# Sleep Cycle - Tracker & Sounds

> Alarm Clock and Tracking App

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id320606217](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id320606217)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id320606217`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sleep Cycle AB
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (29,245 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.26.37
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2009-07-23
- **Size:** 301 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-tracker-sounds/id320606217)
- **Website:** [https://www.sleepcycle.com](https://www.sleepcycle.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.sleepcycle.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.sleepcycle.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Sleep Cycle is built on science and uses sound analysis to track and improve sleep for millions worldwide. Its AI sleep coach Luma, along with a robust sleep tracker and Smart Alarm, helps you identify sleep issues, gain insights into patterns, and build a healthier routine, all without wearing a device.

With a library of relaxing sleep sounds, snore and cough detection, and long-term trend analysis, Sleep Cycle guides you toward quieter, more refreshing nights. It also offers data exports, Apple Health sync, Philips Hue sunrise, and global benchmarks to compare your rest and fine-tune your habits.

## Rankings

- #9,130 — Overall
- #5 — The Best Sleep Apps
- #5 — Wake Up on Time
- #39 — Essential Health & Fitness Apps
- #11 — alarm
- #47 — monitor

## Review summary

Sleep Cycle is praised for its concept, clean design, and valuable sleep-tracking insights, plus a gentle alarm. However, it faces frequent criticism over aggressive monetization, reliability issues with alarms and sensors, persistent bugs, intrusive UI prompts, and billing problems. These concerns poison trust for many users, despite the app’s long-standing usefulness for tracking sleep and health. Overall, it’s a strong tool that is sometimes overshadowed by monetization and reliability frustrations.

### Pros

- Strong concept with intuitive design and useful sleep insights.
- Soft, gentle alarm that wakes you up as promised.
- Valuable sleep-tracking data that helps users understand patterns and health-related issues (e.g., sleep apnea).

### Cons

- Heavy emphasis on premium subscriptions with frequent upsells, price hikes, and features locked behind paywalls.
- Alarm reliability problems—occasional failures to sound in the morning.
- Chronic bugs and feature gaps, including a non-working heart-rate monitor and calibration glitches; many stats moved behind premium.
- UI/UX issues from onboarding length, glitches, and intrusive popups/banners.
- Billing issues and unexpected charges after cancellation or trial, plus perceived slow or unhelpful support.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id320606217)