Light Alarm App Reviews

The sounds are not fading in. Screen is not fading up in brightness. Disappointing. It mutes my back up alarm on the iPod touch. Grr.

The sounds do fade in, you have to set them prior to the alarm time. The light does fade up, but not if you choose it to start AT the alarm time... Just set both for 5 mins prior to the alarm. My only problem is that I wish I could set more than one alarm...different times for week days and weekdnds, just like the regular alarm on my phone

Lots of people dont seem to like this much, but I have had zero problems. I have really enjoyed this, definitely better than abruptly waking up to blaring music or beeping. I would give it 5 stars except for three things: 1) once you set the alarm, you have to be done w your phone. If you need the phone for anything you have to reset it. To be fair, it is very easy to reset as it keeps your settings, but still. 2) you cannot set alarms for more than once- in other words, to be every day, or weekdays, etc. This would be a great addition. 3) the app is "running" from the time you set it until you wake up and turn it off. No other alarm clocks need to do this, dont really understand. Must keep phone charging while using this app. Fix these three things, and Id give it 5 stars for sure.

None of the apps in this category were well reviewed but this was the best rated of what was left. It was absolutely useless and even worse, blocked the alarm on the Apple clock that I set for back-up. Dont throw your dollar down the sewer too! The Apple App Store should be ashamed of foisting garbage like this on us. Gotta run now- for some reason Im late.

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 doesnt work. it works fine as a normal alarm.

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 Im 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. Thats 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 iPhones flash light. (I have an iPhone 4s). even at max the screen isnt 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 cant close the app, you need to leave it on screen for it to run. If you do something else on the phone, youve 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 phones volumn is set super low, it seems the alarm sound doesnt get very loud - Im not totally sure about this because Ive been mostly waking up when the alarm time hits and the ap makes the phone vibrate and I dont hear my bird alarm before it, even the times I wake up just before it buzzes - so just set the vibrate option too and youre 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 Id 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 and liked it for a long time despite infrequent updates. It did what id did well. Since upgrading to IOS 8, the app has started terminating during the night meaning no wakeup light or sound. I’d really like to see an update for IOS 8.

Ive 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.

Ive used this app for over two years now. I used to love it but now it shut off sometime during the night and Ive 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.