Work most of the time!
I’ve had this alarm for years and love it! Recently, there have been days when it doesn’t go off and will turn off the alarm or sometimes reset itself for the next day without alarming for the day it was originally set for.
Progressive Alarm Clock
Published by: Spotlight Six Software
Description
Progressive Alarm Clock will wake you up gently and gradually using the beautiful sounds of the Tibetan singing bowl. At the specified alarm time, the bells will begin to ring in a pre-defined pattern - starting out softly and slowly and gradually getting louder and more frequent. You'll come out of your slumber slowly and peacefully. No more being jolted awake.
+ After setting the alarm, the app can be put in the background - allowing you to use other apps. At the specified alarm time, the alarm pattern will begin.
+ Choose from five pre-defined patterns with varying bell schedules and escalation lengths.
+ Choose from six different bells of varying size and metal compositions - from bright and clean to deep and complex with lovely overtones.
+ You may enter journal notes upon awakening - great for recording your dreams before the memory fades. You can then go back and review your journal entries and you may export the journal via email. For privacy, you may set a password to prevent unauthorized access.
+ To save battery, you may lock your device's screen and the alarm will still work. Either start the alarm and press the lock (sleep) button, or turn on the "Auto-Lock" setting.
+ This app uses the same amazing bell sounds used in our Insight Timer meditation timer. Here are some app store comments pertaining to the bells:
"Best sounding bells of any meditation app so far" - sibergrrl
"The bell samples in this app are gorgeous" - LairBob
"Several different bell sounds to choose from and they all feel 'live'" - VaderPi
"Great Sound Quality" - KarlAgathon
"The tones are stunning" - hellsleeve
"Beautiful bell sounds" - Wolf94114
"Wonderful digital bell sounds" - zenji
"The bell sounds are lovely" - pngwen
Other Features:
- Snooze from 1 minute to 30 minutes
- Sure Wake: Optional LOUD backup sound
- Seven colors available for time display
- Optionally keep phone from sleeping
- Huge landscape time display
- App works even when phone is sleeping (locked)
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+ After setting the alarm, the app can be put in the background - allowing you to use other apps. At the specified alarm time, the alarm pattern will begin.
+ Choose from five pre-defined patterns with varying bell schedules and escalation lengths.
+ Choose from six different bells of varying size and metal compositions - from bright and clean to deep and complex with lovely overtones.
+ You may enter journal notes upon awakening - great for recording your dreams before the memory fades. You can then go back and review your journal entries and you may export the journal via email. For privacy, you may set a password to prevent unauthorized access.
+ To save battery, you may lock your device's screen and the alarm will still work. Either start the alarm and press the lock (sleep) button, or turn on the "Auto-Lock" setting.
+ This app uses the same amazing bell sounds used in our Insight Timer meditation timer. Here are some app store comments pertaining to the bells:
"Best sounding bells of any meditation app so far" - sibergrrl
"The bell samples in this app are gorgeous" - LairBob
"Several different bell sounds to choose from and they all feel 'live'" - VaderPi
"Great Sound Quality" - KarlAgathon
"The tones are stunning" - hellsleeve
"Beautiful bell sounds" - Wolf94114
"Wonderful digital bell sounds" - zenji
"The bell sounds are lovely" - pngwen
Other Features:
- Snooze from 1 minute to 30 minutes
- Sure Wake: Optional LOUD backup sound
- Seven colors available for time display
- Optionally keep phone from sleeping
- Huge landscape time display
- App works even when phone is sleeping (locked)
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User Rating
4.57 out of 5
2,807 ratings in United States
5 star
2,018
4 star
557
3 star
117
2 star
52
1 star
62
Ratings History
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Was 5 stars until today
This has been a great alarm app until now. The progressive bells have provided a perfect wakeup. No sudden, jarring panic, just a natural feeling of awakening. Tonight, none of that happened. Within an hour of setting the alarm, a very loud, discordant noise came from the app, and it had reset from 8 am to 2 am. I reset back to the settings I’d originally chosen and went back to bed. An hour later, a different loud alarm sounded, and the app had reset the alarm for 3 am. Another reset. Now it’s 4 am and the same thing has happened again. Hacked? Maybe. Just be aware.
Great App!
👍
Fine on iPhone terrible on iPad
26. May 2024. I have used this app for a long time mostly on iPads. Of course it is also written to work on iPhones. The only issue that I have with the application is that the display on the iPad Pro 12.9 inch Gen 3 & Gen 5 is distorted with colored bands, going across all controls that make it very difficult to be able to read this is existed ever since the second generation of iPad pros were introduced so it's been close to four years now and this issue is not been resolved. I have contacted the developer, but I have not gotten any kind of response to my issues it's an extremely nice Alarm Clock application pleasant to wake up to gives you plenty of options on how it alarms and the tones that are used. The only negative is the display on iPad pros I wish that would be fixed so I'll recommend this app because it is fine on an iPhone, but I'll only rated at three stars until they fix the display
App cancels often and has to be deleted and reinstalled
Love this app but it is frustrating that it often cancels out/goes black and then has to be deleted and reinstalled
Buggy but good
My original review said I wasn't going to use this app because I didn't trust it because there were crashing bugs when I tried to use certain settings on the options screen. (Since then I've also noticed that the app does not appear to have been updated in seven years, which I would guess means it's technically dead and will eventually stop working altogether. That's too bad.) The generally positive reviews have convinced me to overlook all that, however, and I've been using the app to wake me up for work for the better part of a week now and it has been great. The benefits of a gradual alarm without interruptions while I'm setting it up or nags to pay for a subscription to get features I neither want nor need (Sleep Cycle, which I used happily for about ten years now, has lately become guilty of both of these transgressions, causing me to look elsewhere for a gradual alarm clock app) is a fine thing. And as a regular meditator, I very much appreciate the singing bowl tones it uses to wake me up. Long may it continue to function!
1000x better than Apple’s alarms
I have been using the Apple phone alarms for years and finally said I needed to stop doing that because they were so jarring for my nervous system. I love the gentleness of the different progressions that this alarm app offers its users. It’s so soft and gentle and subtle. Progressive 4 is my favorite setting because I literally uses 1% sound increase increments.
Perfect alarm
My old alarm app was no longer supported, so I needed something new. My top criteria was a fade in alarm with a pleasant sound. What I found were apps with so many bells and whistles that I couldn’t imagine peacefully using every day. This app is perfect. It met my criteria and works every day.
Very Peaceful to wake up to
Works flawlessly for 5 months now
Insight Timer
I love this app. So much nice waking to meditative brass bowls than harsh alarms. Starts my day out right
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Keywords
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progressive health
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Progressive Alarm Clock Competitors
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White Noise
Relaxing Sleep Sounds
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165
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2 months ago | |
SleepSpace: Dr Snooze AI Coach
Deep Sleep Sounds & Tracker
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44
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2 days ago | |
Sleep wave - Alarm & Tracker
Wake Up Better Calm Sounds
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62
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1 week ago | |
Sleep Science Alarm Clock
Smart tracker, wake up sounds
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22
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8 months ago | |
Easy Rise Alarm Clock :
Meditations to start your day
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116
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2 years ago | |
Meditation Time 2.0
A beautiful meditation timer
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129
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1 year ago | |
Timefully • Meditation Timer
Meditation Timer, Bell & Log
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38
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1 year ago | |
Pocket Meditation Timer
Mindfulness, Relaxation & Calm
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124
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1 month ago | |
Beditations: Sleep & Awaken
Rest, Morning Meditation Alarm
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100
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1 year ago | |
Light Awake
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8
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1 week ago |
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App Info
- Category
- Health Fitness
- Publisher
- Spotlight Six Software
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 5.2.1 (7 years ago )
- Released on
- Mar 18, 2010 (14 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Brazil, Singapore, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, Poland, Hong Kong, Portugal, Mexico, Turkey, Romania, Russia, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, Italy, Japan, Ukraine, South Africa, Argentina, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Taiwan, Chile, China, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Malaysia, Peru, Nigeria, India
- Last updated
- 3 days ago