AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch 4+

I have always been a lover of sleep. Even as a child, it was extremely important to me. I noticed even then that my mood and ability to function at my best was delicately dependent on how much good sleep I got. Now I’m older and sleep isn’t as easy or natural as it was then. Thank goodness for health monitors residing inside watches!! This app must have come with my phone because I don’t remember purchasing it. I had used another sleep app for many years and liked a lot, but it required me to remember to set it. The older I got, the worse my memory got. I discovered Auto Sleep accidentally and when I realized it had been recording my data, along with the other app, without my having to do anything. I stopped paying for the other one right then. Auto Sleep is 100% automatic in its sleep monitoring. All I have to do is wear my watch to bed and I’ve always done that anyway. I love that it backs up to and populates the OEM health app on my watch. If it begins to affect other aspects of my health, I’ll have historic data I can offer my doctor. This is the reason I bought a smart watch—for the help it offers older people. The smart watch and the smart developers have already helped me take positive control of my own habits that contribute negatively to my health or safety! As an aging someone who lives alone, I cannot be more grateful for the way this app helps me monitor and maintain my own health as much as possible!

Like many people I’ve been struggling with sleep issues for well over a decade. I’ve been under the care of sleep disorders doctors during most of this time and have undergone several in-lab sleep studies and various therapies.

While this app will not substitute for the care and therapy provided by health care professionals it is very useful for understanding and quantifying the nature of your sleep deficits. This makes it much easier for you to communicate what is happening to you under your normal, at-home sleep patterns. Having this data available to share with your sleep doctor is extremely valuable not only because it’s being captured over an extended period of time in your day to day environment, unlike a sleep lab, but because it takes you a step closer to speaking with your doctor in terms that are already familiar to those who work in the field of sleep medicine.

Finally, the data provided by this app provides you with a feedback mechanism to help you make changes that may improve your overall sleep health. In my personal experience I can easily correlate my overall sense of wellbeing and restorative benefit,or lack of same, back to the data shown in this app. When I’m not feeling well even after spending a sufficient number of hours in bed, this app helps identify what quality-of-sleep parameter is lacking.

Autosleep and Healthwatch are simply incredible apps and a must for anyone interested in their health. I am a physician and a bit obsessed with data. I’ve tried a dozen health tracking devices and even more apps and these two, by far, are the most insightful and well designed apps for the iPhone and Apple Watch. I’ve spent hours over the last couple months reviewing the various trends and graphical analytics these apps offer for immediate and long term feedback on my sleep hygiene and heart health. My only wish is that the developer make more apps to track other aspects of health and wellness (SpO2, perfusion index, respiratory rate, and VO2 max as the Apple Watch 6 is rumored to have these features; caloric intake and nutrition; mental health and mindfulness; maybe even goal and habit tracking). These two apps pack so much analysis into a concise and easy to read manner, I wish the other wellness aspects that I track could offer as much insight. While those would require ground-up brand new apps, one thing which could possibly be incorporated into the HeartWatch app would be the ECG data. Even though it’s only one lead, tracking QTc and PR intervals should be doable. Just a thought for future iterations. Anyway, these apps are an incredible deal and offer way more for far less than anything else I’ve found on the App Store. Keep up the good work.