myAir™ by Resmed

Review by eFreeware

Starting PAP therapy is rarely as simple as putting on a mask and going to sleep. The first weeks involve fiddling with fit, getting used to air pressure and wondering whether any of it is working. myAir by Resmed is built around that adjustment period: a free companion app for people using the company's AirSense and AirCurve machines, available since April 2018 and installed more than a million times.

The pitch is straightforward. The app connects to a compatible machine, pulls in nightly therapy data, and layers guidance and coaching on top. Rather than a clinical readout on its own, it is meant to sit between you and your equipment, answering the small questions that come up early on and giving a simple daily picture of how therapy went.

It is worth being clear about the boundaries before going further. myAir works with AirSense and AirCurve machines that have built-in wireless connectivity, and the app is free with no ads and no in-app purchases. Owners of the AirMini are directed to a separate app instead.

The nightly score and what sits behind it

The core of the app is the daily myAir score. You log in and see a single number summarizing how well you slept on therapy, which is a sensible way to handle something as fiddly as PAP data: one glance tells you whether last night went roughly as expected or not.

Behind that score, the app records detailed metrics so you can follow your therapy over time rather than judging it night by night. Trends matter here, because a single rough night says little, while a slow drift in the numbers is exactly the sort of thing worth raising with a clinician.

Reports can also be saved or shared with your provider. For anyone who has tried to reconstruct weeks of therapy from memory before an appointment, having a report ready is the most obviously useful thing myAir does, and it is the feature I would expect long-term users to lean on most.

Coaching for the awkward early weeks

myAir positions itself as a personal sleep coach, and the coaching is targeted rather than generic. If your mask seal is giving you trouble, for example, the app surfaces tips aimed at fixing it. That kind of specific, situational advice is where a companion app can genuinely help, since mask problems are one of the most common reasons people struggle in the beginning.

Alongside the tips there is a library of videos and guides covering common questions, and the app sends email and push notifications that are meant to encourage and support you as you go. Regular check-ins prompt you to look at how therapy is going, and coaching follows if something looks off.

With your prior consent, myAir can also share your therapy insights with your healthcare team, so the people managing your care see the same picture you do. That consent step is worth noting: the sharing happens only if you allow it, which keeps the decision in your hands.

Getting set up, at home or in person

Setup is treated as part of the app rather than something you do before opening it. The Personal Therapy Assistant provides interactive voice-guided instructions for setting up your equipment and fitting your mask, which is a useful approach for anyone assembling a machine for the first time without someone standing next to them.

A Test Drive option runs the machine at varying air pressure so therapy feels less surprising at night. Both the assistant and Test Drive are available only with an AirSense 11 machine and do not work with AirSense 10 or AirCurve 10.

Videos and guides cover your Resmed mask and AirSense or AirCurve machine, along with tips for adjusting to therapy.

Fitting therapy data alongside the rest of your health

Apple Health and Health Connect link up with myAir, letting your existing health data sit beside your Resmed therapy data instead of apart. With your permission, Trends can read and show steps, active calories, exercise, weight, sleep, oxygen saturation, resting heart rate and heart rate variability.

That combination is more interesting than it first appears. Seeing sleep and resting heart rate next to nightly therapy scores gives context that therapy data alone cannot provide, and it is the sort of thing that makes the app worth opening even once the initial adjustment period is over.

There is also a Wear OS app for compatible Samsung Galaxy Watch models. With an existing myAir account, the watch app shows your myAir data without pulling out your phone. It is a convenience rather than a separate product, but a sensible one for anyone who checks their numbers at the same time each morning.

Who tends to get the most from it

The clearest audience is someone who has just been set up on an AirSense or AirCurve machine and is working through the first months of therapy. Guided setup, pressure familiarization and mask-fit coaching all target that window directly, and the nightly score gives a simple answer to the question of whether things are going well.

The second group is longer-term users who want a record. Detailed metrics, trends and a downloadable summary report make appointments easier and give you something concrete to discuss rather than a vague sense that sleep has improved or not. The health app integration adds another layer for people already tracking other measurements.

What ties both groups together is the hardware requirement. This is a companion for Resmed machines with built-in wireless connectivity, and it leans on that connection for the data it shows. The app is free and carries no ads or in-app purchases, so the practical cost of trying it is your time rather than your money. Its 4.1 average across more than 37,000 ratings suggests most users find it serviceable, though opinions clearly vary.

A companion worth setting up alongside your machine

myAir is not a general sleep tracker and does not pretend to be. It is a support layer for a specific family of machines, and judged on that basis it covers the ground that matters: help getting started, coaching when something is uncomfortable, a clear nightly score, and a record you can hand to your clinician.

The limits are built into the design. You need a compatible AirSense or AirCurve machine with wireless connectivity, and the interactive setup tools are tied to the AirSense 11, so owners of older machines get a smaller slice of what the app offers. AirMini users are pointed to a different app entirely.

For anyone using supported equipment, installing myAir is an easy call. It costs nothing, it removes some of the guesswork from the first weeks of therapy, and it keeps a running record that makes appointments more productive. If you are on an AirSense 11 in particular, the guided setup and Test Drive features make it the natural first thing to install after your machine arrives.

What's new

We’re always trying to improve your experience with myAir. This release also contains minor bug fixes and performance improvements.