SunriseAlrPro

The flash light is only turned on when you unlock the phone. If you want to use it as an actual "light alarm" then it doesn't work. it works fine as a normal alarm.

I've used this alarm for the past year, with no worries or missed appointments. I gently wake up either from the gradual light or the sound of waves, which is wonderful. Great way to begin the day.

You can’t turn the sound alarm option off. Defeats the purpose for my needs - also an easy fix on their part but no...

I usually go to sleep with something playing on a timer and this app prevents that. This makes the app unusable for me. I am very upset. Please change!

This fall it was just too hard to wake up on time to a dark room, so I decided I needed some kind of light alarm. I looked for normal, physical alarm clocks with lights, but they were all pricey so I decided to try a phone app first. I am glad I did - this one, though basic, was cheap and is doing the job. There are a couple quirks but overall I'm very happy with it. It lets you set the time you want the light to be brightest (and sound the loudest) and also a period of time before the alarm time to start ramping up the light and sound. I set that for 10 minutes, so 10 minutes before I want to get up, the app starts turning up the light and ramping up the sound. You can chose the alarm sound - I use the bird song one. The light will ramp up in jumps, but if you sleep through that, at your alarm time you can set it to vibrate. That's what I ususally wake up to - the buzzing. But it is so much niceer to wake up to a room with some light in it (from the app). :) There is a fall back alarmyou can set that will buzz/sound again 10 (or your choice) minutes later if you want.That said - a couple quirks or things to do that have made this app work for me - 1) it will light the screen up and optionally use the iPhone's flash light. (I have an iPhone 4s). even at max the screen isn't bright enough in my view, so I use the flash light - and set the phone screen down, flash light up, when I set the alarm. 2) once the alarm is set, you can't close the app, you need to leave it on screen for it to run. If you do something else on the phone, you've disabled the alarm. I just set it as I put the phone down at night, the last thing I do with the phone. 3) if your phone's volumn is set super low, it seems the alarm sound doesn't get very loud - I'm not totally sure about this because I've been mostly waking up when the alarm time hits and the ap makes the phone vibrate and I don't hear my bird alarm before it, even the times I wake up just before it buzzes - so just set the vibrate option too and you're covered. 4) if you use the flashlight option and hit snooze when the alarm goes off, it turns off the flash and plunges you back into darkness during the snooze time. That might be a perk - me I'd rather it kept the light on when snoozing while I get used to the idea of waking up :). With those couple quirks worked with - this app is doing great for me.

I've used this app for over two years now. I used to love it but now it shut off sometime during the night and I've over slept 3 mornings in a row. I thought it was my fault the first night and then it happened again and I thought something happened with the phone so I tried it one more night and the same thing happened. The night light is too bright at night and I wish they could just shut the phone down and then have the alarm go off and the light come on slowly at the alarm time.

Been using this for around 5 years. No need to change.

Would be nice if you could turn off the screen and still have the flashlight come on for the alarm. <br/><br/>Darkroom interface would definitely be nice for making changes or setting up when the room is already dark<br/><br/>The fact that it automatically bumps the brightness from 1 to (a blinding) 50% automatically when exiting the clock mode is ridiculous. Something that ruins the experience or at best causes great apprehension to using the app, despite the great benefits. <br/><br/>Love the idea, can definitely be improved.