Love waking up to the tweeting of birds! I have been using this app for about 12 months now. Was pretty easy to setup. Probably played around with the settings in the first week or two of using, but now the only thing I ever adjust is the wake up time, which is super simple. Never fails to wake me. Love it.
Reviews for Gentle Wakeup Pro - Sunrise
← Back to Gentle Wakeup Pro - SunriseGreat alarm that wakes you up slowly instead of jolting you awake. Provides a good start to the day and a gradual way of falling asleep. Only thing I would change would be to add more meditation style music options to fall asleep! Otherwise a great app.
Just started using so there are a few features I haven't tried. I love the sleep sounds and waking up to nature sounds. I like that my favorite morning app is turned on as soon as I turn my alarm off. Down side; The sunrise simulation isn't bright enough, so I got an actual sunrise clock.
2 YEARS LATER: 11/8/22 I've been using the pro version on my android mobile for 2 yrs now and really love this app. I'd still give it 5 stars. I definitely prefer the pro version for the additional options for sounds. ORIG. REVIEW: Had the free version and loved it, so I grabbed to premium to have a cleaner, no ad experience. The app works great for me personally.
a few days ago and for the past few years i would rate this app 5 stars but now for some reason the nightstand clock gets huge when it is time for bed. i found a zoom feature that i dont remember ever being there and turned it down to 0% zoom but it still gets much bigger than it has ever been in the past. if this is not addressed i will need to change my rating and stop using the app. there is no reason to change the size of the clock when in night stand mode.
I cannot even describe how much I love this app. I have used it since the apps rollout in 2016. Multiple expensive beautiful sunrise alarms later, this is still what I use! I have a busy schedule and do not always have time for sleep. This wakes me up pleasantly everyday and even from power naps! I will use this forever - Thank you!
A bit confusing but not too bad. The alarm is incredibly customizable and gives me control over every aspect of waking me up. Biggest annoyance is that once I have stopped the alarm, my phone's adaptive screen brightness is still turned off, and no matter what I do, this app will force my screen to go 100% brightness until I manually shut down the app, then go to settings and turn the adaptive brightness back on. Please fix this and I'll give it 5 stars.
I've been using this for close to a decade. No better way to wake up than a simulated sunrise and nature sounds. The countdowns and clocks are fun. The exercise routines are helpful if you want to get a good start on your day. I personally like the short stretches so I can ease into my day.
Zenfull way to start the day. User friendly and estheticly appealing as well. Glad there is finally an app on Android like this. It is a great way to gently be woken up from a night's sleep. It is slow and easy instead of a typical jump start on your heart like a regular alarm. Once you use this I doubt any other Alarm will satisfy you.
Great App. It is an absolute necessity I get up early in the morning to complete work and study. But for so long I wasn't able to and the reason for this was the loud alarms I set caused me to be in a terrible mood when getting up. So I just snoozed and went back to bed. But this app truly is a God send! Have woke up for the past two days now at 3:30am feeling refreshed and able to concentrate on the work ahead without actually setting the sound! Just the light itself. Thank you.
Brilliant app. Has replaced my sunset/sunrise clock which was failing and at a very reasonable price. I tried the free version first and was really impressed. I have a white noise sound machine for tinnitus but, if ever that fails, this app can replace that too! Best of all I can take it with me if away from home. I'm much less grumpy being woken by light and the dawn chorus!
2019-- Love the new updates!! This app just keeps getting better. 2016--Works amazingly well. Waking up to the gradual light is so much better then the blaring alarm clock. I have mine set so the sound starts 2 mins before my wake up time. The quite birds are nice touch but man do they get you loud if you linger in bed too long. I find I need to change the noise factor every 3 weeks or so to prevent myself for turning it off and going back to sleep.
I love this alarm for wake up. It is gentle so you are not startled awake. I love the customizing. You can have just noise, just sun or both. You can change how fast it gets louder or brighter. Snoozing durations, number of times. Lots of different sounds. Very happy. Original review was 4 years ago. Still love it.
This is the perfect app, and is great. So why 3 stars? Because I somehow payed for this twice and it did not stop me (Google plays issue). And the most important feature -- it doesn't always work. This needs much more testing !!! If you have a flight to catch and you want to be sure, you need to restart your phone. If you don't, you could be screwed !! (And yes I've read the instructions and know how to set it guys so please don't try and give me that advice).
Update: over two years and counting, still my favorite alarm solution....Configurable timing for start of sunrise prior to your wake time (where it is on full) and the start of audio alarm. The end result is having something I tailored to YOU and what works best for you waking up. Without being abruptly jolted out of slumber, but having a golden glow meet your eyes and you wake up more gently, imo. its awesome.
I have been using this app ever since Google's clock app stopped using sunrise alarm properly, I suspect it is a permissions thing, and despite the $15 price for the pro version I find that it was worth the money for me. It can allow me to set custom sounds to wake up to (with a quiet to loud volume), it can display a customizable slideshow with countdowns to customizable events, the weather, a workout that I can do in bed to wake up to, and a few other things that I don't use. I really like it
I used a large alarm clock with sunrise and sunset, also with sounds to sleep and wake up. This huge alarm took up almost all my nightstand space. This app on my Note9 uses 1/4 the space and has way more features. I can take it wherever I go. I put my phone on a wireless charger when I sleep, sleeping and waking has never been better. The designers did a great job by offering so many features and settings. This is the most expensive app I've ever bought, but worth the cost.
I bought the pro app entirely for the ability to start another app after my alarm, but most of my apps weren't even available when I opened that feature, and the few that were available were things like Settings and Phone instead of anything I might actually want to use first thing in the morning. I tried checking their troubleshooting page for a workaround, but there was almost no content there and what is there is all but unreadable on my phone's browser.
FINALLY - A Sunrise Alarm That Works (and doesn't cost a bajillion bucks Years ago I bought a hamburger schlemmer Sunrise alarm clock, I really liked it. Cheaper versions on the market today though, are usually pretty obnoxious. I've tried a few. I also tried the glimmer app, but for some reason it just wouldn't work on my phone. This app was quite reasonably priced, is fully customizable for light levels and sound or no sound, and gets me through the short days of winter. Love it!
Moto Z4. Close to plain Android. Works great. Paid the full price after the 3 days. My favorite alarm app hadn't been supposed for years. Tried a LOT of alarms. This one is costly, but VERY customizable. Bit of a learning curve, but it all makes sense after a few days and setting up several alarms. Deleted the other alarm apps, never looking back. Thanks!