Glimmer (luminous alarm clock)

This app is exactly what I was looking for, with the exception of being woken up by a strobe light one minute after the alarm time was up. 🤣😁 That was a little disorienting this morning! It would be nice if there was an in between setting where the Light wood ramp up and down instead of outright strobing. Other than that, well done! 😁 I did go ahead and purchase it.

Not the full app. Many of the features listed are only available if you buy the full app which is not available (as far as I could see) in the play store, only through their website. This install does not include any sound alarms, only one light setting which is not effective. Plus, while trying to figure out how to turn the light alarm off after waking up (to one of my backup alarms) it just started flashing the light in my face. Not a relaxing way to start the day.

I wish the light had the option to start with red and not blue. The blue wakes me up already about ten minutes after the sequence starts, but it isn't as nice aa waking up to a red sky. I tried to snooze, but it just turns off the visualization. I very much appreciate that you can adjust the brightness of the sequence.

This the best wake up light app by far. I tried sevral before this and even started to make one of my own, but then I found this. It works for free and the extra features are behind a donation to the developer. You don't need the extra features for the app to do it's job. It would be nice if it would integrate with the phone's alarm clock and if it would be more difficult to turn of and if it had some fail safe snooze. Sometimes I can't wake up even this.

The app is fine, but may not work for some people based on their sleeping pattern. If you're a side sleeper and sleep facing away from your phone, waking up using light probably won't work, although there is a built in alarm sound to combat this. I found that if my phone was propped up on a stand it was much more effective since the light would be facing me rather than straight upward (which isn't as I wish I could pick my own background theme rather than the preselected ones though.

This app is awesome I'm super sensitive to noise so I always get a scare when I wake up to sound alarms. I've been using it close to a year now and I love it. You can wake up more naturally and gradually. However, sometimes you may be too tired to wake up just with the lights so use it in conjunction with sound alarms built into your own device. I recommend having the light alarm 1 minute before you get up and the sound when you actually have to get up. And maybe another one that's louder after.

I've used this for years but it has gradually become less and less reliable. Alarms frequently go off late, or not at all, or it takes more than an hour to get to full brightness and volume instead of the ten mintes I have it set for. The Bluetooth bulb function quit working a few years ago. The developer appears to have abandoned the app--questions and emails have gone unanswered. Makes me sad; I really did like this alarm.

This app has been helpful when needing to get up before I see sunlight through my windows. I like the dimness during the night and the gradual brightness in the morning. If if it also incorporated some quality sounds or music to wake up to it would be a 5 for me. Not sure if that's and option with the paid version. I also wished the app kept working in the background of my phone instead of the lock screen system that I have now. Again, these perhaps are paid features.

This is a wonderful way to wake up! Half an hour before you want to get up, your screen turns on and is filled with a starry night, then as it gets closer and closer to wake up time, a sun slowly rises and fills your screen with light If you buy the app, you have the option for music as well... I find the light is often enough to wake me BEFORE my alarm time! I have been recommending this alarm to everyone. Oh, btw, some reviews complain about it flashing... that's an option you can disable.

Using the free version, it definitely feels more polish than the other similar apps out there. I love the extra ambiance sounds before the alarm sounds. Honestly, most of the time I woke up just from the gradually increasing brightness, and the ambiance sound. Not only does I woke up easier, I woke up better. Unlike the normal way of waking with loud alarm sounds, I definitely felt more refresh.

This thing makes me crazy -- the latest issue is even though I didn't change any settings and so it's still set for 6:45 a.m. Monday-Friday, it's showing "Next alarm 7:45"! WTH, now I have to worry that it's going to wake me up an hour late?! Even though the setting has the right time?? I've changed it and re-saved it and it still shows 7:45 as the next wakeup time instead of the 6:45 that's in the setting.

Does Not Work The interface and features are great, the alarm would not go off! I tried changing app settings and permissions, background battery use restrictions, etc., none of it worked. The only way I could get an alarm to go off was by enabling the always-on lock-screen clock feature, which my phone already has anyway, and with the alarm app showing the clock all night it used up a ton of battery! In-app ads say year 2016 on them - not sure it's even still supported!

This app helps me wake up naturally without loud unnatural buzzing noises, the sleep cycle system is also incredible, it wakes me up just at the end of the cycle, so that waking up is as smooth of a process as possible. All in all, this app is one of the best alarm apps on the market, and certainly the best free alarm app. 10/10, would recommend.

Great app for gentle wakeup. I paired this with another alarm app that makes me get up and walk to turn it off, and using both has completely changed my morning routine. No more snoozing to the point I have to rush to get ready and end up late. The gradual light wakes me up slowly, so I'm ready to get out of bed when my second alarm goes off.

I like that the app is able to wake me up with some light. The paid version allows you to select different music options, but the free song I find is too much for me in the morning and makes me want to throw my phone across the room. It would be nice to be able to have the music fade in slowly the way the light does with some nice calming music. In a way that still allows you to control the volume, so you don't have to have a max volume.

So far I like it (but I've only been using it for a short time, so take this with a grain of salt)! It works like one of those expensive sunrise alarm clocks to wake you naturally, amd seems fairly easy to set. I'm still exploring the features. The in-app design could use improvement, bit overall I'm enjoying it so far!

The light works nicely and is simple to set up, concept behind the app is great. Only reason I'm holding back on stars is because a I think most would agree there should be an alarm with basic sound choices on free version and more variety/choose own for premium. Would also nice to have more variety for the background on the wake up images as well, something representing sunrise would be good.

I am editing this review because the alarm stopped going off when I set it. It seems like it needs to be opened to work. I am not sure what happened possibly some update. But it doesnt work as an alarm to wake me up anymore . Hopefully this can be fixed. Old review. Great app. Works perfectly on my Google pixel.

To all the 1 star reviews that say the app doesn't work. I expereinced the same problems you did, after playing around with the app I discovered that the alram clock and screen illumination works when you turn on the night clock and leave the phone in that setting on the charger or a charging pad. This is just a work around and would like to see the developer make the app work without this. Otherwise I like the app setup and the light alarm.

Love it! My hearing isn't what it used to be (I'm in my mid 20s I just listened to loud music and clicked my ears too much). I am just now coming to terms with it and apps like this really help! Regular alarms don't help--I sleep right through them. But I love this! It feels more natural with light anyway :)

Was very effective & suited my purposes. For 3 months or so has not worked. I am very disappointed. Even more so as I contacted developer & filled in a questionnaire about any problems I was having but had no response from either. Still have on phone & put alarm on each night in hope that it sparks into life again. Have tried everything to work out what wrong. If no longer works & developer does not care about it any more it should be removed from Google play.

I was so happy to find this alarm. Used it for 2 years. I have a hearing problem and loved this one. Only 1 star because it suddenly stopped working. Alarm does not go off or light up even though it is set correctly. Need to find a different one. Sooo disappointing.

It's definitely a nicer way to wake up but if I set the alarm for 5am it starts alarming at 4.45. I understand it builds up but maybe just 5 mins before. I actually set the alarm to go off at 5.15 then but ended up not going off at all. It's good but maybe could be better, also more sounds would be good. Still it's a nice way to wake up. Thank you 😁

I loved this alarm when I first got it. I woke up feeling great. Now, snooze doesn't work and soft wake up doesn't work, the music plays full blast at time of alarm without any lead up to it. Developers do not communicate at all. It was a great app but now it's unusable

Loved it...until it just stopped working. It showed my alarm was set for a certain time and when that time passed, it showed it was set for my second alarm but never went off. Thankfully I had my backup alarm from my default phone alarm. Deleting this as it has become useless.

I love being able to wake up to light instead of an annoying sound. One thing I would like support for is the camera LED. It would be awesome if you could use that and have it get progressively brighter so I could keep my screen down during the night.