The Apple Watch has historically not had a sleep tracking app, though that’s about to change. In the meantime, there are some third-party solutions you can use with whatever Apple Watch you have right now.
The catch is that you’re going to either want to charge your Apple Watch a little bit during the day or a little bit right before bed. According to Apple, an hour-and-a-half charge will take any of the Apple Watch from about zero to 80-percent battery; while an extra half-an-hour is needed to charge that extra 20 percent.
If you’re an Apple Watch wearer and sleep tracking matters to you, these are the apps you should try out while you wait for Apple’s official entry into the space.
AutoSleep
Best Overall: This is most popular app for sleep tracking because it looks and works very similarly to the Activity app that’s already on your Apple Watch — there are rings and everything. It tracks sleep duration, sleep quality and “readiness,” the latter basically attempting to rate how well your sleep prepared you or the forthcoming day. And it integrates nicely with Apple Health.
Sleep++
Best Free: The biggest upside that Sleep++ has over some of the other sleep tracking apps, particularly AutoSleep, is that it’s free. Other than that, it has many of the same features, such as automatic sleep tracking (it detects exactly when you fall asleep) and shows you a bunch of data about your night’s sleep.
Pillow
Honorable Mention: Pillow is a well-reviewed app that, again, has many of the popular features like automatic sleep tracking and in-depth sleep analysis charts. It has a “smart alarm clock,” where it wakes you up at the optimal point in your sleep cycle for maximum morning refreshment. The app can also record audio (like snores and random outbursts) during the night and play it back for you, but that requires you to pay a subscription fee so you’ll have to want it really bad.
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