As I mentioned in the first version of my review, I got this app mostly because it lets me snooze alarms by using the volume and power button buttons which seems to not be a common feature of other alarms. The developer responded to my critique and made it possible to create repeating alarms and delete history items. I do like the history feature. Unfortunately for me in particular, the reason I am looking for a alarm app to replace iPhones native alarm is because iPhones native alarm will not show you the name of the alarm that you have snoozed. Unfortunately, while this does show me the name of the snoozed alarm, it will only show one snoozed alarm at a time. So if there are two or even three snoozed alarms you cannot see the name of each of them on the home screen. If all snoozed alarms showed on the home screen, I could probably switch from iPhones native alarm to this app. I don’t know if Apple allows that, though. It is good that when you look at the list of alarms you see them in order of nearest upcoming alarm. That is a step above iOS. A problem with the repeating alarm setting is that it does not allow you to select days of the week. So if I want an alarm to repeat on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, I have to create three different alarms. There seems to be only three different alarm sounds that I can choose, which is pretty limited. I wonder if the developer can’t make available all the system sounds that are a standard part of iPhone. Also when I change the sound, it should play so I know immediately what it sounds like. Or maybe add a test button.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback, especially about phone-button snoozing.
We addressed every item you raised: alarms can now repeat daily, on weekdays or weekends, weekly, monthly, or yearly; History entries can be deleted individually or cleared entirely; alarms can be created through Siri and Shortcuts; and alarms can be marked done from the Home Screen widget.
Your review gave us a clear roadmap and helped make Breakthrough Alarm substantially better.
