App Profile: Eight Sleep

Greg Cal

Rating: 5/5

I’ve been using Eight Sleep for two years now, and as a long-distance runner with a full-time job and a daily commute, it’s made a noticeable difference in how well I recover. I used an Ooler system for two years before switching, and while that helped, Eight Sleep takes it a step further—especially when it comes to cooling. It gets significantly cooler than the Ooler, which is important for my deep sleep quality. Initially, I was frustrated that autopilot cost extra, but over time it’s become my favorite feature. I don’t have to think about adjusting temperatures when the weather shifts—it just works. Being able to get consistent, restorative sleep without manually tinkering with settings is a huge plus when every hour of recovery counts. For me this is an investment in my overall health.

CallStore

Rating: 1/5

I’m nearing the end of my trial period and will be returning the pod. I can’t say my sleep has improved, but worse than that, I can’t get it to track things accurately. We have 2 sides set up on a king bed. My report will mirror my husband’s. For reference, he’s 5’9” and 155lbs (not so large that he doesn’t fit on half of a king bed). I go to bed an hour later, but it says I went to bed 2 minutes later than he did. It shows I’m asleep an hour before I’m in bed because he was. I get up, but my husband doesn’t? It shows I sleep for 30 minutes after I’m out of bed. That means I’m editing my sleep session and saying when I went to bed and fell asleep (which I don’t know). It also can’t tell when I’m awake in the middle of the night. I have to constantly move my legs so it doesn’t show I was asleep for those hours, which just keeps me awake. I opened a ticket, but I basically just received feedback on how close REM sleep is to being awake. I can understand that, but my bigger issue is that it doesn’t seem to know when I’m in bed and when I’m not. I was optimistic (I have 2 coworkers who have pods and love them), but the issue with my tracking is too much to work around for the price. It’s possible that mine was defective, but I can only guess that it may be. Sadly, I didn’t see any improvements on the duration of my sleep or waking in the middle of the night either.

Serave84

Rating: 2/5

There is no longer a way to rate the auto pilot after a night of sleep. Instead the auto pilot adjustments are based on the user manually waking up at night and making the changes to the temperature settings. The auto pilot will record your temperature settings and used those setting the next night. This is very disappointing, especially when they require a membership to access the auto pilot. Sometimes I wake up at night because of the temperature and most times I don’t want to have to wake up and look at my phone to adjust the temperature. But if I don’t do it now, it means that the auto pilot will not learn my preferences. Another silly thing is that the auto pilot adjust based on the weather in your area instead of using a temperature sensor in the eight sleep. I’m not sure how many people sleep outside of their house. This impacts the temperature adjustments significantly, if i warm up my house with my heater but the temperature outside is colder I usually I wake up sweating. I am new to eight sleep, I read a lot of reviews on how the latest app is worse than the old one, but I have not background. All I can say is than on the new app they just removed the auto pilot. I’m hoping this is while a fix is implemented