I built a snore recorder because my partner swore they don't snore 😴 — it grew into a whole bedtime-to-morning app (iOS + Android)
Full disclosure: I'm the solo dev — this is my own project, not a stealth ad.
https://reddit.com/link/1umt9ip/video/iae84q7dl3bh1/player
For years my partner insisted they don't snore. I, the sleep-deprived witness on the other pillow, knew otherwise. So instead of arguing at 3am, I did the reasonable-developer thing: built an app to record the evidence.
The core idea I actually cared about — recording a whole night is useless if you then have to sit through 7 hours of mostly-silence to find the 30 loud seconds. So the main feature is a waveform timeline: it auto-marks the loud stretches in red, you pinch/scroll to zoom, and tap a marker to jump straight to that moment and hear it.
It slowly turned into a small bedtime-to-morning kit:
- All-night recording + waveform navigation (the main thing)
- A clean alarm that can talk you awake with a custom message
- Sleep sounds with a timer
- A world clock for the long-distance/travel crowd
A few build decisions, since this is that kind of sub:
- Native on both platforms (Swift/SwiftUI + Kotlin/Compose), waveform drawn on the platform canvas
- Fully offline — recordings never leave the device, no account, nothing uploaded
- Free, with an optional one-time lifetime unlock — no subscription, no ads shoved in your face
It's deliberately NOT a medical/diagnostic thing — just a genuinely useful (and occasionally humbling) way to hear what happens while you sleep.
What I'd love feedback on: does jumping to the loud parts via the waveform feel obvious to a first-timer, or would you expect a different interaction? Store links in a comment.