From your first recording to reading a week of patterns.
Someone told you that you snore, and you want to know how much, how loud, and whether it is changing. A single recording starts answering that. A week of recordings answers it well. This guide walks you night by night through your first seven nights so you know exactly what to do each evening, what to read each morning, and how to read a week of data without reading too much into any one night. Snore Timeline analyzes the sound of your sleep for personal awareness, not to diagnose any condition.
Your only job tonight is to capture one clean recording. Take five minutes before bed and work through this list:
In the morning, tap the same button to stop. That is the whole flow. The Getting Started page covers placement and permissions in more depth if you want them.
Aim for at least four hours of sleep in a session. Shorter recordings work, but a full night gives the app the most to work with and gives you a clearer read on how your snoring changes.
When you stop the recording, Snore Timeline builds a nightly summary. Start there before you explore the timeline. The summary gives you an at-a-glance read on the night:
Then open the night itself. The main screen plots your sleep as a waveform you can scroll through, and the episode list lets you jump to detected episodes without scrubbing the whole night. To hear the loudest stretch, scan the episode list for the highest dB value, tap that episode, and play it back. Long-pressing the waveform jumps to the nearest episode if you would rather explore by hand.
Hearing yourself snore for the first time can be a surprise. That is the point. For now, note the headline numbers and resist reading too much into them. One night is a single data point, and where you slept, what you ate, and a stuffy nose all move it. Episodes & Events explains how snores group into episodes (a new one starts after a 30-second gap), and Timeline & Playback covers reading the waveform and playing audio.
The app earns its value over many nights, so the goal this week is to make recording automatic. Three tools take the remembering out of it:
Keep two things consistent across the week so your nights compare fairly:
If a recording cuts out overnight, turn on Sleep Focus or Do Not Disturb and close other audio apps before bed, then check Troubleshooting. A short or missed night is fine. Skip the analysis on that one and keep going.
Once you have several recorded nights, open the Weekly Summary. This is where the app pays off. It gives you a 7-day overview of your snoring and sleep data and compares it against the previous week:
The week-over-week view is what makes a single number meaningful. The first week is your baseline: it tells you what is normal for you. From there, a number is worth attention when it moves against that baseline, not because it looks high or low on its own. A loud night after a late dinner and three drinks is data, not a verdict.
When your first week had nothing before it to compare against, the change reads 0% in a neutral color. That is expected. It becomes a real comparison once week two arrives. Sleep Score covers the weekly averages and what feeds the score.
You have a week of data and a habit. Follow whichever thread matters most to you:
Everything runs on your device, with no accounts and no cloud. The Privacy Policy has the details. When you need a starting point, the support hub lists every topic.
