Track Your Sleep—Your Way
Apple Health requires an Apple Watch to track your sleep. With Pillow, you can use your iPhone or even an iPad—no Apple Watch needed. Plus, we offer both automatic and manual sleep tracking, giving you complete control over how you track your sleep.
Our Manual Sleep Tracking feature allows you to create multiple customizable presets, complete with options like volume control, different alarm types (including vibration or haptic feedback), and multiple ways to turn off the alarm. No other app gives you this level of flexibility.
Listen to Your Sleep—Snoring & Sound Recording
Apple Health doesn’t track snoring or other sleep sounds, but Pillow does. Using advanced machine learning, Pillow not only records but also automatically categorizes the sounds you make during sleep. You can listen, export, delete, or re-categorize them at any time, helping you uncover patterns and disturbances in your sleep environment.
More In-Depth Sleep Analysis
Sleep Stage Analysis
Pillow uses its own sophisticated sleep stage analysis algorithm to provide accurate insights into your sleep cycles. We even tell you whether your sleep stages (light, deep, and REM) are within recommended ranges.
All Your Sleep Metrics in One View
Unlike Apple Health, which forces you to dig through multiple categories to piece together your sleep data, Pillow provides a single, comprehensive view for each sleep session. Here’s what you get:
- Sleep Stages
- Heart Rate Analysis
- Respiratory Rate Tracking
- Blood Oxygen Levels
- Sleep Temperature
- Environmental Audio Levels
- Sound Recordings
No more jumping between different screens—everything is in one place.
A Sleep-Focused User Experience
Apple Health is a general health app, meaning sleep is just one small piece of a much larger puzzle. Pillow, on the other hand, is designed exclusively for sleep, making it easier to navigate and use. Our sleep-focused interface has been widely praised for its clarity and ease of use.
Get a Sleep Score for Every Session
Apple Health doesn’t assign a score to your sleep, leaving you guessing about your sleep quality. Pillow calculates a Sleep Score for every session, helping you track trends, compare nights, and work towards better rest.
Sleep Rings: Your Sleep At Glance
If you love Apple Watch’s Activity Rings, you’ll love Pillow’s Sleep Rings. Apple Health doesn’t offer any similar visualization, but with Pillow, you get an at-a-glance view of two key sleep metrics: Sleep Quality and Sleep Duration. You can track them effortlessly—without even opening the app!
More Control Over Your Sleep Data
Unlike Apple Health, Pillow lets you edit your sleep sessions with powerful tools:
- Trim the duration if the detected session wasn’t accurate.
- Extend the session if part of your sleep wasn’t captured.
- Mark sections as awake or asleep for better accuracy.
- Merge sessions if you woke up and went back to sleep.
Advanced Heart Rate Analysis
Apple Health provides basic heart rate data during sleep, but Pillow goes much deeper. Our app offers:
- A detailed heart rate graph overlaid on your sleep stage diagram.
- Heart Rate Dip (a key indicator of sleep quality).
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) insights.
- Heart Rate Trends over days, weeks, and months.
- Average heart rate per sleep stage.
Wake Up Feeling Better with Smart Wake-Up
Unlike Apple Health’s fixed alarms, Pillow’s Smart Wake-Up feature analyzes your sleep in real time and wakes you at the lightest sleep stage—within a 15 or 30-minute window. This makes waking up easier, more natural, and less jarring.
Track Naps & Custom Sleep Sessions
Apple Health doesn’t let you set duration-based sleep tracking. Pillow does. Whether you want to track a 20-minute power nap or an 8-hour full sleep session, our duration-based presets make it effortless.
Discover Sleep Trends & Comparisons
Apple Health provides limited sleep-related trends. Pillow tracks 11 different sleep-related metrics, including snoring trends, sleep duration, and more. Plus, you can compare sleep trends with other lifestyle factors, like caffeine intake, calorie burn, or exercise. This helps you identify patterns and habits that affect your sleep.
Personalized Sleep Programs
Apple Health doesn’t offer personalized guidance for improving sleep. Pillow does. Our Discover feature builds a custom sleep program based on your unique sleep profile, offering:
- Science-backed sleep tips to improve your sleep.
- Challenges to help you discover more about your sleep habits.
- Insights into how your lifestyle impacts your sleep, including optimal bedtime suggestions.
Smarter Notifications
Apple Health offers little in the way of sleep-related notifications. Pillow keeps you informed with:
- Sleep Report notifications summarizing each night’s sleep.
- Wake-up Mood reminders to track how you feel after each session.
- Personalized Sleep Program updates with actionable insights.
- Battery reminders at a time you choose (not just when your device is critically low).
More Customization with Widgets & Complications
Apple Health has a couple of basic sleep widgets, but Pillow offers far more. Our widgets and watch complications let you track your latest sleep session, sleep rings, quality trends, and more—right from your Home or Lock Screen.
Enhance Your Sleep with Pillow’s Sleep Aid Library
Unlike Apple Health, Pillow provides a holistic approach to sleep improvement. Our Sleep Aid Library includes meditations, bedtime stories, soundscapes, and sleep-optimized music, available in multiple languages. Plus, Pillow can automatically start sleep sounds when a session begins and stop them when you fall asleep.
And So Much More...
Pillow offers many other features and customizations that Apple Health simply doesn’t. If you’re serious about sleep, Pillow is the app for you.
Download it today and start transforming your sleep quality!