Terms of Use
Last updated: September 30, 2026
By using Sonya you accept these terms. They sit on top of Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which applies to every app distributed through the App Store: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.
What the app does
Sonya records the sounds of your night, marks episodes it recognises - snoring, coughing, talking - and lets you listen to any moment of the recording.
Sonya is not a medical device and gives no medical advice. It does not
diagnose sleep apnea, bruxism or any other condition. If a sound worries
you, take it to a doctor, not to an app.
Free and paid
- Free forever: recording a night, recovery after a crash, listening to any of your recordings with scrubbing, the analysis of every night and the insight of the day.
- Paid - by subscription or by a one-time lifetime
purchase, the same five features either way:
- this night next to the one before;
- a picture with the night summary, to show a doctor or a partner;
- nights you marked (a mouthguard, earplugs, a late dinner) next to nights without the mark;
- export to a spreadsheet: nights and episodes in two files;
- the week-by-week trend: quieter or noisier.
Lifetime purchase
- One payment, charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Nothing renews and nothing is charged after that.
- It works for your family too: the lifetime purchase is available through Family Sharing.
- Buying it does not cancel an active subscription - Apple does not do that on its own. Cancel the subscription yourself, as described below, or its charges continue.
Subscription, renewal, cancellation
- Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
- The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- The renewal price and the period are shown on the purchase screen before you confirm anything.
- Cancel any time in Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your device. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
- If a free trial is offered, any unused part of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription covering the same period.
Your recordings
The recordings are yours. They stay on your device, we have no copy, and we can neither restore them for you nor listen to them. Deleting a night in the app, deleting the app, or losing the device means the audio is gone.
Limits of what we promise
- The app records while iOS lets it. A shutdown, a forced quit or a system failure can end a night early - the app then says so instead of pretending the night was silent.
- Sound recognition uses the classifier built into iOS. It can miss an episode or mark a sound that was not yours; the app lets you correct the latter with the That's not me mark.
- The app is provided as is, without warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, to the extent permitted by law.