Alarm Clock HD

I have used this app on and off for 6 years. WhileI like the unlimited alarms you get, I have written to the developers numerous times about thier bugs and they never respond nor fix them and they are serious bugs. There is a crazy idiotic bug where even if you set it to wake up to music, your music!, it will wake up to whatever sounds it wants. So at 6 am you need to get to work in a foreign hospital but little gentle fairy music comes come on that you did not choose and will NOT wake you up. SO YOU MISS WORK. But you did set your alarm to play loud aggressive music that wakes you up. But it decided not to play it for some crazy reason. The setting to differentiate sounds waking from music does not really exist in the 1st place. The is no clear setting. If you need an alarm that will get you to work and you have a serious job in the military or police Do Not Use this alarm!!!! It will let you down. The developers will not get back to you and they will not explain why there is no setting to turn off sounds. Good luck

PRO: I have the free version. Now that I've learned it quirks, the alarm sounds every morning at the desired time. The app basically does what it's supposed to do. CON: (1) The UI and time/alarm display could use some functional and aesthetic updating. (2) There are too many ads, and most are annoying at best and at worst, obnoxious. I was prompted to write this review due to an ad this morning that wouldn't close. I had to kill the app and restart it. (3) I am always willing to pay a few dollars for permanent ownership of an ad-free, fully functional app. I have about a dozen paid apps on my iPhone. However, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I WILL ENTER INTO A SUBSCRIPTION FOR A SMALL APP LIKE THIS that has plenty of alternatives. It's not so much the money; it's the fact that I already have too many subscriptions: magazines, streaming services, software, and news sources such as the NY Times and WaPo. Each one adds to the time and cognitive burden of supervising them: keeping payment methods current, scanning my credit card bill to watch for subscriptions I no longer use. I know that app developers want the steady income from the subscription payment model. However, the devlopers of this app will not get a penny from me unless they allow a one time purchase.

I like to read reviews and choose things based on highest rating from most people. Unfortunately, I didn’t see that all of the glowing reviews are from previous versions of the app. In the last year they started to change, and I’ve been finding out why. This morning is the 6th or 7th time that my alarm failed to make any noise and wake me up (I’ve been using the app for several months now). I’m a teacher so more often than not, I keep my ringer on vibrate and don’t bother to switch it on when I’m not at work. It appears that (sometimes?) the app requires the ringer to be on in order for the alarm to sound. Most of the time a little warning message pops up saying that the alarm won’t sound because my phone is muted, so I remember to turn it back on. Sometimes it says that the alarm won’t sound when muted unless the phone is charging. Sometimes it pretends everything is fine until morning when it makes no noise at all. On these days, half the time it indicates that it’d been “going off” for an hour and (I’m presuming) has snoozed itself enough times to just stop trying. The other half it’s like I never set an alarm - no indication anywhere that anything happened at the time my alarm is set for. It’s heartbreaking because I wanted something that I could customize, and this was perfect! It’s too much of a gamble to be worth it though - alarms need to be consistent, and there’s truly no room for the possibility of it not going off.