Sleep++ is the best sleep-tracker for your Apple Watch

Hardware constraints stopped Apple from building sleep analysis right into watchOS, namely due to the fact that the smart watch’s requirement of a daily recharge means few, if any, of us are wearing the Watch to bed. Sleep++, however, aims to change this through bringing a smart piece of sleep-tracking software to Apple’s watchOS platform. Better still, the app recently received a big update to version 2.0.

Sleep++ 2.0, then, brings revamped integration with HealthKit through adding two new sets of data, “In Bed ” and “Asleep,” into the Health app on iOS. The Watch application can apparently tell the difference between light sleep, deep sleep, restlessness, and wakefulness, and it uses this analysis in order to provide users with a better insight into their own sleep patterns. Of course, using the Apple Watch to track all of this is far, far more accurate (and far easier) than sitting an iPhone at the side of your mattress or under your pillow. And even though you will need to be savvy with your recharges in order to wear the Apple Watch day and night, it’s worth it.

Sleep++ also provides users with an Apple Watch complication that offers information on your recent sleeping performance, and a summary interface inside the application lets users check on their data from their Apple Watch. The full list of changes made in version 2.0 of the app include:

• The sleep analysis algorithm has been completely overhauled to allow for more fine grained sleep-type characterization. It can now accurately differentiate between deep sleep, light sleep, restlessness and wakefulness. These algorithmic improvements greatly increase the usefulness of the data collected.
• The HealthKit support for the app has been greatly improved beyond the the basic data previously collected. Detailed analysis of your night is now saved in Health for further use.
• A night detail screen now provides for more clear explanation of the quality of each night, telling you when you slept well and when you were restless.
• You can now trim nights from the detail screen, useful for when you forget to stop the sleep analysis when you wake up in the morning.
• The app now more fully supports time zone changes letting you get a more consistent view of your sleep as you travel.

You’ll be really impressed with what Sleep++ has to offer: this is a smart piece of software which feels like it came right out of Cupertino. You can download the application free of charge now, and a $1.99 IAP removes the software’s in-app advertising.