App Profile: Casper Glow

astralmind11

Rating: 4/5

The Casper Glow light is great, although I do wish it started just a little dimmer upon waking. I resolved this by placing the light further away fro my bed. The light provides a much more gentle waking experience than the traditional alarm. I find that if I am dreaming or in a deeper stage of sleep it will not wake me until I come back into a lighter stage of sleep. This helps met to wake up in a more natural way and leaves me feeling more refreshed and energized throughout the day. The long wake time function on the app aids with that experience. Although the app is good, it does need some minor improvements. There needs to be an ability to snooze the light (rather than just pausing the current brightness) either via a pop up on your phone or by pushing the pause button on the glow light. The ability to adjust the snooze time would be great too. I would also like to see the option for a longer wake time so that the light stays dimmer for longer upon waking. Lastly, the dimmer functionality for wake and sleep should be separate. Overall the light works great and the app functions well, it just needs a few minor tweaks to make it next level. I would recommend the light if you can get it on sale.

NikkiShines

Rating: 4/5

My Glow arrived last Monday and I’ve loved it!! It truly has transformed my bedtime ritual. I’ll pick up a physical book and read by the light’s warm glow until it dims off and I feel sleepy. Huge improvement over scrolling for 90 minutes before bed. I am NOT a morning person and this cute little thing has gotten me up on time and in a great mood every day this week! I used to snooze 4-5 times 😱 every morning, and now I hop up ready to go and I’m much more efficient in the mornings because I feel awake. I was all 5 stars on this thing until today - Saturday - when it woke me up at 5:40am 😑. The morning wake-up time is all or nothing. You cannot differentiate between weekdays and weekends, or schedule different times for different days. Just 5:40am every day (or whichever time you choose), or zero. Or you can trust yourself to remember to turn it on or off every evening before bed, but ain’t nobody got time for that 💃🏼. Help Casper! I need my weekend beauty sleep!

acslater017

Rating: 3/5

The Glow’s sunset/sunrise is a nice FEATURE, but is overemphasized IMO. Casper really want you to use these as sleep/wake tools but they are also really good smart, portable lamps. But they should A) make them more usable as basic smart lights and B) surface the most common controls. Suggestions: 1. Allow differentiation between days of the week. Currently the alarm is 7 days a week or nothing! 2. App should ALWAYS be able to control the lights. Once a “sunrise” starts, the lights sometimes become uncontrollable via the app and you can only physically operate them (inconvenient if not at your bedside). 3. IMO the app’s home page (or even Quick Actions) should surface the following to the VERY top and at least optionally override scheduled behavior: on/off, brightness slider, cancel sunrise, and snooze sunrise. Using one’s lights shouldn’t require sub-menus 4) If turning on manually via the app, auto Dimming timer should be opt-in rather than opt-out (ie hitting the “Pause” button). Sometimes I want them on for a few hours. My 2 cents. The hardware is great but it takes some head scratching to understand their behavior; getting them to behave like “normal” lights is hard to achieve as-is.