Mochi Snore
Snore records the night on your nightstand and tells you what it heard. If something isn't working, or a number doesn't look right, there's a real person at the other end of the email link below.
How do I record a night?
Tap Start on the main screen, allow the microphone when iOS asks, and put the phone face down on the nightstand with the screen towards the bed. It keeps recording with the phone locked, and the screen dims itself after about twenty seconds. In the morning, stop the recording and the whole night is waiting for you. Plug the phone in — a full night of listening uses real battery.
I tested it for a minute and it found nothing.
That's the app working, not a fault. It reports a quiet night as a quiet night. If you want to see it react, growl or hum low into the phone in bursts of a few seconds. Use short bursts: anything running past about eight seconds is treated as background noise and ignored, which is what stops a fan or a television being counted all night. Recordings under five seconds are discarded.
The decibel numbers don't match my sound meter.
They won't, and the app says so where the number appears. A phone microphone is not a calibrated instrument, and iOS gives apps a relative level rather than a real sound pressure. Snore converts that to an estimated dB figure with an offset you can move in Settings. Use the numbers to compare your own nights against each other, which is what they are good for.
What is the score out of 100?
A way of making nights comparable at a glance. It weighs how often you snored most heavily, then how loud it got, then how much of the night it covered. A silent night scores 100. It is not a health score and it is not a measure of how well you slept.
Does it detect sleep apnoea?
No, and it does not try to. Snore counts and measures snoring; it does not look for pauses in breathing and it cannot tell you anything diagnostic. Loud, frequent snoring with pauses in breathing can be a sign of apnoea, and that is worth raising with a doctor rather than with an app.
How much space does a night take?
A recording is 16 kHz mono AAC, so a night is measured in megabytes rather than hundreds of them, and the quality is adjustable in Settings. Settings also shows what all your recordings currently occupy. If you only want the numbers, turn audio saving off entirely and the app measures the night without keeping a recording.
The recording stopped during the night.
Almost always the phone ran out of battery, or something else took the microphone — a phone call will. Keep it plugged in, and don't start a recording while another app is using the mic. Snore keeps everything it captured up to the point it stopped.
What does tagging a night do?
It lets the app compare like with like. Tag the nights where something was different — a drink, a late meal, a blocked nose, a nasal strip — and once there are at least four nights with a factor and four without, What changes things in the Snores tab shows how your tagged nights actually compared. It is your own nights side by side, not a finding: plenty of other things change between nights.
Can I get my recordings off the phone?
Not currently. Audio stays inside the app, and there is no export or sharing. That is a deliberate choice about what a recording of someone asleep is, but if it's stopping you doing something reasonable, tell us — it's the kind of thing we'd reconsider.
Do I need a signal, or an account?
Neither. There is no sign-up, and everything the app does works with the phone in airplane mode.
Email hello@ptk-studio.com — tell us your iPhone model and iOS version if something is broken, and what the app did versus what you expected. If a night came out wrong, the date of it helps.
Short version: your recordings never leave your phone, and the app has no upload path for audio at all. It does report anonymous usage counts, and there is no account for them to be attached to. The full detail is in the privacy policy.