Honest comparison
Sleep as Android for iPhone: the honest answer
There is no iPhone version of Sleep as Android, and there has never been one. So if you have just moved to an iPhone, you are not choosing between two apps. You are replacing one.
In short
Sleep as Android is Android only, so an iPhone owner cannot have it at any price. Tock is the nearest thing on iOS in spirit: sleep tracking from the phone, a smart wake window, snore detection and a task before the alarm stops. It is not as deep, and it does not talk to your smart bulbs.
- wake-up missions
- 9wake-up missionsmind, body and place
- fall-asleep sounds
- 63fall-asleep soundsnothing to download, nothing loops
- languages
- 33languagesthe app, the coach and the reports
What Sleep as Android does better
The most feature-dense smart alarm on Android, with sleep tracking, CAPTCHAs to dismiss the alarm, snoring detection and a long tail of integrations.
- Depth. Very little that a sleep nerd could want is missing from it
- Integrations with smart bulbs, wearables and home automation that Tock does not attempt
- It is on Android, and it is the best thing there
Runs on Android, Wear OS. Tock is iPhone only, on iOS 26 and later.
It is not on iPhone, and that settles the search
Sleep as Android runs on Android and Wear OS. There is no iOS build, no TestFlight, no companion. People searching for it on the App Store are usually people who switched phones, and the useful answer is what to use instead rather than a pretend head-to-head.
What you genuinely lose in the move
Depth, first. Very little a sleep nerd could want is missing from Sleep as Android, and nothing on iOS matches its settings count, Tock included. Tock ships deliberately fewer knobs.
Integrations, second. Smart bulbs, home automation, third-party wearables, the long tail of plugins. Tock does not attempt any of that. It has widgets, Lock Screen and StandBy accessories, Control Center tiles, Live Activities, Siri shortcuts and a Focus filter, which is a different kind of surface area.
What lands in roughly the same place on iOS
The CAPTCHA-before-dismiss habit maps to Tock's nine wake-up missions across mind, body and place, and Tock keeps ringing until you solve one.
Snore detection maps to on-device classification with Apple SoundAnalysis, which labels snores, coughs and sleep talking and keeps clips you can play back in the morning.
The smart alarm window maps to Tock watching the 30 minutes before your set time and ringing early at a lighter moment, with your set time as the fallback.
- Sleep tracking from the phone, no wearable required
- A smart wake window that only ever rings early
- Snoring, coughing and sleep talking classified on device
- A task before the alarm will stop
One thing iOS gives you that Android could not
Tock is built on AlarmKit, Apple's alarm framework, so the alarm is a system alarm rather than an app fighting the OS to stay awake. It rings on silent, through a Focus, with the app closed, on the native full-screen alert. That reliability is the thing worth carrying into the new phone.
Tock is iPhone only, iOS 26 and up, with a subscription from $39.99 a year after a 3-day trial. There is no free tier.
| What we compared | Tock | Sleep as Android |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on iPhone | Yes, iOS 26 up (stronger here) | No, Android only |
| Runs on Android | No, iPhone only | Yes, and it leads there (stronger here) |
| Alarm on iOS | AlarmKit, rings on silent (stronger here) | No iOS build at all |
| Dismiss tasks | 9 missions, 3 families (about the same) | CAPTCHAs before it stops (about the same) |
| Snoring | Classified on device, clips kept (about the same) | Snoring detection built in (about the same) |
| Smart home links | Not attempted | Bulbs, wearables, automation (stronger here) |
| Settings depth | Deliberately fewer | Close to everything (stronger here) |
Which one you should actually pick
Pick Tock if
On an iPhone, Tock is the closest replacement in spirit, and the alarm underneath it is more reliable than anything an Android app could promise.
Pick Sleep as Android if
If you still have an Android phone, keep Sleep as Android. It is the best thing on that platform and Tock cannot run there, so there is no version of this comparison where switching phones for an alarm app makes sense.
Questions people ask
Is there an iPhone version of Sleep as Android?
No. It is Android and Wear OS only, and there is no iOS release. Anything on the App Store using a similar name is not it.
Can I move my Sleep as Android data to an iPhone app?
Not into Tock. Tock reads Apple Health, and Sleep as Android does not write there. Your history stays on the Android phone or in whatever backup you made of it.
Does Tock have CAPTCHAs to dismiss the alarm?
It has nine wake-up missions, which is the same idea with fewer options: Math, Digits, Tiles, Order, Phrase, Shake, Steps, photographing a saved spot, and scanning a barcode you chose.
Does Tock connect to smart bulbs or home automation?
No. That is one of the places Sleep as Android is simply ahead, and Tock does not try to compete there.
If Tock is not in the running
Plenty of people land here already choosing between two other apps. These go through those pairings without us in them.
Other comparisons
The same treatment, applied to the rest of the category.
- Tock vs AlarmyIf all you need is a harder alarm, Alarmy has more dismissal tasks than Tock and a free tier, so it is the sensible pick. Tock is worth paying for when you want the night tracked and the ring moved earlier into light sleep, with a mission still standing between you and the off button.
- Tock vs Sleep CycleSwitch to Tock if you want the alarm itself to be different: a system alarm that rings on silent and through a Focus, moved up to 30 minutes earlier into a lighter moment, with a task before it stops. Stay with Sleep Cycle if you have years of history in it, or if someone in the house is on Android.
- Tock vs SnoreLabSnoreLab is better if snoring is the only thing you care about and you want a remedy-tracking loop and a score you can show someone. Tock is better if you want the snoring inside a full night, with the alarm, the estimated stages and the score in one app instead of two running overnight.
- Tock vs the iPhone Clock appIf you want an alarm and nothing else, keep the Clock app. Tock rings on the same Apple framework it does, so the reliability argument is a draw. Tock is only worth paying for if you want the night before the alarm to change when it goes off, and you want a morning report and a mission before it stops.
Elsewhere on the site
A different corner of the same problem.
- BedtimesGoing to bed at 8:00pmWhere to put the alarm after a 8:00pm lights-out.
- Sleep by ageHow much sleep teenagers needThe American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teenagers aged 13 to 18 years sleep 8 to 10 hours per 24 hours on a regular basis. The obstacle is a genuine biological shift: the adolescent circadian rhythm runs later, so a teenager cannot reliably fall asleep at the time an early school start requires.
- NapsThe 60 minute napA 60 minute nap includes a substantial amount of slow wave sleep, which is useful for recovery and for some kinds of memory, and it usually ends before the cycle completes. That means the benefit is real and the wake-up is often groggy, so it suits situations where the hour afterwards is flexible.
- Wake tonesAnnoying alarm soundsAn unbearable alarm tone works for roughly a week. After that you learn to silence it before you are properly conscious, and you are back where you started with a worse mood attached. The durable fix is not a harsher sound, it is making the alarm end somewhere your half-asleep self cannot reach.
- Head to headPillow vs Sleep CycleIf you wear an Apple Watch to bed, Pillow gives you measured stage data and starts itself. If you do not own a Watch, or half the house is on Android, Sleep Cycle is the sensible pick.
- FeaturesSmart wakeSmart wake is a 30 minute window before your alarm in which Tock watches for a lighter moment in your sleep and rings as soon as it finds one. If it never finds one, your alarm goes off at the exact time you set.
The alarm is the part we actually rebuilt
Tock rings on silent and through a Focus because it is a system alarm, moves earlier when it finds a lighter moment, and asks for one small task before it stops.