Alarm Clock - Wake up Music

This has normally been the BEST Free iPhone Clock App—for many years—UNTIL some genius decided to implement Full Page ADS, triggered randomly but frequently, with infuriating latency, right after Stopping an Alarm. This makes it FAR too easy to inadvertently trip a Weblink to the advertiser—among several fatal flaws in this terribly short sighted & irredeemable design change. Do NOT deceive yourself: there is no “right” way to implement this concept. It is fundamentally a BAD Idea! Oh, totally unrelated, your team also managed to leave behind a tiny programming bug, at least in this last App Version: upon Choosing IN App to Rate this App, it causes this Write a Review screen to Display in an almost completely UNREADABLE, White on kinda Light Sand color Format, which Dark Mode could NOT Redeem. I know: I’m embarrassed for AND with you! I was barely able to write THIS Review, and regret not being able to itemize more of the Positive aspects of an App I still like! Honestly, that’s the MAIN reason I stuck with it this far—along with sheer stubbornness—I HATED the idea of leaving a Low Rating with NO explanation. :-) Please FIX this thing, so I can write the 5-star Review you guys AND the App deserve!

I’ve been using this alarm app for years. It’s a keeper for sure. Love the graphics and the functionality is exactly as it should be. It’s great waking up to a custom playlist preselected for a happy yet energizing start to the world. Small annoyance: At one point the programmers decided to add a notification. Every time the app is closed, there is an immediate notification informing of when the next alarm will occur or if you have elected to turn off all alarms (say you happen to wake up before it goes off), then it will state no alarm set. This is annoying. The user clearly knows what they’ve chosen to do. Perhaps one person out there might like this, but I honestly don’t think the majority of users need this. I find it annoying because it’s like: YES, I KNOW WHAT I JUST DID! LOL 😅 At one point the programmers must have realized or (more likely) were informed of user objection to this. Within the app, the first item is notifications. The very first toggle is in fact “Next Alarm Time Notification”. This SHOULD do exactly what I want, but unfortunately it doesn’t work. The app still does it regardless whether this is on or off 👎 Work around: Go into iPhone settings, Notifications, Alarm Clock. **Keep Allow Notifications toggle turned on** If you disable this, the app will not sound (specifically I believe it’s if the app is closed). Instead below, uncheck your choices of the three Alerts: Lock Screen, Notification Center & Banners. IMO as exampled above, it’s the banners that really annoyed me the most when they popped up immediately after closing the app. So, wish the settings were slightly better but overall I will definitely continue to stick to this app and highly recommend it to any and all iPhone users!

I paid for an add free version. With the last update I seem to have adds now. The adds are very bright and has made this app unusable. Update to rating: I previously gave a one star rating (complaint above). However, the developer responded directly that it was an error and they had another update that would fix it. The update solved the problem. I paid $2.00 for this app, which is nothing and it has worked well for several years. Even though my $2.00 was long gone, the developer stood behind it, took time to contact me and solved the problem. I have a lot of respect for that, and understand how damaging one customers rating can be these days. Us consumers are quick to get negative and forget there are hard working people behind so many of these products.