Frequently asked questions

Correct. SnoreCam has no servers, no cloud storage, and no upload code path. Your clips live encrypted on your phone and stay there. The only way a clip leaves your device is if you tap Share — and then iOS sends a copy to whatever app you choose (TikTok, Messages, etc.). SnoreCam itself still doesn't see it.

Regular snore apps record audio. SnoreCam records short video clips when audio or motion triggers fire, then an on-device AI captions each clip in plain English. You see what happened, not just hear it.

Plug the phone in. Mic + motion monitoring overnight uses ~30–40% of a typical iPhone battery; with the camera only triggering occasionally, you'll wake up at 70–80% if you forget to charge. We recommend keeping it plugged in anyway.

Back camera (rear main wide). Better low-light sensor than the front, and the wide angle captures the whole bed from a nightstand 2–3 feet away. Prop your phone with the screen face-down on the nightstand and the lens aimed at your bed.

Yes — iPhone's rear camera has surprisingly good low-light sensitivity. Even in a dark bedroom with curtains closed, clips show enough detail to see body movement, position changes, and getting out of bed. A small night-light or hallway light helps the AI captioner identify scenes more reliably.

$9.99/month or $59.99/year (about $5/month if you go annual — a 50% saving). Both include a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions.

SnoreCam is not a medical device and does not diagnose sleep apnea or any other condition. If a partner has told you you stop breathing in your sleep, see a sleep physician — SnoreCam clips might be useful to bring along to your appointment, but the diagnosis is the doctor's, not the app's.

When you tap Share, iOS opens the native share sheet and you pick a destination. SnoreCam renders a copy of the clip with the AI caption overlaid and a small SnoreCam watermark, then hands the file to TikTok's (or Instagram's, or Messages') app. From that point on, the receiving app handles the upload — SnoreCam never sees it. You can disable the watermark in Settings if you prefer.

Only with their explicit, informed consent. Recording laws vary by jurisdiction — some require all-party consent for audio recording. SnoreCam is intended for self-monitoring; using it to surveil others without consent likely violates both our Terms and your local privacy laws.

SnoreCam's motion monitor detects significant phone movement and logs it as an event. In the morning you'll see a clip from the moment the phone moved (assuming the camera triggered) plus a note in the highlight reel that the phone was repositioned. Your session keeps running unless the phone disconnects entirely.

Yes, after 14 days by default. You can change the retention period in Settings (7, 14, 30, or 90 days). Clips you've favorited (starred in the highlight reel) are excluded from auto-deletion. Total clip storage is capped at 2 GB — the oldest unfavorited clips are deleted first if you approach the cap.

Yes, entirely. SnoreCam uses Apple Intelligence Foundation Models on the device (iPhone 15 Pro and later) or a smaller embedded VLM on older supported devices. No internet connection is needed for captioning. SnoreCam works in airplane mode.

Read-only access to your sleep stages (from Apple Watch, if you have one). We use this to align the morning highlight reel with your actual sleep cycles — so we can show whether a snoring event happened during deep sleep vs. light sleep. We do not write to HealthKit. We never read anything else.

Not in v1. It's on the roadmap for a later update if there's clear demand from users. The wedge for v1 is the iPhone camera, so the engineering goes there first.

iPhone running iOS 26.0 or later. iPhone 15 Pro and newer get the best AI caption quality (via Apple Intelligence Foundation Models). Older supported devices fall back to a smaller embedded vision-language model — captions still work, just shorter.

Yes — the audio trigger doesn't know whose snoring it is. If you sleep with a partner who snores, you'll capture both of you. If you want partner-blur on shared clips, use the face-blur toggle (coming in v1.1) before sharing.

SnoreCam captures it. Sleepwalking, sleep talking, getting up to the bathroom — these are all motion or audio triggers that wake the camera. Many users find the morning highlights of these events genuinely useful to share with a sleep specialist or partner who's been telling them about it for years.

It happens. The morning review modal warns you to watch each clip before sharing for exactly this reason. The face-blur toggle (v1.1) helps but isn't a substitute for watching the clip first. Default behavior: clips stay on your phone forever — they only leave if you choose to share them.