Great Alarm, Buggy Interface
I love Super Alarm. It is aggressive, reliable, and highly customizable. It was definitely worth the sale price and I recommend it.
However, it has some bugs (at least on iPadOS 17) that can make it incredibly frustrating:
Example one: Say my iPad is off overnight. If I leave the house without completing my configured “missions,” turning on the device will make fog horn noises until I can scan a toothbrush, even if the alarm was set for 11 hours ago and I am now in the office. Offering a max duration for alarm sounds would fix this.
Example two: I tried the mission where I type a phrase. It worked until I finished the phrase. There was no submit button and “return” simply minimized the keyboard, I watched as the timer expired began blaring in my face and I was forced to reinstall the app to get it to shut up. A dedicated submit button in the UI may resolve a keyboard difference between iPad and iPhone keyboard.
Example 3: Selecting “Random” in the alarm sound category and trying to save it crashes the app without saving, but the other categories work fine. This persists through reboots and reinstallations.
All in all, it’s a great concept that works about 95% of the time. There’s just some tricky issues that can really throw a wrench in your day if the powerful features are left unchecked.
However, it has some bugs (at least on iPadOS 17) that can make it incredibly frustrating:
Example one: Say my iPad is off overnight. If I leave the house without completing my configured “missions,” turning on the device will make fog horn noises until I can scan a toothbrush, even if the alarm was set for 11 hours ago and I am now in the office. Offering a max duration for alarm sounds would fix this.
Example two: I tried the mission where I type a phrase. It worked until I finished the phrase. There was no submit button and “return” simply minimized the keyboard, I watched as the timer expired began blaring in my face and I was forced to reinstall the app to get it to shut up. A dedicated submit button in the UI may resolve a keyboard difference between iPad and iPhone keyboard.
Example 3: Selecting “Random” in the alarm sound category and trying to save it crashes the app without saving, but the other categories work fine. This persists through reboots and reinstallations.
All in all, it’s a great concept that works about 95% of the time. There’s just some tricky issues that can really throw a wrench in your day if the powerful features are left unchecked.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful review of SuperAlarm! About that tricky phrase-typing mission on your iPad - we'd really like to dig into what happened there. Could you please reach out to us through our in-app support in the settings tab?
