Alarm Clock for Me - Wake Up!

I downloaded this partly because it didn’t have in app purchases. Finally, something that would provide the functions I want without requiring an upgrade or monthly fee. It went fine for a week or two when I would click through the “done” and “x” buttons on an ad when I’d turn it on and then leave it for the night. It eventually started asking me more often if I wanted to upgrade to the ad free version and I noticed a couple days ago that the screen would be off when I woke up during the night. I’d unlock my phone, watch the ad, and put it down again. Last night, I woke up just in time to see one of those fake “you’ve been infected by 18 viruses” type pages. Closed it and reopened the app. This morning I checked and found that it had opened at least three spammy screens in my browser probably over the last couple nights. It’s not ok for an app without in app purchases to keep bothering me about purchasing something and definitely not ok for it to start opening browser windows in the middle of the night. Even if I wasn’t concerned about security issues, this causes the phone to lock and the alarm won’t sound since it’s on silent and the app is closed. All I wanted was a clock to show during the night and an alarm to play in the morning and this app messed both those up.

I will start on the positive. I like being able to pick a sound of an old alarm clock to wake me up rather than music. Because I often sleep with a radio on. So music won’t grab my attention from sleep. I liked the neon yellow digital clock option and I liked how the alarm time setter is easy breezy. This is what I didn’t like. It was confusing to figure out how to actually turn off the alarm rather than snoozing at first. And if I wanted just one more hour of sleep it was hard figuring out how to change the time rather than snooze and trying to stay awake through all the commercials so that I could successfully change my wake up time I had a hard time finding the x to get rid of the commercials and would press something that took me to the advertisers instead. And believe me I would rather sleep in a little instead of dealing with commercials I have been hacked 6 times so I don’t purchase anything online so how else could I pay besides putting my bank information in my phone and chancing another hack? And last but not least I saw in another review that we have to grant camera access I am hoping that there aren’t any nudies of me floating around out there because I sometimes sleep in the raw and my phone is right on my nightstand 🫢 I have an idea for the ads. Can’t we just agree to sit through a certain amount of ads then after that get ad free? My phone security app offers us that to get access to certain things. Just a thought. It’s too hard to stay awake through them to change the wake up time when I decide to sleep in.

Used the free version for over a year & it was GREAT! Then, ads got extremely annoying so spent the $3.99 for the upgrade. At the get-go, have to agree to allowing notifications AND app had to be left open overnight in order for the alarm to work! That should’ve been a red flag but had already paid for the upgrade so continued on. Chose a new wake up time & music. Before I could finish, at the bottom of the screen was an ad that wasn’t supposed to be there w/the upgrade! Figured it was “operator error” so turned phone off ... in hopes to reset - & started over. Saved the new time, previewed the music. Continued to have those annoying ads so, again, turned phone off & started over. Did this 3-4 times. “Appeared” new time & music was saved & being totally exasperated, left app open, put phone on the charger & went to bed. The next morning, “old” music woke me up at the “old” time!! Have an IPhone 8 - anyone else having this issue? Is it the phone, the upgraded app or me? I’m so disappointed! Btw, IF I read it correctly, not only does one have to allow notifications, have to also allow access to music (understandable), camera (why??) & a list of almost everything on your phone! Should’ve NEVER agreed to such intrusive allowance!! Ended up deleting Alarm For Me Upgraded App!! Now I’m out $3.99; have No Alarm & feel totally ripped off!!