What Kip is for.

Kip has a simple mission: help you understand your snoring, work out what quiets it, and help you and your partner wake up more refreshed. Snoring is one of the few health habits you can actually measure at home, and seeing it clearly is the first step to a quieter night.

Why on-device, always

Recording your bedroom overnight is personal. So Kip is built so your audio never leaves your phone. There is no cloud upload option at all. Snoring is detected and scored on the device itself, using the same kind of machine learning that runs your iPhone camera. It is the first principle Kip will not compromise, even though it makes some features harder to build.

How Kip helps you sleep better

Kip records and scores your snoring, then shows a calm morning summary and a trend over time. That lets you test what actually helps, like sleeping on your side, skipping a late drink, or trying a nasal strip, and see whether it moved the numbers. Quieter nights are better for you and for whoever shares your bed.

How Kip compares itself to other apps

Before writing about apps like SnoreLab and ShutEye, Kip installs them, pays for them, and records real nights on an iPhone in the UK. Where a rival does something better, like wider platform support or a longer track record, we say so. Prices and free-tier limits are checked against the live App Store and dated on the page, because they change often.

What Kip is, and isn't

Kip is a wellness and screening tool. It can show you patterns in your snoring over time and help you have a better-informed conversation with your GP. It is not a medical device, and it cannot diagnose or treat sleep apnoea or any other condition. Only a clinical sleep study can do that. If your results worry you, please speak to your GP.

Get in touch

Found something wrong, or have a question? Email kipsnoreapp@gmail.com. Every message is read.