Alarm Clock for Me

Update, the objective of an app should be to improve the stock app on how good it can be, not try to be worse than the garbage stock app. The snooze doesn't even work properly. Now I have to buy a freaking alarm clock because all these apps including this one are so pathetic. Not sure why it's so difficult for someone to make an easy alarm. Support is non existent when emailing... though why I even need to get support is concerning. Phone locks up if you attempt to use your own sound for the alarm. Snoozing doesn't allow volume buttons to mute. You have to either open the app through the notification or through your home screen, shake, or do math... after clicking the notification. This is beyond unacceptable. To top it all off, it can't even override your phones silent mode... no option. This is simply terrible and should be standard. Those saying this is the best they've ever used have to be from the stone age. Granted it's somehow still better than the other garbage in the app store (most of which are just reformatted copies of the same ultra terrible app by the same two companies) and in some ways better than the trash stock alarm.

I’m using this app with an iPad Air 4 and a Bluetooth speaker and it works well except setting the volume can be a bit finicky. Especially when using volume fade in or not between multiple alarms. When I preview the alarms it can be too loud or too soft. So I have to keep adjust the volume slider and previewing the alarm to see how loud or soft it’ll be. It’s strange because fade in will get to be too loud and no fade in will be too soft. And it’s not just the Bluetooth speaker because the same thing happens with the iPad Air’s speakers as well. But it’s really just a minor inconvenience. Once I’m happy with an alarm’s volume, I’ll just leave it alone.

The app is usually awesome. I like the features and layout far more than other apps I’ve tried. Pretty much everything is adjustable and customizable, and there’s even a couple things that I never thought I might need in an alarm clock. But there’s been multiple times where I’ve woken up in the middle of the night, checked the time, and found that the app is either closed or appears to be closed. I don’t know if this is because of automatic updates, (because the app seems to shut down automatically but doesn’t reopen correctly), or because of ads (which are handled like a separate app, so the “disable screen lock” function gets deactivated), or because of requests for reviews (similar problem as with ads), but it’s unnerving now that I’ve been late for work once. The alarm is supposed to work, and usually does, even if the app is only open in the background, so I don’t know exactly what happens. But even if the phone just locks, the “fade in” option for the alarm gets disabled, and it is -loud-. So, so far, I’ve disabled automatic updates, paid for the app to get rid of ads, and currently I’m writing a review at 3:45AM. This app would be perfect if it didn’t find ways to shut itself down.