NapBot - Auto Sleep Tracker

I don’t always have the most consistent sleep schedule, so I like being able to track my sleep so I know how much sleep I actually get. When I was using a Fitbit, I never had any issues, very rarely would it say I was sleeping if I wasn’t, the most common errors I would get were fitness tracking related. When I got my Apple Watch I immediately realized the sleep tracking that came standard was absolute garbage and started looking for a third party app that would work, this one had great reviews so I gave it a shot. I actually really need to track my sleep right now because I have been having insomnia issues for a few days and I have no idea how much, if any, sleep I’m actually getting. According to this app, I’m getting more than enough sleep, because it decides I’m sleeping every time I sit still or lay down, even if I’m on my phone… last night I woke up at 12:45ish (I didn’t immediately look at my watch) and tossed and turned and stared at the ceiling for hours (until at least 2:15, the last time I remember looking at my watch) but even though I actually tapped my watch multiple times, it tells me I slept solid through the night… so I guess I’m getting rid of this app, I’m just glad I decided to try it for a while before upgrading to the pro version…

It doesn’t do a good job of tracking when I wake up in the middle of the night or how long it takes me to fall asleep. When I put my phone into the sleep focus and put it down for the night, it thinks that is when I fell asleep even though it takes me a few minutes to fall asleep after that. It’s inaccurately telling me I am getting more sleep than I really do. To the developer who wrote the absolutely useless response: I KNOW IT DOES NOT USE MY iPHONE TO TRACK MY SLEEP. I’m not as dense as you obviously are. The problem is that it always thinks the time I fell asleep is when I put my phone into sleep focus. It doesn’t factor in the ~15 minutes it takes me to fall asleep. It is thinking I’m sleeping longer than I really am. I don’t care how it does it, I just need it to give me an accurate time for when I fell asleep, which it doesn’t.

After getting my Apple Watch I immediately tried their Sleep monitoring and found it to be useless. It seems to expect that I have set sleep and wake up times. My work hours change all the time. If I am on graveyard shift I sleep during the day but there are frequent interruptions. I tried a few other apps but none picked up on getting up for a bit then resuming sleep. Napbot can do this!!! There has been a few times where it failed to catch an interruption but for the most part it figures it out without requiring input from me. If my sleep has been lacking I might lat down to watch tv and will doze off. Napbot figures that out and shows the nap even if its only 10 or 15 minutes. I have had to train myself to put my watch on the charger as I start my daily wind down and put it back on my wrist before laying down. It needs a full charge for those times when I get some solid sleep. I would like a capability to save and forward the sleep results for a specific period or even just a specific week. Cheers!