Sleep as Android for Android and Sleep Cycle for iPhone are two similar apps for Android and iPhone phones that work as very special alarm clocks, capable of keeping a person's sleep under control at night. What they do is to record, using the sensors of the smartphone and the microphone, both the movements while sleeping and, above all, the sounds during the night .
It keeps track of the hours of sleep and works as an intelligent alarm clock, to attempt an awakening as traumatic as possible .
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Both Sleep as Android for Android smartphones and Sleep Cycle Alarm for iPhone are easy to use and can be used as a normal alarm clock in which to program the alarms for the days of the week.
These are perhaps the best apps of this type, ideal to use both as a sweet alarm clock and as a tool to control yourself.
In the main screen there is a button to press every time you go to sleep, to start monitoring sleep.
Before starting, however, you need to go to the settings to choose how Sleepbot is used.
In the main screen there are three options: whether to enable recording of movements, sound and smart alarm.
The smart alarm sounds within a set half-hour interval choosing the best time to end the sleep cycle.
By opening the settings you can choose:
- the amount of ideal rest in hours
- whether to activate a sleep reminder, i.e. an alarm that warns you when to go to sleep.
- the appearance, i.e. the way the sleep start screen appears.
The most important setting however is that of sleep monitoring where you can choose:
- whether to automatically disable internet data and wifi
- whether to automatically silence the mobile phone
- the sensitivity threshold of the movements and the sound volume threshold to activate the recorder.
You can also use an on-screen widget to start and stop monitoring with a tap.
In the end, therefore, a real sleep monitoring is obtained which, in the morning, will show the results of the recording of sounds and movements with a graph.
By touching the various parts of the graph you can actually listen to the sound recorded at that moment.
The end result is very interesting and you can find out even if you snore or speak in your sleep.
The mobile phone can be placed on the bedside table next to the bed, even without active network connections and in airplane mode, better if connected to the charger as the recorder consumes energy.
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