App Profile: Dawn Chorus

Pat1010pat

Rating: 3/5

The bird songs are perfect and I would love waking up to this!! So when it’s time to alarm, I am tapped on my wrist via my AppleWatch (thrilled it also coordinates and functions with the watch platform). Then I get my phone and the screen is black. I log in and open my Dawn Chorus app and it’s only at that point that I hear the bird songs. Then I try to turn it off and the only thing I can do is snooze it. So when it alarms again in about 10 minutes, I can only snooze it still. Eventually I have to reboot my phone to turn off alarms. To be fair, it allows me to turn it off from my AppleWatch if I do so while pop up is still there, but then I don’t get to hear the bird songs. I think with a little tweaking, this app could be awesome! Please make it awesome so we can hear those beautiful bird songs again. I am wanting to use this for a stroke survivor to indicate a time for some action: medications especially. This survivor is an animal loving and bird loving individual who also officially counted birds for Cornell. He has done so much for birds and animals in general throughout his lifetime. He went from brilliant engineer with 3 degrees to barely any recognizable language. He still responds to bird songs. I am his caregiver and sister in law. Please do this for us. 1) fix on/off feature 2) create ability to alarm even if screen is black Thank you Patty

Mine78

Rating: 3/5

I really love waking-up to the bird sounds and really wish this app was more practical to use. It is very hard to snooze this alarm and you cannot do it from your lock screen. It also does not allow you to change the snooze time. When my alarm goes off it takes a while for the snooze option to show-up. It would be some much better if you could turn the alarm off or snooze it with the side buttons on the phone, or if it allowed you to tap a button on the lock screen to snooze or turn off the alarm (like the apple clock allows you to do). It would also be very helpful if you could hear the alarm while your phone is on silent (again, like the apple clock). I have my work email on my phone and I hate having to hear my email notifications throughout the night due to not being able to put my phone on silent. The developer states the new version allows you to hear this on silent, but the app specially tells you to turn the silent feature off to hear the alarm. I tested the alarm with my phone on silent as well and it only vibrates. You cannot hear the alarm. I hope an upgrade is coming soon, because I really want to keep using this app, but it is just too cumbersome to use everyday. Please fix!

waterouzal

Rating: 2/5

It is a great idea for a pleasant and soothing wake up alarm, but a dawn chorus it isn’t. Rather than listening to a morning chorus of local birds, you’re required to select five birds (out of ten) that play sequentially as part of the alarm. Once a bird sings a couple stanzas, the next bird sings until you’ve heard all five. Sorta OK, but then what really wakes you is the notifications you start to receive stating the first bird is wondering whether you are awake (what?) ... and then a notification from the next bird, and so on until there are 14 notifications on your phone. Really not OK. The is no snooze feature ... don’t really need one since the birds all play and are then done. The app requires the phone to be plugged into power (dumb), requires your notifications are turned on (I don’t want notifications from my alarm), and the do not disturb feature is disabled (not really OK). I deleted the app since it was a bit too invasive and clunky and will try it again after it is more user friendly.