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Nowadays, I can't imagine not using an alarm clock. He wakes me up every morning since first grade in elementary school. Ever since I've been using the iPhone, I've never thought to stop using the native Alarm Clock app. It wasn't until the arrival of the Apple Watch that I shifted my focus slightly and after the past week I'm confused again. I tried the Wake smart alarm clock, which is free this week as part of the App of the Week.
I have to say that the Wake app really appealed to me, mainly because of its intuitive interface and features. The application is easy to use and the basis of everything is to move from the pages with a flick of the finger and control with a simple drag of the finger on the screen.
When you start it for the first time, a blue dial with a digital indicator of the current time peeks out at you. However, as soon as you run your finger around the perimeter of the blue circle, you immediately become the master of time and can set an alarm. You then save it, but it certainly doesn't end there. As soon as you swipe your finger from top to bottom, you will see all the set alarms, which you can activate or deactivate again by swiping from top to bottom. An alarm that is active lights up in orange.
After clicking on the given alarm clock, you get to the next level of settings, where you can not only adjust the time, but after pulling out the bottom bar, you can also set the days when the alarm clock should be active, the ringtone and the way to end the alarm clock. There are three ways to set the alarm clock in the morning. The first is probably the most well-known, i.e. by dragging with a finger. The second method allows you to end the alarm with a shake, and the third, which I liked the most, is to cover the top of the display with your hand to silence the alarm.
In addition to many settings, the application also offers a night mode. Just swipe right from the main screen. Subsequently, by dragging your finger up and down, you can control the brightness of the screen and thus adjust the night mode to your taste. When you wake up at night, the time indicator will always be on you, so you have an overview of how long you can sleep.
Wake also offers dozens of pleasant melodies that can wake you up. Some are basically free, others you can purchase as part of in-app purchases. There is also a deeper setting of the alarm clock, i.e. a snooze mode, where even after waking up you give yourself a ten-minute time to look around and recover, or turn on and off vibrations or a battery status indicator.
Whatever alarm clock you use, I highly recommend you download Wake, if only for the fact that it's free in the App Store this week. Only time will tell if I'll continue to use Wake or stick with Apple Watch night mode. I'll probably try to do a combination of the two since I've had the native alarm not go off a few times in some mysterious way. Or he just didn't wake me up.
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So I discovered this app very soon in the appstore.. installed it, tried it and it's already gone... a real battery eater... Normally I don't deal with the battery (and in about a month that I've had the 5s ios9 it's starting to pay double, because the ladies and gentlemen from Cupertino fine-tuned it ), but this APP of the week ate up almost 40% of my five-hour sleep!!!!!
I let myself be woken up by my steel Apple Watch, because I find the gentle vibration of the taptic motorcycle on my hand better than being woken up by sound. I wear them when I sleep - the original Milanese Loop is very light and airy. I sleep with them on my hands and monitor my sleep with the Sleep Pulse 2 app.
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This time I'm going for heavy opposition... The worst alarm clock app I've ever downloaded. I had a terrible orientation, setting the alarm ala "calibration" of the compass was dismal... It lasted a day, then erased. I've been waking up with my own biorhythm all my life, but I wanted to try it. Maybe it will be useful to someone, but not really to me.