloud, kept until you withdraw consent and for up to a year after you end the subscription. Agree to help improve the app and your health data goes, pseudonymised, to a product development environment run by Amplitude on Amazon Web Services, kept until you withdraw consent or for up to three years from collection, whichever is longer. Agree to share insights and Sleep Cycle may use your data, health data included, in public reports, with partners and in the community benchmarks it shows subscribers, in aggregated or de-identified form only, and it may keep what it already collected, pseudonymised, for statistics and science after you withdraw. Join a research study and your data goes to the investigator, who then controls it.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. Sleep Cycle declares Identifiers as used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, yet its policy names no ad network [12]. It does name Google (Google Cloud, which hosts the optional server backup), Amazon (AWS), Sinch (Mailgun [33]) and CleverTap (Leanplum [34]), plus Amplitude, Zendesk and Fivetran.

    Pillow

    Pillow App Store privacy label: Data Linked to You lists Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostics. Data Not Linked to You lists Purchases, Location, User Content and Identifiers.
    Pillow privacy label.

    What the label says Pillow holds about you. Three items are linked to your identity (a device ID, how you use the app and crash logs). Your purchase history, your approximate location, the messages you send to support and a user ID are declared as not linked, and there’s no tracking box. It declares no voice or sound recordings.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. Pillow’s policy says plainly that it uses Adjust to share pseudonymous device IDs with Meta and Google [13]. OpenAI gets data too. The policy says installs, subscription events and purchase amounts reach OpenAI through Adjust, for ChatGPT Ads. Adjust belongs to AppLovin [32] and works as an attribution middleman (see how tracking works). The policy lists Meta’s networks as Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network and names Google Ads, then Apple (iCloud and CloudKit [35]), Mixpanel, RevenueCat, Sentry, Statsig, Intercom and MailerLite. Sleep tracking and audio analysis, it says, run on your device.

    ShutEye

    ShutEye App Store privacy label: Data Used to Track You lists Identifiers. Data Linked to You lists Identifiers. Data Not Linked to You lists Health & Fitness, User Content, Usage Data and Diagnostics.
    ShutEye privacy label.

    What the label says ShutEye holds about you. Only a user ID and a device ID are linked to your identity, both declared for analytics. Your health readings, your voice or sound recordings, how you use the app, crash logs and performance data such as launch time are all declared as not linked. Enerjoy, ShutEye’s developer, covers it in one policy with its other apps. That policy says health data from Apple Health, such as heart rate, sleep, breathing and blood oxygen, is collected only if you choose to share it, and is used to build plans personalized for you [15]. It says Enerjoy won’t share health data with advertising partners or use health and fitness data for advertising, marketing or data mining. One partner can receive sleep data if you opt in. Join the IKEA collaboration and ShutEye passes your sleep data, such as sleep duration and quality, to IKEA when the activity ends, tied to your IKEA Family membership, so IKEA can recommend products. The policy sets no fixed retention period. It keeps personal information as long as reasonably necessary, while it has a business need, or as the law requires, whichever is longer.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. ShutEye’s label declares Identifiers as used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites. Its 2026 policy describes interest-based advertising, including through cross-device tracking, and names AppsFlyer, an attribution middleman (see how tracking works) [15]. Then there’s the older one. Enerjoy’s July 2024 website policy says the company may have sold and shared some personal information in the previous 12 months, in the legal sense of those words [16]. The 2026 policy also names Google (Firebase and Google), Meta (Facebook [31]), OpenAI, and IKEA for users who join a collaboration. It doesn’t mention recordings.

    BetterSleep

    BetterSleep App Store privacy label: Data Used to Track You lists Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data and Other Data. Data Linked to You lists Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics and Other Data. Data Not Linked to You lists Location and Diagnostics.
    BetterSleep privacy label.

    What the label says BetterSleep holds about you. The linked list is long. It covers your name and email address, your purchase history, a user ID and a device ID, how you use the app, the messages you send to support, other content you create, crash logs, and other data the label doesn’t name. Your precise location and performance data are declared as not linked.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. BetterSleep declares Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data and Other Data as used to track you. No other app of the 14 lists as many. Its policy says its use of ad networks counts as a sale or share under the broader definitions in California law [17], and its opt-out page names Facebook Custom Audience, conversion tracking pixels and Google Analytics [18]. Facebook belongs to Meta. OpenLoop is named for clinical services. As for recordings, BetterSleep says it keeps data derived from them and doesn’t keep the recordings themselves.

    SleepScore

    SleepScore App Store privacy label: Data Linked to You lists Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data and Other Data. Data Not Linked to You lists Diagnostics.
    SleepScore privacy label.

    What the label says SleepScore holds about you. Linked to your identity are your health and fitness readings, your purchase history, your precise location, your name and email address, a user ID and a device ID, how you use the app, and other data the label doesn’t name. Precise, in Apple’s terms, means latitude and longitude to three or more decimal places. Crash logs and performance data are declared as not linked. SleepScore’s policy says the sleep readings it collects (breathing, movement and noise disturbances) and the height, weight, age and gender you enter power your daily score and personalized advice, which can include recommendations for products or services from companies it has a relationship with [19]. It uses sleep data and demographics to train its sleep models, and if you give your data to its sleep research programs, it’s aggregated so it can’t be tied to you. It says it doesn’t use Apple Health data for advertising and won’t sell it. Account data stays until SleepScore no longer needs it or you delete it, and withdrawing consent deletes the health information you uploaded. Deleting a single night leaves the basic measurement data in its database, and after you delete your account it keeps aggregate, de-identified sleep data for product work and sleep science. If the company is sold or merged, the policy lets it transfer your information as part of the deal.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. There’s no tracking box on SleepScore’s label, and the policy names no advertising partners. It names no companies at all [19]. It says SleepScore doesn’t sell your data to advertisers and that audio events are stored as timestamps, with no recognisable audio collected or stored. Data is stored and processed in the United States.

    Snollo

    Snollo App Store privacy label: Data Linked to You lists Health & Fitness, Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content and Identifiers. Data Not Linked to You lists Usage Data and Diagnostics.
    Snollo privacy label.

    What the label says Snollo holds about you. Snollo links your name, your health and fitness readings, your purchase history, your precise location and a user ID to your identity. How you use the app, crash logs and performance data are declared as not linked. The label shows no tracking box. Snollo’s policy says your sleep sessions (stages, heart rate and blood oxygen), audio clips and the labels for detected sounds are stored only in your private iCloud, where Snollo says it can’t read them [20]. The app reads sleep and motion data from Apple Health to work out sleep stages and writes your sleep score back. Your profile, including your display name and sleep goal, sits in a CloudKit database that Snollo can read. Sleep data stays in your iCloud until you delete the app or your profile, and the policy says the analytics Snollo sends out carry no sleep or health data. It mentions no research use.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. No advertising partners are named. The policy says none of its services are advertising networks [20], and the companies it does name are Apple (iCloud, CloudKit, HealthKit and WeatherKit), Mixpanel, PostHog, TelemetryDeck, Sentry and RevenueCat, plus Ahrefs on its website. Mixpanel, it says, gets event names and your User ID but never sleep data, audio or your name.

    Snore Control

    Snore Control App Store privacy label: Data Linked to You lists User Content. Data Not Linked to You lists Usage Data and Diagnostics.
    Snore Control privacy label.

    What the label says Snore Control holds about you. Only the messages you send to support are linked to your identity, while how you use the app and crash logs are declared as not linked, which gives it the fewest linked data types of the eight apps in this group. Its label has no tracking box either.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. Snore Control’s policy describes it as both a freemium app and an ad-supported app, and names AdMob, Google’s in-app ad network [28] [23], along with Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, both part of Google’s Firebase [27]. The label declares no tracking. According to the policy, your health data won’t be sent to any external server. Recordings don’t come up.

    Apps that declare Data Used to Track You

    How tracking works: identifiers and middlemen

    SnoreLab and ShutEye name AppsFlyer. Pillow names Adjust. Both are attribution services that sit between the app and the ad networks. AppsFlyer’s services policy lists what it takes in, including the IDFA (identifier for advertisers) and events such as in-app purchases [36]. When a customer asks, it shares that data with its Partners. Those are the advertising networks and third parties the customer uses. Pillow’s own policy already says where Adjust sends the data: pseudonymous device IDs go to Meta and Google [13].

    A user ID or advertising ID lets a partner line up your records with records about the same device from other apps and sites. AppsFlyer’s policy says it uses data to match up the devices an end user uses, for more accurate attribution measurement. The app policies name the middleman. The middleman’s documents describe where the data goes next.

    AppsFlyer says it doesn’t sell end users’ personal data to any third party, and that customers choose which partners to work with from the AppsFlyer Partner Marketplace [37]. Its Audiences documentation lists the partners it can send user audiences to, so a customer can aim campaigns at those users, keyed by advertising IDs and hashed email addresses or phone numbers. Facebook and TikTok for Business are on the list [38]. So an app running AppsFlyer can send your data to Meta and TikTok for ad targeting. SnoreLab and ShutEye both name AppsFlyer. Neither says which partners it connected.

    The four apps

    Four apps show the tracking box, with these categories as declared.

    • SnoreLab lists Usage Data.
    • Sleep Cycle lists Identifiers.
    • ShutEye lists Identifiers.
    • BetterSleep lists Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data and Other Data.

    The tracking box lists categories only. It names no purpose and no partner. For which ad network gets the data, go to the developer’s privacy policy, linked from the listing. The other ten apps declare no tracking.

    Apps that declare only data not linked to you

    By their own declaration, two apps collect data but keep every bit of it out of the linked and tracking tiers.

    Koala Nap

    Koala Nap App Store privacy label: Data Not Linked to You lists User Content and Diagnostics.
    Koala Nap privacy label.

    What the label says Koala Nap holds about you. It declares your voice or sound recordings and crash logs, both for app functionality and both not linked to your identity. Nothing is declared as linked to you, and there’s no tracking.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. When I checked, the policy page linked from Koala Nap’s listing [22] showed a heading and no text, and koalanap.com doesn’t link to any other policy document, so nothing says which companies receive data, whether recordings leave the phone, or whether anything goes to advertising partners. That leaves the App Store label. It declares audio data and crash data, not linked to you.

    Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor

    Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor App Store privacy label: Data Not Linked to You lists User Content and Usage Data.
    Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor privacy label.

    What the label says Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor holds about you. It declares two items as not linked to your identity. One is your voice or sound recordings, for app functionality, and the other is how you use the app, for analytics. Nothing is linked to you, and nothing is declared for tracking. That label is what separates it from Snore Timeline.

    Who else receives data, per its policy. The policy is an undated Google Doc [24] that names no advertising partners and lists Firebase, Google’s app platform [26], as an analytics provider. It also says the developer transfers data, personal data included, to the Republic of Azerbaijan and processes it there. It never mentions audio, recordings or health data, so it says nothing about where recordings go.

    What each privacy policy says about selling and sharing

    A label is one line per data type, written by the developer. The privacy policy is the longer document it links to. I read each app’s policy on the same day I checked the labels and pulled out three things: what it says about selling, which companies it names as receiving data, and what it says about recordings and health data. All of it comes from the live pages.

    A policy describes what a company intends. It can’t show what an app transmits; a network capture of the running app can. One term needs a note, too. California law gives “sell” and “share” legal meanings, and the California Attorney General’s CCPA page explains that sharing refers specifically to sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising [25]. Passing data to an ad network counts, whether or not money changes hands.

    What each app’s privacy policy says, read on 27 September 2026.
    AppWhat the policy says about sellingCompanies named as receiving dataAdvertising or tracking wordingRecordings and health dataPolicy date
    Snore TimelineDoes not mention sellingNone. Says it has no information to share with any third partySays the app uses no third-party analytics servicesRecordings stay on the device. Apple Health data is read on the device with your permission and not collected.17 May 2026
    SnoreLabSays it does not sellFirebase, BigQuery, Customer.io, Google Forms, AppsFlyer, AWSAppsFlyer row: tracking across apps and websitesAudio on device unless you use Cloud Backup or join research. Apple Health data to AWS for research.18 Sep 2026 (page also carries 2 Jul 2025)
    Sleep CycleDoes not mention sellingGoogle Cloud, Amplitude, AWS, Mailgun, Leanplum, Zendesk, FivetranMentions marketing email, no ad networksHealth data on device by default. Backup stores app data on Google Cloud.No date shown
    PillowSays it does not sellApple iCloud and CloudKit, Mixpanel, RevenueCat, Sentry, Statsig, Adjust, Meta, Google Ads, Intercom, MailerLite, OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads)Device IDs shared with Meta and Google through AdjustSleep tracking, health metrics and audio analysis on device8 Sep 2026 on desktop, 6 Sep 2025 on smaller screens (Terms of Use heading)
    ShutEyeTwo of its policies disagreeFacebook, Firebase, Google, AppsFlyer, OpenAI, IKEA (opt-in collaboration)Interest-based advertising and cross-device trackingHealth data not shared with advertising partners. Does not mention recordings.10 Sep 2026 (app); 22 Jul 2024 (website)
    BetterSleepSays its ad-network use counts as a sale or share under California lawOpenLoop; opt-out page names Facebook and Google AnalyticsAd networks track online activity over timeStores data derived from recordings, not the recordings11 May 2026
    SleepScoreSays it does not sellNames no companiesSays it doesn’t sell your data to advertisersAudio events stored as timestamps. Sleep data trains its models.9 Mar 2026 (version 1.5.0)
    SnolloSays it does not sellApple (iCloud, CloudKit, HealthKit, WeatherKit), Mixpanel, PostHog, TelemetryDeck, Sentry, RevenueCat, Ahrefs (website)Says none of its services are advertising networksClassifications and brief clips saved to your iCloud27 May 2026
    Koala NapNo policy text to read; the linked page is emptyNone named; the linked page is emptyNone; the linked page is emptyNot stated; the linked page is emptyThe App Store links to koalanap.com/privacy-policy, which shows only the heading with no text (checked in a browser)
    Snore ControlDoes not mention selling, except for Health DataAdMob, Firebase Analytics, Firebase CrashlyticsCalls itself an ad-supported appHealth data not sent to any external server. Does not mention recordings.1 Oct 2020
    Snore Recorder - Sleep MonitorDoes not mention sellingFirebaseNo advertising wordingDoes not mention audio, recordings or health dataNo date shown

    Snore Timeline’s own privacy policy says the app has no account and no sign-in, and that recordings are created, processed and stored only on your device. It doesn’t mention selling.

    SnoreLab

    The SnoreLab policy page [11] carries two notices, one last updated 2 July 2025 and the other 18 September 2026. I went by the 2026 one. Section 4, on who SnoreLab discloses your data to, says it won’t disclose or sell your personal data to third parties beyond what that section describes unless you’ve given explicit consent. The AppsFlyer row says this lets SnoreLab and third parties track your activity across apps and websites. Recordings are narrower. Section 2 says audio recordings are collected only if you’ve subscribed to Cloud Backup or opted in to research, and the AWS row lists Apple Health data for research and development, including improving the detection algorithms.

    Sleep Cycle

    The Sleep Cycle privacy policy [12] doesn’t mention selling. Its section on how and with whom it shares personal data names Google Cloud, Amplitude, Amazon Web Services, Mailgun, Leanplum, Zendesk and Fivetran. The app privacy notice says that by default, personal data about your health is stored only on your device, but if you choose to store your sleep data on Sleep Cycle’s servers, all the data in the app goes to its secure servers, hosted by Google Cloud. The policy mentions marketing email and no ad networks, while Sleep Cycle’s App Store label declares Identifiers under Data Used to Track You.

    Pillow

    The Pillow policy page [13] combines its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and the privacy section has no date of its own. Its summary of key points says Pillow doesn’t sell your data. The Do Not Sell page [14] says Neybox Digital Ltd. doesn’t sell personal information. Its section on third-party processors and transfers names the companies in the table above, and the policy says it uses Adjust to share pseudonymous device IDs with Meta and Google. Under the heading about health data staying private, it says all sleep tracking, health metrics and audio analysis happen only on your device.

    ShutEye

    Enerjoy, ShutEye’s developer, publishes two documents, and they disagree.

    Two Enerjoy privacy documents, read on 27 September 2026.
    DocumentDate shownWhat it says
    enerjoy.life/privacy-policy [15]Last Updated: September 10, 2026“Enerjoy does not sell your Personal Information.” (How We Disclose Your Information)
    enerjoy.life/shuteye/PrivacyPolicy.html [16], linked from shuteye.aiLast updated: 22nd July, 2024“during the preceding 12 months, we may have ‘sold’ and ‘shared’ certain categories of personal information” (Notice at Collection for California Residents)

    The 2026 policy names Facebook, Firebase, Google, AppsFlyer and OpenAI, plus IKEA for users who join a collaboration, and it describes interest-based or personalized advertising, including through cross-device tracking. Health data gets its own line. In the section on how Enerjoy discloses information, it says Health Data won’t be shared with advertising partners under any circumstances. Audio and recordings don’t come up.

    BetterSleep

    The BetterSleep privacy policy [17] names BetterSleep Health, LLC. Section 14C covers sale, sharing and personalized ads. It says BetterSleep doesn’t sell personal information to third parties in exchange for money, then adds that its use of ad networks falls within the broader legal definitions of a sale or share, and lists Identifiers, Commercial Information, Internet Activity, Geolocation and Inferences as the categories involved. Section 10 says these networks track people’s online activities over time. OpenLoop is named for clinical services. The opt-out page [18] names Facebook Custom Audience, Conversion Tracking Pixels and Google Analytics. On recordings, section 3 says BetterSleep stores data derived from them and doesn’t store the recordings themselves.

    SleepScore

    The SleepScore app privacy policy [19] is the one I read. The policy link on the App Store listing redirects to the website policy at sleep.ai/privacy-policy. The app policy opens by saying SleepScore doesn’t and won’t sell your data to third parties, and the section on how and why it collects and uses personal data says it doesn’t sell your data to advertisers. No companies are named. On audio, events above a certain threshold are classified and stored as timestamps, and the policy says no recognisable audio is collected or stored. Data is stored and processed in the United States.

    Snollo

    The Snollo privacy policy [20] says, in its section on your rights, that Snollo doesn’t sell or share your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising, and the section on third-party services says Snollo has no data-selling relationships with anyone before naming Apple services, Mixpanel, PostHog, TelemetryDeck, Sentry, RevenueCat and Ahrefs. Mixpanel receives event names and your User ID but never sleep data, audio or your name. On the microphone, the policy says only the resulting classifications and brief clips are saved, to your private iCloud.

    Two Snollo pages, read on 27 September 2026.
    PageDate shownWhat it says
    snollo.com/privacy [20]Effective: May 27, 2026Profile records “are technically readable by Snollo through the CloudKit Dashboard.”
    snollo.com/privacy-first [21]Last reviewed April 2026“There is nothing to breach, sell, or subpoena.”

    Koala Nap

    The policy link on the App Store listing opens koalanap.com/privacy-policy [22]. On the day I checked, that page showed a Privacy Policy heading and no body text, both in a browser and in a text fetch. koalanap.com links to no other policy document, so I had no policy text from the developer to quote. What Koala Nap holds and shares is known only from its App Store label.

    Snore Control

    The Snore Control privacy policy [23] describes the app as both a freemium app and an ad-supported app. It names AdMob, Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. Selling personal data in general isn’t mentioned, but its Apple Health paragraph says Snore Control won’t sell your Health Data to advertising platforms, affiliate networks, data brokers or information resellers, and that your health data won’t be sent to any external server. Audio and recordings aren’t mentioned.

    Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor

    The policy link on the App Store listing opens a Google Doc [24] titled “Privacy Policy - Sleep Monitor: Snoring Tracker”. It doesn’t mention selling. Firebase is named as an analytics provider. In its section on transfer of data, it says the developer moves data, personal data included, to the Republic of Azerbaijan and processes it there. Audio, recordings and health data aren’t mentioned.

    How to check a privacy policy yourself

    Policies change, so read the one that applies on the day you install. Open the app’s App Store listing and tap the developer’s privacy policy link, then search the page for “sell”, “share”, “third” and “advertis”, and after that for “audio” or “recording”. Note the date at the top. If you see more than one date, or the link opens an empty page, write to the developer and ask which version applies.

    What a label cannot tell you

    A privacy label is a declaration. Apple describes it as self-reported by the developer [2], holds the developer responsible for keeping it accurate [1], and lets the developer change it at any time without releasing an app update.

    Researchers have tested labels against app code. A 2023 USENIX Security paper analyzed the privacy labels and app binaries of 5,102 iOS apps and reported cases where a label didn’t match the data flows the tools found [3]. That study didn’t examine the apps on this page. Still, it’s a good reason to treat a label as a starting point, and to read the developer’s privacy policy before you trust an app with a whole night of audio.

    Check a label yourself in 20 seconds

    1. Open the app’s page in the App Store app.
    2. Scroll down to App Privacy. The boxes show the tiers and categories.
    3. Tap the App Privacy heading to see each data type and the purpose the developer gave for it.
    4. If a data type needs explaining, tap the privacy policy link on the same screen.

    Do this on the day you decide. Developers can change their answers without shipping an update, so the labels on this page describe the day I checked them, shown at the top, and nothing later.

    Why Snore Timeline’s label is empty

    Snore Timeline declares Data Not Collected because the app has nothing to send me. There’s no account to sign up for. There’s no server of its own, no analytics SDK and no third-party tracker, and because the app sells nothing, there are no in-app purchases and no purchase history to record.

    The audio analysis runs on the phone. Recordings, episode data and sleep stage estimates stay in the app’s storage, and you set the cap anywhere between 1 and 8 GB (see storage and quality). Nothing leaves the phone unless you export it yourself. CSV reports, episode clips or full-night audio go to the Files app, and from there to your doctor or anyone else you choose (see export and sharing). You can read the full policy at snoretimeline.com/privacy.

    An empty label has a cost. With no account, there’s no cloud backup and no sync between devices, and if you delete the app, the recordings go with it unless you exported them first.

    For head-to-head detail on features, price and label, read Snore Timeline vs SnoreLab, Snore Timeline vs ShutEye and Snore Timeline vs BetterSleep. If you want a wider list, try SnoreLab alternatives.

    Medical note

    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.

    Frequently asked questions

    Do snoring apps upload my recordings?

    The label alone can't tell you. It lists the data types a developer declares it collects, and it says nothing about where that data travels or where it's stored.

    When I checked, four of the 14 apps listed Audio Data. SnoreLab lists it as linked to you, while ShutEye, Koala Nap and Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor list it as not linked to you. The other ten declare no Audio Data. For where recordings go, read each developer's privacy policy, which the listing links to.

    Which snoring apps have a Data Not Collected label?

    I checked 14 apps on the US App Store, and four of them show Data Not Collected: Snore Timeline, AutoSnore, SnoreClock and Somnio+.

    Of those four, only Snore Timeline has no purchases of any kind. AutoSnore costs $4.99 once. SnoreClock costs $9.99 once. Somnio+ sells weekly and annual subscriptions.

    Is the App Store privacy label verified by Apple?

    Apple calls the information self-reported by the developer, and its developer page makes the developer responsible for keeping the answers accurate and up to date.

    Apple writes the definitions and the questions. The developer supplies the answers, and can change them at any time without an app update.

    Does a subscription change what an app collects?

    It can add Purchases, with Purchase History as its data type, to the label.

    When I checked, Sleep Cycle, BetterSleep, SleepScore and Snollo declared Purchases as linked to you, BetterSleep also listed Purchases under Data Used to Track You, and Pillow listed Purchase History as not linked to you. Somnio+ is the exception. It sells subscriptions and still declares Data Not Collected.

    How do I check an app's privacy label myself?

    Open the app's page in the App Store and scroll to App Privacy. The boxes show the categories. Tap or click the App Privacy heading for the full detail, which lists each data type and the purpose the developer gave for it (Analytics or App Functionality, for example).

    Do it on the day you decide to install, since developers can change their answers at any time without shipping an update and last month's label may not match today's.

    Do snoring apps sell your data?

    I read the privacy policies of the ten apps whose labels declare data collection. None of the ten says the company sells data for money. BetterSleep says its use of ad networks counts as a sale or share under California law, and Sleep Cycle, Koala Nap, Snore Control and Snore Recorder - Sleep Monitor don't mention selling personal data in general.

    SnoreLab, Pillow, SleepScore and Snollo say they don't sell. ShutEye has two policies that differ. Its app policy says Enerjoy doesn't sell, but a 2024 Enerjoy policy for its website says it may have sold or shared some categories. A policy describes intent, and only a network capture shows what an app sends.

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