SleepSnaps / a sleep camera for iPhone
Find out what you do after you fall asleep.
Prop your iPhone on the nightstand and start a watch. SleepSnaps saves a short clip each time you move in your sleep and skips the quiet in between. Pro also catches snoring and sleep talk, and stitches the night into one reel you can scrub. All of it stays on this phone.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Camera required, microphone optional.
- Stays on the nightstand
- Files stay on this phone
- Not a medical device
Steady snoring, lying on the back.
44 min of quiet before this. Nothing saved.
Start it at bedtime. Look at it in the morning.
There's nothing to wear and nothing to pair. The phone you already charge by the bed does the watching.
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01 Bedtime
Aim and start
Stand the phone on the nightstand where it can see the bed, plug it in, and tap start. Use the front or back camera, whichever gets the better view.
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02 All night
Sleep with the screen on
Leave SleepSnaps open in the foreground with the screen on. Auto-Dim keeps it dark enough that it won't light up the room.
A phone call, locking the phone or a dead battery ends the watch. Keep it on the charger and leave the app open.
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03 Morning
Scrub the night
Drag across a timeline of the night where every mark is a clip. Hide the types you don't care about, or play the whole reel with chapters.
What it keeps, where it keeps it, and what you see in the morning.
Clips
It saves the moments and skips the quiet.
The camera watches all night, but nothing is written to disk until something happens. A turn becomes a clip of about 1.5 to 30 seconds, and then SleepSnaps goes back to waiting. With Pro, a snore or a few sleepy words become clips too.
Quiet stretches are never recorded. There's no eight-hour file to fast-forward through, and nothing kept that you didn't need.
- Camera
- Tuned for a dark room: low-light boost, 720p, 15 fps when the hardware allows.
- Microphone
- Optional. Say no and it still saves movement clips.
- Clips
- About 1.5 to 30 seconds each, only when something happens.
The same example night as the reel above. At true scale the twelve clips would be thinner than a hairline, so each one is drawn as a mark.
On this iPhone
The files stay on this phone.
There's no account to make and no cloud of ours to upload to, and the app has no analytics or ad trackers. Your clips sit inside SleepSnaps on this iPhone until you delete them.
- Account
- None. Open the app and start.
- Cloud
- None of ours. SleepSnaps has no server for your clips.
- Trackers
- No analytics or ad trackers in the app.
- Delete
- One clip, one night, or everything, whenever you like.
- Uninstall
- Deleting the app deletes the recordings.
- Backups
- iPhone backups may include app data, the same as with any other app.
Morning reel
Your night, laid out on one line.
Stop the watch and the morning report is ready: the summary on top, the clips underneath. Free shows your movement clips on the timeline with the rest score. Pro adds the snore and talk clips and plays the whole night as one reel with chapters.
1Rest score
A rough number worked out on the phone from what it caught. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.
2Time in bed
How long the watch ran, with the start and end times.
3Counts
How many movement clips the night produced, plus snore and talk clips with Pro.
4Timeline
The whole night on one line, with a mark wherever a clip was saved.
5Filters
With Pro, show only the snoring, or only the talking, and hide the rest.
6Full-night reel
Pro: every clip back to back, with chapters so you can skip ahead.
The night you just recorded is free.
Download it free, record tonight and watch your movement clips in the morning. Pro is an in-app purchase, billed through Apple.
Free
Last night
USD 0
Clips of every movement from the night you just recorded, with the timeline and the rest score. No account.
Pro · in-app purchase
Pro
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WeeklyUSD 3.99 / weekStarts with a 3-day free trial
- MonthlyUSD 7.99 / month
- LifetimeUSD 34.99 once
What Pro adds
- Snoring and sleep-talk clips
- The night reel, ready to export and share
- Your past nights, not just the last one
Weekly and monthly plans renew automatically and bill through your Apple ID. To cancel, go to Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions at least 24 hours before the renewal date. The same applies to the weekly trial: cancel at least 24 hours before it ends and you won't be charged. Lifetime is a single purchase and doesn't renew.
Before your first night.
Something not covered here? Write to support@sleepsnaps.com or visit the support page.
No. SleepSnaps is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition. The rest score is a heuristic, and the snore and talk labels are rough guesses made on the phone.
Loud snoring, gasping or pauses in breathing are reasons to talk to a doctor, whatever the app shows.
No. Please don't use SleepSnaps on infants, patients, or anyone who depends on being watched. Recording can stop without warning, for example when a call comes in or the battery runs out.
It stays on this phone. There's no account and no cloud of ours, and the app has no analytics or ad trackers. You can delete a single clip, a whole night, or everything, and deleting the app deletes the recordings too.
One thing worth knowing: iPhone backups may include app data. Read the full privacy policy.
No. The camera is required and the microphone is optional. If you deny the mic, SleepSnaps still saves movement clips. Snore and sleep-talk clips depend on sound, so you won't get those.
A phone call, locking the phone, or a dead battery ends the watch. SleepSnaps doesn't record in the background, so it needs to stay in the foreground with the screen on. Keep the phone plugged in and leave the app open; Auto-Dim keeps the screen dark while it watches.
Only if they know and agree. The camera sees whoever is in view, and with the mic on it hears them too. Tell them before you start, and point the phone at your side of the bed.