Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer vs Sawgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer
Wake up gently with a simulated sunrise and fall asleep peacefully with ambient sounds. This bedside clock offers customizable alarms, multiple dismissal methods, and a full-screen display with live weather. Enjoy a beautiful, private experience with no ads or tracking.
- Sunrise wake-up alarms
- Customizable alarm dismissal
- 11 handcrafted ambient sleep sounds
- Full-screen bedside clock with weather
- Six premium themes
- Private by design, no tracking
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Wake up kinder. Fall asleep easier. Dawn is a beautifully simple alarm clock and sleep timer for people who want mornings to feel good and nights to feel calm. No jarring beeps. No cluttered menus. Just a bedside clock that wakes you gently and rocks you to sleep with handcrafted ambient sounds. Whether you're a light sleeper, an insomniac, a shift worker, or someone who just wants a prettier bedside clock — Dawn is built for you. WHY PEOPLE LOVE DAWN SUNRISE WAKE-UP Gentle gradient alarms ramp up over minutes instead of blasting you awake. Pair with soft piano, acoustic music, or nature sounds for a truly calm start to the day. POWERFUL ALARMS • Unlimited alarms with smart repeat schedules • Label each alarm — Work, Gym, Meds, Flight, Meditation • Vibration and haptic feedback • Dismiss by math problem, shake, slide, or double-tap • Snooze with customizable duration and maximum count • Reliable 15-minute alarm ring, even in silent mode DRIFT-OFF SLEEP TIMER Eleven hand-crafted ambient sounds, each with gentle fade-out so you never wake when it ends: Rain · Ocean Waves · Forest · Thunder · Wind · Creek · White Noise · Night Sounds · Gentle Piano · Acoustic Morning · Sunrise Melody FULL-SCREEN BEDSIDE CLOCK Digital, analog, or hybrid clock face. Keep-screen-on mode turns your phone into a beautiful nightstand clock. Live weather and dawn-light brightness included. SIX GORGEOUS THEMES Aurora, Indigo, Ocean, Mint, Rose, and Sand. Every gradient, every shadow, every curve designed to feel premium. Match your mood, your room, or your mornings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Ever. TRY EVERY FEATURE FREE FOR 15 DAYS Unlock every feature for two weeks — no credit card, no subscription, no surprises. Love it? Pay once to keep all features forever. No monthly fees. No hidden costs. No ads. Ever. PERFECT FOR • Heavy sleepers who need something stronger than a beep • Light sleepers who hate sudden noise • People with insomnia or racing thoughts at night • Shift workers juggling unusual schedules • Minimalists who want a clock that looks as good as it works • Anyone who's tired of the stock iOS alarm Your mornings deserve better. Your nights deserve calm. Download Dawn and make the first and last minute of every day a little more beautiful.
Sawgrid
Optimize material usage for cutting projects like plywood, metal, or acrylic. Input your panel dimensions and part list to generate efficient layouts, minimizing waste and maximizing yield. Supports various units and cutting strategies.
- 2D panel nesting with through cuts
- 1D length cutting for profiles
- Multiple optimization strategies
- Accurate edge trim calculation
- Part placement with reasons
- Support for millimeters, centimeters, and inches
- Offcut stock utilization
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Stop guessing how to break down a sheet. Enter your panel sizes and your part list, and Sawgrid works out the layout that gets the most out of every board. Built for cabinetmakers, joiners, furniture makers, metal fabricators, laser and CNC shops, and anyone who buys material by the full sheet. Every cut Sawgrid produces runs edge to edge across the panel, which is exactly what a table saw or a panel saw can actually execute. WHAT SAWGRID DOES - 2D panel nesting built only from through cuts your saw can follow - 1D length cutting for trim, tube, bar and profile, in the same project - Runs all 108 optimisation strategies and keeps the best result - Edge trim on the outside edges counted exactly, never estimated - Every requested part is either placed or reported with a reason. Nothing is dropped in silence - Millimetres, centimetres and inches, including fractions like 2' 6 3/4 SAWGRID PRO - Multi page PDF with the cut map, part list, cut sequence and labels, plus the cut list as CSV - Your own saw kerf, instead of the fixed 3 mm every free plan is solved with - Grain direction per part: free to rotate, forced lengthwise or forced crosswise - Several materials and thicknesses in one project, one run, separate plans per material - More than one saved project, side by side - Saw table mode: the next cut shown large, the screen stays awake, tick each cut off - Offcut stock that gets used up before you open a fresh sheet - Thorough optimisation: a second pass that often saves another panel on a big job Pro is available as a subscription or as a one time purchase. Calculating layouts is free, for as many parts and panels as a real job has, and a free plan is the whole plan: the cut map, the utilisation and the area balance. Free works on one project at a time, with one material in it, and a fixed 3 mm saw kerf that the result screen states every time. Cut layouts are computed on your device. There is no account and no project leaves the phone. The free version loads third-party advertising over the internet; Pro removes that advertising. Sawgrid works in a basement workshop with no signal. Terms of Use: https://sawgrid.vercel.app/terms.html Where available, you can explore recommendations for our other apps. They load online; views and taps are counted as daily totals without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. Our privacy policy explains this feature and existing advertising. Privacy Policy: https://sawgrid.vercel.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer at none against Sawgrid's shown. Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sawgrid sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer against 5.0 for Sawgrid. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer ships an update fortnightly, Sawgrid every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer | Sawgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Le Duc Hung | Levin David Schwab |
Customer experience
Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer
Sawgrid
In-app purchases
Dawn Alarm Clock & Sleep Timer
- Unlock Full Version (Lifetime)$2.99
Sawgrid
- Sawgrid Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- Sawgrid Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- Sawgrid Pro Lifetime$29.99
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