Prime Sleep Recorder & Tracker 4+

Great... But creepy???

This app works great! I downloaded this a while back and used it to see if I snored or talked in my sleep. You can only listen to a certain number of recordings without paying but I guess they have to make money with this app somehow. I know you can adjust the settings but It’s still pretty hard to use when you are playing music or using a fan while you are sleeping.

Part of the reason I’m giving this 4 stars is because you have to pay to hear more recordings like I said above and the other part is due to some stuff it picked up. I’m not sure if this is the apps doing or if something weird goes on while I’m sleeping. For example, one night the app would pick up glass breaking in my room but I don’t find anything when I wake up and the next night, it would pick up what sounds like someone flipping through a book repeatedly. The app also picked up someone laughing before but I’m pretty sure it was just my brother up to no good again outside my room in the middle of the night.

I’m guessing that none of it is the apps doing since nobody else has really had that problem but I’m not sure why it keeps picking these things up. It’s starting to creep me out a bit which is why I’m going to stop using it for now and maybe test another recorder to see if it picks up the same stuff.

Other than that, it’s a great app and I would recommend it.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you for your review and valuable feedback. The application definitely works the best in a quiet environment, but of course, sometimes it is not possible to avoid the noise during the night (if you use fan, heater, air conditioner etc). Recording gets activated when the noise in the room exceeds the recording sensitivity level. In case you are aware of any kind of background noise in your room, simply decrease the recording sensitivity level (Settings->Sleep Recording->Manual-> Sensitivity). For adjusting the right recording level check the graph on “sensitivity” screen (turn on the fan and make sure the spikes in graph don’t exceed the chosen sensitivity threshold – red line).We hope you will find this advice helpful. Greetings from Apirox

Reliable data-rich health app - well worth it!

Excellent dashboard style charts are included in this easy to use data collection tool. Love the results! A quick glance at the charts or the history, and I can see clearly how well I sleep given different habits — like if I drink wine or if I exercise on any given day. I can see how long I stay in light sleep or deep sleep, which helps me understand my patterns well enough that I can make small improvements over time with great results. I feel better since I sleep better since I started drinking water an hour before bedtime and since I put up light blocking window blinds. I even tested taking melatonin (1 tab did nothing but 2 tabs worked great!). Earplugs don’t help but better airflow and a cooler room temperature does wonders!

I like that this app empowers me to be my own detective and find ways to improve my health! It even has a great notification feature to remind me to turn it on... and I’m rewarded every morning with another bit of history informing me how to be happier, healthier and more at ease in my skin.

In sum, whomever conducted the usability study for this software is brilliant! And so are the software engineers who brought the concepts into reality. Every person who sleeps better is one more rested sane calm soul living, working and interacting with others. Thank you for creating something so elegant and useful! You are saving the world, one better sleeper at a time!

Their greed makes this app useless.

Need an ad to make money? Have us watch a video before or after we use the record function, etc. There are better ways. But, to gatekeep anything after the first 15 sounds in the environment is greedy. I can’t even delete the useless sounds to hear maybe something actually useful to my health.
By putting the recordings behind a paywall with no work around, this app is just another exploitation of economic status. Sound crazy? Well, if you’re poor, you tend to live in closer environments, closer to the cities where it’s louder. So, by living in a lower economical status community, like I do, it’s going to pick up way more sounds than if you were living in a countryside home or a suburb. You also tend to have more health issues and therefore have more need of an app like this. By not being able to hear the others recordings in some way or manner (by deleting the ones that are just cars driving by etc.) or by just allowing them to be free with ads of some kind, the people behind this app are actually committing socioeconomic status discrimination. Being poor is expensive, and this app and the people behind it, are just another unnecessary impediment of socioeconomic progress for the people who really need it. Premium is a lazy money grab.