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Use SomniSense with your Whoop
Whoop is built around strain, recovery, and wearable sleep trends. SomniSense adds a separate phone-acoustic timeline with model-estimated candidate regions and available audio.
If your Whoop recovery stays low, SomniSense cannot tell you why. It can add a separate signal: whole-night acoustic context, candidate regions, and available local audio from the phone already beside your bed. Compare the two manually across repeated nights; do not treat apparent agreement as proof of cause.
What Whoop does well
Whoop provides wearable strain, recovery, and sleep views within its documented product scope. Those views can be useful for people maintaining a training and recovery record.
SomniSense does not reproduce or interpret Whoop's proprietary scores.
What Whoop can't tell you about your sleep
Whoop and SomniSense use different sensors and product definitions. A phone-audio observation cannot establish that a wrist device missed a breathing event, and it cannot explain a recovery score.
If your Whoop sleep or recovery views keep changing and you cannot explain the pattern, phone audio is one additional observation channel. It does not determine whether training, breathing, illness, environment, or another factor caused the result.
That's where SomniSense fits: not as the explanation for a Whoop score, but as a separate acoustic record you can compare by date and review on its own terms.
What you get when you run both
| Question | Whoop | SomniSense |
|---|---|---|
| Yesterday's training strain | Yes — primary metric | — |
| Recovery score | Yes — HRV + RHR + sleep | — |
| Sleep stages | Yes — inferred | — |
| Product-defined respiratory view | See the device's respiratory metrics | Acoustic BRI; not clinical AHI |
| Review room audio | — | Available audio around selected candidate regions |
| Tag what you tried | Journal entries | Lifestyle Lab™ |
| Longer-period record | Manual exports | Structured English wellness report; content-dependent length |
The athlete pattern
You can keep both a training record and a phone-audio record. When the two series move together or apart, that is a date-aligned observation—not an explanation of fatigue, recovery, or breathing physiology.
Lifestyle tags can make those records easier to review. They cannot establish that alcohol, training, or another factor caused either product's change.
Free keeps core first-night evidence, local playback within the app limits, and a recent 7-day trend · Pro adds longer continuity and fuller comparisons and reports.
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Common questions
- Do these conflict?
- No. Whoop is on your wrist (or chest, or torso). SomniSense is on your nightstand. They measure different things.
- Why isn't my Whoop sleep score the same as my SomniSense BRI?
- They are different product metrics built from different signals. Whoop's recovery and sleep views use wearable data; SomniSense BRI summarizes model-estimated acoustic candidate patterns per estimated sleep hour. They should not be expected to agree.
- If Whoop and SomniSense look different, which is right?
- A difference is not enough to declare either product right or wrong. First check whether both captured enough of the same night, then compare repeated patterns. Neither result identifies the cause of poor recovery or confirms a sleep condition.
- Can I use the Whoop API to feed strain data into SomniSense?
- Not yet — that integration would be valuable but it's not built. For now, you compare two views in two apps.