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SleepTrace is a free app for iPhone and Android that records your snoring and estimates your sleep stages from the sound of your night, analysed on the device, with no wearable required. Built by an independent developer based in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is a wellness app, not a medical device.
Fact sheet
Verified details
- App
- SleepTrace – Sleeptracker
- Developer
- Sleep Trace Ltd, Larnaca, Cyprus (founder: Jan Kohlhaas)
- App Store ID
- 6760831021
- Bundle identifier
- app.sleeptrace
- Launched
- 8 July 2026
- Current version
- 1.1 (18 July 2026)
- Platform
- iPhone (iOS 26.0 or later) and Android (Google Play)
- Languages
- 14
- Price
- Free to start · Premium €6.99/month
- Category
- Health & Fitness · wellness app, not a medical device
- Independent reviews
- Trustpilot profile
- Press contact
- support@sleeptrace.app
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Copy and paste
Short, 1 sentence
SleepTrace is a free app for iPhone and Android that records your snoring and estimates your sleep stages from the sound of your night, with no wearable required.
Medium, 1 paragraph
SleepTrace is a free app for iPhone and Android that tracks sleep using the phone’s microphone instead of a wearable. Placed on the nightstand, it records the night, saves clips of snoring, sleep talking and coughing with a decibel peak and time, and estimates awake, light, deep and REM sleep every 30 seconds, with the audio analysed on the device. It also marks possible breathing pauses with a timestamp. SleepTrace is a wellness app and does not diagnose. It was launched in July 2026 by Sleep Trace Ltd (Larnaca, Cyprus), founded by Jan Kohlhaas, an independent developer.
Long, with the differentiator
SleepTrace is a free app for iPhone and Android that turns a night of audio into a readable picture of your sleep. Where most trackers infer sleep from movement and heart rate at the wrist, SleepTrace listens to sound, a signal wrist wearables do not capture. It estimates sleep stages every 30 seconds from the night’s audio, saves clips of snoring, coughing and sleep talking, and marks possible breathing pauses with a timestamp, without a clip. The sleep audio is analysed on the device; whether any data is ever used to improve the model is a separate setting the user controls, and declining it leaves the app fully functional. Snoring detection and sleep stages are included in the free tier, where competitors typically place them behind a subscription. SleepTrace is a wellness app, not a medical device, and does not diagnose any condition.
Story angles
Four things worth writing about
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The snoring paywall
Most sleep apps put snore detection behind a subscription. Sleep Cycle charges $9.99 a month for it; SnoreLab's free tier stops working on consecutive nights. SleepTrace includes snoring detection, sleep stages and 3 playable clips a month in its free tier. The angle: the feature people install a sleep app for is usually the one they have to pay for.
Fits: Consumer tech, personal finance, health
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Consent as a switch, not a checkbox
SleepTrace analyses the night on the device. Whether any data is ever used to improve the model is a separate control the user sets, and declining it leaves the app fully functional. The angle: what informed consent looks like when it is engineered rather than written into a policy.
Fits: Privacy, data protection, tech policy
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Sound as the blind spot of wearables
A ring or a watch knows that you moved and that your pulse rose. It cannot hear snoring, breathing pauses, talking or the room. The Apple Watch does not record audio at all. The angle: the entire wearable category is deaf to the dimension that often explains a bad night.
Fits: Health tech, wearables, sleep science
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One developer against the hardware industry
SleepTrace is built by a single independent developer competing with Oura, Apple, Fitbit and Garmin. No device to sell means the app has to be worth using on its own. The angle: what independent software can still do in a category dominated by hardware.
Fits: Startup, indie dev, business
Assets
Logos and screenshots
These assets may be used in editorial coverage of SleepTrace without asking first. Please do not alter the logo’s colours or proportions. For anything else, interviews, additional screenshots, specific questions about how the analysis works, write to support@sleeptrace.app.
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Quick answers
SleepTrace is developed by Sleep Trace Ltd, a company based in Larnaca, Cyprus, founded by Jan Kohlhaas, an independent developer. The app is SleepTrace - Sleeptracker, App Store ID 6760831021, bundle identifier app.sleeptrace. Several unrelated iOS apps share the name SleepTrace.
SleepTrace is a free app for iPhone and Android that records your snoring and estimates your sleep stages from the sound of your night, analysed on the device, with no wearable required.
By email at support@sleeptrace.app. Logos and app screenshots on this page may be used in editorial coverage of SleepTrace without asking first.
Please note
What we ask you not to write
SleepTrace does not diagnose sleep apnea or any other condition, and we would rather be left out of an article than described as if it did. It saves snoring clips, marks possible breathing pauses with a timestamp and shows a sleep apnea indicator as a screening hint, a prompt to see a doctor, not a substitute for one.
It also is not a clinical measurement. Sleep staging outside a lab is an estimate, whether it comes from a phone, a ring or a watch.