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AutoSnore: Snoring Recorder
Tantsissa · 960 ratings · ★ 4.2
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Top complaints - extracted from 49 negative reviews
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"start"
15 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Useful when it works. About half the time I start it when I go to bed and in the morning it hasn’t recorded anything." - Pheski
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"night"
15 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misclassifies snoring. Hundreds of obvious snores a night are misclassified as other sounds and so the reported information is uninformative and integration with AutoSleep is misleading." - gavinkeaton
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"autosleep"
15 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misclassifies snoring. Hundreds of obvious snores a night are misclassified as other sounds and so the reported information is uninformative and integration with AutoSleep is misleading." - gavinkeaton
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"work"
15 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Useful when it works. About half the time I start it when I go to bed and in the morning it hasn’t recorded anything." - Pheski
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"sleep"
14 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misclassifies snoring. Hundreds of obvious snores a night are misclassified as other sounds and so the reported information is uninformative and integration with AutoSleep is misleading." - gavinkeaton
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"snoring"
13 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misclassifies snoring. Hundreds of obvious snores a night are misclassified as other sounds and so the reported information is uninformative and integration with AutoSleep is misleading." - gavinkeaton
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"does"
12 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Useless. I wasted $5 on this but it’s not even worthwhile if you get it free. All this app does is record ANY noise when it is turned on. This means all TV, music, conversation, etc will be recorded in addition to snoring. Also there is no analys…" - Heroldra
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"been"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Support SUCKS!!!. I’ve been happy with auto sleep for years now so I tried the snoring app. A few weeks in and it will start, but not stop. Like, it’s not even an option. I wake up and it says START. I have no data since it’s started doing this. I don’t see …" - Gamzelly
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"stop"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Support SUCKS!!!. I’ve been happy with auto sleep for years now so I tried the snoring app. A few weeks in and it will start, but not stop. Like, it’s not even an option. I wake up and it says START. I have no data since it’s started doing this. I don’t see …" - Gamzelly
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"recording"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "App fails. Despite the live activity showing the app has supposedly been recording all night, when you open it in the morning it just has a “Start” button. No “Stop” button. All week long it has pretended to be recording but never did." - Cantabuio
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"works"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Useful when it works. About half the time I start it when I go to bed and in the morning it hasn’t recorded anything." - Pheski
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"record"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Useful when it works. About half the time I start it when I go to bed and in the morning it hasn’t recorded anything." - Pheski
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Love AutoSleep, but nothing Auto about this one
I bought this right off the bat. Saw it was called AutoSnore from the people that made AutoSleep. I’ve used AutoSleep for years and recommended it to everyone. It’s light years better than anything else. A snoring add one would be perfect.
Alas this is not that. For some reason AutoSleep can tell when you sleep but autosnore….nope. You have to manually start the app to say when you’re going to sleep.
It makes the app completely worthless to me. Now I can only hope they update with some sort of automation. Until then I recommend you do t waste your money like I did.
Alas this is not that. For some reason AutoSleep can tell when you sleep but autosnore….nope. You have to manually start the app to say when you’re going to sleep.
It makes the app completely worthless to me. Now I can only hope they update with some sort of automation. Until then I recommend you do t waste your money like I did.
Useless
I wasted $5 on this but it’s not even worthwhile if you get it free. All this app does is record ANY noise when it is turned on. This means all TV, music, conversation, etc will be recorded in addition to snoring. Also there is no analysis, or any other information provided. Garbage!
Don a user
I am impressed by the date collected presentation and integration with AotoSleep, however the lack of ability to setup Apple-Shortcut’s and having to manually start/stop the app is a problem and makes it a hassle to use, just think the app needs a lot more user interface interface improvements
App fails
Despite the live activity showing the app has supposedly been recording all night, when you open it in the morning it just has a “Start” button. No “Stop” button. All week long it has pretended to be recording but never did.
Crashes every time
Crashes whenever I click record. Tried reinstalling, restarting, turning off Bluetooth nothing works.
Disappointed
The app seemed like it would be great…however, it only captured information 1 night out of 15 that I tried to set it to work.
I’m not sure what happened to the app but it is not working…
I’m not sure what happened to the app but it is not working…
Useless
This app cannot distinguish between Autumn and her noises and snoring not at all. Completely useless.
Review
This app needs so much work, it’s nutz.
Does not work if you listen to meditation music
I have meditation music I listen to as I fall to sleep. I follow the instructions and listen to this from my iPad while launching this on my iPhone. I am even careful to launch this first before connecting my headphones. Nothing seems to matter. My headphones connect to both my iPad and iPhone when they turn on and this messes up this app. I immediately go into the Bluetooth setting and disconnect the headphones but it does not matter. The app will not record. Very challenging. Going to use mother app. Would like a refund
Still has lots of bugs
Several days a week the app fails and despite sending the company feedback weeks ago it still hasn’t been fixed. The app fails to register or record anything and the entire night is lost but the live activity is still on anyway. The company told me to restart my phone but that didn’t work. I won’t change my review until the app is updated with a fix.
AutoSnore
The worst app ever. It detects noise not snoring and the report it provides does not accurately reflect whether noise or snoring was detected
No longer works
AutoSleep says I had 53 apnea episodes per hour, Sleep Cycle recorded 39 minutes of snoring, but this app says I had zero snores? Okay. For a few days it was recording 1500-2200 snores, but now it’s zero every day. Fix your app.
Total Fail
App doesn’t work. Won’t turn on. Every time I try it shuts down. Guess a refund isn’t possible either.
Quality
Terrible quality at tracking snoring
Doesn’t Work
Only worked the first night I used it. Hasn’t worked since. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I set it to record for a week straight but every morning when I wake it, it’s not working I don’t even bother using it anymore. Too bad, it really seems like it would be a great app, if it worked.
Misreading data
Can’t differentiate between snores. Waste of money. Need refund
Does not work at all
Says it’s recording on the Home Screen but when you open the app it says it’s not recording. In order to get the timer off of the Home Screen you have to start recording (again) and let it run about 10 minutes (then it will show 2 timers on the Home Screen) then stop the timer, which will stop both timers.
I’ve run the app every night since I got it over a week ago and I’ve caught exactly 2 seconds of sound, despite knowing for a fact my partner was laying next to me snoring like a freight train.
I’ve been happily using the AutoSleep app for years and was excited about this update but am left very disappointed. I hope he gets it fixed or else offers a refund.
I’ve run the app every night since I got it over a week ago and I’ve caught exactly 2 seconds of sound, despite knowing for a fact my partner was laying next to me snoring like a freight train.
I’ve been happily using the AutoSleep app for years and was excited about this update but am left very disappointed. I hope he gets it fixed or else offers a refund.
Poorly executed
There are other apps that do a much better job of capturing the sounds (the play back sound is very low and the graphics are boring) and the “snork scores” is juvenile.
It does report to another sleep app I have, from the same company, that is very well done so that’s nice
It does report to another sleep app I have, from the same company, that is very well done so that’s nice
Disappointed
I am like many others who discovered ( after reading the reviews) that this app won’t work if you like to listen to a podcast before going to sleep. Hopefully there will be an update to correct this soon.
Had high hopes and expectations as the AutoSleep app is great , but this one definitely lets the side down.
Had high hopes and expectations as the AutoSleep app is great , but this one definitely lets the side down.
Seems to be bogus
Calls every sound you make a snore. Could be my. Lack of knowledge of tech stuff
Faulty
Does not work some times
Buggy and score makes zero sense
The UI is very clunky compared to another similar app I’ve used. It does not give you the ability to remove items that were incorrectly detected as snores (as in vehicles driving by). But the dumbest thing is, for example, last night I only had 9 snores (none of which were legit) yet I still somehow have a “snurk” score of 67? So if you are using this to try and gain more insight in the Autosleep app, don’t bother. Money and time wasted.
Buggy app. Doesn’t work
After 3 days, you cannot turn the snore monitor off. And when snore app is running it uses huge battery capacity. The “off” button disappears. Tried turning off phone but it keeps snore counting. Terrible experience. I deleted the app to get program to stop. Sad. .
Only gave it one cause I had to
They will not let you cancel your subscription when you want to delete your subscription
Why is it not automatic??
This app should be automatic when you go to sleep. Not something you have to manually turn on it’s annoying and keep forgetting to. Defeats the purpose
Poor App
I bought this because this developer’s excellent app AutoSleep auto Snore should be an optional add on to AutoSleep. It requires manual daily on and off setting and does not detect snoring well the developer should ashamed of this poor quality app.
The app is not working
I had expected similar performance to AutoSleep which I have been using for a number of years. I can’t even tell if this is working at all.
The help page says get support from the app; the app is sending me to the help page. Which telling me the best support is from the app.
I sleep with a breathing device so there should at least be background. I used “Sleep Cycle” until they started charging. I had no problem with that app.
The help page says get support from the app; the app is sending me to the help page. Which telling me the best support is from the app.
I sleep with a breathing device so there should at least be background. I used “Sleep Cycle” until they started charging. I had no problem with that app.
This needs a lot of work
I’ve been using AutoSleep, and it works great. Needing to start AutoSnore doesn’t bother me. The issue is that if just doesn’t work. The first night, it said I snored 6 times, but it was just the conversation I had with my partner. The next night, although if was running, it failed to do anything. It just took me back to the start button.
Since it advertised in AutoSleep, I thought it was going to be integrated into that app as well. It is not. As far as I can tell, this is not yet a functional app.
Since it advertised in AutoSleep, I thought it was going to be integrated into that app as well. It is not. As far as I can tell, this is not yet a functional app.
I would give it zero stars if possible.
I’ve been using Auto Sleep for years. I thought auto snore would be good also. It is not.
It’s very poorly thought out. It doesn’t record most nights even though I’ve set it to start and put my phone next to my bed. If you have zero snores, you should have a score of 100 Not 0, but if you don’t snore it literally doesn’t recognize that it’s recording?
The only time it actually works is if I leave my air purifier on high, and then it will record that all night. It does a good job of recording everything in the room. It’s not good at identifying what the sounds are. I have still never gotten an actual score.
It’s not like auto sleep where you can see a daily score. The history is terrible. It’s there today gone tomorrow unless you save a favorite snore clip.
The UX is confusing.
Badly needs more development before being released to the public.
Consider the $5 a gift, because I love AutoSleep.
It’s very poorly thought out. It doesn’t record most nights even though I’ve set it to start and put my phone next to my bed. If you have zero snores, you should have a score of 100 Not 0, but if you don’t snore it literally doesn’t recognize that it’s recording?
The only time it actually works is if I leave my air purifier on high, and then it will record that all night. It does a good job of recording everything in the room. It’s not good at identifying what the sounds are. I have still never gotten an actual score.
It’s not like auto sleep where you can see a daily score. The history is terrible. It’s there today gone tomorrow unless you save a favorite snore clip.
The UX is confusing.
Badly needs more development before being released to the public.
Consider the $5 a gift, because I love AutoSleep.
Barely working
This app is defective. It recorded 4000 snores in one night with default settings. They shipped a barely working product. Need a refund.
Very low quality
It can’t recognize difference between audio book and music also don’t stop recording in the morning and crashes a lot
Isn't compatible with audio apps
I am a longtime user of AutoSleep, and I love it! I was expecting something similar here.
Unfortunately, as a user of a BluTooth sleep mask (another game changer!) to listen to Calm or Audible to drift off to sleep (again, highly recommended), this app is simply worthless to me.
Unfortunately, as a user of a BluTooth sleep mask (another game changer!) to listen to Calm or Audible to drift off to sleep (again, highly recommended), this app is simply worthless to me.
Needed functionality
Unfortunately, this app has not provided me with any information. I think the issue is I listen to music for relax to go to sleep and my speaker does not have a microphone. So there app is unable to use a mic to capture any snoring that may happen. This is interesting in Autodleep will let me know that there was loud noises during the night. 🤔
Can auto be configured to always use the mic on the phone?
Can auto be configured to always use the mic on the phone?
Nothing auto about it
Requires you to manually trigger recording to start, not automatic whatsoever. Waste of $5
Not working as expected...
Long time nightly user of AutoSleep. Love that app. Especially because it just starts when I fall asleep. I expected AutoSnore to do the same. Then realized after buying you had to open and push Start each night. Fine. But I also like to listen to something as I doze off. So night two I pressed start, put in my AirPod til I was dozing off, put it away, then passed out. Woke to the Live Action running still. Opened the app and just see a Start button again... only after going to the help center I learned you can't use audio or other apps after starting a session or it doesn't work. So I would need to start dozing off, think about this app, then go in and press start in order to capture a night. Opposite of the ease of AutoSleep... this is not useful for me. Unfortunately I'm passed the refund window and unless the process changes I'll never use this.
Useful when it works
About half the time I start it when I go to bed and in the morning it hasn’t recorded anything.
Misclassifies snoring
Hundreds of obvious snores a night are misclassified as other sounds and so the reported information is uninformative and integration with AutoSleep is misleading.
Nice features but almost uselessly buggy
I’d love to love this program, but it crashes routinely, displays nonsensical negative numbers, fails to integrate with AutoSleep, and becomes confused at my twice-a-night invocation of it.
Support SUCKS!!!
I’ve been happy with auto sleep for years now so I tried the snoring app. A few weeks in and it will start, but not stop. Like, it’s not even an option. I wake up and it says START. I have no data since it’s started doing this. I don’t see anything addressing this in the FAQs, and there are so many, I couldn’t find out if it is there. So I send them a note asking for help, and what response do I get?? Here’s a list of our frequently asked questions. If you still need help… blah blah blah. Huge pet peeve for me. I asked for help. Now I’m ready to delete and move on. Feel free to respond. You have three days until I delete the app and ask for my money back. Ridiculous.
Have had to delete and reinstall multiple times to get it to stop recording
On multiple occasions this app keeps recording. I stop it, I see the button that says ‘start’ yet it is still recording. The Dynamic Island shows it is recording, the lock screen widget shows it is recording, but there is no stop button. If I hit ‘start’ TWO sessions are now recording. Rebooting phone doesn’t help. It shows it is still recording afterwards. The only way to stop it is to delete the app and reinstall. Very, very annoying.
Connect to iWatch
Should be able to activate from iWatch. A real pain to reach from my nightstand.
It works when it wants to
Why can’t it keep a history of different days instead of consecutive days? Because I skipped one day it erased my other days.
Disappointed
Autosleep is amazing and I expected that from this app. Should start recording when autosleep starts recording sleep. None of the hit start nonsense which gets messed up if you wake up mid sleep. And live activity is totally messed up. Please fix it.
Buggy
I currently have the AutoSleep app and love it so I was excited to see that they came out with a snoring recording app. Unfortunately, it’s been very buggy it has yet to record any snoring even though Auto sleep shows sleep apnea. I have to reboot my phone to stop the app. Hope they work out these issues.
Does not work
App is buggy. Crashes every morning when I stop it.
Failure to record
Multiple nights missing data. Followed the same process to start app each night, still some nights missing data.
Works, but is basic in comparison.
Does this app actually detect snoring or does it just assume ever sound is a snore based on your sensitivity setting?
Completely Bugged
When I opened the app in the morning, even the live counter was going, it asked me to Start as if it hadn’t been going all night. So no graph has shown even though it says “5” instances. The live counter is continuing to run in the island at the top of the phone screen. Quitting the app and restarting the phone don’t help. The app and phone are both fully updated. Waste of $5
Doesn’t work along with podcasts/mudic
I wish I would have been told it wouldn’t work if you listen to something to go to sleep. I’ve only had it for a few days, but I haven’t gotten to use it yet because I’ve fallen asleep to my podcast. If I don’t fall asleep I could close my podcast and push start. I’ll have to see how it works whenever I can manage to push start with nothing else running. I was hoping it would work since my podcast stops by itself, but it didn’t.
Sentiment summary
80%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
13%
Negative (1-2★)