Free and Premium Features

Explore the differences between the free and premium version of Pillow.

Updated over a week ago

Here's what is available in the premium version of Pillow:

Note:

Pillow Premium Legacy

If you made a one-time in-app purchase of Pillow Premium (this option is no longer available for new users), you are considered a Pillow Premium Legacy user. This type of purchase grants you access to all premium features that were available at the time of purchase. However, any newly added features will require a subscription.

Detailed sleep analysis

Get a detailed breakdown of your sleep stages, including sleep stage duration, sleep stage percentage, and whether your sleep stage duration was within or outside the recommended range.


Heart rate analysis

View your heart rate during sleep overlaid on top of your sleep chart with the ability to seek individual values. View your average heart rate, maximum and minimum heart rate values for each day. Pillow also displays your average heart rate values for each sleep stage.


Audio recordings

Allow Pillow to record important audio events during sleep like snoring, sleep apnea, sleep talking, other noises or sounds that might disrupt sleep. You can export, delete or favorite any audio recording.


Naps and duration-based presets

Create presets for naps that have a specific sleep duration, e.g., 20 minutes. You can also create presets for longer sleep sessions like 8 hours. Pillow will automatically select the correct alarm time so that the alarm will go off after the specified duration.


Personalized insights and sleep tips with "Snooze Lab"

Gain full access to personalized sleep insights and sleep tips that will help you improve your sleep and learn how sleep works.


Sleep notes

Attach notes for each sleep session to help you pinpoint specific actions, habits, events that might have affected your sleep session's quality positively or negatively.


Sleep-related trends

Discover how important sleep metrics change over time:

  • Sleep quality,

  • Sleep duration,

  • Wake-up mood,

  • Sleep notes,

  • Sleep disruption*,

  • REM sleep trends*,

  • Light sleep trends*,

  • Deep sleep trends*,

  • Heart rate trends*,

  • Temperature*,

  • Bedtime,

  • Snoring*.

*Not available to Pillow Premium Legacy users.


Compare with Apple Health metrics

Discover how various Apple Health metrics might affect your sleep quality or the duration of your sleep. Pillow allows you to compare your sleep quality and sleep duration with key Apple Health metrics such as steps, heart rate, blood pressure, cycling distance, weight, caffeine consumption and more.


Premium sleep aid content

Gain access to a wide variety of meditations, stories, soundscenes and music that has been carefully curated and produced to help you relax and fall asleep faster. By unlocking Pillow's premium features, you also gain access to all future additions.


Premium wake-up sounds

Gain full access to all currently available alarm sounds as well as future additions.


Select a wake-up melody from your iTunes library

Pick any track from your iTunes or Apple Music to use an alarm sound.


Database export in CSV format

You may export your sleep data in .csv format to analyze them via a different medium.


Respiratory rate*

Pillow can now help you track your respiratory rate for each of your sleep sessions. When you wake up, you can check your respiratory rate analysis by visiting the "Heart" tab of your sleep analysis. You can find a detailed chart of the average breaths per minute, as well as average average, minimum, and maximum “breaths per minute" values. You can also enter your age to let Pillow provide a rating of the values tracked.


*Not available to Pillow Premium Legacy users.


Blood oxygen levels

Pillow can track and analyze your Blood Oxygen Levels for each sleep session.


Environmental audio levels

Pillow can track and analyze the overall noise levels of your environment during sleep. For each sleep session you can access a diagram and the average, minimum and maximum noise level.


Apple Music in sleep aid*

You may use your favorite Apple Music tracks as part of the sleep aid functionality

*Not available to Pillow Premium Legacy users.


Smart wake-up alarm

Use Pillow as a smart alarm clock to wake up at the lightest possible sleep stage and start your day refreshed and relaxed.


Body temperature*

Explore important information regarding your body temperature during sleep.

*Not available to Pillow Premium Legacy users.


Pillow offers a free 7-day trial of all premium features so that you can test them and discover the full potential of Pillow.

Here's what is available in the free version of Pillow:

  • Basic Automatic sleep tracking and analysis

  • Selection between Pillow or Apple's sleep stage analysis

  • Basic Manual sleep tracking

  • Pausing manual sleep tracking

  • Editing & Merging Sessions

  • Sessions Re-analysis

  • Mood tracking

  • Time to sleep indication

  • Time in bed

  • Time asleep

  • Heart rate average, maximum heart rate and minimum heart rate

  • iCloud syncing and backups

  • Apple Health integration

  • Siri integration

  • Support for Shortcuts to start a session as part of a custom automation

  • Turning off screen for manual sleep tracking

  • Wake-up time goal

  • Optimal bedtime notification insight

  • Custom bedtime notification

  • Unlimited customisable alarm presets

  • Full access to all previously detected sleep sessions for basic sleep analysis

  • Seeking values on the sleep chart

  • Updating your alarm time without restarting the alarm

  • Daily re-analyzing for sleep sessions recorded with your Apple Watch

  • Landscape mode for sleep tracking

  • Apple Watch battery notification

  • Home screen widget

  • All lock screen widgets

  • All Apple Watch complications

  • Light/Dark theme

  • Exporting and managing data options

  • Live Activities

Please note that the list may change in the future and the availability of the features depends on the device(s) that you use. Some features require an Apple Watch or a newer version of iOS or watchOS.

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