Challenges Alarm Clock - For Heavy Sleepers (Free)
You can customize this alarm clock any way you like including :
Adding Challenges
This alarm clock comes with a lot of challenges (like puzzle, games, taking pictures and more to come) that gives you tasks so you can't dismiss the alarm and go back sleep.
You can also add multiples challenges to your alarm, that way, when the alarm starts, a random challenges will be assigned to alarm when you try to turn it off. That way you will not get bored with the same challenge appearing all the time.
Some of the tasks you can add to your alarm are:
Picture Challenge
Using machine learning and other nerd stuffs, this app has learned to recognize a pre-select list of objects and keep you from turn off the alarm until you take picture of pre chosen objects or animal.
For example, always forget to drink water? Add a challenge to take a picture of a cup when it triggers so when it start you have to stand up and drink water
Smile Challenge
Simple like that, you have to wake up with a big smile, a really big one and take a selfie. If you don't show all of your teeth to the camera the alarm will never go out. Jokes book is really recommended for this challenge
Memory Game
The classic memory game you used to play on flash websites. Configure the board with the number of cards you want and, when the alarm starts, match the pairs on the board until you find out all the pairs and then the alarm will dismiss.
Equation Challenge
If you think wake up early is annoying imagine wake up early having to solve a math problem. Happily that is the case
Category : Productivity
Reviews (30)
The ads are unavoidable. I don't pay for the app, and I don't mind ads. However there is no way to exit the ad without being redirected. The ads have a timer before you can close them (which, again, is fair) however the close button always open the ad link. And so does hitting back on the phone. The only was to not be redirected to the ad site is exiting the app. Extremely annoying.
Works perfect.. so why only the 2 stars? Because after setting the alarm there's a ad (unlike most people, I really don't mind ads) but after the add time runs out and you click the add close X it automatically brings you to the advertising web page like you clicked on the add for more info. So you have to Set the alarm. Wait for the add to be over and x it out. Close the page it brought you to. Go back to make sure alarms set. Just so annoying and dishonest.
This app has honestly helped loads. I've been able to get up on my own much easier. It's really loud and the challenges are simple but challenging when you're half awake. My only complaint is the ads; whenever you make an alarm, it usually shows a full ad on your screen, which can be irritating if you have a slow phone. Also the X to click out of the ad is small so you accidentally click the ad anyway. Otherwise, great app If you have a hard time with your alarms.
Useless disable "turn off" option. I was really happy to read about this app,as it was really difficult for me to get up in the morning. It has an option to disable "turn off the phone"Which was useless when i tried it. As when u press power button u can still tap immediately the turn off or restart on the screen. This thing should me made more restrictive. Even the option of turn off shouldn't appear on the screen while pressing the power button. Because of this drawback 3 stars.
This is a great app. I have sometimes hit the snooze or actually turned off the alarm on the main phone app and went back to sleep, however with this one due to it requiring puzzles/challenges to be completed it helps to actually wake you up and keep you from going back to sleep. Perfect for someone who at least occasionally sleeps past their alarm.
This is really useful, but halfawake me still finds a way to bypass the picture challenge. If i point on the floor and place my finger horizontally at the bottom of my camera. It registers as the item, and no i wont use the puzzles or the other ones because i need to get out of bed, not to lay on my bed longer. So i just use the picture challenge
Ads are incredibly disruptive to set-up of alarms. You do not require this many ads to cover the development cost of an alarm clock. The banner ads probably would have been enough. App is okay otherwise, so I'll use airplane mode until they figure out how to counter that and then move on.
This app has helped me a lot recently to wake up. PLEASE DEVELOPERS IF YOU ARE READING THIS, please make do one single thing...you know how there is a challenge that forces you to type out random letters? Can we please have a feature that allows us to set what we type so that we can force ourselves to type out a specific message instead of a random one? Thank you very much, if this were ever added, it would help me to remember things that my past self would try to tell me!
It occasionally doesn't go off. I have it set everyday and maybe once a month it just won't trigger. I cannot reproduce consistently enough to trouble shoot but if there is one thing I need the alarm to do regularly... it's work 100 % of the time.
You konw those who searched for this app are heavy sleepers. Personally I don't wake up even if I set 10 consecutive normal alarms. This app is useful but not for heavy sleeper like me. What I do is switch off the mobile itself to avoid the alarm. So, I don't think the app is of much use. I request the developers to work on this aspect. Though the features are good but the basic aim of the app is missed. Sorry, but I can't wake up on time using this app.
The app is great except that heaven forbid someone calls you while the alarm is going off and you can't turn it off until you complete all the puzzles!! The alarm plays over the phone call and it makes it really difficult to hear the person. Other than this, I love the app and it's worked really well since I've been using it! It's got a few different puzzles to choose from; 2 different memory games (matching tiles and pattern sequence), math problems, a smile pic, and a random object pic.
March 2022 No annoying ads anymore! I was reluctant to download it based on all the comments about the ads but I haven't seen one ad yet except for a small border on the bottom that doesn't interrupt changing the setting at all! It's great! This a has been a live saver for me! Especially the one where I have to get out of bed to take a picture of something! And I was worried the the alarm would go off while I was doing the puzzles and wake others up but it's silenced as your doing them...LOVE!!!
Such a great app that actually works! My only beef is not with the app itself, but the fact that i tried to pay for no ads, but for whatever reason the transaction wouldn't go through. I tried changing the card and payment method through Google Play but couldn't get it to work. Either way, great app and i definitely recommend it
I have always had a hard time getting up in the morning, with a standard phone alarm.... it's entirely to easy to hit the snooze or turn off altogether. This app is a literal game changer, an absolute creation of genius. You WILL get up, you basically have to if you want the torture to end. HELPS WITH ADHD I set the alarm to a certain time, and then set it up to take a pic of a pencil, to remind me to journal. ( You get the picture )
I am torturing myself by putting a 10 hr rickroll as the ringtone and now I always wake up so annoyed. BUT IT WORKS! I am now arriving to school on time. Many reviews say that it is buggy and loaded with ads, but I don't see any. I haven't even bought an adblocker or payed to remove ads. So thanks to mrwhosetheboss to actually bring me here as i came through his video, thanks to the people who wrote those reviews and helped me see if this app was legit, and thanks to the devs for saving my grade
At some point, the alarm stopped showing on my main screen when the alarm would start. It's all fine and good to wake me up, but it's a huge disturbance to my partner to have me fumbling to unlock my phone and scroll through the notifications to find and dismiss the alarm so I can start to do the challenges. Update: the simple solution is to reinstall. There's a setting they tell you not to change and I can see why now. Now sometimes the ads will try to play in the middle and crash the app.
ADS AFTER EVERY SINGLE THING YOU DO IN THE APP. NOT KIDDING. If you need to edit more than one alarm forget it, ads will interrupt you. I've been closing the app and reopening just to set multiple alarms without waiting in-between each one. If you press X on the ad, it will take you to the website for the ad... If you use the back button IT WILL STILL OPEN THE DANG AD WEBSITE.. So obnoxious!!!! But yes the alarms do wake me up...
They removed my review! The alarms work so far, but I wish there was an option to require a challenge to snooze not just for dismiss. My problem is always wanting to hit snooze a million times, so I have to limit my snoozes to once. Still afraid I'll go back to sleep after challenges with no backup snooze. IT WON'T LET ME PAY TO REMOVE ADS. NO RESPONSE FROM SUPPORT. It's so annoying. I'm trying to give you money! smh
Overall the app is fantastic. But there is a one problem if one remove the app from recent application tray the alarm turns off automatically. Look at it. Thank-you
I really like this so far, but there is one feature I wish it had: a way to prevent yourself from turning the alarm off before morning. I have a really bad habit of waking up at 3 Am to get some water, deciding I'm too third to get up in the mroning, and switching my alarm off. I wish there were a way to prevent changing alarms between a set time and when the alarm goes off. It could also just be behind a password.
Wonderful app I used to always stop my alarms in my sleep and the challenges are so easy to use I especially love the take a picture of an object challenge it is not too hard to do when I first wake up but it makes sure I don't go back to sleep and it has so many options of what you take a picture of there is only one thing I wish were better that is being able to import your own music from somewhere else than Google drive but other than that this app is perfect!
Worth the $0.99 if you sleep through your alarms. I genuinely haven't missed an alarm since using this app. There are two reasons for the 4/5 stars. 1) The ads are stupid annoying, but it's only 99 cents so it's worth it. 2) I wish the math questions didn't go from 0-100 so fast. Or at the least, gave you a number range or type of question to choose from. Mostly just more customization in the Math category would be nice. This app makes me mad, because it actually wakes me up! I'm happy it works!
Very good app for people who have trouble waking up early or waking up in general. Runs without any problems and very safe app, no privacy concerns. My suggestion is that a challenge should be added that makes us type specific words or a sentence in order to stop the alarm because when we type something, our brain automatically thinks about what is being typed
Great interface, easy to set up and/or change, excellent options for wake-up challenges. Thanks for the great app!
It's a good app, I just wish you could have the amount of time until your alarm up on your screen or up on the app the whole time. Because you only see it the second it flashes up after it's set. I like being able to check how long until an alarm is going off by opening the app
Love this app I always over sleep and shut of the normal alarm clock. But for this, I just straight up delete the app in the morning and then go back to sleep. Lol. But sometimes I don't delete it and it works. Love it.
if you are about To download this app, read mines and others and read it if you want a but not to long summary and review with it's pros and cons! This app Is so easy to use and access but there are alot of ads, I get there trying to make money since it's a free app but they are going to far. The ads can also be very inappropriate and gross but use the same ads over and over. Is has a great app plan, idea, easy way to assess, creative, but still has bad ads but I believe they can work on it.
It is really useful if you tend to fall back asleep after your alarm goes off. The ads can get annoying, but after a while they don't pop up as much.
The best alarm I have ever downloaded! Ads? Yes, but they only appear when you set the alarm. Not when turning alarm off. Challenges can be anything from typing a jumble of letter to taking a picture of a shower head. A great way to get yourself upright to stop obnoxious beeping through your day.
The concept of this app is really amazing, I used to struggle for years to get out of bed at 7am. Now the alarm doesn't stop ringing until I solve some puzzles and take a picture of a mug in my kitchen to make me get up, this last one is a great feature that makes use of AI. The only annoying thing was the constant ads but I was happy to pay for encouraging the developers that made such a fantastic job !