Honest comparison
SnoreLab alternative: snoring inside a whole night
SnoreLab is the closest thing to a direct feature overlap on this whole list, so it is worth being precise about what each app actually records and what it does with it.
In short
SnoreLab 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.
- insight metrics
- 21insight metricsso a loud night has context around it
- minute smart-wake window
- 30minute smart-wake windowSnoreLab has no alarm at all
- wake-up missions
- 9wake-up missionsbefore the ringing stops
What SnoreLab does better
A dedicated snore recorder. It listens, scores how loud the night was, saves samples and tracks whether a remedy helped.
- Snoring is its only job, and the remedy-tracking loop is more deliberate than anything Tock offers
- Its scoring is designed to be shown to a partner or a doctor
- Available on Android
Runs on iPhone, Android. Tock is iPhone only, on iOS 26 and later.
SnoreLab is a specialist, and specialists win their speciality
It listens, scores how loud the night was, saves samples and tracks whether a remedy helped. That last loop is more deliberate than anything Tock offers, and the scoring is designed to be shown to a partner or a doctor.
If you are testing a mouthpiece, a strip or a pillow across several weeks and you want to see whether it moved the number, that is what SnoreLab is built for.
What Tock actually records, precisely
Tock listens with the microphone and reads movement from the accelerometer all night. Snores, coughs and sleep talking are classified on device with Apple SoundAnalysis, and the clips are saved so you can play them back in the morning.
The point is the context around them. Those clips sit inside a night that also has a score, estimated stages, breathing and room readings, tags and a morning check-in, so you can see whether the loud stretch lined up with a late glass of wine or a warm room.
Neither app can tell you anything about sleep apnoea or any other condition. If snoring worries you, take it to a doctor rather than an app.
Tock is also the alarm, which changes the setup
SnoreLab does not wake you or estimate your sleep, so it runs alongside an alarm. Tock is built on AlarmKit and rings on silent, through a Focus and with the app closed, and it moves up to 30 minutes earlier into a lighter moment.
One app on the nightstand instead of two is not a headline feature, but it is fewer things to remember to start.
Tags and correlations against a remedy log
Tock's version of "did that help" is tags on a night and correlations across the 21 insight metrics. It is broader and less targeted: good for spotting that late caffeine costs you, less good for running a controlled test on one anti-snoring product.
If a structured remedy trial is the job, SnoreLab is the sharper tool and it is not close.
| What we compared | Tock | SnoreLab |
|---|---|---|
| Snore score for a doctor | Not built for that | Designed to be shown (stronger here) |
| Remedy tracking | Tags and correlations | A deliberate remedy loop (stronger here) |
| Where it runs | iPhone only | iPhone and Android (stronger here) |
| What gets classified | Snores, coughs, sleep talking (stronger here) | Snoring, and only that |
| Clips you can replay | Saved and playable (about the same) | Samples saved (about the same) |
| The alarm | AlarmKit, rings on silent (stronger here) | Does not wake you |
| The rest of the night | Score, estimated stages, insights (stronger here) | Snoring only |
| Apps running overnight | Just one app (stronger here) | Two, with your alarm app |
Which one you should actually pick
Pick Tock if
Pick Tock if you want to hear the snore and also know what the rest of the night looked like, from the same app that wakes you up.
Pick SnoreLab if
Keep SnoreLab if snoring is the entire reason you are tracking anything, especially if you are trialling a remedy or you want a score to show a partner or a doctor. Its focus is the point, and Tock spreads its attention across a whole night instead.
Run both if
Running SnoreLab during a remedy trial and Tock the rest of the time is a fine way to do it.
Questions people ask
Can I bring my SnoreLab recordings into Tock?
No. There is no import, and Tock starts its clip history from the first night you use it. If your SnoreLab samples matter, keep the app until you have what you need out of it.
Does Tock upload my night audio?
Classification runs on device with Apple SoundAnalysis. The AI sleep coach needs a network connection because it is a chat, and it can play back what Tock heard when you ask it to.
Can Tock tell me if I have sleep apnoea?
No, and neither can SnoreLab. Tock records and labels sounds. It does not diagnose anything, and a phone on a nightstand is not a medical device.
Does Tock score snoring the way SnoreLab does?
Not in the same way. Tock gives you a score for the night as a whole and the snoring sits inside it, rather than a dedicated snore intensity number built to be compared week to week.
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 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 SleepScoreSleepScore is the better pick if you want breathing and movement read contactlessly by a method you can have explained to you, and you already have an alarm you trust. Tock is the pick if you want one app that both tracks the night and wakes you, with playable audio of what it heard.
- Tock vs PillowStay with Pillow if you track on your wrist, because it runs on the Watch and Tock does not. Choose Tock if your phone is the only thing on the nightstand and you want the alarm to be the centre of the product rather than a feature of the tracker.
- Tock vs PzizzKeep Pzizz if you nap, or if your mind needs words to hold onto while you fall asleep. Tock generates its sound too, but it has no voiceover and nothing for naps. What Tock adds is the alarm, the tracking and the morning report Pzizz does not attempt.
Elsewhere on the site
A different corner of the same problem.
- NapsThe 20 minute napA 20 minute nap is the standard recommendation because it produces a solid alertness benefit while ending before most people reach slow wave sleep, so you wake up clear rather than groggy. It is long enough to be worth the time and short enough to stay safe.
- 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 headRise vs Sleep CycleIf you want to plan a day around your energy and stop spiralling over one bad night, Rise. If you want the night itself drawn out and an alarm that finds a lighter moment, Sleep Cycle.
- FeaturesSnore recordingTock keeps short audio clips of the things it hears in the night and pins each one to the minute it happened. Snoring, coughing and sleep talking are labelled by name, and every clip has a play button in the morning.
- Sleep soundsBrown noiseBrown noise puts almost all of its energy in the low end, dropping roughly 6 dB with every octave you climb, so it reads as a rumble or distant surf rather than a hiss. That low weight is exactly why it covers traffic, footsteps and a neighbour's bass better than white noise does, and also why it can feel like pressure if your room is already quiet.
- Tock for youNight owlsYou are wide awake at 1am and useless at 7am, and every piece of advice you have ever read starts with going to bed earlier, which you have done, repeatedly, while staring at the ceiling.
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.