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The 8 best sleep tracking apps for Android in 2024
Analyze your sleep patterns with these top mobile sleep trackers
We often don't realize how long we are asleep or the quality of sleep we acquire every night. In fact, the CDC states between 50 and 70 million Americans live with chronic sleep disorders. When it comes to our sleeping habits, sleep-tracking apps paint a bigger picture. We can track how many hours we sleep, the quality of our sleep, and other important data.
Best sleep trackers in 2024
Who says you have to be awake to track what you're doing? These devices give you the lowdown while you sleep
Sleep tracking is one of the most essential fitness metrics to monitor. It can help maximize your workouts, improve recovery, and enhance your quality of life. Simply put, it's the best way to maintain a healthy mind and body.
How to quickly set an alarm on your Android phone
Set and customize your alarms with ease and maybe wake up on time
Alarms are important for staying on top of things, whether jumpstarting your morning routine or monitoring your latest culinary creation. Setting up an alarm is a breeze, and several apps can help you with this task. Android's default app, Clock, is an excellent place to start.
Since the rise of the smartwatch — and fitness trackers before it — health tracking has become a primary focus for most of the biggest brands in tech. If you usually rock a wearable paired with your smartphone, there's a good chance you bought it because of its focus on fitness, and lately, it seems like sleep is at the center of attention. In the last month alone, we've seen the Galaxy Watch 6 series launch with some major improvements to charting your bedtime habits, while the biggest game series in the world launched a mobile title dedicated to sleep.
I tested Pokémon Sleep for a week, here's how it compares to a real sleep tracker
My time spent with Pokémon Sleep was eye-opening
Pokémon Sleep arrived last week, combining the joys of collecting small furry animals with the necessity of sleep. But how does it compare to a dedicated sleep tracker?
Pokémon Sleep is finally here to fulfill your dream of watching small creatures snooze
Track your sleep while catching Pokémon; what more could you want?
The long-awaited Pokémon Sleep is out now on iOS and Android, four years after its announcement. It aims to gamify your sleep, combining the irresistible addiction of catching Pokémon with the basic human need for a good night's rest. Pokémon Sleep arrives alongside the Pokémon GO Plus + accessory (yes, that's pronounced "plus plus"), which works with Pokémon Sleep and Pokémon Go.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is a great fitness-first wearable with outstanding battery life and solid sleep-tracking capabilities. It’s far from perfect, but if you want a rugged Android smartwatch with sleep tracking, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is well worth considering. So, how does it do with sleep tracking? And can it really help you sleep more soundly?
Does Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 track sleep?
Sleep tracking is a core feature of modern smartwatches. How does the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 stack up?
The newest smartwatches on the market pack a ton of features under their watch faces, and a common one is sleep tracking. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 is among these new additions. This digital timepiece showcases marked improvements in battery life, a new Sapphire Crystal Glass, and an improved physical design to keep skin-sensor contact more consistent.
Cough and snore detection on the Pixel 7 will work like this
There's a lot to go through before you see a graph in the morning
Google may be pulling out all the stops to track your health while you're up, out, and about, but when it comes to while you're dozing off, it may have yet another trick to pull out of its bag. Sure, owners of the second-generation Nest Hub might have a dedicated radar system to detect bad sleep, and smartwatch wearers have other sensors that record tosses and turns, but those with a Pixel 7 (and perhaps other capable Pixels) may be soon be able to take note of their unrest with their microphones.
Digital Wellbeing wants to add cough and snore detection to your smartphone
You might not need a second-gen Nest Hub after all
Digital Wellbeing is one of the most important features Google has added in recent years. It was introduced with Android 9 Pie and it became an essential tool for anyone wanting to cut down on unhealthy smartphone usage. It's something that is increasingly becoming a problem with TikTok and Instagram doomscrolling, so it's good that the tools for that exist. But the feature now wants to expand into tracking your health more closely than just that, though, by adding cough and snore detection while you're asleep.
Every breath you take, Google could soon be watching you (snore and cough from your phone)
Get it? Like Sting? The Android Police? Leave us alone, it's a holiday weekend
Samsung phones can track your sleeping habits and even let you know if you're snoring, and according to a recent teardown, Google might be working on a similar feature for Android to track time spent snoring and coughing at night, though it's not clear where it might end up.
Snoring is more than an annoyance for whoever sleeps in the same room as you: it can be an indicator of some serious health issues like sleep apnea. That's why Fitbit has been working on adding snoring detection to its suite of sleep monitoring systems. The Google subsidiary has been preparing snoring detection (and the noise level thereof) since the summer at the very least, and it's now rolling out via a software update to the app and devices.
If you use a fitness tracker with Android or iOS, Google Fit is a handy solution that can store all your data in one place. And the app does more than just show your activity, it even pushes you to complete daily goals. It's now getting a brand new feature that will encourage you to take walking a little more seriously in order to burn more calories.
Fitbit users who don't realize they snore are in for a rude awakening
Find out if you sleep like a bear or a dolphin
Fitbit wearables have been able to track your sleep for quite a while now. In essence, they use heart rate and movement sensors to measure your sleep cycles, providing insights as to how well you've slept. The company is working on further improving these measurements by monitoring ambient noise and even telling if you're a heavy snorer. This data could then be used to assess what type of or what "sleep animal" you are.
Google's got a new smart display, and trust me, it is new. The second-generation Nest Hub looks virtually identical to the original product, launched in 2018 as the Home Hub. This new device still lacks a camera, but it does have a Soli radar sensor for sleep tracking. Yes, the new Google smart display will watch you sleep, but the company stresses that it designed "Sleep Sensing" with privacy in mind. It also costs less than the first-gen display did at launch.
Owing to the pandemic, the need for meditation and a healthy sleep schedule have never been felt more acutely. If you're looking for your smartphone to help with this, there already are a bunch of apps like Headspace and Calm to choose from. If you'd like more choices, you might want to keep an eye out for the Balance app that's hitting Android devices soon.
Android apps that have to run in the background like sleep-trackers have had a rough time. Among other things, they suffer inconsistent and unreliable background app limitations across different Android versions, which can interfere with how the apps work at a very fundamental level. This doesn't fix that issue, but today Google is rolling out a specific API just for those apps, letting them pull sleep duration data right from the system itself.
Google's upcoming smart display might use radar to track your sleep
Soli can see you even when the nightlight is off 🌝
Earlier this week, we learned that Google is preparing a new smart home device for a possible release this year. FCC documents showed it has a display screen, uses a 14V power supply, and comes equipped with the same Soli motion-sensing technology used by the Pixel 4 and Nest Thermostat. Now a new report claims that the sensor could be used to power a surprising new inclusion: sleep tracking.
Google Fit receives new home screen and better sleep tracking
Wear OS will also get some more fitness Tiles
Google Fit has been in a state of limbo for a while now. It has always lagged behind competing services from Apple, Samsung, and others, and sometimes has broke entirely. Thankfully, Google has revealed a major update to Fit today, along with a few minor new features for Wear OS.
Latest Wear OS update for Fossil Gen 5 and other watches has screwed up Google Pay
It's a nagging bug on top of what's supposed to be a big upgrade
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It's fair to say that Wear OS has been stagnating lately. Google announced a few updates for its smartwatch operating system last week, but they're more like minor improvements than the major overhaul many feel the platform needs. Fossil and its subsidiaries make a lot of Wear OS watches, and now the company is taking matters into its own hands with an exclusive update that adds new health-tracking capabilities, a Phone app tile, and more.