Sort of works
I wanted to use this to light my entire room up (8 bulbs) but if you add more than three, the shortcut to set the alarm time fails and actually deletes the wake up light completely.
LITERALLY useless
I don't know what "home kit" is, but this app won't work without it.
Works like a charm
Using this with Nanoleaf light bulbs and HomePod Mini. I could not be more pleased. I don’t even mind the subscription fee for the ease of use it’s worth it. The integration with my HomePod was seamless. The setup is simple and intuitive.
won’t load
the app continues to say it is creating my sunrise alarm, the preview worked fine however it is stuck on 0% and will not create it no matter how many times i try to
A lot of features locked
Unfortunately, there were so many features that are locked behind a subscription. If it was a one time purchase, I would definitely consider it more, but I do not want to pay monthly or yearly to turn on my lights automatically.
I miss the days and acts like these were a five dollar purchase and that’s it
I miss the days and acts like these were a five dollar purchase and that’s it
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Not what I was expecting
This is not a stand alone alarm app. It only works if you have SmartHome data it can connect to
Will not turn your phone into a wake up light
Downloaded this thinking it was an app to turn your phone’s screen into a wake up alarm, but it’s an app for controlling your smart lightbulbs in your home. Not clear in the title or discription!
Doesn’t work with my lights unfortunately
While the app does appear to do what it advertises, my dimmer / leds require a minimum brightness level to turn on. If the lights start out at a lower level than the minimum, they’ll never turn on, no matter how high the dimmer gets. Currently this app always starts at a very low light level and so my lights never come on when using this app. If the app supported modifying the “minimum and maximum brightness levels” that would fix it, but as of this writing it doesn’t and so I can’t use it. I emailed the app dev a few weeks ago about this but no response. Looking forward to using the app again if they add this feature.
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Beautifully done but...
The developer clearly knows what they're doing and saw a need for an app that YES, is needed! The app is easy to troubleshoot and works seamlessly with a beautiful interface.
My only complaint, or suggestion rather (which I wouldn't care if I didn't think this app was awesome), is to offer a first week trial then charge for premium.
Andreas, you're going to increase your conversation considerably when you make this more accessible and allow people to fall in love with it. You're already priced very right. Consider adding a trial period, and two payment options, the one upfront for the year that you already have and another billed monthly at $1.99 or even $2.99 - you'll increase your retention, your number of sign ups, and your overall profit margin.
Again, really beautiful job, you deserve more sign ups, friend!
My only complaint, or suggestion rather (which I wouldn't care if I didn't think this app was awesome), is to offer a first week trial then charge for premium.
Andreas, you're going to increase your conversation considerably when you make this more accessible and allow people to fall in love with it. You're already priced very right. Consider adding a trial period, and two payment options, the one upfront for the year that you already have and another billed monthly at $1.99 or even $2.99 - you'll increase your retention, your number of sign ups, and your overall profit margin.
Again, really beautiful job, you deserve more sign ups, friend!
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Need to Pay for Subscription
The greedy people of this world never cease to amaze me. A person spends hundreds of dollars to purchase a device for their home only to learn to run that device you have to pay a subscription to even turn it on. What is happening here. We no longer own the products we buy. Instead they are leased to us. I will never ever ever pay a subscription to run an item I pay my hard earned money for, These subscription SCAMS must stop! When we buy a device, let us run it freely as we are entitled to.
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Not for me.
I’m going to be brutally honest here—this application isn’t worth 15 bucks a year. If I had the extra time and patience, I could do the same exact thing manually using scenes in the home app and save myself 15 bucks per year. I think the subscription model for this application is a stretch; a one-time purchase seems like a better approach, but whatever.
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Takes too long
After recent updates, it takes 5+ minutes to update a setting.
Alarm does not create
Tried to create alarm and it says error no home hub and the alarm is not created. Therefore the app does not work at all as it can’t do it’s function of creating a wake up light. I don’t have a home hub and my lights work fine without it
Rudimentary, Limited, Unnecessary
All this really does is create several scenes and automations to set light brightness or temperature which clutters the home app (in my case, this created about 10 different scenes and an automation to control each one of those scenes). This is something you could easily do yourself in not a lot of time. I’d personally rather set a “convert to shortcut” automation with multiple steps and waits to adjust the brightness; this way I only have 1 automation to manage and not several different scenes and automations, and the brightness gradient would be a lot more natural.
The gradient that is defined by the app is not very clean; when I had this set up with a 10 min ramp up in brightness from 0% to 65%, there were a few small jumps of 2%-5%, and one huge jump in the middle of 20%. This was very alarming and defeats the purpose of the app.
On top of all that, a subscription is required to do anything other than create one “ramp up” alarms. If you want to “ramp down” or create multiple alarms, you have to pay $1.49/mo or $14.99/yr. This isn’t terrible, but enough to be a deterrent for me based on the app’s actual functionality.
The gradient that is defined by the app is not very clean; when I had this set up with a 10 min ramp up in brightness from 0% to 65%, there were a few small jumps of 2%-5%, and one huge jump in the middle of 20%. This was very alarming and defeats the purpose of the app.
On top of all that, a subscription is required to do anything other than create one “ramp up” alarms. If you want to “ramp down” or create multiple alarms, you have to pay $1.49/mo or $14.99/yr. This isn’t terrible, but enough to be a deterrent for me based on the app’s actual functionality.
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Used to be Okay, now it’s barely functional
I used to like this app - it wasn’t convenient, but at least it worked. However, it now takes 15-20 minutes to “create” a new wake up light, and it refuses to update existing lights. The only thing that “sortof” works is to delete all of the automations in HomeKit, which deletes the wake up in the app. Then build it again. Wildly NOT functionally at this point, particularly for the high $$$.
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You can’t even see it’s functionality in the free version.
Hi Dev’s Team/Person.
Would you consider making the free version let us compete the alarm set up process and give us a useable light alarm?
This version doesn’t leave us (the end user) with anything except a vague promise that this app is worth buying.
Thanks
Would you consider making the free version let us compete the alarm set up process and give us a useable light alarm?
This version doesn’t leave us (the end user) with anything except a vague promise that this app is worth buying.
Thanks
Not for phone
Too bad it doesnt work with phone only. Setup with home.
Led light Strips
would this app work with smart led light strips?
Doesn’t work with shortcuts
I just purchased the trial. When I create a shortcut on iOS to activate the light 5 mins from now, nothing happens. I tried to contact them but their contact form on the website errors out
Meh
Gets the job done but not ideal and buggy at times
