Can a phone detect irregular breathing during sleep?
Use your phone to find possible breathing irregularities, review marked moments and hear surrounding sounds. See the PSG-paired research behind SomniSense.
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Explore sleep breathing with SomniSense, a sleep apnea detector app. Find answers about what your phone can detect and how to review your own marked moments and sound. Explore the research, privacy and sleep questions behind the record.
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Breathing & snoring basics
Start with the terms SomniSense uses and what your nightly patterns can — and cannot — tell you.
Explore this topic →Accuracy & privacy
Understand phone-based tracking, validation, and how your recordings stay under your control.
Explore this topic →Sleep habits and your own nights
Explore questions about weekend sleep, alcohol, cannabis and room conditions, then see what your own recordings can help you observe.
Explore this topic →Wearables & comparisons
Learn why different sleep products measure different signals and should not be read as equivalents.
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Your sleep audio, analyzed on your phone.
SomniSense analyzes and stores sleep audio on your phone and does not upload raw audio. Review marked moments and choose for yourself whether to export a copy.
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What PSG-paired research means for your phone.
See what SomniSense tested with 40 participants and 80 paired nights, what the classification results mean and how to inspect your own breathing record.
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Cannabis, CBD and sleep: what your own record can show
Explore what research says about cannabis, CBD and sleep, and how to revisit your own marked breathing moments and available sound.
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Apple Watch sleep stages: what a phone breathing report adds
Understand REM, Core and Deep sleep estimates, then explore your own marked breathing moments and available sound with SomniSense.
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Room temperature, cortisol and BRI: what can your record tell you?
Learn how room conditions relate to sleep, what BRI measures, and how to review your own marked breathing moments and sound.
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Eight hours in bed and still tired? Duration is one clue
Eight hours in bed does not guarantee waking refreshed. Learn what to check in your own breathing record and when to seek professional guidance.
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Can weekend catch-up sleep repay sleep debt?
Sleeping longer on weekends may not fully repay sleep debt. Learn why regular sleep matters and what your own breathing recordings can show.
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Apple Watch sleep scores and BRI measure different signals
See Apple’s Sleep Score components, what BRI measures and which records to open when the two readings differ.
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What phone audio adds to wearable breathing data
Your compatible phone can analyze breathing sounds and help you inspect marked moments, without needing another wearable.
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Does wine help you sleep through the night?
Alcohol can make falling asleep easier yet lead to lighter sleep and more waking. Understand the difference, then explore your own recorded breathing sounds.
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BRI vs AHI: what your breathing reading means
Read your SomniSense BRI, find the marks behind the number and review their sound. Understand how this phone-audio index differs from clinical AHI.
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Sleep apnea vs snoring: symptoms and your own sound record
Understand snoring versus sleep apnea, when to seek clinical evaluation and how to review your own marked breathing sounds.
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