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Understand your snore report
You recorded a night and got a timeline full of markers and numbers. Here is what each part means, and how to use them to see whether your snoring is getting better or worse.
The night-overview timeline
The timeline is your whole night on a real clock. Each marker is a detected event — usually a snore — placed at the actual time it happened. Clusters of markers show the stretches of the night when you snored most; empty stretches are quiet sleep. Click any marker to play back that exact moment and see what the AI heard.
The headline numbers
- Total snoring time — how much of the night contained snoring, added up across all events.
- Percentage of the night — snoring time divided by total recording time. This is the best single number for comparing nights of different lengths.
- Event count — how many separate snoring events were detected. Many short events can add up to the same total time as a few long ones, so read it alongside total time.
The sound breakdown
The AI does not only detect "snore vs. not snore." It scores each window across categories — snoring, snorts, gasps, breathing, speech and silence — using a deep-learning audio model. The breakdown tells you what kind of sounds filled your night, and it is what powers the apnea-pattern hint.
The apnea-pattern hint
When the analysis finds repeated snore → silence → gasp sequences, it flags them as an apnea-pattern hint and lets you play the moments back. This is informational only — a prompt to consider a professional opinion, not a diagnosis. See Snoring vs. sleep apnea sounds for what that pattern means.
Comparing nights
A single night is a snapshot; the value is in the trend. When you are signed in, results save automatically, and you can overlay several nights to see whether snoring time, event count and percentage-of-night are rising or falling — useful for judging whether a change (weight, alcohol, sleep position, a nasal strip) actually helped. Start by learning how to record a night.
Frequently asked questions
Which number matters most?
Percentage of the night is the most comparable, because it normalizes for how long you recorded. Total snoring time and event count add useful detail, and the trend across nights matters more than any single night.
What counts as one "event"?
A contiguous stretch the detector scored as snoring. A gap of quiet between snores separates one event from the next, so a restless, on-and-off hour can produce many events.
Why does the AI list snorts, gasps and breathing?
It uses a deep-learning model that classifies each window of audio across many sound types, not just snoring. That breakdown is what lets it surface snore→silence→gasp apnea patterns and lets you hear exactly what was detected.
Do I need an account to see a report?
No — analysis and the full report work anonymously. An account lets you save results and compare nights over time.
Can I re-analyze an old recording?
Yes. Saved recordings can be re-analyzed in place, so you can review a past night again with the current detector.
Keep reading: How to record your snoring · Snoring vs. sleep apnea sounds