Is there a good app for set a sleep timer for audio?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
87
Opportunity /100
93
Demand /100
53
Competition /100
94
Execution gap /100
4
Apps serving it
37
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to set a sleep timer for audio, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no sleep timer | missing-feature | 3 | NO sleep function |
| app pauses background music | bug | 3 | it always pauses my music because i like to study with music |
| sleep music stops after a few seconds | bug | 1 | I couldn't get the music to continue |
| sleep sounds no longer stop after set timer | bug | 1 | the sounds played to help go to sleep no longer turn off after a set time |
| sleep timer missing on sleep soundscapes | bug | 1 | the sleep timer on the sleep soundscapes disappeared. Can t have the sound on all night |
| audio repeats and wakes user during sleep | bug | 1 | it keeps repeating and won’t stop, it actually has woke me up in the middle of my sleep |
| sleep sound stops playing during night | bug | 1 | The sound didn't play all night. It kept stopping |
| no option to listen to recorded sleep sounds | missing-feature | 1 | doesn’t give the option to listen |
| cannot track sleep while white noise plays | reliability | 1 | sleep data that can't even track a nights sleep while using white noise |
| sleep sound playback paywalled | price | 1 | downloaded this app to hear the noises I made while sleeping just to find you have to pay for that feature |
| no way to slow down audio playback | missing-feature | 1 | The speakers talk way too fast to understand and there’s no way to slow it down |
| unwanted auto-play of next track interrupts sleep | ux | 1 | the app starts another track after your selected one ends & keeps going... you’re jolted awake by some jarring sound |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShutEye®: Sleep Tracker, Sound | 4.8★ | 347,963 | Free |
| BetterSleep: Relax and Sleep | 4.7★ | 390,373 | Free |
| SleepWatch - Top Sleep Tracker | 4.7★ | 328,518 | Free |
| Calm | 4.8★ | 1,957,659 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 87 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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