Sunrise Alarm Clock: Wake up naturally with light
Especially early birds and shift workers benefit from this light clock. Test subjects reported that the steady increase of light gave them more energy throughout the day.
In order to optimize the wake up phase, several, thoroughly selected music titles are included to this app.
All features at a glance:
- Progressive increase of light to imitate sunrise
- Add one-time or weekly recurring alarms
- Adjustable sunrise duration
- Snooze-function and adjustable snooze time
- Choose between selected or your own, private music titles
- Crescendo for smooth and slowly increasing volume
- Vibration by user preference
- auto-stop function to automatically turn off the alarm after a certain time
- Snooze by douple-tap, turn off by long tap on the screen ( no need to search for buttons on the screen! )
Recommended settings:
- darken your bedroom as much as possible
- adjust wake up time for 7-8 hours sleep
- set progressive sunrise duration to 30 minutes
- turn on volume increase and set it to 30 minutes
- adjust max-volume for the music title to be just loud enough to wake you up
- set snooze duration to 20 minutes
- choose 'Relaxing Meditation' as music
Included music titles:
- Relaxing Meditation
- Slow Motion
- Energy
- Cute
- Acoustic Breeze
- A Day To Remember
- Memories
- Better Days
- Tomorrow
- November
- Piano Moment
- New Dawn
- Straight
- Little Planet
- India
( Music: www.bensound.com )
Info about permissions:
We assure you that all permissions are only intended to ensure the functionality of the app. Below you can see what we need these permissions for.
- Pictures/Media/files
This permission allows you to select your own music for the alarm.
Device ID & Call Information
This authorization is needed, so we can control the alarm/music during a telephone call. To pause it.
- Change audio settings
This authorization is required for the "soft wake" feature.
- Auto-run
This ensures that the alarm will work properly even after your device restarts.
- Vibration control
This permission is needed for the optional activation of vibration for the alarm clock.
-Sleepmode deactivation
This permission is needed so that the alarm mode can function properly.
Source:
Dawn simulation light impacts on different cognitive domains under sleep restriction
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432814008468
Effects of artificial dawn on sleep inertia, skin temperature, and the awakening cortisol response
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(c710486a-c368-458a-a2f9-365c9c329043).html
Effects of artificial dawn on subjective ratings of sleep inertia and dim light melatonin onset
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/pub(7ba64b93-da3d-479d-b188-9445f95f9c8c).html
Effects of Artificial Dawn and Morning Blue Light on Daytime Cognitive Performance, Well-being, Cortisol and Melatonin Levels
http://orbi.ulg.ac.be//handle/2268/171514
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (30)
perfect app. i use it all the time since i get up early. so quiet it doesnt disturb my partner. edit: I want to add that this alarm is amazing. I wake up to it every morning now on the minute it starts going but theres no sound yet (it slowly increases). I think there's a very faint tone that wakes me up. it's hard to explain but I love it. nobody else can hear it but me. if I'm really tired it will eventually get louder with soft music so I've never slept through it or disturbed anyone.
Works well as an alarm, but using this app will eventually leave burn-in on your phone display. Most notably, the time being displayed toward the top and the text on the bottom of the screen. In the middle are burn-in that look like smudges. I did not adjust for brightness when I was using this (I cannot remember if I could), but I have already stopped using this app after realizing the burn-in damage. Probably best for spare phones/tablets.
It was exactly what I wanted, but didn't work. I don't kniw if it was my phone. But it asked for the permissions and i granted them, but then when the alarm went off, it didnt dismiss the lock screen, so only the music played until i unlocked the phone then it showed a picture which basacally makes it useless. If you have gradual light in the morning you can wake up. Not just see it once your already awake and dismissed the lock screen. Uninstalled.
UI request access to too many things. Makes you download their songs and uses extra space on phone. Didn't get it working because I didn't want to use music I just wanted the sun and it forced me to choose/download music. Uninstalled.
I use this app as an additional wake up alarm. It vibrates at first then eventually you will hear your music. Like it since it's a nice brake from my other alarms on my phone. I would recommend the app - it works everyday that I tell it to!
Great app, only I would prefer it if the sunrise feature started before the sound. I downloaded this app as we wake up before dawn and hoped to avoid waking to a completely dark room. Still, it's much nicer to wake to than a conventional alarm.
I want to love this app. The sunrise feature works great, but I can't get music to play when the alarm goes off. Would definitely rate 5 stars if the music worked!
Easy to use and set alarms. Great mix of options and choices for snooze, volume increase, volume, music, etc. All around a good alarm. Highly recommend.
After trying several different alarrm apps, i finally found alarm happiness with this one - i love the increasing light feature, and I'm glad I can customize it to suit exactly what I'm looking for! Definitely worth it.
Great way to wake up. I usually wake up around 2-5 minutes into it. I only wish I was able to make it ring for more than 10 minutes for those rare times that I power through and keep sleeping 😂
Alarm doesn't work without one of your music files. Developer should have allowed a silent alarm so we could test the sunrise function, which was why I downloaded this in the first place.
Used to be my favorite, then stopped working. The alarm sounds a fraction of the time and it is never the sound I chose.
Sorry, but despite disabling all the analytics, data- caputing options I still have to agree to tour capturing these things, that button renders this app a security risk. Sorry, uninstalling before trying your promising app.
Has been really helpful waking me up to take meds on time, even when I haven't felt well. Unfortunately, it didn't work so well when transferred to my Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime.
Alarm ways works perfectly. The gradual light increase is not important for me but I love the gentle wake up music. Haven't had any problems
With the last system update for Galaxy A30 this app does not sound the alarm anymore when the phone is set to silent mode. That's a shame as it used to be very good...
This app does not work unless you give it permissions to access all your files. A huge security risk. Change that and this app will get five stars
is the best alarm clock iv came across, the alarm goes from quite and slowly gets louder over 5 mins, giving you a gentler wake up. which feels much nicer and is much better for you
Works reliably unlike others I've tried that wouldn't. But not bright enough to wake me up with the sun. I will try a different one
It wouldn't light up the screen until I unlocked the phone. Making it a useless alarm.
I just love the gentle wake up, the choices the app offers. It is also very easy to use.
Alarm sound started going off when alarm wasn't set. Only way I could get it to stop was to delete the app 😒
Ads. Not sure why it doesn't tell you this app contains ads at the top. Misleading.
Waking up with this is beautiful and way more relaxed. Get it, try it, love it!
Exactly WHAT i was looking for . Soft alarm that lets me wake up slowly and puts me in a better mood
great! It's ensures I don't wake up suddenly and has great choice of songs to wake up to
Contains ads and is misleading - does not sync to actual sunrise times based on GPS.
If you have to wake up at 330 in the morning, it's nice to have a sunrise on your phone. Music is good too.
This app is great. Normal alarm wake you with a jolt. This app generally awakes you.
I used to use this app but it would always stay on and wouldn't turn off. The thing I loved most was one of the default tunes that comes with the app. So, i was heartened to see that the developer had fixed the prior technical issues. However, I'm really disappointed to find that the tune I picked is not what plays when the alarm comes on. I have it set to Piano Momento but it plays something completely different. It was the sole reason I reinstalled it. 😔 Score will be revised if fixed.