Lacking in features
For a paid app, this should have much more features. My main gripes:
1. I can only set one alarm. The wake up when you’re in light sleep thing is nice if you’re motivated to get up but when I’m asleep I mostly want to stay asleep. So when this thing vibrates to wake me up, I just press my watch and it shuts off. And that’s it. There’s no snooze function, it doesn’t detect if you went back to sleep or anything AND it only lets you set one alarm. So really it does nothing. Maybe you could set it to go off slightly before your main alarm but that’s not what I wanted it to do.
2. It doesn’t detect when you are awake. I mentioned this in the last comment but sometimes when it does actually wake me up, I just slap my watch until it stops and get up. Later, when I go to set it again for the evening it has this timer for how long past my alarm it has been and it is counting since my alarm went off. It wants me to manually press “I’m awake” for it to know you are awake. Why it needs to know that when it doesn’t even re-vibrate, I have no idea.
3. Phone app is useless. At least put docs in there. It links to external website for documentation when it could be in phone app. I would also prefer to set alarms in the phone app but it will not let you.
While I enjoy the other apps from this developer, this one is a huge miss, at least for now. I’m not sure how actively they’re developing this but I hope more features are added.
1. I can only set one alarm. The wake up when you’re in light sleep thing is nice if you’re motivated to get up but when I’m asleep I mostly want to stay asleep. So when this thing vibrates to wake me up, I just press my watch and it shuts off. And that’s it. There’s no snooze function, it doesn’t detect if you went back to sleep or anything AND it only lets you set one alarm. So really it does nothing. Maybe you could set it to go off slightly before your main alarm but that’s not what I wanted it to do.
2. It doesn’t detect when you are awake. I mentioned this in the last comment but sometimes when it does actually wake me up, I just slap my watch until it stops and get up. Later, when I go to set it again for the evening it has this timer for how long past my alarm it has been and it is counting since my alarm went off. It wants me to manually press “I’m awake” for it to know you are awake. Why it needs to know that when it doesn’t even re-vibrate, I have no idea.
3. Phone app is useless. At least put docs in there. It links to external website for documentation when it could be in phone app. I would also prefer to set alarms in the phone app but it will not let you.
While I enjoy the other apps from this developer, this one is a huge miss, at least for now. I’m not sure how actively they’re developing this but I hope more features are added.
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Love this app, but have a few suggestions
I love this app. It makes it very easy to set an alarm and gently wakes you up in the morning. I’ve never been a morning person and always hated getting up early, but this app helps make the mornings a little more bearable. It slowly wakes you up by vibrating once every five minutes starting 30 minutes before your alarm is set to go off. I haven’t found any other alarm app that does that. There are a few suggestions I would like to make to the developers though:
-The option to edit an alarm after its been set without having to turn that whole alarm off and restarting it.
And
-The ability to hit snooze in case you just aren’t ready to get up yet.
I definitely recommend this app if you have trouble walking up in the mornings!
-The option to edit an alarm after its been set without having to turn that whole alarm off and restarting it.
And
-The ability to hit snooze in case you just aren’t ready to get up yet.
I definitely recommend this app if you have trouble walking up in the mornings!
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Doesn't work & dev won't tell you
I relied on this app to wake me up for years and previously gave it a great review. Now, it doesn't working on iOS 15.4 and the dev didn't tell anyone!
Apple made a change to iOS that caused this problem and the developer knew about it since the first iOS betas. They didn't have the foresight to notify their users in advance that IT WOULD STOP WORKING!
They waited until the iOS update went out and just put a small text on their website about it. That's too little, too late. I'm never buying anything from this company again and I recommend you don't, either.
Apple made a change to iOS that caused this problem and the developer knew about it since the first iOS betas. They didn't have the foresight to notify their users in advance that IT WOULD STOP WORKING!
They waited until the iOS update went out and just put a small text on their website about it. That's too little, too late. I'm never buying anything from this company again and I recommend you don't, either.
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Was great until it wasn’t
I used this for like a year with very few issues. But all of the sudden, no matter what I do, it doesn’t work. The alarm either doesn’t go off, say it can’t connect, or wakes me up hours earlier than I need to be woken up. Which those first two I can understand, but why on earth does it go off in the middle of the night and wake me up??????? I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling, I’ve tried changing the settings. It’s like the app one day just decided to be a piece of garbage
Don’t bother downloading. At worst it won’t work, at best it will work for a while then randomly stop and you’ll be disappointed.
Part of the problem is it hasn’t updated in forever, and it seems that the company has no intention of updating the app given how long it’s been
Don’t bother downloading. At worst it won’t work, at best it will work for a while then randomly stop and you’ll be disappointed.
Part of the problem is it hasn’t updated in forever, and it seems that the company has no intention of updating the app given how long it’s been
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Drains iPhone Battery; Can’t Handle wOS Ypdates
Rinse and repeat. 15.4 updates on iOS and wOS and once again…alarm won’t set (because, remember kids, the “smart” alarm is dumb and needs set each and every night!).
Can I rate an app with 0 stars?
Developer: FIX THIS ISSUE AND THE BATTERY DRAIN ON THE iOS host!
First and foremost…THIS APP DRAINS YOUR iPhone’s BATTERY. Period. Proven through updates of it. Proven through the developers suggestions for restarting everything. IT DRAINS THE BATTERY. Second, it cannot handle watchOS updates, and barely tolerated iOS updates. Proven through recent updates. ….Workaround for this….uninstall the app from the watch BEFORE a watchOS update, reinstall, and your alarms and complications come right back and work that night. Prior to this, alarms would not set, which brings me to my next point… Third, this is NOT A SMART ALARM. I have to turn it on each night even though I setup the alarm to be all weekdays, etc. I need to turn it on each day. I used to do that on my Sony bedside radio alarm clock in the 80’s and 90’s…I think tech has advanced since then. The good: the other two apps from this developer are awesome!!
Can I rate an app with 0 stars?
Developer: FIX THIS ISSUE AND THE BATTERY DRAIN ON THE iOS host!
First and foremost…THIS APP DRAINS YOUR iPhone’s BATTERY. Period. Proven through updates of it. Proven through the developers suggestions for restarting everything. IT DRAINS THE BATTERY. Second, it cannot handle watchOS updates, and barely tolerated iOS updates. Proven through recent updates. ….Workaround for this….uninstall the app from the watch BEFORE a watchOS update, reinstall, and your alarms and complications come right back and work that night. Prior to this, alarms would not set, which brings me to my next point… Third, this is NOT A SMART ALARM. I have to turn it on each night even though I setup the alarm to be all weekdays, etc. I need to turn it on each day. I used to do that on my Sony bedside radio alarm clock in the 80’s and 90’s…I think tech has advanced since then. The good: the other two apps from this developer are awesome!!
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