Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 434 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 6.41.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 6.41.1, updated 2026-10-15.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Hey there. Feeling sleepy? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve helped over 4 million people (from babies to grown-ups), and we’re here to help you get the rest you need to be the best version of yourself.
With the Hatch Sleep app, you can control dreamy features on all our devices: Restore, Rest, and Rest+.
Available for Android 10 or higher
Restore is your bedside guide. Sleep the way nature intended with a gentle sunrise alarm and soothing sleep sounds, all rolled into one beautiful dream machine. Build your restful routine with Hatch, from sunset to sunrise.
Rest is your dream machine. Made for littles. Loved by parents. From sounds to soothe your newborn to cues that teach your little kid to stay in bed until a reasonable hour, Rest is the dream machine that helps your child sleep at every age and stage.
Rest+ has all the essential sleep features of Rest PLUS a backup battery.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Paywall is server-configured and A/B tested via Purchasely — the offer shown can differ per user
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 48 reviews we read)
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 7 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Go to amazon.com. Check if you’re signed in to the correct Amazon Account. Go to your Account page. Click on Other Subscriptions in the Memberships and subscriptions section Select the subscription you want to can…
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6The app's own text says: "Edit your Unwind with Hatch+"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Package artefact
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6The app's own text says: "Access"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6The app's own text says: "A transition into one of our science-backed sleep sounds should smooth out the process of falling asleep—then keep you there."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:6db23af43ddb99696167ab005c85244d9a9fadfde67ff9699bc65056ccf9e2f6434 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Unfortunately, like many apps now, almost every feature is locked behind a paywall.
Everything is behind a paywall. it's hard to even discover the "free" sounds on a machine that costs hundreds of dollars.
We’ve used our Hatch speaker every day for the past 2 years, and Lulu’s Late Night has been a staple of our child’s bedtime routine. Now, SUDDENLY TODAY~90 tracks are locked behind a subscription, and only 15 are available. Taking…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 6.41.1, scanned 21 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 6.41.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 6.41.1, updated 2026-10-15.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
hatch-sleep-google-com-hatchbaby-restAssessed 2026-10-30 from 434 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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