“Really? 🦠 — The free version shows ads including a fullscreen advertisement saying that my “device had been hacked” and I need to click a link to “cleanse my computer”. You’ve got to be kidding.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★328,446 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
417 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to SleepWatch, a better way to track, hack, analyze, and help improve your sleep. Ever wondered if you talk in your sleep? Constantly wake up feeling like you need more rest? Trying to understand your snoring? Your best sleep is made, with SleepWatch.
Time to take control of your sleep with our all-in-one sleep tracker and digital sleep coach used by millions. No supplements, new mattress, or equipment needed. Just your smartphone or Apple Watch, plus our AI-powered software working with you to automatically track your sleep, make suggestions, and personalize your sleep journey. Join countless users around the world that are getting better rest. The app is free and offers a Premium Membership for additional features.
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.7.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.7.4, updated 2026-07-24.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 41 distinct reviewers — 8.1% of the 509 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many Ad pop ups — It is a good app for tracking sleep, however i have the free version and every time I open the app it tells me to buy the paid version and it glitches my screen and i’m not even able to open the app. It is not worth…”
“The ads are ridiculous — The ads are extremely intrusive and render this app useless much of the time”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.7.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$39.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Month)$4.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Month) $3.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Month) $5.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Year)$39.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Year)$29.99
Show 4 more purchases
SleepWatch Premium (1 Year)$24.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Year) $39.99
SleepWatch Premium (1 Year)$19.99
Sleep Report Card$3.99